The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-08
SCHOOL SHOWS
BIG INCREASE

The Hood River public schools opened
Monday morning with an enrolment of
34S pupils. This is an increase of 32
pupils over the opening day of 1908.
The rooms and grades are already
overcrowded, and the prospects are that
rooms will have to be rented before the
building on the hill is completed and
ready for occupancy. The State street
school enrolled SO pupils the opening
morning, and the Park street school 2S5.
The board already realizes that addi-
tional teachers must be employed by the
end of the month.
The enrolment in the different grades
on the opening morning was: Tenth,
ii ninth, l3; eighth, 28; seventh, 33 |;
sixth, 23; fifth, Al; fourth, AZ; third, As !;
second, IA; first, 35. This was for the
Park street school. The State street
showed, first grade, 80 second, 81.
The temporary assignment of teachers
was made as follows: Professor L. A.
Wiley, tenth grade; Professor Grouse,
ninth and eighth grades; Mrs. Cove,
seventh and sixth grades; Miss Carrie
Copple, fourth grade; Miss Cora
Copple, fifth; Miss Deitz, third; Miss
Mathews, second and first State street
school-Miss Groves, second grade; Miss
Benson, first.
Directors Baker and Blowers and
Clerk Hemman were at the school house
at the opening hour to sign up contracts
with the teachers. A number OF the
patrons of the school were also present
to lend their interest and encourage
for a pnonnpoft,l pf oohnn1
A meeting of the directors and the
teachers was held Saturday afternoon
in the State street school house, when
matters of mutual interest were talked
over.
When Professor Wiley announced that
he would expect the teachers to make
daily reports to him, the young ladies
all looked up in surprise, but before
they could put in protest, the pro-
fessor assured them that if they did this
he would relieve them of the necessity
of making monthly reports, as have
been required heretofore.
"Then you don't expect to do any
teachingP" remarked one of the teach.
ers, who realized what an amount of
work is involved in the making out of
the reports.
The principal assured them that he
did. He will teach one grade and ex.
poets to accomplish the other work in
addition, By means of the daily reports,
Principal Wiley says he expects to be
better able to conduct the affairs of the
school. He will know when students
are absent for more than one day, and
by seeing the names of the pupils of the
school each day, will soon become ac-
quainted with each one, and learn to
know the progress each pupil is making.
Professor Wiley proposes introducing
some new features in the work of the
public schools of this city. While he
has not had time to perfect them all,
he says he has started movement to
secure the use of the library in Judge
Prathers office for the school children.
Every one he has spoken to in regard to
the matter is heartily in favor of the
idea. The school has about 500 books,
and this list will add 800 or 700 more.
At the suggestion of the new princi-
pal, the closets on the school grounds
will be repaintcd with dark color, and
notices will be posted OF SIS fines on all
students caught defaCing the walls OF
the building. The money will be given
to the party producing the convicting
evidence.
Barrett.-School opened Monday with
the following corps of teachers: G. D.
Thompson, principal; Ashley B. Cash,
intermediate, and Miss Ola Norman,
primary. The rooms have been painted
on the inside and the building thor
oughly fumigated. The entrance to the
school grounds is to be graded, and
new foot bridge will be built across In.
dian creek.