The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-03-07
COMMUNICATIONS
This Will Be Worth While.

To THE SCHOOL OFFICERS AMI PAT
RONS OF THE SCHOOLS OF BROOK
INGS COUNTY
This letter to you is issued from the
Office Of the county superintendent OF
schools, thru the kindness of the
editor OF this paper.
The annual meeting of the District
officers of this county will be held in
the Opera House, on Main street in
Bookings, March 10, to which we
wish to invite not only the officers,
but the patrons AS we'll. 1t is to the
latter that this letter is especially
written, for the officers will receive
other notice.
We have with us State Superintend-
ent H.. A. Ustrud, who will address
the meeting, as we'll as two or three
others who will give short talks.
Then besides these, we will have
superintendent O. J. Kern, of WINNIE
bago County, Illinois, Of which county
he has been the superintendent for
the past eight years, being reelected
again last fall. He will give a sterio-
pticon lecture on agriculture in the
Rural Schools, and Consolidation of
Rural Schools" The writer had the
opportunity OF hearing Superintendent
Kern in Sioux Falls last December
and we will unreservedly say that his
lectures were the most interesting and
instructive Of any that We have ever
heard along theseIncs. SuperlnteGd-
ent Kern has a national reputation in
these lines OF work, and has by far
more applications for lectures than he
is able to fill. He has lectured all
over the eastern and middle west states.
In this state, he could spare bat n
week, and we as one Of six successful
counties out OF fifteen who wanted him,
have been fortunate enough to secure
his services.
The reasOn that he is wanted by so
many Of our counties is thatthe Super
i]ntcndents heard him at Sioux Falls,
and it was the conccnsus Of opinion
that no better mar could have been
procured for this work. He has
| accomplished more in Rural School
Agriculture and Consolidation than
any other superintendent in this
country. He is a pioneer.
His lecture will be illustrated hv
pictures thrown on q screen twelve
feet square. From these one can see
lust the work that is being done in
other states along these lines Of
education. The lecture will be worth
coming miles to hear and see. and will
be free. We are going to have it in
the Opera house so as to be able to ac-
commodate all whomay wish to attend.
The house will easily seat seven hum
dred in good comfortable seats. So
the older bows and girls NAV come too
those that are old enough to appreci-
ate and understand such a lecture.
The lecture is especially pertinent
to the rural children because it deals
with their life wholly. 1t is not good
practice to keep children out of school
even occasionally, and we would
not suggest it now but for the fact
that this lecture will be we'll worth the
time spent by them. 1t is another
line Of education, and it is well to get
these ideas started in the minds OF the
younger people, for it will be but a
short time at most whom tbor mill
have these same school nrob,onoo 70
doaI u;.h r. 49,
uo"' "i'n' - any pupli' VINO attend
the lecture are STRIVING Tor awards
under the Perfect Attendance system,
absopco from school for tbis dow wiIi
49,. La anYH.o1 n|. LAY WIZ
MOI oe co"n''u against thehl' II they
VIII make the TACT OF their attendance