Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-01-10
RUSk COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL
Some Interesting News Concerning
This Institution

This Institution
With the new year all members
of the school are back at their places
Of duty, and spirit of earnestness
and industry permeates the institut
ton.
Miss Florence Olson, of Weyerhau-
ser, entered the Junior class when
school re-convened after the holiday
vacation.
Miss Veva Nichols, who teaches at
F1ambeau, and graduate OF the
Training school, class of 1912, was
pleasant caller last Monday.
Miss Mamie 3. Hemminger, of
Withee, who is a member of the
class of 1912, visited her sister, Miss
Maisie, who is senior, and called
at her Alma Mater one day recently.
Miss Harriet Powell, . Of Ingram,
who has been absent from school,
owing to illness, Is again In her clas-
ses. Hariett is one OF tie faithful
workers, and she Is welcomed back,
by teachers and schoolmates.
Mis- Rosa Klopfenstein. who has
been detained from school because
Of duties at homo, is again in school.
Miss Besie Hilliker, Of Tomah.
one of our reliable seniors. was called
home week before Christmas vaca-
ton by the illness and subsequent
death of member Of her family
Applications for admission to the
| Model School have been numerpnss
for about three months. This school
has been filled since the beginning
of the year. Except as few vaean-
cies have occurred It has been i'm
possible to admit new pupils.
Students have been teaching. dur
ing the past quarter, classes in the
Model School as follows: Maisie
Hemminger, eighth grade reading;
Besie Hiliker, sixth grade reading;
Sadie Jordan, third grade reading;
Euphemia Couey, eighth grade CIV
les; Martha Malik, eighth grade asri-
culture; Ray Smith, third grade arith-
metic; D. E. Critchfield, fifth grade
reading; Harriet Powell, fifth grade
language. At the beginning of the
third Quarter, January q, 1913. those
who are now regularly teaching clas-
ses will be relieved, and those who
taught during the first Quarter, will
again teach. 1t Is the policy Of the
school to have eeach pupil teach for
at least twenty weeks, having clas-
ses in each of the three forms of the
common school course. before gradu-
ated
Construction work with the first
and second grades Is carried On by
five students who are not regularly
teaching classes. Each of these five
has the construction work one day
each week. Miss Wightman plans and
ullSCCS tL1S Wolh aAu eno SuAA"t EAA,
as we'll as the senior girls enjoy the
execution Of it.
A recent call by Superintendent
| Rice for substitute teacher for enc
| Of the schools in the town OF Grew,
| found us with q number of compet-
| ent persons, but all too busy to go
| out to do the work. However, we ap-
preciate the call, and may be in po-
sition in the future. as We have
sometimes In the past, to accommo-
| date some similar call incidentally
| We may call attention to the fact
| that next year we can furnish good
teachers to a dozen or more schools.
/ Attention OF the graded schools
of the high schools OF the county Is
| called to what can be done here at
the training school for your gradu'
| ates. Those Of them who wish to
teach, will find here the instruction
and training that will develop their
latent teaching abilities, In the short
est possible time, and fit for useful
and successful teaching careers. No
where else can resident of Rusk
County prepare for teaching At 80
small an expense as right here at
home. Much of the "red tape" which
is characteristic of big schools Is
eliminated in the training schools.
| The "frills" are largely omitted. and
.ths best thought and energy of ali
is kept constantly at essentials,