The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-30
SERIOUS PROBLEM j. :
i FACES EDUCATORS
ABERDEEN CITY SCHOOL TEACH
| ERS THREATEN TO RESIGN
Crowded Condition Of Buildings Is
Cause Of Complaint, and Board Of
Education Is Expected to Relieve the
Strain Before Next Term or Walkout
Nav Result -
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal -
Aberdeen, s. D., Nov So.-The Aberdeen board
Of education is confronted with serious prob
lem and possible walkout Of large portion Of
the teaching force Of the city schools. The dis
satisfaction is not due to low wages, but to the
fact that they are overworked,< owing to the
crowded condition of the schools. 3, = p
In 1903, the school board built addition
the. high school, practically doubling its Ca
pacity, and in 1904 two ward schools we're built
at cost Of 100000 Notwithstanding the addi-
tional facilities the schools are again crowded
as badly as they were in 1902 Conditions arc
such that nearly every grade teacher in the
schools has to hear eight recitations day.
he the they s is aro too Sold m m ] Of
pupil has chance to recite In any one study not
oftener than once in three days. The strain is
so hard on the teachers that several have noti-
fed the board of education that II something is
not done to relieve the situation by the time
school opens after the Christmas holidays they
will resign and seek positions elsewhere
The congestion of the city schools is due to
the fact that the school population has increased
faster than the city can provide for Its wants.
Aberdeen has more and larger school buildings
than any other town In South Dakota except
problem Of adeauateiy caring for the dus
Of the children Of the city a difficult one A
committee of the board of education has the
matter under consideration and expects to evolve
some plan for relieving the situation before
the Christmas vacation is past. s.'..
Gra1n Or0p NoC InfeSned.
Charles Hilicker, acting division freight and
passenger agent for the Milwaukee road who
has been Investigating the crop situation, states
that fully 10 per cent Of the grain crop in
this section of South Dakota is still unthreshed
and that not more than 30 per cent Of the crop
has been hauled by the railroads to the city
markets The crop was so heavy this year all
over northern South Dakota that many farmers.
after getting it harvested, found it next to
impossible to secure threshing machine.
Most Of the machines in this section worked
until compelled to close down by the approach
OF winter and the thresher hands had one of the
longest seasons In the history Of the state. The
unthreshed grain is, in nearly every instance.
safely stored and will be threshed next spring.
The fact that large percentage OF the
threshed grain is still in the hands Of the farm
ers or the local elevators, is due largely to
| the shortage of cars on the railroads.
The granary Of James Julson farmer living
near Groton, was destroyed by fire, with its
contents, which included $500 bushels of wheat
and his farming implements The loss is esti
mated at $4,000. The fire Is thought to have
been started by 4 farmland who had left Jul
sons employ the day before after quarrel
with his employer over wages. The farmland
| has not been seen since the fire.