Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-03
EDUCATIONAL.
G. d. BELDEN. EDITOR.

CD. BELDEN. EDITOR.
The Fourth OF July is legal holiday.
The county teachers associations have
been postponed until September.
The Waltham village school, Miss Clara
Il. Besat teacher, has started fund for
school library.
Teachers whose terms are closing, who
have not received blanks for their final
reports should send for them i'm
medlatelY.
supt. Belden, last week, visited school
In Red Rock and Lyle. He attended the
closing exercises in district Is, Lyle, on
Friday afternoon. An interesting
program was given under the directions
of the teacher, Miss Amv Chandler.
The annual school meetings in all dis.
tricts of the county is fixed BY law to be
held on the third Saturday in July.
This will be July 20 for. this year.
Notices should be posted on or before
July 8. Blank reports and full directions
have been sent to all the clerks. 1t is
hoped that the patrons Of our schools
| will vote for LONG term of school. for
needed Improvements and apparatus and
for library. A good school library for
reference and general reading is in
valuable.
The subject of q teachers circulative
library for the county is to be agitated.
1t Is proposed to raise funds and solicit
contributions for general reference
library for the exclusive use of the teach
ers. Suggestions in regard to the matter
will be appreciated. What do teachers
think Of the plan to have the books located
At Austin, Grand Meadow and LIE Roy,
to be taken out under the usual rules
aud restrictions of circulating libraries?
Would 1t be wise to charge an annual fee
of twenty five or fifty cents as member.
ship fee emitting to the use of books and
thus furnishing a fund for the purchase
of books.
Some of our experienced teachers are
sending IN defective term reports. The
reports are somewhat different, this year.
The reports for the present term includes
the previous ones of the school year and
is intended to give complete concise
statement of the statistics OF the whole
year, in order to make it correctly, the
report left with the clerk in each district
by the previous teacher should be com.
pleted by the addition of this terms
figures. Then the years columns should
! be correctly filled and the whole consoli.
dated report should be copied and sen,
to the county superintendent. Receipts
are not sent for term reports except by
special request.
Plans have been commenced for the
publication of monthly educational
. paper for Mower county. to be devoted
to the special interest of our county
schools. It will probably contain sixteen
pages of educational matter, of which
three or four pages will be original matter
} relating especially to our local work and
3 needs. The subscription price has been
placed low fifty cents year payable IL
{ advance. Other enterprising countie!
sustain such paper. To make 1t a sue
cess here the hearty cooperation of al
: teachers and patrons in the county il
essential. The need of such paper ha.
Z long been felt. Financially the pape
I will be venture, as it will involve
= good deal of expense, but we are con
8 fident that it will be so helpful that i
t will receive a generous support. Al
!, edition Of 300 to 400 copies will b,
regularly printed. Every teacher in tn
: county will find useful suggestions in it
+ School officers will need to read it, t.
keep posted in regard to their duties
,. Those intending to teach should read i
: in order to gain information regarding
0 school work and plans. Contribution
for the paper are solicited from our pro
e gressive teachers. What do our teacher
q think of the plan? Let us here from al
J. parts of the county. Subscriptions ar,
= solicited from every body interested il
y the prosperity of our schools. The frs
+ number will appear about August 1
+ proprietor.
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