The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-10-16


school established.
February Holidays
Chapter ISL: Provides that aprro-
pirate special exercises may be held
In all schools one half day on Lin
coins birthday and on Washington s.
High School Nonresident Pupils.
Chapter 631. Provides that pupils
not residing in high school district
who live nearer high school in a
neighboring state than the nearest
high school in Wisconsin may attend
the high school in the other state and
have their tuition paid by the town in
which they reside, said tuition not to
exceed one dollar per week.
High School State Aid.
Chapter 55S; Makes available $l75,-
900 for general state aid to district,
union, and township high schools, as
compared with $4,000 heretofore.
High School Teachers Training
Courses.
Chapter 500: Provides state aid for
teachers training courses in high
schools employing at least four teach
ers and located in counties in which
there is not a county training school.
The course of study, the teachers, and
the work done must meet the approval
of the state superintendent. Certi-
fcates of graduation have the same
force as county training school GER
tifcate. The state aid equals the
cost Of construction but the total sum
available for all such schools is limit
ed to $4,000
High School Winter Courses in Agri-
culture and Domestic Science
Chapter 635; Provides special state
aid Of $4,000 to high schools which
maintain for pupils over fourteen
years of age an approved course in
agriculture sixteen weeks, beginning
about November /; also like sum for
similar course in domestic science.
Pupils need not have a common
school diploma to enter the course.
The tuition of nonresident pupils is
to be paid in the same way as that
of other nonresident high school
students.
Insurance of School Buildings.
Chapter TIA: Relates to the insur-
ance of buildings and property of
counties in the state insurance fund by
including the property of cities, vii
lagos and school districts. This school
building insurance by the state does
not take effect until after the first day
of July, 1914. Application for insur-
ance in the state fund is made by the
school board.
Investigations by State Superintendent.
Chapter sci: Empowers the state
superintendent at an annual expense
of not to exceed $4,000, to employ and
pay the actual expenses of persons to
assist him in educational investiga-
tions and in conducting superintend-
ents conventions and to pay for the
clerical work necessarily connected
with said Investigations
Manual Training and Domestic Science
in the Grades.
Chapter $50: The extra special state
aid of $500 each, given for manual
training and domestic science in the
sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, is
now given for such courses in the
seventh and eighth grades, making
it unnecessary, so far as state aid is
concerned, to include the sixth grade.
Reports by Clerks of Rural School
Districts,
Chapter 765: Clerks of rural school
districts who make the census report
within the time specified by law shall
receive compensation Of ten, twenty,
or thirty dollars per year, depending
upon whether the number of persona
of school age in the district is 100 or
less, from 100 to 200 or from 200 to
| 800; and such clerks shall receive ten
dollars additional for each school be-
yond one, which the district may main
tain provided the schools are more
than one and one-half miles apart.
Rural School State Aid.
Chapter 636: A rural school district
which shall have maintained nine
months of school in any one year and
shall have employed as the teacher a
graduate of the teachers course in
the state university, or a graduate of
state normal school, or the holder of
life state certificate, or the equiv
alent thereof, shall, under certain con-
ditlons OF attendance and work, re-