Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-05-25
SCHOOL
YEAR CLOSES
One Of the Most Successful Terms In
the History of the Institution
Ended Friday.
SCHOOL IN A FINE CONDITION
Utmost Harmony Prevails in Board
and Faeulty-Teaehers Leave for
Their Vacations.

One OF the most successful terms
in the history of the Fergus County
Free High School closed Friday af.
ternoon. Inasmuch as all members
of the senior class participated in
graduation exercises last year when
they completed the three year course
and for the further reason that the
superintendent and a number of the
high school boys were in Missoula in
attendance at the inter.scholastic
meet, there We're no formal gradual
ing exercises. The only feature to
break the usual routine work during
the last days of the session was the
junior reception held Friday, May
18th.
The senior class this year compris-
ed Claire Acly, Ethel Warren, Mamie
Anderson, Oscar Anderson and Her
bert Silloway. Having completed the
course offered in the local high school
they are eligible to emu ance TO most
OF the higher educational institutions
OF the country. All are bright. ambi-
tious young people and all intend to
round out their preliminary schooling
with a college or university course.
The high school year was interrupt
ed somewhat by the change from an
old TO The new school building. Much
of the apparatus which was ordered
for the new building did not arrive
in time for use during the school year
just closed but good work was done
with the material which was already
on hand. BY the opening of next
term all Of the new %labratory furni-
ture and other apparatus will be on
hand and our county high school will
be as well equipped in every particu-
lar as any high school in the state.
OF the faculty to whom is due. in
a large measure, the success OF the
school year of 1904, Superintendent
Silloway will spend the greater part
of the summer vacation in this city.
Mass. Thompson and Bates left Mon
uay iOr their respective homes in Le-
%etonia, o.. and Hastings. Mimi, and
Miss Maxwell. with her mother, Will
spend a part of the vacation period
on a ranch which she has filed on
down on Musselshell river. All of the
teachers who were in the school dur
ing the past year have been re-em-
ployed and the action of the board of
trustees in so doing has met with the
hearty approval of everyone at all in
terested in the welfare of the school.
Superintendent Silloway is recogniz-
ed as one of the leading educators
of the state and there will be no re-
PROGRESSION in the work of the school
so long as he remains at the head.
He has had chargGOf the department
of science and actual class room work
has occupied the greater part of his
time in the past. The board has
employed an additional teacher. Miss
Hawkes., OF Minnesota, to take a part
of the science work and the superIn-
tendent will have more time to de-
vote to the general superintendent of
the school.
The superintendent has had three
most efficient assistants in the Misses
Thompson. Bates and Maxwell. Each
young lady is a specialist in her de-
partment and their excellent work has
won the appreciation of the patrons
of the school. With a capable, har-
monious board of trustees and an ef-
fcient faculty, the future of the Fer
gus County Free High School is as
bright as its most earnest well wisher
could desire.