The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-09-10
SCHOOL WORK BEGINS.
Large Enrolment Expected During
The Coming Year.

The Coming Year.
The Fort Benton city schools and
the county high school opened for
the school year Monday morning. The
enrolment for the first day was two
hundred-fifty of whom entered the
county high school. Many have not
come in from their ranches yet, but
it is urgently requested by the school
officials that all children enter not
later than this week so no advantage
may be gained by those who are al
ways on time with their enrolment.
1t is a great handicap not only to the
children entering late but to those
who have entered early because the
teachers have to lose time in bring
ing the late corners up to the grade
of those who entered early.
There were few changes in the
teaching force of the local schools
this year.. Miss Lola Walker of Ohio
was selected as teacher of the COM
mercial department in place of Miss
Amy Amidon who resigned. Miss
Walker is a graduate of the business
department of the Tri-State Normal
at Angalo, Indiana, and has done post
graduate work in Valparaiso Univer-
sity and the Oberlin, Ohio, Business
College. During the last two years
she has taught in a business and nor
NAL college in %Faribault, Minnesota.
The corps of teachers for next year
is as follows: j. w. Lenning, super
intendent, science and mathematics;
c. M. Luce, principal, history and En-
glish; Miss Georgia Chave, Latin and
German; Miss Lola Walker, CONNER
clay subjects; Miss Grace Hixson,
eighth grade; Miss Elizabeth Milliken
sixth and seventh grades; Miss Edith
Browning, fifth grade, Miss Mary E.
Frenzel, third and fourth grades;
Miss Mary E. Daniels, second and
third grades; Miss Verna M. Parks,
primary.
The county high school will be To-
Gated in the district school building
for this year, but it is hoped a new
high school building will be erected
in time for next years work. There
are many changes and additions to
the courses now given that are de-
sired, but the room for installing the
new courses is lacking. After the
high school building is completed, the
present building will be used for grade
work only and the board of trustees
are considering adpotion of courses
in manual training for the boys,
and cooking and sewing for the girls.
This work is being given in all up.
to-date schools in the country and
the trend of educational improvement
is all in this direction. This work
is begun with the children in the
lower grades and carried through all
the grades-including the high school
Colleges and universities give cred
it for this work in their entrance re
quirements. The people of Fort Ben
ton will agree that the adoption Of
the commercial department has beer
one of the best things ever put into
our schools because many girls ant
!, boys are now holding good positions
with no training in typewriting anG
stenography except what they re
ceived in Jul city high school. The
school officials desire to extend this
industrial training so as to teacl
girls to cook and sew and boys tt
handle tools and do ordinary work
in wood and iron. The leading educa
tional writer's now advocate tina,
I there is as much culture value il
making a beautiful piece of furniture
as in learning a Latin ode by Horace
Then, too, it helps them in the strug
gle of making a living after they
leaves school.
The trustees of the district have
renovated the school building by
painting and kalsomining the inside
walls and the rooms are clean, san
itary and pleasing to the sight. 1t is
hoped that every parent and patron
will cooperate with the teachers il
trying to make the present schoo
year successful in every way.