The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-19
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Emporia is proud Of her school chill
dren. and her teachers, too.
There are 800 pupils In the Garfield
and Constitution street buildings.
superintendent KlOck seems to have
our educational affsirs well in hand.
The Emporfs city schools employ
tweuty-nine teachers and superIntend-
ent.
Emporia is 8 city of schools and
churches. That's what makes as all SO
good.
Miss Young, the new teacher, is CIV
ing good satisfaction and has an orderly
school.
superintendent Klock Is proposing
acomplete course of study for the public
schools.
Emporis has just about the best
teachers aud the best schools of any city
in the state.
The course of study in the schools re-
quires seven years TO complete up to the
High school.
Emporia has $4,000 invested in
school buildings. TIE amount brings
good returns, too
The High school employs three
teachers: Principal Petit, Frank Kizer
and Miss Campbell.
Miss Morse, of the Congress street
building, has a number of future prima
dOnnas In her DOM.
A large number of school children are
prevented from attending just now by
humps aud measles.
There are 10000. 900 school children in
the United States of which Emporia fur
nishes goOdly quota.
Did you know that the average num-
Der of pupils enrolled in the city schools
is 80 10 teacher? It's.
The Garfield building has pine rooms.
The others, except the. Sixth avenue
building, have four each.
All pupils extending the fifth school
year, or any wear above that, go to the
Garfield or stone buildings.
The southeastern and borthwesterIy
portions of the city seem to require ad-
ditional school provisions.
The Chicago and Alton railroad COM
pany has supplied some of the school
rooms with standard time maps.
The High school has two courses of
study-One the Latin, the other the Eng
fish. Each requires three years to CON-
plete.
Miss Dolphin belives that where there
is no cross there is no crown, and is
teaching her pupils TO make crosses of
many varieties.
At the beginning of the year the
school funds were about $1,000 behind.
By June it is expected financial matters
will be about even.
Miss Goddard has a number of juven-
lie artists who WELD a skillful pencil
and whose sketches some day will re-
ceIve much attention.
The Garfield and Constitution street
buildings accommodate the ward grade
pupils living west of Commercial street
and north of the railroad.
Our school board seems thoroughly
enlisted IN their good cause. They have
many knotty problems to solve which
are not down in the text books.
Including the students of the Normal,
the Emporla College, the Business Col
lege and priv ate schools this city has 4
school enrolment of about $500.
Emporia's school population is won
deriul. Notwithstanding the constant
build ing new accommodations some
thing must be done to increase them,
Owing to the crowded condition of
the Second ward building. few pupils
living in that district have been trans.
ferred to the Fourth ward building.
All the common school branches are
completed in seven years, so that pupil
entering at seven years OF age would be
ready for the High school at the age o.
fourteen.
The pupils In the city schools are well
grounded in the geography of Kansas
and Lyon county. There Is nothing like
knowing much of your own town, county
and state.
The people OF Emporia are face to fsc'
with q dilemma. One or two new
school buildings must be erected
or many of the pupils now attending b
limited to halt day sessions.
The colored pupils in the Fourth war;
building have been little Obstreperou
lately, but have quoted DOWN wonder
: fully under the influence of gentle re
minder from the superintendent.
I, Not even the lowest rooms in tn
Congress street school sing the Fly Oh
the Wall' chorus The music in tn
f various grades is lively, inspiritIng AM
J, interesting, and after a few verses @
song the faces seem brighter and the
scholars take hold of their books wit
!. renewed vigor.
Jsiler 10y has the worst school II
town. It is orderly, however, and tn
pupils don't often play hockey" al
never tardy, and always answer to roll
call three times day. The deportmeI
: is improving. A class is now studyin
: geology in Il rear of the court hous
>. under the instructorship of Professc
Churchill.
r II is o source of much concern I
4 property supply the schools with drinl
p ing water. The board and officers try /
Z do the best they can. Most of the waite
y used for drinking purposes must b
: hauled and lately when the roads wer
bad it was found impractical tor a tim
n to keep all the rooms supplied prompt.
/ There are $50 school children at th
a Congress stree building and this morr
ing at recess they seemed TO be as or
IS derry body of pupils as one eyer see
II AT the tap Of the bell they quietly foru
ed double line add marched into thei
respective rooms 10 a soldierly name
'. pl4clng their bats and hoods in the clos
?. rooms with the grace of little ladies ar
7. gentlemen ana then took their seats
the schools with neatness and 6ispatc
e The Sewing Machine canvasser
., numerous, frequent, and ubiquitoU
: He iDvades the scanctity of your dive
ling with the freedom OF an old frien
- and with the air of one who has come
stay. Sometimes he proves "blessii
IN dIsguise'' as the sequel TO my sto
= will show My aunt has long had
!. strong and Oatspoken aversion 10 the
Z. modest missionaries who retaliate
ie, sending every new and verdanL canvas
N er Ia her house. Last week the tamili
7 Sewing Machine wagon halted at b
door, not seeking u customer hoWev