The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-31
SCHOOL NOTES.

Other states and territories are giving
Their attention TO the educational exhibit at
the Worlds fair. Let US not be behind
Misses Mayne, Hooper school, Currey,
Fourteenth school, and Bartlett, Tenth
school, attended the ''cobweb' social at
Hammond hall Friday evening.
The schools must send out boys and girls
whose habits of thought, system of bust
ness ana uniform adherence to right have
all been awakened, stimulated and exer-
cIsed along proper channels of life until the
state may safely repose in them full conf
deuce"
The spare moments are now taken in
preparation for Washington's birthday and
the flag raising.
The girls in the grade and the boys of
the grade were 100 in the two schools.
The pupils, parents and teachers of the
Salt Lake public schools hail with delight
the prompt passage by the legislature and
approval by Governor Thomas, of the bill
allowing commission on the sale Of school
bonds. This removes the last barrier TO
few weeks ago by the board of education.
There still remains the same amount of
bonds voted but not issued. What more
enduring monument to the first school
board of Salt Lake city than that they con-
vert this 100000 into stone, brick and
mortar.
Prof. Wolfe is very busy man. He is
working hard to get the schools in tune for
the nag raising.
Clerk Nor eton's pay roll yesterday
amounted to $4,000, divided among 40
teachers.
Pay day yesterday
Out of $50 pupils of school Z, who took
the half yearly examination, 324 were pro-
NM I'd n ni,-t,r ci,-
half failed of promotion because of irregu-
lar or partial attendance.
The report of the Utah Teachers asso-
citation will be ready in two weeks. All
members are entitled to copy.
Mrs. Bledsoe, of the Hunter school, while
leaving the school building last Monday at
close of school, slipped on the steps and
sprained her ankle, which necessitated her
absence for two days
The Hunter school promoted 1873 out of
229 pupils. Two thirds of those who failed
of promotion, failed because they did not
enter the school at the beginning of the
| year.
! Hyrum Selander, a pupil of the Hunter
school has not been absent or tardy since
the opening Of the school in September.
! 1890
Those who have been neither absent
nor tardy during the first half year, in the
! fifth and sixth grades of the Fifteenth
school, are: Libbie Young, Eta Pearson
and Arthur Price.
In the Third school the following pupils
were neither absent nor tardy during tie
half year just closed First and secon d
! grades, Miss Manning, teacher = Ruby
] Irvine, Carrie Gleason, Hazel George
Alonzo Stringfellow, Charles Stringfellow.
/ Robert Showden, Herbert Tucker; third
grade, Miss Floyd, teacher-Eliza Arnold,
! Mamie McKeever, Eugene Irvine, Eva
! Stringfellow. Willie Bail, Walter Wicket,
Hazen Eardley.
/ Flag raising in the public schools will be
on Washington's birthday at 10 in the
| morning
DR.. Millspaugh will meet the third and
and fourth grades on Friday at 3 As p. m.
/ The first and second grade teachers held
their monthly meeting with Dr. Mills
paugh on Friday, January %. Subject,
/ Number" Mr.. Pike, a member of the
school board, was an interested visitor.
After the regular programme, he gave the
teachers q short talk, in which he ex-
/ pressed himself as greatly pleased with
/ the meeting
Mr.. Pike is man Of much perseverance
and energy, and is greatly interested in all
educational matters. He has the good OF
the schools at heart, and will do all in his
power to further their interests
1t would be great announcement tC
those engaged in the work to meet more OF
the patrons who would take an interest in
/ the schools, where their children spend sc
much of their time