The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-09-07
WANTS PARENTS TO BUY EARLY
Superintendent Gives Out Lists of All
Materials Needed With View Of
Avoiding the Annual School Book
Rush Next Week.

Mrs. Mary d. Bradford today gave
out q list Of the books and materials
to be used by the children of the
schools during the coming year with a
view Of having the parents buy their
supplies early and avoid the grand
rush Of next week. Mrs. Bradford
said:
With our modern courses of study
containing as they do large amount
Of hand work, there follows the need
Of certain school tools, which should
be of the right kind and quality, if good
results are to be obtained.
Drawing and Writing Material.
Parents are expected to buy the
drawing book, box Of paints and box
Of crayola, which last a year. The
drawing paper is supplied by the school
BOARD free of cost to pupils. Drawing
pencils and pens have been purchased
by the school board and will be sold to
school children by the principal of the
schools at cost. With proper usage, a
drawing pencil will last year.
Practices paper for penmanship exer-
Uses, composition and examination pap
II will be furnished free. as usual.
Arithmetic Tablets.
An arithmetic tablet containing
printed exercises for practice in rapid
calculation will be used in 4th, 5th
9TH and 9TH grades. The tablet con
aims enough sheets for three exercises
week throughout the year. It is de
signed to save the time Of the pupil in
copying examples from the board. The
arithmetics are frequently found not
10 contain enough exercises to give the
practice in calculation needed an6
teachers are obliged to put examples
ON the board, or dictate them to the
pupils. BY means of the calculation
lessons" the pupil can tear sheet
loose, turn it over and find an exercise
before him upon which he can imme
aiately begin work
One of these tablets and q drawing
pencil win be furnished pupils in the
grades named for zoe
Sewing and Manual Training.
Girls in the 5th, 9th, 18th and 8tI
grades will be furnished, as during last
year, with all needed material for the
course in sewing for one year for Csc
Boys in the same grades for an annua
AK which varies with the grade, are
supplied with all needed manual train
ng material including wood supplies
oeneil, sandpaper, screws, nails, stains
glues,-etc. In the 9Th the yearly fec
is 25c, 9th grade soc, and 9TH and Stl
grades 75c. In the higher grades more
models are made, using more expen
dvo material, hence the higher fee
For hand work in the 3rd and At
grades, where card board and art pap
er are the materials, the tax per pupi
is Toe.
Parents will understand that the
amounts here specified furnish the ma
Serial needed for the year. One ha,
but to recall the exhibit made of tn,
school work at the close of last yea
TO judge whether or not there were
'eturns for the money.
If new rules are bought, those show
ing no smaller divirions than fourtht
are best, but for children of LIST, End
and 5rd grades, those graduated t,
eighths for the 4tl and 9Th grades, AMI
those showing sixteenths for the high
CT grades.
| am furnishing these particular
that parents my know what is wante,
of them, that they may be saved worr,
and annoyance and that the business O
opening school may be completed NOR
quickly and smoothly.
The following is a list of the book
needed in each grade at the opening o
the term. The dealers viii have thei
stock on hand by the middle of tn
week.
First Grade-B.
Summers Primer (not needed unit
the end Of the second month";
Drawing book, I, paints and crayola
First Grade-A.
Summer s First Reader.
Second Grade-B.
Drawing Book, II, paints an
crayola.
Summer s Second Reader.