The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-03-26

poorly ventilated buildings do more
harm to mankind than any one thing.
The ordinary school house can be
ventilated for less than ten dollars.
If your school house has an ordinary
oak stove, put a piece on the top so
as to make it about six feet high,
then have a pipe coming through
the floor connected with the outside
air pass through the upper part Of
the stove. This will cause a current
Of pure, warm air to flow into the
room constantly. Have a second,
but larger pipe surrounding No.
rivited to the stove where No, en-
tiers it, and coming within three
inches of the floor to allow the foul
air to pass into the stove.
Another plan is to let the pure air
come into the room under the stove,
and have the foul air enter the CHM
ney near the floor. When this plan
is adopted care should be taken that
a jacket is placed around the stove
coming to the floor, thus compelling
the air to pass up around the stove
and become heated before entering
the room.
If district boards as a class would
look after their work little more
closely it might prevent some, if not
all, of the failures that occur. Often
where trouble occurs, it is not known
till it has gone so far that there is
but little help. An ounce Of proven
ton is worth a pound of cure. Eel
low officers, you ought to have inter
est enough in the work which the
public has asked you to do, to per-
form it, to assist the County Super
intendent instead of hindering him,
to do justice to all, to show favor to
none.
| INSTITUTES.
The annual Institute was held at
Somers, conducted by Profs. Pray
and Smith. The attendance at some
former Institutes has been larger,
but the average of those present was
greater than it has been for years.
viz: Fl 20 years. All seemed to be
earnest workers.
The c., M. & St. P, and c. & n.
w. Roads held their trains at Ran
ney, thus enabling the teachers to
make fair connections. The County
Superintendent has been severely
criticised for holding the Institutes
elsewhere than at Salem.
Let us look at the facts. The
town of Salem has had fifteen of the
Institutes held during the past nine
teen years. Of the remaining four
Somers has had two, Bristol one, and
Kenosha one. When the town Of
Salem can prove that she-is entitled
| to all the Institutes, then her citizens
will have a right to find fault if one
| is held in SOmers.
EXAMINATIONS.
Five examinations were held the
past year: two in Pleasant Prairie,
two in Salem, and one in Bristol.
One hundred and twenty-nine per
sons applied for certificates, forty
three Of whom failed to pass. The
following grade of certificates were
issued: One first grade, eight second
grades, and seventy,seven third
! grades, twenty-five Of which were
given for less than one year.
| tried to mark all fairly, yet sew
eral found fault. One appealed to
the State Superintendent for a re-
marking, but remained mum after
her second returns were forwarded.
Seven pupils wrote for Common
School Diploma. None passed, but
Jessie McNeal and Nellie MINIS
failed in but one or two branches It
is to be hoped that more will take
this instead of the teachers eXamin-
alton in the future.
One hundred and sixty seven Wis
it's were made since reading my last
report to your honorable body. Five
hundred and sixty-seven during the
past four years. Eight local teach
ers' meetings were held in various
parts of the county.
There is another class of work
which l have not mentioned in form
er reports, which has been steadily
growing during the past four
years, i e., consultations with scoool
boards in regard to their future
teachers. Not a few boards have
said or written: "We will leave the
matter of hiring a teacher entirely to
you" Whenever such requests have
been made | have tried to give them
the very best material that could be
had for the money. Teachers have
also frequently asked what schools
they had better teach. One fact has
been very noticeable. Requests for
advice have always come from the
better class of teachers. The poorer
class seem to be the most contented
mortals on earth. This work has
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