Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-03-20
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BY COUNTY sUPT, o. E. RICE


in Grant, Grow, Washington, Allan
ia and Big Bend.
The amount of state aid for such
consolidating is certainly very lib
eral We shall be glad to advise with
school boards in this matter when
requested
| A few new buildings are contem-
plated Plans and specifications for
| school buildings are to be secured
| from either this office or from the
State superintendent In all cases,
| it is, of course, necessary that the
question of building be submitted to
vote of the district in legal man
ner.
Term reports are now being ut
to teachers. These must be filled in
correct and returned to the superin-
tendent and the clerk before the
teacher is paid her wages for the
last month Clerks should see that
the insurance money due from teach
ers is retained, or the officers are
held for it.
Diploma Examinations
Those schools closing before May
10th will write April 9th and 10th,
others on May 14th and 18th, dates
not to be changed Questions will be
sent teachers in time, if they notify
the superintendent at once as to
the date of closing, and the num-
bcr Of pupils to write. Seventh grade
pupils in Geography Physiology and
Agriculture only may be permitted to
try this test
Teachers will be sent full instruc-
tiors for holding examinations. Ques-
tions must be kept sealed until class
is ready to write. Neglect of this
direction invalidates the examina-
ton. Teachers will carefully read
and mark each answer, placing stand
ing on top of first page. All papers
grading So or above to be sent to
this office, together with list of
lldIlto dIu LUZ oCol z VI I4oi hiiiS oiA
a separate sheet.
There will be no teachers exam
nation held this spring, but there
VII in August.
Teachers Institutes
two-days' institute will be held
in Ladysmith on the 7th and 8th Of
May. Schools may be closed both
days to allow the teachers to attend.
Spelling Contest
A town and a county contest is be-
ing arranged for this spring To en-
able our representative to attend the
state fair in September, all expenses
paid by state, it is required that at
least one-half of the schools in each
town and one-half the towns in the
county join in the contest. Lists of
words and rules are mailed to all
teachers If any teacher is not sup
Piled please advise us at once. The
town contests are to be held on Sat
urday, april %, at two o'clcck One
| hundred words and the rules for
| spelling are to be written. The teach
ers in each town represented assist
in conducting the town contest, and
at the schools designated below, un-
less another school is agreed upon
with the superintendent. The writ
| ten test should be preceded by a
brief literary program and regular
spell down" by all present. Patrons
OF the schools are request to at
tend these contests. The county con-
test will be held in May.
The contests in the several towns
will be held on April 25th, at two
o'clock, and at the school houses des-
ignated below, conducted by the local
teacher in each district:
Town of Atlanta, Atlanta Village,
Miss Gerharz; Big Bend, Amacoy
Lake school, Paul Exc; Dewey,
Range Line school, Miss R. Cliff;
Flamb sau, Ladysmith, courthouse, All
the teachers in contest work; Grant
Maple Center school, MISS Maude
Daley; Grow, Conrath school, ]. b
Griffith; Hubbard, Crane school, Miss
Mabel Kilgore; Marshall, Sheldon
school, Miss Anna Frenchick; Murry
Klinger school, Miss Ella Conway
Rusk, Rusk Farm school, Miss Ella
Hazelberg; Strickland, it. /, Gillet
, school, Ray Smith; Stubbs, it. 8
New Hutchinson, Miss Minnie Town
send; Thornapple, Galley Lake school
!. Miss Carrie Stenson True, No. 3
t Sievertsen school, Miss Ethel Hold
en-; Washington Flambeau school
Miss Fora Churchill; Willard, Boye
: school, Miss Lula Lowell; Wilson
/ Jones school, Miss Ella Wilson.
}, All teachers in each town are t.
/ share equally in the conducting o
the contest; to assist in grading an