Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
Some School Matters.

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Some School Matters.
The public schools OF the city will
open for the fall term upon Tuesday,
2. All arrangements for the
opening of the school after the summer
vacation, have been made by the board
of education, a competent corps of teach
ers has been engaged, and text books
selected for the ensuing year. Professor
William Moore of Minneapolis, who has
been engaged by the board as principal,
will arrive in the city about August 81,
and in the time intervening between
that date and September 2, make his
preparations for school work.
There have been several changes made
in the corps of teachers, over last year.
Some of the old teachers, have resigned,
to accept other positions, and one or two
to pursue courses in higher education.
To replace these, the board has selected
with care, teachers of whose proficiency
they feel assured, and who come to the
school highly recommended.
In addition to Principal Moore, the
corps of teachers for the school year, AS
selected by the board, is: Fanny M.
Ryan, assistant principal; Kate Thomas,
Jennie McNider, Ella 0. Casselman,
Emma Bell, Laura E.. Settle, Lora M.
Dexheimer, Lillian Hostetter and Urna
Hendershott. Miss Ryan who has been
elected assistant principal, was a teacher
in the schools here under Prof. Abbey for
some years. Misses Kate Thomas, Jen-
ME McNider and Emma Bell, and
Mrs. Casse]man have taught in the
schools for some time, and their abilities
are we'll known. Miss Settle comes from
Hull, Iowa; Miss Dexheimer from Spen-
Ger, S. D., and the Misses Hostetter and
Hendershott from Spring valley, MINI.
There will be two primary departments
of the schools this year, the number of
applicants for admission to that depart
ment being too large to permit of their
accommodation in one room. Accord
ingly the board has had fitted up the
room above the county offices in the old
school building and it will be used as a
primary, in addition to the one at the
high school building. The attendance
ct pupils at n or the other of the
primaries will be regulated by the board,
who will probably define some bound
aries, by which pupils may know to
which one they belong. The new prim-
airy has been neatly fitted up, has new
furniture, natural slate blackboards and
other improvements, and will be a valu-
able addition to the school facilities.
The teachers have not yet been assigned
to their departments, but this will be at
tended to later.
The main building of the public
schools is also in better shape than it
has been for some time. It has i'm
proved greatly in external appearance
under Janitor Sloan's care, the grounds
are we'll kept, the trees in good shape,
and everything attractive. Inside, also,
improvements have been made, and the
new boiler which was put in some time
ago, will be an appreciable Improvement
from the standpoint of health and COM
fort.
The board has adopted for the use of
the schools the line of school books
recommended by Superintendent Per.
kins for Burleigh county. The new text
books adopted are the new Franklin
readers, Mines arithmetics, Maxwell's
language and grammar, Sheldon's SPELL
ers, and Sheldon's vertical copybooks.
The books which will remain unchanged
are Appleton's biographies and Eggles-
ton & Barnes histories. These books
have been adopted by all but four of the
country districts in the county.
Don't buy your Irvine until you see
Nicholson, and examine his Buckeye
Standard and Manila Irvine.
While Billings county does not com
pare very we'll with some of our Red
river valley counties in point of agri-
(only reporting AZ acres of
wheat and two acres of oats for 1894,
still its assessed valuation on horses for
1895 was s84,340; cattle, s44O,35O; sheep,
The estimated value Of cattle
and sheep shipped to market last year
was s750,O0O.