The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-10-29

Average salary PAID female teachers. Do w
Average length Of term in weeks. 3o.5
Value of school property ..~......-...$12,o1? w
No. of school buildings ......................'i
No. of school rooms. .---.............:.. .
Bonded Indebtedness. $3.50 90
No OF persons examined. ..................A
No of applicants rejected ....................iS
No. of certificates granted: First grade g
4" 80 Second !2
IS Third -
Temporary II
Average of persons receiving certificates. 3
Amount paid institute instructOrs...S 2l5 OI
Amount of institute fund received; M, ~
80 on hand. L. a
Total receipts for school purposes. 7,lO -
&" amount expended for school
Total amount on hand in district
treaSurers. 6,1JG St
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Every teacher in the county will soon
receive "A program for county association
work. We expect to have seven meet
ings during the year. TO accommodate
the teachers and school workers i'm the.
different parts of the county, one meet
ing will be held at Speareville, one AT
Ford and one at Bucklin.
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The South West Kansas Teachers As
ISOLATION will hold its next meeting in
Dodge City. on Thanksgiving and the
day following. Teachers of this county
should not fail to be present. 1t will he
a rare treat to hear educational matters
discussed by the strangers who will be
here, even though you do not take an ac-
tive part yourself.
Arrangements are being made for IA
Joint association of Ford and Edwards
counties. to be held Il. SIrarevillc. De-
cember 18th.
District clerks and teachers should see
to it that one of the cards naming the
adopted text books and their prices is
will accept Redpath's Histories i'm free
exchange for Barnes's Brief L. 5. His
TORY. The exchange period will con-
tinue until January. 1892. after which
time the new books will cost one dollar
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General History, Theory and Practice.
Civics. American Literary and Mental
Science will constitute a great portion of
our associations work this year. Teach
ers should ut once procure books and
join the Reading Circle. You can not
afford to do without them. All persons
desiring to join are eligible to member
ship. No fee will be charged. The cost
for the year will be So small that you
ought not to hesitate long to enroll and
become active workers. If you expects
to do any reading in your line of work;
if you have any desire to gain profess
ional knowledge or improve in general
culture get the books at once and 60 to
work We have selected one person to
take charge of each of the above named
subjects. They are persons competent
to do excellent work for us at our edu-
cational meetings, but our meetings will
be more interesting and profitable if we.
each of us, make it a point to review the
work beforehand. Payes' Theory and
Practice will cost you $3.50. and Barnes
General History Sl.00. You can have
your own time to pay for them. Leave
orders at the superintendent office.
Join the Teachers's Reading Circle.
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The first examination for common
school graduation viii be held December
,,-in lid h. 81
work:
Spelling: to lesson 100.
Arithmetic; all the work to page l76.
Grammar; EtymOlogy.
History; Explorations. discoveries and
settlements.
Constitution: The Legislative depart
laent.
Geography: to South America.
Writing; Analysis of the small let
tiers. aud specimen of penmanship.
Reading; a selection read to teacher.
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The County Board of Examiners will
probably pass resolution ut their next
meeting not to grant more than two
third grade certificates to the same per-
son. Should they do this it will neces-
state some teachers to do more work in
the line above indicated. If they do not
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Every school in the county needs Men,
tai Arithmetic. hope the teachers will
make an effort to do something in this
line. 1t will be good thing for pupils
and teachers. Rays New Intellectual
Arithmetic has been adopted for use in
this county.
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The first County Teachers Association
will be held at Dodge City on Novem-
Der 9TH.
The following is the program:
l. General History.-Egypt. Baby
lonia, Assyria, Phenocia, Judea, Media
and Persia.-E. d. Webb.
povoe Theory md EvS ctico -E;re<