The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-05-13
THINGS EDUCATIONAL.
BY U. W. COURSEY. I
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

s. c. Oathout has been sick in bed
for a couple of weeks.
Prof. f. Fl. Hoff has been unan-
imously reelected superintendent Of
the Mitchell city schools.
The japanese are blotting out
Russian history while Writing sacred
pages of their own.
Graduation examination Friday
and Saturday Of next week in the
high school building In the city of
Mitchell.
Certificates of award have been is
sued to Bessie n Timothy Carpen-
ter, Miss Susie Wittstruck, teacher;
and to Oracle and Helen Miner,
Miss Minnie Lewis, teacher.
W. C. Bromwell, who announced
his candidacy for county superin-
tendent of schools on the republican
ticket, has issued a formal notice of
Withdrawal from the race. He will
enter business with his father in Mt.
Vernon.
The newspapers of this county
must be read widely, for several
teachers in adjoining counties have
taken advantage of the notice insert
ed in this column not long since,
relative to the questions used in the
last teachers examination. One re-
quest for a copy of the questions
came from st. Louis, Mo.
Hon. 6. W. Nash has been re-
nominated for State Superintendent
OF public instruction. Dawson coun-
ty should give him a solid vote. He
deserves it.
Arrange your work so as to attend
the school picnic, June 25, in Tobin's
Park.
The supreme court Of Kansas has
decided that the bibles may be read
in the schools OF the state. Mime
sofa and Nebraska better take les
sons from their southern sister.
Mrs. Julia Fletcher Carney, author
of Little Drops of Water" has just
celebrated her eighty first birthday,
at Galeshurg, Illinois.
The tomb of Queen Hatasu has
just been unearthed In the archives
of Egypt.
Outside the villages, there are only
six spring terms of school now in
session in the county.
Dawson county has always con-
trihuted to the state fair, the corn
palace and many other enterprises
in which the general public was in
terested. Is there a single man in
the county, who would object If the
county commissioners we're donate
S25 to help along II annual picnic?
Gould the money be expended for a
better purpose than TO help the
There IS no fund upon
which the superintendent may draw
for help, except private subscriptions
from the teachers, and his own priv
ate income. In order toget the idea
grounded, the superintendent has
met the expenses. quite largely, him.
self, for the past three years. 1t
costs something to get up a profitable
public entertainment for several
thousand people.
Sec. 9, Art. Z, of the state consti-
tuition provides: Amy woman hav-
ing the qualification enumerated in
Sec. j, Of this article, as to age. res
idence and citizenship, may
hold any office in this state, except
as otherwise provided in this con-
She is. therefore,
eligible to he office of county super
intendent. This clause IN the con-
stitution, makes it impossible to es-
tablish any educational qualiica-
lions for a county superintendent,
without le~gislating against only one |
sex,-a thing impossible within
itself: therefore the office is open to
anybody who has lived in the state
six months, the county three days: |
and who is twenty-one years of age.