The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-10-29
A SPLENDID TRIBUTE
Miss Cora Bean Praised by Promin-
ent Teacher

ent Teacher
Miss Althea Nj. Sheldon of New
Plymouth, writing in the New Ply
mouth Sentinel, pays splendid trib-
ute to Miss Cora B. Bean, Republican
nominee for superintendent of
schools. Miss Sheldon has taught in
the Payette High Schools and for two
years was teacher at the College of
Idaho. There is probably no one in
Canyon County better qualified to
speak upon the SUPPLEMENTARY of
the schools than Miss Sheldon. She
says:
"When | came to Canyon county
in the summer of 1908, ! was pleased
to find the county superintendent a
lady of such genuine culture and 20
be treated by her with courtesy and
consideration, as indeed all the teach
ers were.
"This lady was Miss Cora B. Bean,
who was superintendent of the Can
yon county schools for six years from
January 1908 to January 1909, when
Htlt IeluSGu 70 CDCiloiQCi bliC ilOliiiiitf-
ton for another term. She is, how
ever, again candidate for this office.
1t is seldom that county has an OPP
portunity to vote for a man or wo-
man of such acknowledged ability for
this position. | heartily agree with
Miss Shepard, who in speaking at the
High School two weeks ago, said that
both state and county office of SUI
perintendent of schools should be TAX
en- out of politics. 1t is with absolute
ly no thought of politics that | am
writing this, but because | consider
Miss Bean highly qualified for the
position for the following reasons: l,
Miss Bean has an unusually fine rec
ord as a teacher. She was educated
at the State Normal College of Wis
cousin. She was principal of on 8
room ward school in her home city, |
where she taught nine years. Her
city superintendent at that time was
L. l.. Wright, now state superlntend-
ent of Michigan and one of the fore
most educators of America. He SAID
of her, Out of 80 teachers under my
charge, l consider Miss Bean the
best
''Her record in Canyon county is
well known; for four or five years in
the Caldwell High School her teach
ing was such that her students-some
IF them teachers themselves now
her work with them funda-
Last year she was principal
If a two-roomed country school near
her farm. Some of the pupils work
was entered at the county fair and re-
,eived six premiums, two of which
we're for the state exhibit of sewing
oy girls clubs. The children were
Wild with jov.
"2. Miss Bean was a decided sue
cess as our county superintendent.
We elected and reelected her three
lines. At the Lewis & Clark exposl-
ion Canyon county received one OF
he premiums and a medal for school
work. The exhibit was splendidly
managed and the children, and teach
RS as well, were taught to do exact
md careful work
"Miss Beams ability is not only j
,nown in the county but is also rec
gnized by the state, since for the
ast five years she has been mem
er of the board which grades the {
eachers examination papers.
90. This point will be soothing to
he overburdened taxpayer. Miss
lean ran the office with the greatest
1t is interesting to note in
lew of the economy campaigning be- :
~ done that in the one year of the l
resent term the expense of the SUI T
office, $3,103.24, is more n
nan three-fourths as much as the ex-
ense of the full two years of Miss
n 4 ar =.