The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-04-03
Public School Notes,

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Seabaugh were visitors ut the North
Ward School.
School dismissed at 8 o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon of last week on
account Of the funeral of Mrs. By
ington's son.
Miss Helen Murrill and Miss Ruth
Spaugh each substituted part of
the time last week during the alb
sence of Mrs. Byington.
The State University is making an
effort to organize the high schools of
the State into a debating league. The
present plan is to divide the State in
to four districts from each of which
the best team will be selected. These
teams, it is understood, will contest
with each other for honors at the
university. The individual who makes
the best record will be granted n
scholarship valued at $l25. Only sem
iors Of accredited high schools are
eligible to this debate.
The school election will have taken
place before the school notes appear
again. The writer has tried to give
the textbook question a fair consid-
Grafton in these notes. We believe
it to be good thing forthe public
schools to have free textbooks in the
eight grades in particular. Several
States now have free textbooks aft
er having adopted the same. Patrons
know what these books are costing
now, and il is estimated that the "a
cents per pupil enumerated will in
stall the books in three years time
with a shortage of few dollars only,
and when once installed can be
maintained on the 81 cents foreign in
surance tax. Some cities maitain free
textbooks for both the grade pupils
and the high school pupils at 80 cents
per pupil, The proposition to be voted
on at the present is to provide free
Textbooks in the first eight grades.
The first four grades to be provided
the first year, the fifth and sixth
grades the second year, and the sew
enth and eighth grades the third year.
The North Ward School is making
quite record in baseball. A team
from this school defeated the South
Ward team Wednesday of last
week with ascore of 1911, on the
South Ward groundnsn. The teams
met again Tuesday afternoon of this
week Mt the North Ward, where the
contest resulted in the close score
of 81 in favor of the North Ward
team. The North Ward team also de-
feated the second team of the seventh
grade. Much school spirit is mani
Tested and the games were witnessed |
by largeC rowds Of the children. Opal !
Evans and Bryan Murrill were UNI
pires forthese games.
Fredericktown High School and
Bonnie Terre High School met in a
debate and musical contest Saturday
evening of last week in Bonnie Terrc.
The former school won the debate,
and the latter the contest in music,
which consisted of solos, both vocal
and instrumental, boys duet, girls
duet, boys quartet, girls quartet and
n sextet. There were ten or twelve
from each school in this contest. Both
of these schools are to be commended
for the results they have been abel
to realize in this phas Of the school
work The same teams will meet Sat
urday evening of this week in Fred
ericktown. The schools will then take
the other side Of the same question
in debate, which is on the Recall of
Supreme Judges of State"
Miss Alva Clay will represent the
Pennington High School in the essay
contest at Cape Girardeau. Her es-
say was submitted last week.
THE SUPERINTENDENT.