Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-01-10
Oneida School Notes.

east Of here.
Oneida School Notes.
Yule-tide season at Oneida, with
its varied though sombre conditions
of wind and weather, bespeaks of
that hallowed calm that somehow
always proceeds the joyousness and
gay festivities of the Christmastide.
18th night will soon be kept and
humanity will once more go forth
with its new resolves, new hopes,
new ambitions, that are rs ever meet
for the dawning of the new year. II
is good thing to make resolves and
it is better to keep them-that is,
all good resolves.
The community was shocked to
know that Mr.. Dodgehad been called
home, and the little church was
brought to witness two different
gatherings within a week-one be-
ing the largely attended funeral Of
Mr.. Dodge on New Years morning.
and the other the Christmas pro-
gram Of Saturday, Dec. %. 1t is a
notable fact that Mir. Dodge was a
veritable patriarch, aged SO years.
His was the first death in the family,
there being ten children, 40 grand
children and Is areat-grand chill
dren, all living.
Winter term began Dec. 4, 1905.
First month ended Jan. 5, 1906.
Number enrolled, %.
We have heard it said by those
present that the program given at
the church for Christmas was we'll
received, and that the reception and
drill given by Mother Goose and
sixteen of her children was worth
going miles to see. They certainly
did we'll and their costumes and
rhymes and songs and their march
ing seemed like a fairy legend set
to real music in living reality.
Some of the pupils attended a
party at Ray Kellogg's Jan. list, and
| Aldu q plCdSduG GlIuO.
Mrs. Aucutt was a welcome visi-
tor during the month.
Mary and Ruth Strukhoff are en-
joying a visit from their sister Sar-
alb, who is a senior in the Farley
school.
IL anyone wants some shoveling
done we reccomend the boys of the
Oneida school as being proficient,
and as they do it at the school
grounds gratuitously we suggest
you pay them we'll.
A half-hours' incoming is the rule
these short, cold and sometimes
stormy days.
Roy Haven was promoted from
End to Bird year work, Jan. 5, 1906.
Roy is an industrious and we'll dis
posed pupil.
The Bird year class are tackling
geography with a will and have be-
gun map drawing. They have learn
ed the names of all the states.
The pupils presented their teach
er with beautiful china fruit dish
as an appreciation of their esteem
and regard. 1t was SO unexpected
that she scarcely could find what to
say, but she thanked them most
heartily and will prize and cherish
it and their friendship through all
the years to come. She also thanks
those unknown friends who placed
gifts on the tree without signing
their names. Do you not think they
ought to expose themselves?
Jennie Boardman is detained at
home on account Of stormy weather.
Our school has made the usual
quota of new resolves and by the
present standings in class and con-
duct we predict they are to be kept.
Honest, earnest effort is almost al
ways sure to win.
READING:-I do not know how it is
with the rest Of my fellow teachers
but | lind that the better | teach
reading and the better the expression
the pupil obtains and the better he
learns to listen and to read, in short,
the ability the child acquires in be-
ing able to receive and impart ideas,
SO much the better is he equipped
to study and learn every other
branch. Reading is not passive
art, but rather does it require both
skill aud energy on the part of pupil
and teacher in having alert and &C
tive minds to grasp, hold, keep, and
impart the ideas and moods and
thoughts, as well as the spirit Of the
printed page. If the child does not
read to understand what he reads,
but stumbles along through the par
agraphs, falling from one word onto
the next, stopping tospell out some
of the words, mispronouncing others
and when he has finally finished T?1|
to not be able to tell what he has
read about, surely would not be ex-
pected to read an arithmetic ex-
ample Complementary, much less
being able to solve it. One of the
objects Of the schoolroom is to de-
velop thinking, reasoning minds SO
let US do what we can through this
very important branch of reading.