Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-12-05
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BY COUNTY SUPT. o. f. RICE

resumed Monday after a vacation of
three days. Pupils and teachers re-
turn to their work rested and eager
for another months work before
| Christmas
We are pleased to note the great
improvement in regular attendance
this fall over that of year AGO.
Parents and pupils generally are
looking better to this feature of
school advantages, and better re-
suits are sure to follow. A large
number of teachers have no deln-
quent pupils at all this term so far.
Much interest in Social Center
work is being shown Dist. No 8
Murry, the new graded school, with
Miss Ella Conway and Miss Mabel
Gutheridge as primary teacher gave
a very successful evening program
just before Thanksgiving day. The
parents turned out and enjoyed the
exercises.
A Box Social feature was carried
out, and netted the school $25.75.
The money will be used to purchase
materials for sewing, manual training
work and school room ornamentation.
The Shaw Dam school in FIambeau
gave an evening program a week ago
at which a considerable number of
parents and young people were pres
ent. Miss Margaret Stevens is the
teacher in charge there.
The school board at Ingram have
equipped their graded school in good
shape with materials for domestic
science and manual training work.
A new sewing machine, gasoline
range, full set of dishes and all that
goes with cooking outfit are pro-
vided
Sewing materials are furnished and
the girls are doing excellent work
under the direction of Miss Eliza
beth Taylor, the teacher in the in
termediate room.
Principal e. j. Fuller has charge
of the boys manual training work,
and as Mr.. Fuller has received spec
ial training in this kind of work,
the boys are much interested and
doing good work. First class work
benches, good tools and a supply of
Humber, etc. are all at hand.
rEhic troi.,i1,o, ;, rriIr oL~
the primary department, Mr. Fuller
taking the boys and Miss Taylor the
girls all at the same time one or
two periods each week near the close
of the day.
c. G. Feist, of the Island Lake
school, has organized a joint dis
trict literary society which holds
semi-monthly meetings, meeting in
the several school houses Of the
league.
The schools i'll the leagues are the
Big Bend, the zimmerman, tn ANA
coy Lake, Soft Maple and the New
Hutchinson schools, all within a ra-
dius of four miles of the Island Lake
school house.
These meetings are creating a
large amount of interest and the
school houses are scarcely able to
accommodate the audiences, thus
showing conclusiyely that Rusk coun-
| ty school children and parents are
ready to cooperate in Civic .Socie-
ty work, if teachers will interest
themselves in that direction
The teachers in the Island Lake
League are, in addition to Mr.. Feist,
Paul Exc, Ereke Exc, Blanche Gag
ley, w. B. Graham and Minnie Town
send
The next teachers examination
will be held at the court house, De-
cember 20 and 80 No examination
will be held at Bruce this time.
The District Teachers Association
will hold one-day meetings after the
Christmas vacation. Announcements
will be made soon
A county Oratorical and Declama-
tory contest is being suggested by
some of the principals of the coun-
ty. This would most certainly be
good thing for our graded and high
schools to take hold Of, and we shall
be glad to hear from principals and
grade teachers relative to this.