Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-06
TRAINING SCHOOL NOTES.

The students were disappointed in
their trip to Rib Mountain on account
of the rain.
Miss Pansy Shortt, who has been a
teacher in Wood county for some years
, past, and who was recently a student
| at the Training school in Grand Rap
| ids, has moved to this county and has
begun work at Rib Falls, on Monday
Messrs. Peterson and Franzen, 03,
and the Misses Kriskey, '01, Roach and
Shortt visited us on Friday last. 1t is
hoped that many will return and give
| us words of encouragement. 1t will go
a long ways IN inspiring students with
| larger ideals and may reach favorabIy
upon the graduates themselves.
The matter of absence and hardness
| is one which continually battles the
efforts of country school teachers 1t
seems strange that parents who appar-
emily realize the value of good school,
should persist in keeping children at
| home so large portion of the time
There are elements in an education
without which child is hampered for
life. When parents demand good
schools taught by trained teachers why
do they not see to it, that their children
get the daily benefit of such blessings I?
A piecemeal education is a poor foun-
dation for any life work. More and
continual effort should be made by
teachers to secure daily attendance.
The results obtained would be well
worth while.
The Training schools, there are seven
of them now in the state, are to appear
on the program at the next meeting of
the Wisconsin Teachers association
Mr.. Lamont, president of the Superin-
tendents' association, has been request
ed to make provision for them in the
superintendent section, and the first
afternoon of its program will be given
to them 1t is expected that all the
schools will be represented By a mem
Der of the board or of the teaching
force. In each county the county
superintendent is ex-officio secretary
of the board, hence the propriety of
placing the program in this section.
One of the graduates of last year who
was engaged to teach for nine months
at $50 pes month, has had her salary
voluntarily raised by the board after
one months teaching, to $40 per month
for the entire year. Such recognition
encourages-a teacher to do her best and
proves that some school officers APP
preciate good work.
Miss Bohrer visited Marathon City
on Friday. She found an interesting
and interested school of thirty boys and
twenty girls on that day Marathon
City is rich enough aud ought to be
progressive enough to do splendid
things for its children. 1t is known
abroad that Wausau owes its beauty,
sociability and steady financial progress
to its intelligent men and women
What might Marathon City be with its
thirty boys grown to. intelligent nen
Ii is worth while to give them the best
that the city can afford As the teacher
is one of the chief factors in the school,
they have made a splendid beginning
in securing the services of Mr.. Leonard
Lemmer, but much more could be done
with more and better apparatus such
as black boards, library books suitable
10 children under fourteen, and even a
new school building which would rival
the engine house and be worthy of the
beautiful little city of Marathon.
The timber on the Fan Claire river,
which ten Years ago was reported as
nearly all ~ = not vet at an eud
John Manser's mill at Kelly viii, with
the completion of the season, have cut
more timber this year than any season
since the mill was built with the excep-
ton of one Lamar Sexmith bas been
II a hove the dis