The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-04
THINGS EDUCATIONAL,
BY O. ". CUURSEY.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT


Time turns the wheels OF progress
in a human career with extreme ra-
p,dity. 1t seems but yesterday, al
though ten years since, that the sup
erlntendent was teaching a country
school four miles west Of Bonilla,
this state, and had under his charge
q little girl by the name Of Nellie
Lawrence, who, at that time. was
reading in her second reader. Her
cheerful disposition, ideal beauty,
scholarship and department, left a
lasting impression of her modest face
on bis memory. Today she is a wo-
man grown and vas united in mar
liage November Is to f. W. Baker,
Of Alpena, South Dakota. How
quickly the. boys and girls of today
become the men and women Of to-
morrow.
The large gate swung by a myster-
ious Hand at the close of each human
life, was--swung silently ajar Tuesday
OF last week, while the departed soul
OF Mrs. Fl. L. Bras, carrying with it
her charming manners and comeIl-
ness, passed through and was hid
from mortal contact forever. Her
graciousness and noble womanhood
have already been portrayed in consol
Ing phraseology by the papers Of the
county, yet it seems proper and right
that additional mention should be
made in this column, owing to the
fact that she was formerly n Of our
ablest teachers, and for the addition
al reason that her grief-stricken hus-
band, Honorable n. L. Bras, served
Dawson county for six years, without
a parallel, as county superintendent
OF schools. On behalf Of the rural
teachers the superintendent hereby
extends their united sympathy to the
broken circle of loved ones at home.
May time heal the wound: the sea
will aver be visible:
Nat Bennett, who died recently in
California, was for a number or years
clerk Of Mitchell No. 6.
H. G. Coursey and Miss Pearl Pratt
spent Thanksgiving in Beadle county.
Miss Ella Wagner has Just gradu-
ated from the Western Business col
lege IN this city. She is one Of the
best stenographers the school has ev-
or sent out. She dill some work for
this Office that was a /.
Miss Ida Gaines, who taught in
Baker last year, is just recovering
from an attack Of typhoid fever.
Certificates Of Award have been is
sued to Oscar Scott, Miss Nettie
Hofstetter, teacher: to Grace Fred
erick, Miss Myrtle King teacher; and
to Eva Lambert, Ray and Orville
Taylor, Lena Mewhirter and Leta
Clark, Miss Mae Lewis teacher.
Miss Bernice Brown and Mrs. Mat
Nolt, the two lower teachers in the
Mt. Vernon schools, gave a joint
Thanksigvi wing entertainment at that
PloSS lnoO WYNN SlIoU "oS a IN
success, and should have been more
largely p%atronized by the town peo-
pie.
The way to appeal to a mans pock-
es book IS through his stomach. Re-
aliEine the truthfulness of this prop
osition, Miss Mae Lewis gave a 5as-
ket social at the Loomis school house
last Friday night. John Tyler acted
as %auctioneer, and he did his work
we'll. The baskets sold from fifty
cents to three and one-half dollars.
Total receipts $40. The money will
be used to purchase a 24-inch bell for
the school house, for song books for
the school and for numerous other
small things needed by the teacher
in her work.
Teachers meeting at the court
house Saturday Of this week.
Miss Amanda Tritle held an old
fashioned spelling school at her
school house in Union No. % last
Friday night. There was a large at
tendance. The Donors were won by
Miss Myrtle Bromwell. Miss Tritle
will continue to hold contests during
che winter months.
During the three years Of present
county supervision a strong effort has
been made to work up a healthy and
profitable correspondence between
this Office and the teachers of and
school officers Of the county. So sue
cessful has been this effort that the
correspondence from the Office now
averages close to POO letters per week.
This is the season Of the year when
the prudent and careful housewife
repIenlsbes her supply of Chamber
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