Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-29
From Red Point.

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i Ed. Reqister-This remote corner O
the county has not been represented
in your paper for a long time. Per
haps some of your readers would Xix,
to hear from US.
The weather and crops in this vicin
ity are about the same as in the regions
reported by .sP." and .sR. E. The
statistics reported by ..R. E." relating
to such matters may be relied on a.
commonly characteristic of the whole
West End" since the region is no
subject to very great diversities of lat
itude and altitude.
Cattle buyers are numerous, and
stock is selling at good price. Sew.
eral head have been driven from thi:
vicinity recently.
Wheat-threshing is over and the de
mand for -four has very much dimin
ished. Several Dbl. of Schwab's besl
went out from ID. Cureton's store thi.
spring and summer.
! Our school is progressing very nice
ly with Luther Cureton as teacher
Mr.. c. is fully competent. maintaining
excellent discipline. and is up to date
in his methods. Honor and praise be
to the name of the worthy and compe
tent Commissioner who labored so ar
IDENTIFY all through the long, hot days Of
June, instructing and training our
young teachers. May the scions OF
knowledge he engrafted bear abundant
| fruit in our schools this fall.
| We have conversed with the disap-
pointed candidate mentioned by ''Tolr
Taffy." He says the Com. misunder-
stood him, but that he is willing to
call it even and quit.
We do not wish to stir up a contro.
versy at all; but we feel at liberty te
express our sentiments on a live ques.
ton. and so desire to agitate the In
stitute question yet little more. APP.
plicants for certificates are required to
| be examined on Methods and Manage.
nle,st. Now, how can we expect boy
| to pass an examination on something
he has, not studied? And where is he
to learn Methods and Management:
He can't learn it in the public school
unless it be by observation. Nay, the
only place to acquire such knowledge
is in the Normal School or the Normal
institute. Our Commissioner gave no
such instruction. Hence the inevita-
| BILE. conclusion is, that he must have
expected all applicants to have taken
a normal course before entering the
Institute, and all who had not taken
such a course were doomed to certain
failure in the beginning. Ignorance
or incompeteucy does not excuse the
Commissioner. The law provides for
an Instructor in the institute. Now,
if the Commissioner was incompetent,
he should not have given his official
consent to his election by the board to
| the position he assumed. We have
come shortly to another plain conclu-
sion, which is. THE COMMISSIONERS
FAILED TO DO HIS DUTY. Neglect of
duty On the part of a teacher subjects
him to deprival from authority to
teach 1t should at least subject the
Commissioner to ridicule if not to rep
rimand or public denunciation. So we
must indorse the sentiment of .sTolu
Taffy" and warn the Institute Board
against a similar mistake next year.
The writer spent last week visiting
schools. He visited two in Reynolds
county, one in Washington. one in
Crawford, two in Dent, and five in
Iron. OF the eleven teachers visited,
six are beginners. Points worthy of
commentator were observed in all the
schools, but we will not take space to
comment on each and all of them.
| Among them, however good, there
was, of course, best, second, &c. +,
according to our estimation. We give
Mr.. John Hartman of Black the pref
| erence in discipline; i. e., discipline as
regards keeping good order. The best
recitation beard was at Goodland
where Mr.. Richard Moore is the teach
err. Mr.. Bay at Goodwater uses the
best methods, especially in the prima-
ry classes. Miss Lavender at Howe's
Mill has the biggest and the busiest
school and is the most energetic teach
err. Miss Van Mort at Burgundy has
the hardest school to govern, and Mr..
]. Q. Adams at Tolu has the easiest.
The best discipline of military nature
was seen in the school on Courtois
taught by Mr.. Augustus Wood. Ev-
erything went like clockwork. Very
few criticisms are due against any of
the teachers. Considering the various
circumstances under which they labor,
they are all doing excellent work, and
we predict prosperous year for the
schools of our native Ozarks.
Messrs. Frederick and Henry Cure
ton will leave home in two weeks.
Fred. will go to Millersville to teach,
and Henry to Warrensburg to re-enter
the Normal.
The writer had the pleasure of din-
ing at the home of Prof. J. T. Patter-
son a short time ago. He was royalty
entertained by Mr.. P. and beautifully
fed by his pleasant wife. Prof. Pat
! terson is . progressive teacher and is
we'll qualified to teach. He deserves
la place in the front ranks of Iron Coun-
ty teachers.
A tramp borrowed one of Mr.. j. n.
Stuart's horses few nights ago with
out the owners consent. The animal
was found two days later at Howe's
Mill eight miles west of here.
j. E. Hendrick and John Day met a
few days ago to settle an old grudge.
Several friends of both parties were
present at the scene of the combat to
ensure fair play. Hendrick says he
click Day up like dose o. salt"
TArTLER.
Arcadia News.