The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26


city on Thursday.
The Price school reopened Nov. 20
F., after being closed two weeks by rea-
son OF the prevalence of scarlet fever
and diphtheria.
Miss Herman of the Franklin school
had a Mothers day on Friday The
| room was we'll filed and the pro-
| gramme consisted of class work
in number and language. Dainty re-
| freshments We're served by the chill
| dren.
Messrs. Fryer. Plant and Jones were
| visitors at the Lincoln school on Fri
day.
The Webster school will have its art
exhibition on Wednesday.
! The seventh and eighth grades at
| the Wasatch school INDUCED in a
spelling match on Friday.
| The Wasatch school had visits on
Friday from Miss Wheeler of the Whit
| tier Principal Van Colt of Farmers
ward and Miss Hewn of Sandy.
! turned from Manila. gave very in
teresting talk before the pupils of the
Franklin school on Monday.
| Mrs. Wall has presented to the Wa
satch school beautiful picture of the
| Puritan.
| The following schools will avail
] themselves of the courteous offer or
the Ladies' Literary club to use their
art display for the purpose of creating
an art fund: Oquirrh. Webster. Sum-
ner. Jackson. Longfellow. Uintah, Wa
satch. Fremont, Hamilton, Bryant,
Whittier. Grant. Emerson, Washing
| ton, Lowell, Lincoln and Franklin.
A parents meeting will be held at
| the Franklin school on Wednesday az
ter the rendition of the Thanksgiving
programme Superintendent Cooper
and members of the board of education
are expected to be present.
The enrolment at the Collegiate IN
stitute is now seventy students.
The next meeting of the primary sec1
ton of the Salt Lake County Teachers
association will be held on Saturday,
Dec. 2.
There is quite a dearth of teachers in
Utah county by reason of the difflcuis
examination and the numerous mar
riages that have taken place among the
gentler sex the past summer.
Mr.. Wetzel of the High school is do
ing excellent service in the choir of the
Tiff church.
The next mothers meeting at the
Bryant school will occur Dec. Is.
Superintendent F. B. Cooper is an
nounced to address the approaching ses-
sion of the Sabbath school convention.
The Oquirrh school will give an art
display tomorrow.
The general institute meeting of the
Salt Lake county teachers was held in
the university yesterday and was adj
dressed by Principal ]. e. Mcknight of
the training school, who treated in an
unusually interesting manner the SUBJ
ject of Geography.
The following teachers were visitors
at the Lowell school the past week:
Messrs. G. n. Childs, ]. Nj. Anderson,
A. B. BEDFORD, Mrs. A. c. Pearson,
Misses Webb, Ross and Bush of Lehi,
Miss Mabel Davis, Jordan school;
Messrs. A. B. Moss and J. E. Kisler,
East Jordan school, and Misses McClel-
land and Spencer of the Farmers ward
schools.
A parents meeting will be bA in
Miss Young'S room at the Fremont
school on Tuesday Afternoon, and -spe-
cial Thanksgiving programmes will be
rendered by the fourth, fifth, seventh
and eighth grades on Wednesday after
noon.
The Hamilton school has well drilled
orchestra consisting of ten pieceS-vio-
Inns, Madeline Milliron and Willie God
be; mandolins. Maggie Fletcher, Lillian
Vowles. Mary Taylor; guitars, Jack Gill
mer. Hattie Ward, Arthur Musser, Belle
Klinghorn; piano, Leone Wiscomb. The
orchestra is under the direction of Miss
Lane of that school
Miss Ruth Winter is substituting in
the second grade at the Fremont school.
The rooms taught by Misses Wood
mansee and Lane of the Hamilton
school had a joint programme of
Thanksgiving observanceS on Friday.
and was enjoyed by large number of
patrons. Those who took part were
Ruby Smith, Clara Fafek, Myrtle Peter
son, Edith Shever. Lucy Eager, Marga-
ret Parsons, Ivy Evans, Hugh Tarpey.
Cabel Squires. Nellie King, Clara and
Winnie Tarpey, Arthur Vowles and
Edith Walker. The school will give a
general Thanksgiving programme on
Wednesday afternoon.
The Oquirrh art exhibit to be given
on Monday evening promises to prove
both interesting and instructive. Both
teachers and pupils are doing their ut
most to achieve the desired results. An
interesting feature will be the violin
solo by Roy Williams and a baritone
solo by Julia Curtis, small girl with
a full grown voice.
On Friday the Lincoln school had
visit from two of its former graduates
in the persons of Ripley Johnson and
Miss Hilda Fagenberg.
Summit county will in all probability
have 4 full representation at the ap-
preaching meeting of the Utah State
Teachers association.
Mr.. Bender of the jackson school and
Mrs. Cohn were visitors upon the sixth
grade at the Oquirrh school last week,
and Miss Margetts of the Waterloo
schools visited Miss Mayne's room.
A pleasant entertainment was given
by the eighth grade Of the Lowell school
on Friday afternoon. The rcom was
tastefully decorated in carnations and
smilax, and was very handsome. The
programme was devoted to Eugene
Z sarl ,la,~1c Nf he
est poems from the pen of the lamented
poet, quite number of pupils partic-
ipating. An important feature of the
occasion was the presentation of the
following choice pictures. Checa's
Chariot Race, by Miss Helen Banber-
ger; Millet's AngelUs. by Clarence
Bam5erger. and Watts Sir Galahad. by
Annette Ferguson. After the rendition
of the programme a parents meeting
was held. at which questions pertain
ing TO pupils home study were dis
cussed.
A programme of unusual excellence
was rendered at the Emerson school on
Friday. the occasion being the formal
opening of the new building. The build
ing was decorated very tastefully with
ferns and flowers. the gift of Mr..
Evans, the florist, aud presented an at
tractive appearance. and the black
board drawings by seventh and eighth
grade pupils were admired by the Wis
itors.
The literary programme was COM
posed of quotations from Emerson's
works. and was announced By Miss
Dysart, principal of the Emerson
school. in a fitting speech
At the conclusion of the exercises,
Superintendent Cooper, by request.
made a brief address, in which he took
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