Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-04-11
BALD HILL.


Master Arthur Burns, Of Coop
who has been doing
some pretty hard studying for
the last few months, spent last
weeks school vacation with Geo.
Mills. Arthur is q very diligent
pupil and undoubtedly enjoyed
the rest.
County Superintendent Clara
Fiering visited Geo. w. Graft s
school last Tuesday, notwith-
standing the inclemency of the
weather. individuals with such
exceptional learning as Miss Fier-
ing possesses are surely highly
prized school visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Bake went
to Hannaford last Wednesday to
do their spring purchasing.
Miss Mabel Mills was visiting
with friends north of Coopers-
town this week. We do not know
much about the young lady as a
hostess but as skilled mathe-
matician we will be a voucher.
The Misses Holland and Mi
chealis and Otto Lemke were Wis
itors at school No. 2 last Friday.
We can assure them that their
visit was greatly appreciated.
We think it would be capital
idea for the school board of Bald
Hill to take steps toward provid-
ing the different schools in the
district with libraries. A suita-
BILE school library could be main
tanned at a very small expense,
and the time is not far away
when a school without a library
will be regarded as one now with
out blackboards, maps, charts
and other apparatus used for
educational instruction. The
benefits derived from school IL
brarv are manifold. For the sake
of breylty we will quote but a
few, which may be enumerated
as follows: 1. It inculcates the
habit of taking good care of pub
lie property, habit sorely neg.
lected by our citizens. 2. It
leads the pupil to see that reading
has other purposes than merely
learning to recognize sym bols.
3. II is essential to enable the
teacher to cultivate the right
habits in reading. 4. It fur
nishes abundant material for
supplementary reading. Just
think of the idea of having o sim
pile reader furnishing the basis
of a child's reading for a whole
| year! Why, it is enough to drive
a child into imbecility. and it is
no wonder that so many poor
readers exist among the country
pupils. They think that reading
has no value outside the school
room, and when they have dis.
continued to go to school they dc
not read, if at all, beyond the 10
cal page of the county newspape,
and then they manage to secure
a misinterpretation of that. Is
the teacher supposed to furnish
this extra reading material? Il
he did he would surely be com.
PEELED to neglect his board bill
and would be constrained to leave
self improvement go unattended
to for the lack of funds to pur.
chase necessary works on educa
ton. Now if the school board
would appropriate s. a year fol
i tAO uIAC1cnI SCI1OO1S III C1lC GOWA
ship for the maintenance Of a Ii
brary I think in the course o.
time they would be possession Of
very good school libraries, and
the small amount of extra taxes
each patron would have to pay
would sink into insignifcance
when compared with the benefits
their children would derive from
the use of the same. Come, gen
tlemen, put your shoulder to the
wheel.
Mrs. @. Ashland called on Mrs
Fugelstad last Thursday.
Herman j. Michealis, an enter
prising young farmer Of this sec
tion. took a vacation last Thurs
day and visited School No. 2. He
says he enjoyed the visit.
They say that some of the girls