The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-26
SCHOOL BELL Will.
RING MONDAY
MISS 1. A. THOMPSON WILL
NOT BE AMONG THE TEACHERS
w. A. Brown. School Trustee, Discuss
es the Mex Text Book regulations
Recently Adopted

The gray haired janitor will clasp
the bell rope at the Winnemucca
high school building Monday morning.
and as the hands of the clock show
the hour of he will ring the old bell
again and the school term will be on
Miss /. A. Thompson, who filed tn,
efficiently last year, will not be among
the teachers during the coming term
She received the appointment to the
position, but later resigned, having,
it is said, been offered better posi-
tion in California school.
No successor to Miss Thompson has
yet been named, but the board of
trustees will meet this week to ap-
point an assistant principal.
With the exception of principal
and third and fourth grade teacher,
there is complete change in the
teaching corps of the Winnemucca
schools.
Mrs. Smith will fill the position
once occupied by Mrs. Gilmartin, nee
McGonagle Miss Cochran will teach
the 9th and 9th grades in place of
Mrs. Bulls, nee Choate; Miss Dia-
mond of Eureka takes the place of
Mrs. Wines, nee Bell, in the 7th and
sth grades.
A complete chemical and physical
laboratory will be placed in the high
school for the benefit of the young
men and women of Winnemucca who
desire to know something of practical
scientific work.
The chemical course will consist of
brief study in general laboratory
experiments, followed by a course in
qualitative inorganic chemistry, and
end with short introduction to quail
itative.
In physics the laboratory work will
consist of experiments demonstrating
the simple principles of mechanics,
heat, sound, light, magnetism and cleo
tricity. Explanatory lectures will be
given in both chemistry and physics,
accompanied by experiments to fur
ther demonstrate the work by the
teacher having the work in charge.
Last year teachers were greatly an
noyed and hampered in their work by
pupils entering their classes week
to two weeks late. Parents who send
their children some time after the
term has begun expect their children
to be promoted just the same at the
end of the year. AS matter of fact,
| the parents who do this are the ones
who generally find the most fault
when their child is not promoted.
/ They expect the teacher to give the
belated child more help than she does
the others. If these parents would
remember that the teachers services
I Ia 10 n
equally to all, they would send their
children to school at the beginning of
1 the term, unless for unavoidable rea-
sons this should prove impossible. Not
only should they send them at the be-
ginning of the term, but keep them
there fegularly until they close. The
greatest fault of the Winnemucca
schools is noo- attendance, and the
parents are ame.
w. A Bro chairman of the
board Of yrustes this morning put
him lf on rceovJ as unopposed to the
nav ~ book regulations recently
passe hy the "A I Of education, and
over hieh theg has been some oppo-
sition in fe1st parts of the state.
Mr. Brov easons for believing
that the changes which the state
board of euueatiea seek to introduce
will be of value, the putting of the
schools of the state on uniform
basis will be great bene-
/ fit, are as follows ell points
out the migratory habits of
many residents of the state, with
school children especially along the
line of railroad, and the children
transferred from work in one school
to work in another, will have no great
changes to become accustomed to and
! will not need to buy new text books
The selling rate of new text books
is low, and the exchange rate on old
books very good, and he has figured
it out that the adoption of the new
books and system in the Winnemuc.
ca schools will mean no more than a
total outlay of $75.