The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-08-13
DuFun NEWS AND NOTES.
The Music of The Thresher-Dufur's
Public schooI-etc.

The Music OF The observation-disclosures
Public schooI-etc.
From the Dispatch. Isthl
a threshing- machine and power
passed through town from Willamette.
Lutte Scott bossed the caravan.
The school, trustees. at a meeting on
Saturday decided to retain professor
Frazier another year. Who will be the
second teacher is not yet settled.
Marion Warner has been suffering for
two weeks with a large tumor. He call
ed on DR.. Whitcomb for medical aid, and
is now convalescing stopping at his
fathers, on Canyon City road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gaylord, from Oregon
City, are in town. If the climate suits
Mrs. G's. rather delicate health, Mr.. G.
will go into business here, and he'll be
welcomed. We need such as he is.
Mr.. Harrison Dufur says his crops are
turning out finely, and he is content to
'set around" in the hot sun and hear
the music of the busy blades that with
every swish are cutting the money into
his pocket.
The band gave an. open-air concert
Tuesday evening, on the very pleasant
grounds near Prof. Frazier's residence,
and it was enjoyed by large number of
our citizens, and the band boys deserve
great credit for public spirit-and de-
serve substantial appreciation.
There is q lack of buildings and of
rentable rooms in this town that is not
creditable to the foresight, judgment
and enterprise of those able to have
built in the summer. It was certain
there would be an increased attendance
at the school this winter.
The farmers are all busy now, and
come rushing into town only for needed
supplies and repairs. The music of the
reaper and headen beats the brass band,
for it.means money, and lots of it, this
fall, and the farmers are beginning to
get quite sassy"
The Dufur school is organized with
reference to the needs of a new and
thriving community, upon a basis that
looks to the present and future needs of
society. The course of study, while ele-
mentary in detail, is comprehensive in
its scope; including the common
branches, algebra, geometry and trig
onometry, analysis, com position, rhet-
oric and English literature, natural
philosophy, chemistry, zoology, mental
and moral philosophy, astronomy, an
cient and modern history.
This academic course, being organized
in connection with the public or COM
mon school course, will give pupils an ex-
cellent opportunity to study and under
stand school organization, graduation and
school economy. For the study of these
things, together with theory and practice
in the art of teaching, school government
ETC., q class will be formed, and a
course of reading and study maintained,
similar in most respects, though
much shortened, to those in Model
Training Schools for Teachers.
While it is not the intention of the
directors or teachers of the Dufur school
to make it technical, it is considered
best to make the deviation marked out
above, in consequence of the great de-
mand for better preparation on the part
of the teachers. Many of those educated
in this school will be called upon to-
teach, which doubtless they will do with
or without any special preparation in an
other school. We would therefore call
special attention to this feature of Our
school; and also to the fact that the ac-
eademic course offered reaches out to al
most all the elementary principles that
advance our civilization, and lead to the
true life of the worthy citizen.
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