Mower County transcript., 1908-09-02
OUR PUBLIC -: ). !. !. ::
SCHOOLS
The Fall Term of the Austin City
Schools Opens Next Monday
With a fIattering Prospect Of
a Very Prosperous Year.

The fall term of the Austin Publi
Schools will open next Monday morn
ing, Sept 7, and classification in al
departments will be made. During
vacation all the school rooms ant
houses of the distric, have been thor
oughly cleaned and renovated and pu
in first class condition. The Washington
school grounds have been graded, tht
Sumner school building has been re
painted inside ard out and ion al
the other buildings necessary fixing
has been done. Our schools we're never
better equipped for work and we are
glad that large proportion of tho ole
teachers remain. Prof. Franklin, the
superintendent, enters upon the third
year of his work in Austin with high
hopes of a helpful and progressive
years work.
The school offers three courses OF
study, the Latin Scientific, German-Sci.
entltic and Literary. The aim is t0
meet the various tastes, needs and cap
abilities of the pupils. A diploma from
the high school admits to any Normal
school, College or University in the
state.
In the high. school there will be about
2l5 pupils this year The whole upper
floor Of the main building is fitted up
for the use of the high school with the
exception of one room temporarily oc-
cupied by the eighth grade. Few high
schools in the state have such an ad-
vantage of being all on one floor, In.
addition to the large main assembly
room, there are two recitation rooms
opening off from the main room, one
for the exclusive use of the Senior class.
There are two excellent laboratories in
the northeast corner, d library, and
four recitation rooms on the west side.
Miss Fish remains as principal assisted
by the same corps OF teachers as last
year with one exception, Miss Ethel
Beebe taking the EngIish classes in
stead of Miss Stanton.
The third year of the Manual Train
ing work opens with bright promise.
The basement of the main building is
lifted up with benches, tools, lathes for
wood turning and working and this
year SIX down draft forges have been
added for blacksmith work. About
fifty of the high school boys took this
work last year and about Is boys from
the grades This number will be in
creased. Prof Jay F. Knowltun, the
superintendent of this department, is
enthusiastic over it.
Mechanical drawing constitutes a
regular part of this work and the course
is so arranged that students can CON-
pete four years course in Manual
Training.
a now department is the course in
Domestic Science. This has been de-
,manded by the progressive patrons OF
the school and will be an excellent ad-
dition to the work. Two rooms on the
first floor of the main building in the
northeast corner have been fitted up,
one for cooking and one for sewing.
In the cooking room, tables are ar.
ranged in hollow square tor % girls
at time, each table provided with a
gas plate There is also gas range
for general use. In the sewing room
tables have been arranged for work
and three sewing machines are prOvid
ed for use. The girls in the high
school and upper grades will have reg
ular instruction in Domestic Science
as an elective and Miss May Erwin
the instructor, will be kept busy every
minute of the school hours.
Endorsement of the Washington
building, directly across the stree
north from the main building, has beer
fitted up for a gymnasium. 1t is use'
for basket ball and other exercises
Two shower baths are arranged for tn
convenience of the pupils. New az
paratus for the gymnasium will b.
provided as means allow. 1t will b
very popular addition to the splendi
outfit of our city schools.
Our splendid high school is open fire
of tuition to all students Of Minnesot
who are qualified in scholarship to OF
ter, The tuition in all the grades is $
a month. Below we give q complet
list of the teachers for the comm
year;
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