Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-12-30

The schools Of Marion county nave
shown greater degree of progress
during the past year than ever before.
This progress is largely due to the
law past by the last legislature, which
provides for a county educational
board and for assistant supervisors
of schools. The county educational
board consists Of County School Su-
perintendent w. M. Smith, who is the
chairman of the board; ]. M. Poorman
of Woodburn, e. %. Shields of Ger
vais, A. w. Mize Of Liberty, and L.
s. Lambert Of. Stayton. This board
met on the first monday in June and
divided the county into supervisory
districts, elected supervisors for each
district and formulated rules and reg
ulatlons governing the supervisors.
John W. L. Smith was appointed to
supervise forty-five school districts in
the north end of the county; including
Woodburn, Silverton, Hubbard, Au-
rora, SCOTS Mills, st. Paul, Gervais
and surrounding districts.
Miss Lizzie Cornelius was appointed
to supervise the districts in the south
end Of the county; including Jeffer-
son, Turner, Stayton and surrounding
districts. The county school superin-
tendent has a supervisory district of
twenty-one school districts near
Salem.
The supervisors began their work
on the fifth day of September, visiting
all the schools In their respective dis
tricts before school opened, calling
upon the members OF the school
boards and with them inspecting the
school grounds and buildings. This
gave the supervisor an excellent op-
portunity to point out the things that
needed to be done in order to have
the school in good shape on the open
ing day of school. improvements OF
permanent nature was made in over
fifty OF the school districts as result
OF these preliminary visits of the SUI
pervisors. Since the schools began,
the supervisors have made two visits
to all the schools, and In some cases
more than two visis have been made.
The supervisors report each day to
the county school superintendent, CIV
ing the number Of miles travelled, the
number of hours spent in each school,
the general condition of the school
grounds and buildings and other in
formation regarding the condition of
the school.
The supervisors and the superln-
tendent have decided upon a number
Of points to be obtained by the schools
In order to be considered standard
school. A circular was printed CIV
ino these points which was put into
the hands Of all school officers. The
first school to attain the standard was
the one at St. Louis. The second,
Pleasant View school near Turner.
Since then the school at Liberty, Sa-
lem Heights and Hayesville have
reached the standard. All these
schools have been issued a neat di-
ploma from the office Of the county
school superintendent, stating that
they have reached the standard. Many
other schools Of the county are back
on Just few points and as soon as
these are attained, diplomas will be
issued to them.
During the past year there has been
much activity along the line Of new
school buildings in Marion county.
Modern two-room schoolhouses were
erected at Donald, Belle Passi near
Woodburn, at Fir Grove near Salem
and In the Mckinney district near
Turner. Two one-room buildings
were erected during the past year.
These buildings are all modern In
every respect
In order to aid the teachers in COM
plying with the law which requires