Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-27

plow There is about 10000 feet of
lumber of all kinds worth at least
$500. Would recommend that the
pine lumber be sold.
Would recommend that more land
be cleared and stock put On the farm
as fast as feed is raised to feed them.
We further recommend that A. C.
Krammes be hired as Supt of the
Poor Farm for the ensuing year at
a salary of $4,000 per annum.
j. c. STUBBS,
G. A. COON,
GEO. MANLEY.
Supervisor Gordoux moved that the
reports of the Supt of Poor and the
Poor Farm Committee be adopted.
Motion carried and reports adopted.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
OF scHooLs-1s1o.
To the Honorable Board of Super
visors of Rusk County:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen-As
ten years of the county's history have
Ipassed since it was created, it seems
proper in presenting this report, to
compare present conuI,Ions in our
schools with those of the past decade
The number Of schools ten years
ago was forty-six while there are
now over one hundred besides the
Ladysmith city schools which afford
employment to nineteen teachers
There are sixty-five teachers required
to teach in the rural one-room build
ings and thirty-four in graded schools
while ten years ago there were but
thirty-two in the country and four
| teen in the grades.
There was not a school in the
county, ten years ago, with more
than three departments, while now
the number of teachers employed II
each of the graded schools is as fol
lows: Apollonia 3, Bruce 6, Gle1
Flora, Ingram, Hawkins and Wey
erhauser each 4, Tony 5, Maple Hill
|
and Sheldon each 2. The increase
has been more tnan one hundred pei
cent both in the country and in the
villages.
There has been great advancement
| in the qualifications of teachers. we
now have more tnan fifty teachers
who are graduates of either count!
or state normals, and only sixtee1
who have not attended normal at al
Thus, fifty per cent of our teacher:
are normal graduates and more thar
80 per cent have had some training
in normal schools. This means
great deal for our schools. Not ever
normal graduate is success in ever,
school, but the average quality o
teachers has been greatly improved
Teachers salaries have been in
creased Ten years ago there were
sixteen teachers who worked TO
thirty dollars a month, and nineteel
for thirty-five dollars. In the seized
ule for 1910, the thirty dollar class
does not appear, the thirty-flve dol
lar class remains the same size Al
ten years ago, but the number get
ting from forty to forty-five dollar
has increased from nine to seventy
two. Statistics which are at leas
somewhat reliable, show that the ad
vance in salaries has not kept pac'
with the advance in the cost Of nV
ing. The amount paid for teachers
wages last year was over $4,000.
During the past few years, educa
tional meetings have been held II
various parts of the county. Patrons
teachers and pupils have gathered il
school houses to take part in con
tests and to hear lectures. The in
terest in these has not been yer.
general, but a beginning has beer
made, and the purpose has been u
start a movement which shall bt
self perpetuating in the way OF bring
ing the masses of the people togeth
err at school houses for educatlona
meetings. Already teachers are tax
ing the initiative and some meetings
have been held in which spelling con
tests have been the leading feature
Of the programs. A trained teaching
force will be the constantly renewing
power in this movement. The county
training school Will be an important
factor in continuing the interest as
It has been in starting it. The
school is a means Of education anc
progress to the whole district as wei
as to the pupils but the rapidly OF
the schools advancement depends
upon the progress of the people.
The schools are for the benefit OF
all the people, hence the effort to eX
tend their influence by means Of ed
ucationa1 meetings.
During this year the number OF
graduates from the country schools
was thirty-six. and from the graded
schools, forty-nine. The number OF
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