Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-09-24
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
News Notes of the Week of
Interest to Pupils, to
Teacher, to Patrons
School is going nicely.

good so far.
The agricultural class has been
doing some very interesting ex
periments.
Sidney Grantham has done
more tree pruning than any
body in school.
Miss Gaskill and Miss GLADDEN.
say that the best part of the
fruit shower in their rooms Fri.
day will be the eating of the
good things the children brought
The teachers and pupils served
ice cream and hume made candy
in the park Saturday afternoon
to start piano fund for school.
The volunteer program of the
literary society Friday afternoon
was very interesting one. The
debate and the review of the war
in Europe were especially enter,
tanning and helpful.
Among our visitors last week
were c. A. Stephens, ]. W. Bra
zeal, j. l.. Dennis, Charles New
ton, German Freeman, Mrs. Cole,
Mrs. Yates, Lulu Carter, Uncle
Andy Ross.
The Sophomore and Junior
classes went out to Mr.. Roy s
Tuesday afternoon to observe the
silo filling. The Juniors will
write an account of the trip for
an exercise in English, and the
Sophomores record their obser-
vations in their agriculture note
books.
A large number Of patrons Wis.
fited school Friday afternoon and
inspected the work in the differ
ent rooms, but the men in the
crowd. were very few. Would a
Fathers Club be a good organiza-
ton in Mansfield? We need more
men to visit school and attend
our patrons meetings. Oct 90
another meeting will be held and
you are cordially invited to at
tend it.
The class in pedagogy is devot.
ing considerable time to the
study of psychology, and some
very interesting work is being
done. This week the subject is
special senses, and experiments
are being made to show the in.
huence of sight and smell on the
sense of taste. Persons who have
not investigated will be surprised
to learn how little knowledge we
do get from taste alone. Shut
your eyes, hold your nose, and
let some one put little scraped
apple, pear. or potato on the tip
of your tongue. Can you tell
which is which!
The teachers and pupils wish
to publicly extend their thanks
to every man, woman, and child
for the help they gave in making
the ice cream and candy sale the
splendid success 1t was. Every
body worked in every way he
knew to do more than anyone el
Sc to make things go in the best
way and as a result the total
proceeds we're about $780, so. The
expenses will be less than IS 81
that we have some money to use
for each teacher to secure ths
things most needed in Ler room
Orders will be made for this ma
terial soon and the next time yor
visit school you may see what
your money was spent for.
We need more high school stu
dents. Our grades are all crowd
ed but with two teachers doing
only high school work we should
have at least so pupils In the
three classes above the eighth
grade. Eo you know of any
young person who with little
encouragement would start Il
SCHOOL, Urge him to enroll a
once. Nearly a month of schoo
Is gone aud it will soon be tot
late to enter and complete the
work of a grade. There should
be a dozen more eighth grad,
graduates in the Mansfield Higl
School. Our school is approved
without a mark against it, Oa,