The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-12-01

Snapshots and Notes About Matters
of More or Less Interest. .......

Snapshots and Notes About Matters
Of More or Less Interest. .......
Milbank has q fine opera house,
a Carnegie library and q number
of other pubic institutions of
which it may be proud, but
when it comes to schools-well,
before the winter has fairly com.
menced-the children have to be
sent home to get warmed up.
One of the local real estate and
land men informed a Herald Re-
porter this week, that nearly
$40, 900 had been spent by the
Milbank land dealers to promote
and create sales of South Dakota
soil. "Land value has increased"
said another, "fully twenty five
per cent since the landmen start
ed the boom some years ago.
In a conversation with Man
ager Pullen of the Milbank
Creamery Co., he stated that his
company would pick and ship
from Milbank at least $4,000
pounds of ducks, geese, turkeys
and chickens this month. The av-
erage price paid for this will be
about 10 cents per pound, which
with the several extra hands
needed to do the picking and
shipping will amount to a nice
round sum for one industry
alone in this city.
County commissioner julius
Fenner, Of Twin Brooks, proved
himself a handy man as we'll as
a iuryman last week at the Book
hout trial. Mrs. BoekhOut was
called on the witness stand, but
as she could not understand the
English langaugean Interpreter
had to be appointed, and that
was Mr.. Fenner. The counsel
would ask the question in Eng
lish, Mr.. Fenner would repeat
it in German to Mrs. Boekhout
who replied in Holland and Mr..
Fenner would translate the an
swer to English. Thus + the
obstacles in a court room over
come.
The conference of the city superin-
tendents of schools of this state came
to a close at Mitchell a week or SO
ago, after an important session that
will mean much for the revision of the
state course of study for the high
schools and graded schools of the
state. A committee was appointed by
State Superintendent Kramer to revise
the high school course and also one to
revise the rural school course. Both
of these committees returned valuable
reports at the afternoon meeting which
were adopted. The high schools are
classified into three kinds: l, a high
school maintaining a our years
course: 2, a high school maintaining
a three years course: ), q school
maintaining a two years course a
first class high school course is under
stood to consist of eight constants ano
eight electives: a second class to have
six constants and six electives; 9
third class to have fOur constants anC
four electives. The term constant is
defined as a required study pursued
for t~hirty-six weeks of five periods
each: the term elective is defined as ar
optional study, selected by the board
of education and city superintendent
pursued for t~hirty-six weeks of five
periods each; the term period is detin-
ed as referring to not less than forty.
five minutes of class work. The com
mittee recommended that under ordin'
airy conditions, no student shall carry
more than four studies of five periods
each or receive credit for more thar
twenty periods per week. The com
mittee recommended that a complete
syllabus of English work shall be pre-
pared, Superintendent Kramer appoint
ed the following committee for tha'
task: Messrs. S~chellenger, Emm
C%ochrane, Thompson, Otte, Brown
uoff on1 Mathew