The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-12-23

|, THINGS { UCATlONAL. ,
BY o. W. cuGRSEY. I
\ COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT 4

Anybody desiring a pamphlet
showing the aIu and addresses OF
all the teachers and school officers in
the county, correct to Dec. ], can Sc
euro the same by dropping Il postal to
this Office.
Word comes from Prof. j. j. Jones.
IT,. of Hot Springs, that this county
will again receive the five dollar cash
prize for meritorious work done in
our Teachers Reading Circle This
makes five consecutive victories for
Dawson county.
Misses Belle Kern and Mary Hat
tenborg are attending school at d.
W. q.
The finest sample of muscular
movement penmanshlp that has been
received at this office by any pupil in
the county, came last week from
Johnnie Donovan, a pupil Of William
Tobin in Rome. No. l.. 1t was sent
to this Office for graduation, where 10
received a credit Of 80 per cent.
Owing to the long distance to
school, Mrs. Ed. Brennan, OF Blen-
don township, herself an old teacher,
is teaching her little daughter at
bone. She has secured a copy of the
State Course OF Study, and the little
lady will take up all of the work be-
longing to her grade.
"At the last meeting of our. liter
airy sorlety in Lisbon No. s, a 10
sion was adopted instructing the Sec
.etary TO inform you of IA resolution
: naning the. society after yourself,
Very respectfully,
Floy Stevens, Sec Coursonian Lit
a1ary Societv.s''
Thank you my riends. These un-
solicited ;hopors are all appreciated.
Certificates of award have been is
sued. during the week, to Earl Com
stock, Miss Eva b. Waugh teacher to
Clarence Hofstetter and George Rig
CERT. Miss Maud Hofstetter teacher:
to May, Jones, Mary Schurz, Gertrude
Scnurz ana Minnie Hoffman, Miss
Agnes Schauh teacher.
The following pupils (their teach
ers names are also assoclated) having
sead i've or more library looks, we're
each granted large state library GER
tificates:
Myrtle Bonham, Miss Lillian Carl
son teacher "a lfredKelsey one, Edward
j. Nelson two, and Olaf Thormods-
gard three aud a state diploma, Miss
Amanda TIitle teacher; Lizzie and
Theresa C%rampton, Mrs Edith An
mis- teacher; Sarah Swenson and Dav-
vid Buedeteltd, Miss Dora Williams
teacher; Anton johnson and Forest
Butts, Miss Mary Pratt teacher;
Beulah, Nina and Jessie Noses, Miss
Edith 1eesdale teacher: Ethel Jones
and Hazel Lewis, Miss Agnes Schauh
teacher; Mckinley Pound, Miss Syl-
via Brady teacher: Howard Hanson,
Miss Charlotte Williams teacher;
Mary Fidroeff and Tilda Oleson. Miss
Edith Orswell teacher; Robert
Tschirley, Miss Jessie Orswcll teach
81: Nellie Newman, Jessie Erion,
Clarence Hofstetter and George Rig
CERT. Miss Maud Hofstetter teacher /;
John Cults, three and a state d.
gloma, S. c. Oathout teacher; Esther
Hattenborg.. GEORGIA Patterson,
Grace Livingston, L.. w. Bailey,
teacher: Myrtle Mork and Lynn Fos-
ser eucA two. and Bruce Mclean
three and a state diploma, Prof. U.
Il. Brown, teacher. The first diploma
was won by Cults, the second by
Thnrmodsgard, and the third by
Mclean.
Scarlet fever having broken out in
Rrosper No. !, Miss Edith Orswell's
entertainment announced TO Dec. 30,
has been indefinitely postponed.
The superintendent will leave COM
nrrnt on the unqualified success Of
she educational rally held at the
eeart house last Saturday. to others
rs several Of che newspapers had
representatives at the meeting. He
aetis prntitied that the school chill
ar" Merc So we'll represented, re-
aaltliess OF the chilly morning The
Mcleod boys came down from We
tor. twenty live miles; Ethan was