The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-05
VACATION DAYS
NEAR THEIR END
SCHOOL BELLS TO CALL BACK
TEACHERS AND SCHOLARS
MONDAY MORNING.
NO CHANGE IN BOOKS
This Year--New Department Of Dc.
nestle Science to Be Started
SUPERINTENDENT clendenen AS
signs Teachers.

The annual school vacation will end
next Monday morning when the bells
in the different school buildings will
call back Cairos $500 school chill
dren and teachers from three
months holiday
Everything is in readiness for the
opening. Most of the teachers have
returned from their trips and each
lday sees fond parents hustling home
their children from farms, resorts and
lcities where they have been busy try
! ing TO forget thai they must again
shoulder the burdens of school life.
/ Superintendent r. c. Clendenen
SAYS that from the school census
which he recently completed there is
every indication that the opening at,
tendance will be much larger than
previous years Last year nearly p,
500 scholers were enrolled the first
day and 1t is thought that the mum
Der will be far in advance of that mum.
Der next Monday.
With the exception of few changes
due to the resignation of teachers, the
schools will be in charge Of about the
same corps Of teachers as last year
Miss Anna Riley. resigned, will be
succeeded by Prof j l.. Parks, Of
Carbonate. as principal of the Doug
las school. Miss Katherine Walhaum
and Miss Alice NJ. Wenger are two
new teachers who will take The places
OF teachers promoted 10 nh the va
cancies caused by the resignation Of
Miss Nora Redman and Mrs. Arthur
Mattingly, formerly Miss Minnie Mil
Ter.
A new department has been created
in the High School this year which Is
expected 10 prove most popular one
This new branch will be known as
the domestic science department in |
which the girl scholars who choose |
will be taught sewing. cooking and |
general household duties Miss |
Pearl Mulberry, of Taylorville. Ill.,. (
arrived Yesterday to take charge o. |
this work. Miss Mulberry is a grad |
uate Of the University of illinois and
is highly recommended Domestic |
science has proven one OF the most |
popular features in other schools over |
the country and it is thought that the |
enrolment in this class will be very
large.
The manual training department Il |
is thought, will be larger ATTENDED |
this year than ever before This is |
another comparatively new departure
for Cairo schools and was last year
very popular among the boy students
The equipment has been added to and
the facilities for better work greatly
in creased.
All of the school buildings have
been given a thorough Over.haulng
and cleaned Many minor improve
menis have been made at all the
cchools.
The announcement that there will
be no change in the text books used
in the schools this year will be hailed
with delight by scholars parents. Elk
actly the same books as We're used
last year will be used again this win
re-.
Superintendent Clendenen will be
in his office the remainder Of the weel,
to enroll new students, conduct exam
nations. cts. He has requested that
all new residents whose children have
never attended the Cairo schools call
upon him before next Monday to get
entrance cards. etc.
Superintendent Clendenen has as
signed the teachers 10 the different
buildings as follows:
Principal OF High School-W =
Bannister: assistants. Sadie GRAY Far I
rim Clara b WAY, Elizabeth Smith /
G.. Pearl Mulberry. Margaret Wilson.
Eighth Grade School-Assistauts
Nellie r Foss and Adeline Leonard.
Principal Douglas School--James L
Parks: assistants, Zulima Smith. Ma
garet NJ. Leuschen Katherine Wa.
baum, Alice NJ wenger. Mary Gal
ligan Jennie f. Dewey and Annie
Riley Pedman.
Principal Stafford School T Al
eNander; assistants. c. s. Hudson.
Maude Gilman Alma f Block. Rita
Cohn and Ellen B. Fisher
Principal Lincoln School-H. Z.
Risley, assistants. Ella Hogan Maude
Hastings. Lena Maude Palmer Bessie
Batterton. Helen Lippitt. Carrie ]. Mi.
Ter and Francis Bennett.
Supervisor ~ Music-Mr1 Laura r Z
Miller