The daily sentinel., 1908-01-08
MANY NEW PUPILS
HAVE ENTERED SCHOOL
Enrollment in High School Is Now
214.-How Teachers Spent the
Holidays. - Other School
Notes of Interest.

| School opened Monday morning
with an increased atten lance and
with teachers and pupils in good con-
dition for work. The two weeks va
cation seems to have been a success
Six of the grades which had up to
this time been in single. Isolated
buildings. have gone into the Lowell
school. The addition to the Lowell
building is well built and finely fin
ished, and the teachers and pupils
are happy who are fortunate enough
to occupy the new rooms.
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Monday 33 new pupils were en-
rolled. of them in the high school.
making the high school enrolment
PA.
Many people who have been keep
ing their children out for fear of
the scarlet fever have decided to send
them this term. and the rooms are
fuller than at the close of the fall
term. We are strongly of the opinion
that children are just as safe in the
public schools as elsewhere. Per-
haps, when in school they are in less
danger of taking a contagious dis
ease
| This week the teachers are begin
ming to take their visiting days. The
object of each teacher taking one day
in the school year to visit the work
of other teachers, is that she may
improve and broaden herself in meth
ods of instruction and school man
agement. A teacher visiting another
teachers work can hardly fail to no
tlce some things worthy of her adop-
tion. and sometimes things which she
should avoid in her own work.
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II Many of the teachers remained in
the city during the holidays. Those
who took vacation trips report pleas
ant journeys and happy visits.
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Miss Scott spent the holidays at
her home in Fort Collins. Miss
Carlson visited at her home in Den
yer. Miss Carroll enjoyed pleasant
time in Pueblo and Ouray. Miss Law
visited Delta friends Mr.. Dodds
spent two days on trip to No Thor
oughfare canon and in exploring a
large canon far to the south. Miss
Heizer visited her claim in the Uin-
tal t.xr 4 ut. +t.-t,.
ner in Roosevelt. Mrs. Crosby spent
the holidays at Hillcrest farm near
this city. Miss Collins visited her
home in Lawton. Okla. Miss Cope
land spent the vacation with her sis
ter. Mrs. Millhollin in Fruitvale Miss
Mcconnell enjoyed a visit at her
home in Salina, Kans. Miss Turner
visited at her home in northern Ne
braska. Mr.. Bacon went to his ranch
in the Plateau valley. Miss Pride
more visited friends in Monte Vista
Miss Dewey visited friends In Fruita.
Miss Augur spent the holidays in
Denver. Miss Gormley attended the
State Teachers Association in Den
/ vel, met All
old Ohio friend. Miss Greenfield and
Miss Allen spent part of the holidays
holding down homesteads near Mack.
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The stork stopped in It's flight Sun
day morning to leave fine. bouncing
boy of s1s pounds at the home of
Professor and Mrs. McElroy. The
professor says the young man has
good pair of lungs.
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A fine telescope has just arrived
for the high school work in astron-
omy. Dr. Cole is pleased with the
Instrument. which was ordered last
July, and has since been made In
Paris. Great interest has been man
Tested this year in the study of as
tronomy and the students and their
instructor will doubtless pass many
pleasant and profitable hours study
ing the starry heavens.