The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-24
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d UCIluB l LAIiol LAY JIM III
issued by Governor Herreid, designat-
ing May lst as Arbor Day. All
schools now in session in this county
are requested to use part of the day
IN identifying their school grounds.
G. B WEIGH having failed to qualify
as clerk OF Union No. 81, Mrs. S. j.
Shane was appointed to the vacancy.
Miss Margaret Duncan rose to the
very zenith Of the teachers profess
sion in this county and then stepped
down and out. She was married last
week to DIR. Stevenson, of Reardon,
Washington. Success forever. Good
bye, Margaret.
Miss Alice Doyle and her mother
and Miss Mae Perry will each depart
this week for their claims fifteen
miles south of Chamberlain. They
will be zone about ten days. The
ladies' claims all join. They stay
first on one and then on the other,
always being careful to keep together,
thinking their combined courage will
keep away the ''bogie man."
Certificates Of Award have been
ISSUED to Alice Bourrett, Miss Ella
Wagner teacher; to Iva and Bessie
Brown, Miss Alice Doyle teacher;
to Wendell Pease, Miss Bernice Brown
teacher; to Martin, Willie, Leon and
Rudolph Johnson, Miss Dora Will
Nams teacher; and to Winnie Bull
lard, Albin Paulson, Herbert Bar
card, Florence and Hazel Miller,
Miss Ahbie Pearson teacher.
Miss Abbie Pearson will teach the
spring term in the Peck school in
Badger township. At the close of
her winter term In Lisbon No. 81
Fer pupils presented her with a
beautiful photograph album. Alb
aies all right.
Each county graduate has been
notified that they must prepare an
essay of not less than $50 words and
lille The same in this office on or be-
fore May 80. The four Pounds in
Union No. 9 showed that they were
made OF sixteen good matured ounces
to the pound by preparing theirs at
ence and tilsng them, thus Kidding
sheir minds Of the worry. Credit is
also due their teacher, Mrs. Ger
trude Scholes, for her good WORK.
Since entering this Office the
superintendent has come in possess
sion OF many valuable books. One Of
the broadcast, yet most condensed,
practical and complete, is a little
book containing a series of lectures
written by Prof. John d. Logan, A.
NJ, PHI. D. (Harvard). 1t was pre-
sented to the superintendent by
Lieutenant Oscar N. Williams, of
the National Guard. The mechani-
cal work was done by his father in
a very creditable manner in the
spring Of 1900. 1t is the richest book
OF literary ideas that the s%uperlnten-
dent has eve owned. Many thanks
10 Lieutenant Williams for his
houglltfulneSS and courtesy.
Professional Interest Certificates
were issued to each Of the following
BeacherS for having complied with
all of the rules and requirements of
che Dawson County Teachers Asso-
citation for l902-3: Jeanette Field.
Myrtle IIolshire, Minnie Lewis, Mae
Lewis. Mae Perry, Mrs. Jessie Her.
man, Belle Sphinx, II. G.. Coursey,
laura Watson, Walter Carhart, Grace
Smith, Prof. O. f. Browne, Ger
arude Bromwell. Bernice Brown,
Bessie Avery, Dora Williams, Myrtle
King. John Trotter, Ethel Shepherd,
Alice Cooper, Abbie NJ. Pearson, J.
l.. Gallagher, Matte Craig,
Katherine Craig. Matte Wittstruck,
Susie Wittstruck. and Winifred Sey-
nour. II. G.. Coursey was granted
Bwo-hc having complied with the
regulations Of both the Mitchell and
Ethan divisions. Miss Grace Smith
and Miss Myrtle King, Of Mt. Yer
non, each made a perfect recording
attendance.
The following is an extract from
She superintendent address deliver
ed, to the school officers of this
county, March -, 1903:
LIN hiring teachers l urge that
you respect the wishes of your pat
IONS, unless there is some tremend-
Gus reason for not SO dong Being
elected by the people of your respec-
ave districts you are their servants
and should endeavor to execute
their wishes in so far as they are
compatible with common sense and
good Judgment.
"Furthcrmore, ] am not an adyo-
cate OF partiality to. persons, but
ain to distinguished effort. A large
ger cent Of u teachers attend
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