Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1909-01-14
High School Notes.
The first Semester concludes Jan. 81

The first Semester concludes Jan. %.
Ii you wish to study or view art for
arts sake then spend half hour in the
Fourth Grade room.
The various grades will favor the
school notes with some interesting
items in the next few issues.
So far as we can learn this is the
first year when the Memorial Day An
nual has been received during the first
week in Jan.
Dora Arons and Verna Ansorge are
recently enrolled pupils in b /; Richard
Boyea, First Grade; Emma Boyea and
Edw. Lendtke, Second Grade.
Despite the fact that the mercury
has temporarily deserted the tropical
regions and has been harboring in
arctic GOODNESS, the attendance has
been very regular.
Normal is broad minded and we be-
lieve farseeing gentlemen. He has
demonstrated this on previous oc-
casions and his views on the much agi,
tated Minimum Teachers salary
Law" shows that he is beginning at
the right end viz, raise the qualifica-
tions and the salary will eventually
take care of itself. Every student as
plring some day to teach should read
Mr.. McKennas plan.
The Fifth Grade was increased by
the enrolment of Earl Lewins of the
Marinette schools and Jessie Laheur
has become member of the High
Room. We would be pleased to have
any other young people enroll in the
near future SO as to commence work
with the opening of the second Senes-
ter and we assure you that every
teacher in the building will do their
utmost to make it not only pleasant
but profitable for them.
Feb 18th is the hundredth anniver-
sary of Lincoln's birth and we are in
formed that "a Lincoln Educational
League" has provided fund of 500, 900
to be used in placing bronze tablets
bearing the full text of Lincolns Ad-
dress at Gettysburg in Educational In
stitutions throughout the country.
The Galvanic Bronze People charge
$50 for these and will supply them to
the League for $40 net +. o. b., n. Y.
The fund is to be used in paying one
half of the price of each tablet, making
the net cost to all institutions, $50.
We have in our midst an appointed
Librarian in charge of library Of
standard books sent out by the State
Library Com. Standard books should
and ought to be read. II is one OF the
factors in the uplifting of any com
The true appreciation of the
place OF the library in education is a
matter of such late development that
even the best managed libraries retain
enough obsolete features to indicate
what their past condition must have
been. We believe it no exaggeration
TO say that what the clock is to astron-
omy and the piano TO music, that is the
library to education; while the imagi-
nary history that, for the sake of IL
we have connected with the
other two, is but an epitome of what
has actually occurred in the course of
library development First, an orna-
ment or an idol, then the subject Of
experiment, at last it has
become a potent instrument, compre-
hended and brought under control for
the service of humanity
The books of the travelling library in
Wabeno will be loaned to all patrons
who use books carefully, and to any
persons in the surrounding country
who will sign the record of card hold
ers after reading the borrowers pledge
subject always to the rules
Of the local library.
The local librarian must collect the
price Of any book, which is destroyed
Or lost, from the borrower and also
suitable fines for undue damage.
Books can be drawn on any day but
Sunday and the local librarian will ex-
explain any further conditions.