The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-06-02
SCHOOL WORK
Is REVIEWED
Past Year Most Profitable
One-Excellent Pro-
gress Made.

Inc Scnool year 1HUg-1g10 is ended
and is now a matter of history. The
final reports show that we enrolled
50l, of whom ZIG were boys and 225
girls. The daily average attendance
was three hundred sixty nine and one
half. A total of % were neither alb
sent nor tardy. We give their
names: First grade; Auralia Kahat
and Ortwen Pagan Second grade:
Walter Braybrook and Margaret
Griffith Third grade; Carl Binups.
Herbert Powell, Marjorie Griffith,
Gwendolyn Mclean, Esther Telcher
and Homer Campbell. Fourth grade:
Vernon Brock, Maude Mcqueen, Earl
Nail and Archie Parkes. Fifth grade
Walter Mason, Nora Nail and Philip
Pfeufer. Sixth grade; Homer Eimers
Seventh grade; Eva Hesterman and
Hazel Parkes. Eighth grade; Mary
McEntee. High School; Earl Cotton,
Ernest DeHaven, Orrin Riebold and
Oscar Hamilton. A few were not
absent but were tardy once, they
We're: Ruth Holsclaw, Eddie Murphy
Cecil Harris and Freda Hesterman.
Twenty one from the Sth grade
receive county diplomas.
The high school has 4I0 credits or
points earned, which would be eight
credits each for 81 students. Though
some did not earn as many as eight
and several received more. Nine
completed the four year course and
We're given diplomas by the board.
In the spelling contest, two, Hazel
Parkes Of the seventh grade and Al
fl ed Richards of the third were each
100 per cent in the words found in
their years work and win each re-
ceire a gold medal for excellence in
spelling. This medal is given by
the Grangeville Woman's Club who
started this prize for spelling last
year.
A short review of the GrangeviIle
schools for the past three years re-
veals the following facts. In Sept
1907 We had but ten teachers we
now have fourteen. We then had a
three year high school course, we
now have four. We enrolled 40 for
the year 1908 and So of these were
in the high school This present
year We enroll sol with 81 in the
high school The first year our ay,
erage attendance was 262. this year
it is three hundred sixty nine and
one-half a very large gain in actual
attendance. With a new or extra
teacher for the grades and two ad-
ditional ones in the high school
much better work has been accomp-
lished, while the addition of a spe-
cial teacher for music and drawing
has proven TO be of great advantage
to the pupils and makes their work
much more pleasant and profitable.
The library has been increased by
over 325 volumes and the chemical
and physical apparatus, maps, globes,
etc, have received some five or six
hundred dollars. Several fine pic
lures have been added to the high
school and also 35 song books cost
ing one dollar each. While the en-
tire building has been twice thorough
ly cleaned and painted on the inside
and some sixteen or eighteen hun
dred dollars added in more perma-
nent improvements such as new
desks, room for labratory, fire es-
capes, and sewer system. All of
which shows that the schools have
increased and prospered in many
ways Another fact which should
not be lost sight of is that the school
census of the city has decreased by
over one hundred during this time
and this emphasizes the fact that
the school has increased greatly in
it, per cent of actual attendance.
The fact of the above mentioned
Improvements does not mean that
we have reached the top notch in
school matters, for there are many
things yet 10 be added before per
fection is to be reached. One of the
most immediate and pressing needs
is that of a new up-to-date. comforta