The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-05-08

. THINGS EDUCATIONAL,
z BY o. W. COURSEY.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

Is dCIlHS DIS dSlSSlduU Clerk OF UDc
circuit court.
Miss Agnes Schaub has completed
her term.of school in Tobin No. II.
Her report is a jewel for neatness
and accuracy.
H. 6. Coursey has accepted a posi-
tion in II of the barber shops of the
city. He has had experience in this
line before.
Wickle Waugh, a pupil of Miss
Mae Lewis in Perry township, set
out a prairie fire neal the school
house n day last week. 1t was ar
rested before any damage vas done.
Miss Abbie M. Pearson contracted
the measles and was obliged to give
up her work in the Peck school in
Badger township.
The school census must be in by
the first day Of June. S. S. Pound.
clerk of Union No. 8, broke the
record and filed his list May /.
Miss Belle Sphinx has accepted a
position with J. e. Wells in the
abstract business.
Miss Effie Rand called Saturday.
When her terms work is completed
in Hanson county, she will go to
Indiana to teach in the future.
State Superintendent Nash has
been engaged to deliver the address
before the graduating classes this
year.
County Auditor o.. d. Stearns is
negotiating for another loan of school
money. II this loan is consummated
it will make $4,000 which he has
loaned in the past six weeks, or a
sum total of 1926 900 which this
county has outstanding. The new
law is all right.
This office has accidentally come
in possession of the information
that a large number Of the counties
throughout the state are charging
county graduates M dollar apiece
for taking their final examination.
While this is absolutely illegal, it
swells the superintendent Institute
fund and makes it possible to
engage better institute instructors.
This county has never resorted to
the practice.
Friends of Miss Edith Noble, who
won the state and Interstate
oratorical contest in 1901, will be
pleased to learn that she has just
been granted a State Certificate in
South Dakota.
The question of building a new
school house at Ethan is still hanging
fire. The barrier semes to be the
legal limitation placed upon the
amount Of bonds which they can
issue.
New boards Of Education will be
elected at Mt. Vernon and Ethan
this week. 3
The success Of any enterprise must
be determined by its results. The
South Dakota Educational Associa-
ton which has been in existence for
twenty years has invariably passed.
resolutions at the close of each seS-
sion asking the state legislature for
needed school legislation, Lut has
almost always been turned down on
practically every proposition. The
question arises: Was the last session
which was held at Mitchell a success?
Judging by the results it certainly
was, for a careful persual of the new
Session Laws show that the %associa-
tion was certainly given recognition
by the state legislature. A resolution
was passed asking the Forthcoming
legislature ''to adopt a floral en-
blem." This was done and the
Anemone was adopted. Another
resolution was passed asking for the
passage of ga law which shall give
to every graduate from the eighth
grade within the state, free high
school privileges" 1t was done.
Another resolution asked that a law
be enacted whereby all certificates
except Third grades ''should be issued
by the department of education
The bill was introduced and became
a law. The association passed q
resolution asking that the law per.
tanning to state certica6tes be
changed and it was done. Another
resolution urged that ''the method
Of reckoning the population whlcl
is used as a partial basis for deter
mining the salaries of county super
i~ntendents" be changed and it was
done. A resolution was also passet
asking for a change in the law per
tanning to the Investment Of tn
permanent school fund, and thu
legislature hearkened its ear to tn
request. The above evidence show
conclusively that the association ha
=, now hpcnmn q mirhtv foctor in th,