The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-05-10

topic was The promise of the new
century"
Arbor day in a few school dis
tricts was observed by many of the
children, but it takes the strong
arm of an expert tree planting man
to make trees grow on raw soil.
The manager of the Marshall Bust
ness College would be pleased to CORE
spond with any who may desire to at
tend the college for ensuing year. Our
graduates are holding desirable posi-
tions. 4O-3t.
No. 80, which has built a new,
handsome building, will name it
the ''Helen Keller" Monday after
noon, May 9Th, weather permitting.
They tried to do this Tuesday, May
I'd.
Oak Dale place for sale. A good
house and three acres of land on bank
of Lake Redwood, IN city of Redwood
Falls, seven blocks from postoffice.
Price $1,000 j. B. Robinson & Co.,
Redwood Falls, Mimi.
No. 20, (the Mack-Payne district
has done a good work in tree plant
ing. Say, gentlemen, why don t
you christen that new well-built
building in No. 20? It's zoo good a
school to be nameless.
The new school law says, that all
teachers certificates and diplomas
must hereafter be filed in the office
of the county superintendent of
schools before opening schools Ger
titled copies may, instead of diplo-
mas, be offered.
Heating and ventilation are now
attracting much attention in our
rural schools, whereas, ten years
ago it was hard work to get school
trustees to think about it. We still
have the rusty old stove and smoky
school room to remind US that we
came from away back,
The summer school for Redwood
county will be held at Mankato at
the state normal school, beginning
June 81, and continuing six weeks.
The counties of Blue Earth, Nicol-
let, Waseca, Watonwan, Brown and
Redwood will unite at this joint
summer school. Teachers can OBJ
tain special railroad rates and
board. Programs will be sent later.
At Lucan they did themselves
great work in tree planting. All
around the school grounds and on
many streets they planted trees.
This is good work for any village
to do. When trees are ten years of
age, they should stand thirty feet
apart. When they are twenty
years old they should stand fifty
feet apart. This plan will give
handsome trees. Otherwise, you
get ugly, ill-shaped trees.
Miss Maud Gilbert sends in the
best school attendance report, thus
far received. She had an enroll
ment of % pupils in seven months
term in district No. 40, (the Gales
schooD. Twenty seven pupils are
as apportionment pupils,
or 81 per cent. of the total enroll
ment. The average personal at
tendance of the pupils is SO days.
This is far above the average seven
months school. No. 40 needs a
new school house with eight months
of school.
School districts hereafter, which
have eight months of school and
are meeting the state requirements,
which insist that the teacher shall
hold a second grade state certificate,
that the building shall be comforta
BILE, and that it shall have system
OF heating and ventilation, maps,
globe, library, comfortable out
houses for the sexes, the said dis
trict shall receive annually the sum
of $50. This law ought to help
Redwood county. School districts
may now contract with other ad-
joining school districts for trans
portation and education OF their pu-
pills. That is. where a school is SO
small that to hire good teacher
would be expensive, it may close
it's school and transport its pupils
to an adjoining district and there
educate it's children. This plan
ought to close several small schools
in this county and give to the pu-
pills better teachers and more slim