The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-12-12
General atexuR.


From dasc School Journal
BY means of letter social dlae school
in Fairfield No. cleared $40.
Caledonia No. 9 recently raised $3.50
by means of school social and enter
taiusnent.
Two new stoves have been put into
the schoolroom in Burns No. FIR. and
new library case is contemplated.
BY meaps of school social Gale
donia No. ] FIR. raised $3.50 which will
be expended for pictures and library
books
The appearance of the school building
in Antrim No. has been mach improv.
ed by new, paint and a new bell and
belfry.
The law lihrary of the University cd
Michigan lacks but 1913 volumes of hay
ing twenty thousand books on its
shelves.
A magnificent cabinet of physical ap.
|garatus costing about $400 was put into
tine laboratory tQf the OwossO high
school this year.
Seventeen new bsoks together with
the Michigan Historical Collection of q
volumes have been added to the library
in Perry No. FIR.
There are over twelve thousand
volumes in the medical library of the
University of Michigan.
The school board in Vernon No. has
just put IL new International Diction-
airy and Bartlett holder.
The scho0lhouse in Burns No. 10 un-
derwent general repairs before the be-
ginning of the winter term.
During the month of October, Hazel
toR No. Z, with an enrolment of thirty,
had only three tardy marks.
BY means a of necktie social the
school i'm Hazelton No. Z raised $22. 80.
The money will be used for school APP
paratus and general school room i'm
provements.
The picture of Lincoln has been
framed and hung in the schoolroom in
Middlebury No. 7 and some pretty new
curtains have been put up, to the win
dows.
The following pupils of Venice No. s
were neither absent nor tardy during
the fall term: George Harrod, Fred
Self, Nina Self, Ethel Crandall, and
Paul Luckenbill.
Those who were neither absent nor
tardy during the fall term in district
No. 1, Fairfield, were: Arthur Curtis,
Jasper Squiers, Helene Kelly, Paul
Kelly, and Florence Reed.
The following pupils of Perry No.
FIR. were neither absent nor tardy dur
ing the fall term of school: Albert
Ram, Flay Blanchard, Jennie McCrea,
Hughie Burns, and L. j. Ram.
A palmistry social was held at the
school house in Vernon No. on the
evening of Oct. 80. The money will be
in the purchase of sash cur
tains and some pictures for the walls.
A new dictionary holder and dis
sected map of the United States have
been added to the school apparatus in
Perry No. 6 FIR. The money was raised
for their purchase by means of school
Raymond G. Davis, librarian of the
University of Michigan, made his
twentyfifth annual report few days
since. In this he said that he had COM
pleted twenty-nine years of service in
the library, twenty-five as librarian,
and that during that time the number
of books belonging to the University
had increased from %, 900 to 165, 900.
During the last school year 1924
were presented as gifts to the
Libraries of the University of Michigan.
The total additions to the several libra
ries for the year were $3.50 volumes.
Over seven thousand of these went into
the general library, over one thousand
into the medical library, and eight
hundred into the law library.