The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-04-11
NEW TEACHERS
FOR co. SCHOOLS
Items Of Interest In Regard To
Cohnty Schools by Supt.

To the Teachers of Hand County:
Please note the following, and en-
courage the work by aiding the
children to find and select material.
All eighth grade pupils expecting
to write upon the eighth grade
examination in May. n requested
to file the following work with the
county superintendent. on or before
the date of the examination. This
extra work will count on Grammar
and Drawing.
ESSAY ON AGRICULTURE
Boys are requested to write an
essay on Agriculture. In writing
your essay on Agriculture, cover
the following points which are so
nicely outlined in our Course of
Study; seed selection, seed germina-
ton, flowers, horticulture, plant
enemies. water supply, and improv-
ing the soil.
ESSAY ON DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Girls are requested to write an
Domestic Science. Please enlarge
upon the following topics in your
discussion on Domestic Science;
hand sewing. housekeeping, and
cookery. Five hundred words are
suggested. One thousand will be
permissible.
PEN OR PENCIL ORA WINGS
Each applicant is requested to
hand IN, a pen or pencil drawing of
our state or national flower. Also a
landscape of your own home.
WATER COLOR OR CRAYON
Each applicant is requested to
hand in, color work Of n of tn.
following list: Autumn leaves,
group of fruit or vegetables. border
design. or a landscape.
GENERAL
want toput up the exhibit work
tthe early in April 50 that the child.
ren will have the opportunity of see
ing the school exhibit while they are
in Miller attending our spelling con-
test, baking contest, and sewing
contest April 20. 1912.
In looking owe the little booklet
of spelling words for our contest l
have found several mistakes. These
mistakes were made in setting up
the type. am going to cross out
all of the words that find misspell-
ed and will not use them in the con-
test.
Yours in the interests of the
schools, MAY RUDD, q.
County Superintendent.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Every young girl should be well
posted on Domestic Science regard
less of their ambitious. They will
then know how a dress o piece of
fancy work should look when 1t was
kept in the best of order.
Every morning the house should
be well swept. busted and arranged.
The floors should be washed ut least
once or twice a week. and the rugs,
etc we'll busted.
For a DINING room | perfer a
hard wood floor we'll vanished,
polished and waxed the floors then
will not contain any dust that might
get into the victuals. And on this
floor the dining chairs will easily
move.
The kitchen should be kept order
", neat and clean as well as any
other part of the house. The dishes
and cooking utensils should be
washed after using. The cooking
department should be kept in the
best Of order and all the v~ictuals
should be according to the pure
food law which was passed in 1906.
The bedroom should be we'll venti-
lated and comforters thrown back in
the morning so that they might be
aired. The bed clothing should be
kept very clean, and the sheets and
pillow shams ought to be washed.
You should not pour kerosene in a
stove while the is fire in it because
the gas Of the stove will follow into
the can and explode. it is dangerous
to leave children alone for the rea-
son of fires. of course there are
many other dangerous things that
could happen.
Many girls spend all their time in
! books and neglect Domestic Science