Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-04-03
MISS RoYENAH ALLEN. Teaohe
in district 81

ne ne1k came 10 LakepOfe. First
partaking OF 8 dinner characteristic of
the widen sss Of the liberality OF this
generous household. All Is done on the
most liberal scale by our friends 81. s.
Peiffer and family. Abundance OF the
| good things of life find their way on
tables. Outside the same Wilderness
noticeable seen in the fields Of gram.
Already 80 acres OF wheat have been
sowed by these enterprising brothers.
After we had we'll discussed the ample
dinner We went over to the school house
hard by. district No. 10, taught by Miss
Katie B.auchs who is known SO we'll
in Yankton society as the sister
of q mach respected Mrs. Hager,
the wife of Rev. Hager, Who is tenderly
remembered by us all. a large portion
Of this school is composed OF the foreign
elements, yet Miss Katie seemed to un-
derstand and command the situation.
She Is o good teacher and IS doing grand
good work IN the Lakeport school.
This school has eva been regarded as
one Of the best in Yankson county. The
Lakeport school has the honor OF having
sent out the first class Of graduates from
public country schools. A course o.
study has been prescribed ccnsrating OF
three grades. When the three pre-
fscribed grades are completed then the
pupil is Justly entitled to a neat and
beautiful printed diploma form I2xl4
with blue ribbon %inwrought, signed by
the county superintendent CT schools,
the teacher OF the school and secretary
Of the bonrd. Two such graduates went
ont last year from the L~akeport school
are named as folio VS.:
Albert l.. Peiffer, Philip Steir, and
entered the Franklin college, Wisconsin.
Il was in the programme to visit the
school Of Mas Irene Rankin but found
the school closed on account Of severe
sickness in the neighborhood, so we
turned and went northward oyer the
Beaver and among the halls unlike
anything we have seen in Yankton
county. Here and there a house among
this wildness constitutes to She support
of q school taught by George Pike,
whether q descendent of the mathsmati-
cal genius who gave to the early set.
tiers OF Ohio Pixies arithmetic about GO
years 4 ne did not learn. This school
in the way the instruction was given by
g man who had nearly completed his
three score years took MS back to the
Primitive days in carrying in the ad.
dition OF several columns and losing
in subtraction All was unique in this
school room-text books, teacher, pupils,
though there were small in number only
sig, all told. Ooe could como the
teacher said but he lacked vim" The
Latch of shis door was supplied by a
large chnnk OF unspiitable wood lean
ing against it. We left this
school with the feeling that a like history
would only be given OF q school only /, n
the past. Another year Of intellectual
upheaval will bring better work to the
surface.
From this ante dIluvian school we
turned towards F. w. Howe's, Here
ample preparations in the line of the
good and abundant was served up by
our hospitable host. This dinner, the
one yesterday at Peiffer's shows that
school superintendent as we'll as preach.
ers are supposed to be fond Of good eat
ing. superintendent Hills has q wide
field and the houses Of the patrons OF
the schools and the hearts OF the pupils
are ell open TO him.
We now went TO the school house,
district number thirty eight, school
taught by Miss Nellie DoDnelly. The
exercises to-day were speaking, songs
and addresses and a presentation OF o
diploma by Superintendent Hills to
Miss Lafesna Brammer, who had tom
pieted the presented course OF study in