Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-29
GREAT WORK DONE
N MANUAL TRAINING
Grade and High School Pupils
Get Advantage Of instruction
in Public Schools
GIRLS LEARNING HOW TO SWIM.
Glasses Formed by Miss seerley, Ply
steal Culture Instructor, and Much
& interest Taken-outline Of Work
Being Done in Manual Training
Under. Direction Of Mr.. Haus.

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As a rule Marshalltown people, ana
\ natrons of the public schools, fail to
recognize the benefits being derived
bv the children in the new exclusive
manual training building maintained
BY the school board under the direc-
ton Of Mr.. ODER e. Haug. Manual
/ training for pupils Of different grades
and the high school is carried on daily
In the manual training building, as
well as work in drawing, under the
direction OF the supervisor, Miss Char
Slotte Reed, and in physical culture,
which Is in charge Of Miss Esther L.
Seerley.
Work in the Grades.
M In the grades total of l6l boys
are taking manual training work ana
learning to use tools in wood working,
and to be useful in different lines of
handicraft. One hours work per week
Is given each pupil, divided according
to the following schedule: Rogers and
woodbury. sixth grades, Monday, to
Il; Abbott, seventh, Tuesday, to 4;
Arson, fifth, Wednesday, 8 to 10; First
ward, sixth, Wednesday, 10 to II; Rog-
eers, seventh. Wednesday, II to IL;
Abbott, sixth, and Click, seventh.
Wednesday, 1880 to $3.50; Arnold, sixth,
Wednesday, 8 to Il; Arnold, seventh,
Thursday, 8 to 4; Click. sixth, Friday,
to 4.
High School Manual Training.
In the high school each pupil does
four hours a week with the privilege
OF extra time before 8 in the morning
and after 3 In the afternoon. The high
school program includes every day ex-
cept Wednesday,. A total Of 126 high
school pupils are taking the work,
twelve of the number being girls.
This makes a total Of 2S7 pupils in the
city who are enrolled in manual train
Ing classes.
81 Tho Work in Drawing.
At the manual training building
drawing is also made special fea-
'ture, and much interest is taken by
those who have taken up the work
On Monday and Friday afternoons, at
4: 80 and 3:45, twenty eight pupils take
up mechanical drawing. On Tuesdays
and Fridays, at the same periods,
pupils do work in art
drawing. making total Of fifty-two
who are interested in these two
branches.
Physicist Culture.
Miss Seerley's classes in physical Gull
ture at the building are working on
Mondays and Wednesdays. One class
Of sixty girls who. have had previous
training Is heard at o'clock, and
thirty-six other girls who are taking
up their first year in this department,
enter the class room at 3.45.
On Mondays and Wednesdays at 1850
Miss Seerley takes charge Of the class
in basket ball, a game that has grown
exceedingly popular among girls ath-
letically inclined during the past few
years.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 3:4s
and 1880, fifty-two girls form two
classes in swimming, and are already
bidding fair to eclipse some OF their
brothers In the art Of self preserva-
ton in the water. ~
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boys OF the sixth and seventh grades
OF the graded school on Saturday aft
Hrnoons. Their instruction Is under
che direction OF Physical Director A.
q. Dawson, Of the Railroad Y. M. G. A.
The following schedule will be OBJ
served for the graded school boys:
Saturdays, 1880 to- $50: Woodbury.
and Abbott, $3.50 to $3.50; Arnold and
Click; $3.50 to 4:30, Rogers and First
ward. These hours apply only to boys
of the sixth and seventh grades.
Mr.. Dawson also has charge Of the
boys gymnasium work in the schools,
including the basket ball practice.
Physical Culture in Grades.
Miss Seerley has outlined schedule
for work i'll physical culture in the
grades Of TIE different schools, to take
effect this week. Eight minutes in
struction will be given in each grade,
and the teachers will carry on the
work turnout the week. The schedule
fololws: First ward, Monday; Rogers,
Tuesday; Click, Wednesday; Arnold,
Thursday forenoon; Woodbury., Thurs
day afternoon; Abbott, Friday fore
noon; Arson, Friday afternoon.
Public Invited to All.
Superintendent Palmer is anxious
that the parents take an interest in
this work in the schools, and issues a
standing invitation to the general pub
lie to visit any of the work at any
time. Frequent visitation on the part
of the patrons will have a tendency
not only to keep the people informed
as to the character Of the work being
done, but also serve to lend encourage
ment to both teachers and pupils. The
public school system Of Marshalltown
stands out distinctly as occupying a
field Of It's own in furnishing an exclu-
sive manual training building in which
to educate the school children along
these modern lines. 1t is a feature
that should command the attention Of
all school patrons, and especially those
who are desirious OF their children
some useful trade.
MORE WITNESSES TESTIFY.
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