Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-12-09
SCHOOL BOARDS MEET.
School Boards From Western and
Eastern Parts OF Marathon County
Convene In Separate Sessions Here
Last Wednesday and Thursday.

Last Wednesday and Thursday the
members of the school boards met in
TINS city for the purpose OF taking up
questions which would be of help to
those who are helping to run the
schools throughout the county of
Marathon. About $50 members Of
these school boards from all parts OF
The county except the extreme north
west, where special meeting will be
held Tor those who, because of poor
railroad transportation were unable
to come to this city, were in atten-
dance and at both meetings, Thurs
day and Friday, splendid programs
were enjoyed.
The meeting for those school board
members from the western part OF
I the county was held on Wednesday
at the Marathon County Training
school and there all gathered to hear
the morning addresses at ten o'clock.
The principal speaker of the morn
ing was Charles Harper of the state
department of public instruction.
Before this speaker gave his address
WenZel PivernitZ welcomed the board
members. There was only the one
address that morning and when Mr..
Harper had finished his talk the time
was twelve and then the 225 board
members adjourned until afternoon.
The first address of the afternoon
was on "Rural School Music and
was given by Miss Rosalia Bohrer Of
the local training school. Several
demonstrations were given by a class
of students from the training school.
The other speakers of the after
noon were j. f. Kadonsky of the
local agricultural school, Miss Mary
Alice Brown and Principal O. E.
Wells of the training school. All
gave addresses which were very in
teresting and helpful to the visitors.
Following these three splendid talks
Charles Harper of the state depart
ment spoke to the assembled board
members during the remainder of the
afternoon
On Thursday the eastern board
members assembled in the training
school for their days session. Over
one hundred of the men who run for
the rural and district schools were in
attendance from this part of the
county. The program followed
Thursday was similar in many ways
TO the one given before the western
board members Charles Harper
rendered another very interesting ad-
dress, this being on The same subject
as the one he had discussed the day
before. He was followed by Miss
Bohrer who repeated her paper of the
day before upon "Rural School Music.'
Miss Thompson conducted splendid
exercise in club swinging and this was
followed by Miss Mary Alice Brown
and Principal O. e. Wells both of
whom had addressed the other gath
ering of the day previous Mr.. Piyer-
nitz followed these speakers and SO
closed the last meeting of the board.
Professor j. +. Kadonsky also rem
dered splendid address during the
afternoon.
Both meetings were very success
full and in all probability accom-
'plished their purpose to aid the board
members in their efforts to direct
Their local schools on in way which
would be the best obtainable. There
were a goodly number of directors
who were unable to get to this city
from Athens and the surrounding
country and iD0January it is expected
that Athens will be the scene of
another such gathering for those who
were unable to reach this city.