The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-08

The city schools will open next Mon
day, and during the long summer vaca-
ton while the teachers have been re-
cuperatfng their wasted energies and
gathering new ideas and forming new
plans for the coming year, the tani-
tors have been busy cleaning and rem
ovating the school buildings of the
city, so that the teachers will be able
to enter rooms fit for the reception of
bride. One of the buildings has
been SO much remodeled that It is
practically new building, while need
ed improvements at all the others have
increased their conveniences.
Superintendent Kelly, when seen by
the Evening Times, stated that he was
not able to determine the final assign
ments of the teachers and would not
in all probability be able to do so be-
bore the end of the first week of
school. The number of pupils who
will be in attendance at the high
school is one of the unknown ele-
ments and nothing but the enroll
ment cards will determine what it is.
1t is therefore impossible to decide
how many teachers will be needed for
this department of the city schools.
So in some of the grades the number
of pupils cannot be determined no,
can the places for which the severai
teachers are best suited be decided
upon until the work is gotten some
what in hand. At the. present time
the teachers have been, assigned to
the following schools:
High School-Jennie Allen, princi-
nal and tQQohor ,f I of{ E<3po
ley and Bertha Ferguson, English;
Winnifrede Wolgamot and Harriet
Dodge, mathematics; W. C. StebbIns,
science; j. P. SEEMING, history; J. 9.
burridge, commercial; Grace Barker,
music; Ruth Hedback, drawing.
Central School-Mary McArdle ana
Catherine F. Perkins, Eighth grade;
Olive ]. Bird and Nora M. Stack, Sew
enth; Elizabeth Perkins, Sixth; Alice
Perkins, Fifth and Sixth: Christine
Hysiop, Fifth; Name Martin and Vida
Turner, Fourth; Cora Adams and Lulu
Byrne, Third: Edith Freeman an,
Eveline Smith, Second; Jennie Grove
and Anna Mcintyre, First.
Belmont School-Catherine White
ley, principal and Eighth grade; Ade-
laide Patterson and Nettie Benson,
Seventh; Beatrice Johnson and Ade-
laide Regan, Sixth; Miss Wilson and
Bessie Bull, Fifth; Helen Prindeville
and Lottie Tibbals, Fourth; Marion
Green, Third and Fourth; Lottie Coop
err and Catherine McNeice, Third;
Clara Wolff, Nellie Thacker and Lillian
Bulge, Second; Martha Grattan, Mary
Peyton and Gertrude Crismore, First.
Wilder School-Mollie Aldrich, prin-
cipal; Elizabeth Cunningham, Georgi-
ana Keye, Bernice Sheriff, Mabel Bat
son and Julia Cook.
Winship School-Nellie Aldrich,
principal and Fifth and Sixth grades:
Margaret Vannet, Third and Fourth;
Clara Colquhoun, Second; Katherine
Toole, First.
Whether additional teachers will be
required to properly handle the work
cannot be determined at this time, blu,
If such should be the case they Wilt
be employed as soon as needed.
One of the things which will prob
ably increase the attendance some
what is the recent provision of the
school law basing the apportionmens
of the state school funds upon the at
tendance of the pupils in school rather
than upon the enumeration as has
formerly been the case. The more
pupils in school the larger will be
the amount of money received from
the state, SO that it is important for
school officers to see that as many
pupils as possible are in attendance.
To this end the compulsory atteni-
ance law will be rigidly enforced m
the city, and unless there is some rea-
son for the absence of the pupil which
will be acceptable in law, he will be
required to attend school at least for
the time required by law. In many
cases it is believed that compulsory
attendance for that period of time will
be sufficient to interest the pupil ana
parent in the formers education suf-
ficiently to retain him in school for
the entire term.
The indications are that the pres
ent term will be the most successful
one in the history of the city schools.
Superintendent Kelly is thoroughly
alive to the educational interests
which are entrusted to his care ana
the teachers are enthusiastic, earnese
and progressive. These with the ener-
getic and progressive board which is
behind them cannot fail in the years
work.