The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1913-09-12

gether with the high school, will be
opened for regular work on Monday
morning, the 18th of September.
Already almost all Of the teachers
who have been engaged for this year
have arrived In the city. and together
with Superintendent Buck, they are
taking up their work. arranging class
schedules, deciding upon text bucks,
and getting every thing ready for the
opening of school Monday morning
From present indications this will
be the most successful year ever en-
joyed by the St. MarIes public
schools. as from present indications
the enrolment Will greatly exceed
any that has been recorded in the
past. A larger corps of teachers has
been engaged to handle the work,
and with the completion Of the new
high school building more room will
be given for the proper handling of
the students, thus relieving the con-
gested condition which handicapped
the work of the schools last year.
The corps of instructors which has
been secured for the local schools
this year Is an excellent one, and
oompr ises teachers who have ''made
good" In other localities, and who
are experienced In the work of hand
ling students, and accomplishing the
test results in the way of giving
them an education.
Superintendent Buck, who will be
at the head OF the st. Maries schools
again this year. is we'll known. aud
needs no introduction to the parents
of the school children in this city.
g. W Todd will be the principal of
the high school this year, and he,
likewise, is acquainted IN this city.
as he held a position an Instructor
here last year. The other high school
Instructors outside of Miss Valerie
Oroze, whl will be supervisor of
music and drawing, are all new
teachers, ones who oUme here espeoi-
ally we'll recommended and who
promise to place the st. Marles high
school on a par with any high school
in the state. These new instructors
are j. Il. Walten, principal of the
grade schools, from Lebenden, Ohio
O. O. Minden. from the University OF
Idaho, at Mosoow; A. A. Maggy, q
graduate of an eastern college; aud
Miss Mabel Cox. also a new conner to
the city.
10 the grades the teachers are In
the main the same as taught here last
year, the new instructors being Miss
CLARA Gilbertson. of Occur d'Alene
Miss Verna Lyon, a graduate of the
Lewiston normal school; Miss Helen
Nesbit. of Portland. Oregon; Miss
Carrie Mitobell. formerly an in
struotor in W city schools of Sand
point; MIS- Edith Litzinger and
Mlst Crecelia Dunegan.
Superintendent Buck has called 6
teachers meeting for Saturday morn
ing at nine O'Clock and at that time
the superintendent will take up the
school matters With the Instructors
and decide upon details Of the work
Until the new high school building
is completed which the superinten.
dent thinks will be along about No
vembsi lst. some of the grades viii
hold but half DAY sessions, the grade
being divided into two sections, onl
for the forenoon aud one for the af
ternoon. This system will be cal
ried out ia tbs 1rst four grades B,
this means it is hoped TO eliminate
the congested condition which was 81
tad 10 the school rooms during las
year. The high school and the sixth
seventh aud eighth grades will be rul
on full time, commencing with tn
starting of wUrk Monday morning.
Present indications point to an en-
rollment Of at least 650 students thi
year, an increase Of ever $50 owe
the highest mark of last year. Will
this is but an estimate of what th
registration will be Monday, yet it
believed by those who are IN a posi-
tion to know, that the six hundre
auu MY uhAh viii NC very tlut
guess rs to what will be acoommodai
ed this year. In the high school ia
instructors are looking for al enroll
ment of close to a hundred students
as compared With fifty-two last yeal
the graduating class itself beiug col
siderably larger than the one whic
was turned out last year.
In an interview with a Record rel
resentative Superintendent Buck al
nounoed the teachers Tor the differeI
subjects Ia the high school and ais
the teachers who would have oharl
Of the different grades. He state
that 10 the way OF added improvl
ments this year, the school will ha'
two new courses at least, that is
soon Rs the new building is compile
ed aud ready for occupancy, the