Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-01
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The Ohio State University at Column
bus has issued a valuable bulletin on
Centralized Schools in Ohio" 1t shows
by text and pictures the progress that is
being made in the line of school consoli-
dation in that State.
Kansas is to have a great corn-growing
contest for boys this year. The indica-
tions now are that at least 5000 boys
will compete. One county has 1856. ].
H. Miller, State Institute secretary for
the Kansas Agricultural College has
charge.-Exchange
The report of Treasurer McClung of
Yale university shows that the annual
income has increased from $920,O00 to
S9SO,OOO mad that the expenses for the
past year were S91S,000 a decrease of
$1,000. OF this, $467,213 went to pay
the salaries of professors and instructors.
The total assets are $S,250000.
Miss Rose Byrne, a teacher in Ply
mouth county, Iowa, was dismissed by
the school board on complaints general in
character and without introducing evil
dence to substantiate the same. She ap-
pealed to the county superintendent, who
ordered Miss Byrne reinstated in her po-
sition. The board appealed to the State
superintendent, and set up the contention
that the burden of proof was on the teach
er. But State Superintendent Riggs takes
the opposite view. In affirming the or
der for the teachers reinstatement he
says: The charges were so general in
character, and some of them so trivial,
that full testimony from credible wit
nesses would be required to convince any
court of review that they were sufficient
to warrant the board in dismissing the
teacher. Such testimony was not given
before the board. When the case was be-
fore the board the burden of proof was
unquestionably upon that body. The pros
ecution must establish the guilt OF the
accused, not the accused prove her inno-
cence."-Exchange.
The school children of Kentucky have
raised over $4,000 for a statue of the
late Stephen c. Foster, author of MY
Old Kentucky Home" The work is to
be done by W. L. Roop of Louisville, who
has recently obtained in Pittsburg a pho
tograph of Mr.. Foster, taken about 1858.
Thousands of girls and boys in the
public schools of Kansas City are saving
money In the last six years they have
deposited in the Missouri Savings bank,
where school accounts are kept, a total
of $4,000. OF this amount $4,000 has
been withdrawn, leaving $4,000 to the
credit of school children.
The federal bureau of education reports
that there are now sos city school sys-
TENS in the United States with a total
enrolment of 4,374, 463 pupils and an av-
erage daily attendance of 3,354. SOC. an
increase of 105,252 for the previous year.
In private and parochial schools there
were 1,996,5S2 pupils, an increase of
39,O17 Of the 500 supervising officers,
1850 are women. OF the 96,o24 teachers
in the city schools, S9,336 are women. an
increase of 2,533, whereas the number of
men teachers increased only 10. The
school property is valued at $40, 326. 526,
and the total expenditure for the schools
was S120, $50, 205, an increase OF go per
cent.
An article published in the New Or
leans Times Democrat, widely copied. has
drawn attention 10 the new marvel of edu-
cation for the defective. The case is
that of 11-year-old Maud Scott, who was
born blind and deaf, and who up to her
seventh year lived in a cradle without the
first beginnings or normal existence She
was then taken to the institution for the
deaf at Jackson, Miss. and found 4 de-
voted teacher in Miss NJ. a Bodkin. By
patient repetition of directed movements
the child was first taught to walk. and
then to feed herself. Now she knows her
alphabet and has a vocabulary of about
200 words. Lessons are read in the Braille
ystem, and copies made on typewriter.