Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-02-04
NEWS IN THE COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Items of Interest CuIled from the Current
Number of Winneslieik County
Teacher.

1
Leigh Robinson, Emily Larson and
Harriet Campbell.
| The vacancy in Bluffton No. 4, near
John Springs farm, is filled by Edna
Hartz, of CaImar, and the one in No.
l3, Bloomfield, by Emma Winon, also
of Calmal. So far as we are aware,
all the schools, except No. 3 Fremont,
are now in operation.
The spring institute will be held as
usual, commencing March 30th. More
specific information will be given
next month.
We learn that Zoe Cornell (who
formerly taught the intermediate
room in Osisan but was compelled to
give up her work OH account of i'll
healthy filled the position as teacher
in Miss Oyloe's room in Ossian last
week. Miss Oyloe being detained at
home by the sickness of a brother.
We are sorry to learn that Miss Cor
nell must give up teaching for the
present until she fully recuperates,
she having overworked while in
school at the Normal and at Ossian.
We discovered recently some results
of our letter on Compulsory Educa-
ton" A mother brought her three
hildren to school for the first time
since Decorahs flood. -
Every family should know that if
their circumstances do not permit
their buying books and clothing to
send children to school the board must
furnish books and the county furnish
clothing, so that the new law may
be complied with.
Since our last issue teachers meet
ines have been held in Satire and He's
per. At Satire there was good at
tendance, considering the extremely
cold Gather. The meeting was one
that will be prodcutive of much good
to the community. Excellent apers
were read by G. L.. Child and Garlic
Blodgett. The attendance at Hesper
was beyond our expectations, though
anyone acquainted with Hesper people
knows they can be counted on when
any worthy enterprise is soliciting
their support. The program was
carried out as advertised, with the
exception of the paper by Miss Turk,
though some of those on for the dis
cussions were not present.
The vacancy at Hesper recently
caused by the resignation of Miss
Allen is now filled by Mrs Mary
Engle, of Decorah, who takes both
the primary and intermediate rooms
combined. We believe this board
makes mistake by combining the
rooms. as it creates more work than
any one teacher can be expected to
do reasonably we'll.
A recent visit to Decorah high
schools reveals evidences of "expan-
sion" on several lines. A splendid
cabinet, containing paper pulp relief
maps of the grand divisions of the
world, framed, four feet by three
feet, and so made rat the relati "a
height of the different surface modi-
fications-mountains, valleys, p'a.
teaus, etc.-is plainly visible. at a
glance. In the library room adjoining
the principals Office is long reading
table, supplied with about all the
western college papers, the Record
Herald, all the city papers of De-
corah, magazines-such rs Munsey's,
Century, The Outlook, McClures,
Review Of Reviews, and others we do
not now recall. From a student we
learned that the papers and magazines
are quite generally read. This move
aids very greatly in bringing the
work and life in the school into closer
unison with the doings of the world
at large, and will furnish a connect
ing link between the theory taught
in the school and the actual work,
and application of the theory outside
the school. Decorah institute has had
the reading table in connection with
the school for about three years, and
students find this phase of their educa.
tion developed as we'll as the purely
regular" work.