The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-17
EDJICATIONAL COLUMN.
BY Mabel Horller, County Supt.

The last eighth grade examination
tn be held before the opening of the
fall schools will pc neld at the Hign
School b,,i1ding at Leon Thursday
and FRIDAY July "a and 25. All
pupils WIZ wish to enter high school
and who have not already passed
the examination should not fail to
write this exam ination.
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Secretarv's ard treasurer's reports
to the eounty superintendent have
been due since July 1. A number of
school corporations have not yet been
heard fr' bm. Elch days delay COM
plicates fhe work of the county sup
erintendant in baking the report to
the state department.. ..
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Secretaries of school boards should
report I'd the bounty superintendent
m accord nce with the law, the names
of the m embers of the board and the
names OF officeEs. These reports are
past due Init m any of them have not
yet reached this office.
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Preside nts Of school boards should
examine teacher certificates to see
that thev are fin force and properly
Registered. before signing contracts.
(See sc,o,l laws of Iowa, section
PITS, nCte 49,
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Simmer School Notes.
The tracking and trailing expedi-
ton last Thursday conducted by four
boy scouts, was enjoyed exceedingly
by those who participate. The COM
pany, about sixty in number, was
divided into two parties, both of
which Started from the school house
at the Same time. One party bore
toward the northeast, the other to-
ward tbs southeast, each following
a trail that lad been blazed by the
scouts. Nevertheless, when the mer-
ny chase was ended all arrived at the
rendezvous in Mr.. Gammon's pasture
a mile OF. more west Of town, on the
Decatur road. 1t had been decreed
that the party to arrive first in camp
should be the Braves, while the party
arriving last should be the Squaws,
and that in accordance with the old
Indian policy of letting 1.-The women
do the work. the squaws should
build the fires and roast the wienes
for the braves. But these were mod,
ern Indians. The squaws proved to
be suffragettes, and the braves were
glad enough to be carriers of wood
and water in order to make sure OF
their allowance of rations.
The In diar dinner was followed by
a war dahce in which Prof. Long took
a promin ent part. No blood was shed
and no mishaps offended nae the the
tain M tiers of the Institutional
staff losemb,ir dignity, but apparent
ly this the recovered by the next
morningwas
Exec " superintendent J. E.
Cumminntn now of Columbus, Ohio,
was a wS, lone visitor at the Summer
School, 1lctsday morning.
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The belling contest Tuesday ev-
ening 1tesulted in the awarding of
the ,srgiZe ! volume of Emerson's
poesnNaA I'd Miss Marian Huston, OF
SupN1 g, of Garden Grove, has
been ht.A some milk tests by
means Wy e Babcock milk tester,
this wea xNs'The highest test shown
for butte i at was 5.4. This was
from the / of the Jersey cow own
ed by e1-s Vt: j. W. /! Long
The, testing. of seed corn will be
demonstrated later in the week.
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Miss p yden gave very interest
ing chaIkf talk Tuesday morning. At
the suggestion of some of the teach
ers, her ak was largely along the
line of ia e etiquette. All agree that
it was tinlely, sensible and practical.
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The PROCLAIM rendered by the lit
erary socie& last week was in some
respects theNnost entertaining it has
ever presentHd. The dramatizations
of the 'Scho6l that Failed and the
"Model SchoNl' furnished occasion
for much ami sement, and for some
wholesome object lessons as we'll.
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. Prof. Pammil, who is at the head |
of the department of Botany in Iowa
State College, glve an excellent lee |
ture on the subj4tt of Iowa weeds at
the summer schoAl last Friday. About |
forty different sIAciments of weeds,
all found within Yhree blocks of the |
business section OF the town were u.s.
ed in connection with the lecture.
Prof. Pammil called attention to the
fact that where the hog cholera cost
the farmers of Iowa $4,000 in the
year 1912, they CALM I'd upon the legis-
iature for a large appropriation to
fight the evil; butV each year the
weeds OF Iowa are cPsting the state |
$15,O0O,0OO, and no kctive measures
are taken for their destruction.