The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-10

Note. This column will not be
published next week.
Certificates Of Award have been is
sued to Henry Oster, Manuel and
Henry Rumbolz, Miss Matte Witt
struck, teacher.
Miss Minnie Lewis has been engaged
to teach the Garden Prairie school in
Hanson county for the spring term.
Miss Abbie NJ. Pearson, who has
just completed her winter term in
Lisbon No. 81, will commence her
third terms work this year in the
Peck school In Badger township next
Monday,
This Office has for sale a complete
set, II vols, of the international en-
c~ylopaedia, copyright of 1898, origi-
nal cost. SOL, They can be secured
at practically half price.
Miss Margaret Duncan recently COM
pleted her winter term in Mitchell
No. 6. After many years Of hard
and patient toll as a teacher Miss
Duncan has now decided to bid an
eternal au revoir to the profession.
at present she enjoys the distinction
of being the most successful teacher
of all grades in Dawson county.
John r. Helgerson completed his
winters work in Blendon and de-
parted Immediately for the state of
Washington.
Following is a list of the county
graduates for the present school year:
Ina M. Dodd, Charlie and Willie
Grieye, Mary Cullen, Emelia and
Clara Thompson. Fannie Watson,
Kyle Rapp, Charlie and Mary REIN
ers, Jay, Burr, George and Roy
Pound, Halvor Oleson, Caroline
Boreson, Sylvester, Gerald and Lizzie
Wilson, Edna and Lloyd Wallis,
Myrtle Pingry, Henry Rosso. Her
bert Fuller, May Champion, Maggie
Puff, Florence MeWhirter, Mables
Watkins, Estella H%ofstetter;' Ella
Nicolaisen, Elmer Marshall, Maud
and Ethel Atkinson, Emma Tobey,
Pearl Hull, Lena Miller, Lillian.
Donk, Gillian Martin, Charles Car
penter, Una Moses, and MILFORD W.
Barnard. There will be two or three
other names added to the list
later On.
The teachers who graduated these
pupils and who have added another
brilliant page to IL county's school
history are: Clara Hathaway, John
Trotter, Matte and Katherine Craig,
Alice Doyle, Mable Jackson, Mrs.
Jessie Herman, Mrs. Gertrude
Scholes. Henry Hendrickson, Rinnie
Nolt, Laura Watson, Edna Hen
bricks, G. G. Harrison, Clara Barlow,
Mae Lewis, Maud Hofstetter, Alice
Cooper, Margaret Duncan, Abbie M.
Pearson, J. l.. Gallagher, Hattie
Older and Agnes O. Schaub.
Propser township leads all the rest.
Two years ago they raised their
teachers wages and then raised them
again last year. This gave them an
opportunity to select the best teach
ers in the county. They did it.,
Last year they furnished the largest
graduating class and did the same
thing this year. Henry Hendrickson,
who teaches in Propser, has GRADUATE
ed the largest class of pupils both
years. This year the neatest set OF
papers was turned in by Estella
Hofstetter, ofthis township, and the
highest average in the final eaxmi-
nation was attained by Miss Fannie
Watson, of the same township. Re-
suits are what counts. Here is the
evidence that it pays to pay teachers
living wages and get good ones.
Every township in the county is
represented in this years class except
Baker. The county records show
that the latter township has not had
a graduate since 1891. The average
daily attendance is poorer in this
township than in the rest, and it
seems sorrowfully true that many Of
the parents are absolutely Indifferent
to their children's welfare.
An Impression
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