The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-09-09
County School Notes.
BY supt. @. G. Fites.

September number or Inc Ladles
home Journal on the on the sub.
ject of Education that should be
read by every father of children.
Lest some Of our readers will not
have an opportunity to read this
journal we are taking the liberty
of copying part of the article
into our school notes, as follows:
"A man will take infinite pain to
look over the entire automobile
market and investigate the points
of quality in different makes of
cars. He will talk to his friends;
read literature by the ream; per-
sonally visit garages and automo-
bile sales rooms. He will 60 to
the same trouble if his tastes lead
him to cattle poultry, dogs. or
horses. So it isn's that he is too
busy to Investigate his child's
school. He just wont do it. Yet
any sane man knows that the
schooling of his child is of vastly
more importance than what kind
of car or horse he will buy".
The Eighth Grade Diplomas
have all been mailed out to the
graduates during the last week,
with the exception of those who
conditioned. These will be deli
vered when the pupils have re-
moved the conditions imposed u
pom them, which inevery case, is
that the pupil must satisfactorily
pass the first nine weeks of the
ninth grade work. The MSS of
both the seventh and eighth grades
are on file in this Office and are o.
pen to inspection for the pupils
personally interested. t
Teachers who are teaching in
this county for the first time. will
profit by making an early call at
the Office and thus got in touch
with the plans of the Office. We
want to see every teacher af often
as we can, especially the new
teachers.
Many of our Bon Homme coun-
ty teachers have spent the vaca-
ton months visiting the Exposi-
ton and other points ofinterest on
the Pacific coast. Good for them.
We know they will take back to
their schools a fund of informa-
tion that will be of use to their
pupils.
At this time of the year, there
is always the question of legal
textbooks for schools. The books
adodted in July 1912 are still the
legal booksfor this county and
they will remain the regular text
books until July 1917, when GER
tain changes may be deemed adyi-
sable. For the benefit of the
general public we are giving our
readers this list of books. The
Arnold Hrimer, for beginners;
First, Second, and Third Readers
from the Stepping Stones Series;
Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Readers,
byJudson and Bender; Seventh
and Eighth Readers, in the Stan
dard Classics; Oral, Elementary
and Complete Arithmetic. by En-
tworth and Smith; Descriptive
SpelIer, by Alton; Primary and
Advanced School History, by
Mace; introductory Language, by
Reed; Graded Lessons and High
err Grammar, by Reed aud kellogg;
introductory and Elementary
Physiology, by Conn: Elements
and Grammar School Geography,
by Frye, and The Republic of
Friends, by johnson.
There is supposed to be a copy
of the South Dakota School Laws
in every school library in the
county. Teachers should read
this law occasionally and thus
make themselves familiar with its
/, provisions. One thing that comes
TO ns frequently, is the matter of
holidays. Our law provides for
four school holidays, Pemely,
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Decora-
ton Day, Independence Day.