Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-08-29
School Notes.

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A. 1. Tiss, Principal, H. S.
Florence Schryver, History.
Ida Reed, Science.
Helen Brown, Latin and German.
Clara Pearson, Mathematics.
Allie Mae McCook, Public Speaking
Mabel Kratz, Music.
Clara Drake, Drawing, Penmanship
A. R. Cornish, Manual Training.
Franah Schneider Eighth grade.
Mary Westby, Seventh grade.
Ruth Heath, Sixth grade.
Julia McDermott, Fifth grade.
Klara Thorsten, Fourth grade.
Zina Fessenden, Third grade.
Frances Rose, Second grade.
Edna Evans, First grade.
Mamie Shillington, Principal, Firs
Ward-Sixth and Seventh grades.
Virginia Nichols, Fourth and Fiftf
grades.
Angela Gender, Second and Thirt
grades.
Anna Davis, First grade.
Several new faces will be seer
among the members of the corps, bu1
all have been carefully selected and il
is hoped that everything will move
along as smoothly as usual. A new
departure is the employment of {
special teacher of public speaking.
Miss Allie Mae McCook is SO wei
known here that the success of this
department is foregone conclusion.
The school board and all concerned
are to be congratulated upon securing
the services of Miss Westby to take
the place of Miss Book, who recently
resigned. Miss Ruth Heath, who
takes the place of Miss Selma Thorst-
en-, resigned, is graduate of Vassar
College. She resides at La Crosse,
Wis.,. and comes to US we'll recon-
mended. The other changes in the
corps have already been noted.
Supt. Nearpass will give an exami-
nation in the high school building Mon
day, September 4, beginning at nine
O'Clock, for all those wishing to enter
the Cresco high school but who have
failed so far to secure a county d.
ploma or pass the eighth grade work
of our city schools. This year the
state grants free tuition to all country
pupils who are able to pass salts
factory examination. and it is expected
that large number will avail them
selves Of the privilege.
Parents of children who are to enter
school this year for the first time
should remember that they must do so
within the first two weeks, as no new
classes can be formed after that time.
Children who will be five years old by
October 1st may enter at the begin
ming of the year.
Monument dwelling.
An audience of about 400 persons
gathered at the New Oregon Cemetery
last Sunday afternoon to witness the
unveiling of monument erected by
the Woodmen Of the World to the
memory of one of their deceased
members, Claude Farnsworth.
The beautiful ritualism of the un-
Yelling was nicely carried out by the
officers of the order assisted by Miss
Allie Mae McCook whose impressive
reading of the poem was highly ap-
preciated.
The address by State Manager
Geiger was excellent. He said that
the erection of a w. o. w. monument
was not an act of charity, but fulfill
ment of the obligation taken by every
member of that order, and that it
meant more to the world and humanity
to stand before such humble stone
than to pay reverence to the stately
shafts that mark the resting places of
statesmen or heros-that the man who
struggled through life to provide for
his family and to protect them after
his death was deserving of more honor
than were heros or public men. His
address was also a plea for broader
and better fraternalism and more
practical application of the Golden
Rule to the everyday affairs of life.
The address was listened too with close
attention and created deep impression
upon his hearers.
Volume So Begins.
With this issue the PLAIN DEALER
commences the 53rd year of its exis-