The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-20
County School Notes.


ton April End and Sd.
Next teachers examination Apr.
18th and 18th.
Mr.. Ben. A. Boese, teaching in
the Trumho school, has raised
$3.50 by popular subscription and
will also turn a part of the pro-
ceeds of an entertainment into the
treasury of the Pioneers Associa-
ton for the benefit of the school
monument fund.
Space will not permit the men
ton of all the commendable speci-
mems of school work received lately.
The best drawings the superin-
tendent has yet seen are those of
Ida Baker of Kirkwood school.
The teachers meeting at Avon
last Saturday vas fully up to the
high mark set by the other four
districts; but one teacher (who
should have been there) was alb
sent, and three teachers from 9th
er districts were present. This
meeting had by far the largest at
tendance of school officers and pa.
irons. The papers and discussions
were very practical and interest
ing. The recitations given by
Miss Alicia Satrang and by Mr..
Gardner were highly enjoyed. The
demonstration in number work
with a class of primary children by
Miss Garter was exceptionally good
and proved that the foundation
work in the Avon schools is in
charge of a skillfuI teacher.
"Good morning. How are Gold
lie and Carl today? No better!
Well, l am very sorry" "Good
morning, Iva, | am glad to see you
back again. Are you feeling bet
ter? | am glad of that" Such are
the greetings and kindly spirit the
pupils Of Kirkwood school meet
each morning.
One of the most pleasing school
rooms the superintendent has yet
visited is that Of Running Water,
No. 5. The board and patrons of
this school have good reason to be
proud of their school.
The pupils of the Bon Homme
school by IN entertainment and
basket social raised 500 last Satur-
day night. Miss Landau, the
teacher, plans to turn all of this
into the monument fund. This is
carrying the fund upward with a
bound.
When South Dakota school lands
are sold there will be a permanent
school fund of at least 500, OOO,.
600. AT 5 per cent this sum will
yield an annual income of SIS, OOO,-
900. This latter sum is sufficient
to entirely support the public
schools of the state. Think of the
tine when there will be no school
taxes 10 pay! More than twenty
i've years ago Gen. Beadle began a
light to prevent the school lands of
this state being sold for less than
ten dollars, per acre. He succeed
ed, and the facts stated above are
the result of his wisdom and ef-
forts. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and
other neighboring states sold their
school lands for about fifty cents
an acre, and today have very little
to show for them. At the time
Gen. Beadie began this fight, he
might, instead, have urged the pas
sage OF a law requiring the imme-
diate sale of the school lands. He
might then have bot up several
thousand acres of the choicest of it
and today be one of the wealthiest
In the state. But he chose to
be an unselfsh, earnest, energetic,
useful citizen and saved for the
public schools of the state nearly
500, O0O, 900. If Gen. Beadle had
not been a valiant soldier of the
civil War;, if he had not been a
faithful eacher and school worker
Of the -tate for the last quarter Of
2 century, still, this one accom-
plishment OF his woull be worthy /.