The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-12-26

} EDUCATIONAL COLUMN. ]
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, SUPT. o. W. COURSEY. :
! OFFICE HOURS: First, third, and last )
I Saturdays Of each month. ;

State Educational Association con
venes in Mitchell next week, beginn-
ing Monday evening and closing We'd
nesday night at midnight. Go to
the Mitchell hotel and register with
M. M. Kramer, pay a dollar and join
the association so that you will be
permitted to vote on all questions.
Miss Charlotte Duncan has given
up her place in Arney's store and
gone to Davis where she has charge
Of the primary department Of the
Davis public schools; salary, $40 per
month.
Owing to the illness of her mother,
Miss Mabel Cooper was obliged to
give up her school in Prosper town.
ship. Henry Hendrickson, who has
taught the school for a number Of
years. took up the work were Miss
Cooper left off aud the school went
right on after a SSvacation Of three
days.
W. e. RoWley has completed his
term Of school at Farwcll and will
now attend 1.-The Wingfield-Connelly
Business College in this city, ana
take a commercial course.
Certificates of award have been
issued to Lorraine Owens and Barnard
Browne, Miss Bernice Brown,
teacher; to Mary Cullen and Raymond
Judge, Miss Katherine Craig,
teacher; to Laura Conway, Miss
Matte Craig, teacher.
Miss Hattie Older completed her
fall term in Perry, and will now
attend the business college also.
The school board,in Perry township
have decided to close the river school
till spring. and, possibly, permanent
ly.
Cyrus Westfall has been appointed
chairman .of Union NO. 9, vice
johnson having removed from the
district. George B. Kelsey, the out
going-county treasurer, has been ap-
pointed Chairman OF Blendon school
district No. 3, vice Chaplain having
gone to Missouri This will make no
change in Blendon,-an ideal schair-
man went out and a man Of ex-
perience in school affairs will now
take Misplace.
Mrs. Jessie Herman writes: "Eigh
of my pupils have not been absent
nor tardy this. month"; Excellent !
Professor Gallagher who has charge
of the Ethan school, writes: ."I am
we'll pleased with my school. The
scholars are displaying the powers of
concentrativeness and reason seldom
found in pupils of their age. We are
mastering everything and forgetting
nothing" Gallagher has proven
himself the..right man in the right
place. The Ethan people should
build a good school house next
summer, put in another department,
makesGallagher principal and have a
school that meets their needs.
Things are a little off in two
schools in the county, One on &C.
count Of the ~inadequacy OF the school
house, the other on account of the
meddling, peevish disposition of some
OF the patrons. The first could easily
be remedied by a little expense, the
latter by a little common sense.
The Palmer method of writing now
being used successfully by 81 schools
in this county, won the prize at the
Michigan state fair. It is now in use
throughout the United States and
Canada.
Teachers, pupils, school officers and
patrons, the superintendent greets
you all with a merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year"
1t is not only a business PROPOSE
tion, but would be considered a great
accommodation if each teacher in
the county would send notice to this
office, at their earliest convenience,
whenever they stop school for a few
days or a week on account of sickness
or for any other purpose, stating
when they quit, the reason therefor
and the probable time when they ex-
pect to begin school again. 1t is ex-
c%eedingly disappointing for the super
ientendent to drive out from fourteen
to twenty miles through this snow
to visit a school, and then find it
ghost-like and deserted, temporarily,
and himself left %shivering in the cold
tO-guess the reason and determine
what school he had better aim for
next.