The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-29
WORKS IN OTHER COUNTIES
Members of the Committee Will IN
doubtedly Recommend the Building
of Such An Institutiin For Local
Teachers

months ago to consider the advisable
ity of opening training school for
teachers in Kenosha county is busy at
work on it's report and it is expected
that a. favorable report on the project
will beosent to the county board at it's
coming November session. The mem
bers of the committee have been look
ing into the project and Superintendent
Kerwin and other members of the
committee have visited training schools
in other counties with view of get
ting suggestions and with further
view of studying the results attained
by such schools. It is declared that in
all the counties where the training
schools are maintained, it is possible to
get higher grade of teachers and that
the existence of these schools is an in
centive for many well known young
men and women to go into the work Of
teaching, The question Of cost prom
Uses to. be one gone into most fully by
the county board and it is thought that
the committee will be able to show the
board that the training school can be
maintained at a cost not to exceed
$4,000, 1t is probable that should the
school be built it will be built in one
Of the towns in the western part of the
county. The village of Bristol, the vii
lage of Wilmot and Somers have all
been suggested as good locations for
the proposed school and any Of these
places would be accessible to many of
the teachers in the county. The school
would be maintained without tuition
charges with the understanding that all
the cost would be paid by the county.
1t is thought that it would have an
attendance Of from forty to sixty pros
pectlve teachers each year and it is
probable that three expert instructors
would be needed to take care of the
proper training of the teachers. The
school would be open not only to the
teachers in the rural districts but also
to the teachers of the Kenosha city
schools and it is possible that the
board might decide to locate the school
in Kenosha. The cost of starting the
school would probably be in the neigh
borhood of ten thousand dollars this
providing for the buildings and equip
ment.
The members of the board have not
been approached on the subject to any
great extent and the first formal notice
of the plan will be the presentation of
the report of the committee to the board.
Another question of interest to come
before the board is the matter of erec-
ting a, suitable memorial TO the soldiers
in the war of the rebellion and this
viii be brought up in the way of re-
port from a committee which has been
investigating the cost of erection IF
bronze tablets. The board will also
take up the question of the erection
of joint sanitarium for Racine and
Kenosha county to be used in the
treatment of tuberculosis patients and
it is possible that a joint meeting of
the two boards will be held to consider
that proposition.
An effort will be made to have the
county board take some action to Sc
cure concerted work along the lines
of highway building and it is expected
that members of the state board will
appear before the county solons and
urge that some plan be worked out for
the continuation of work on the roads
in the county and that if possible some
scheme for county aid be devised.