Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-01-13
SCHOOL ITEMS OF
GENERAL INTEREST
Teachers Institute at Bloom
ingtOn Next Saturday.
News Notes From a Few Country
Districts. --Supt. Brick
Goes Inspecting.

Next Saturday, January 16, there
will be held in Bloomington a teach
ers' institute intended to serve the
teachers in the towns of Blooming
ton, Mt. Hope, Patch Grove, Beetown
and parts of Wyalusing and Glen
Haven. Weather and road condi-
tions being favorable there should be
an attendance of about 30, perhaps
more. There will be two sessions,
morning and afternoon.
Professor John Clarence Brockert,
of the Platteville Normal, will in
struct in primary reading and arith-
metic, by years-that is, he will
take the subjects up by the different
years in the primary work, showing
how each years work in these sub
jects should be handled by the
teacher. .j1
Professor Fred. UlIrich, of the
Normal, will teach agriculture,
specializing on the meek and lowly
potato. g1et
County Superintendent E. C. Brick
will instruct in local government,
pointing out some of the things
child should know and that a teacher
should teach Oh this subject.
When Miss May Boyle returned to
her duties as teacher of No IA,
South Lancaster, she was pleasantly
surprised to fine the floor cleaned,
new shades and sash curtains, and
other improvements that had been
needed. 1t Will be recalled that
Miss Boyle took charge of the Rhodes
school just before Christmas, taking
up the work from which Cody Eek
stein resigned She now has "a
pupils, all in primary and inter
mediate classes. Her school is about
a mile west of the city of Lancaster. ;
County Superintendent b. G. Brick
made quite trip of inspection last
week. He stopped first at Wood
man village, where he found good
school in charge of Miss Rose
Robinson, new teacher and one who
is doing good work. There are only
about 20 pupils in attendance, and
the equipment is in frst-calss con-
dition. The building is not new,
but a metal ceiling and other like
modern items tend to make it
thoroughly sanitary.
District No 2, town of Wood
man, is one of the old-time sort.
Here the superintendent found board
seats and desks, of the home made
kind. They are long, reaching from
the sides of the room to rather
wide aisle in the middle. The only
entrance to the seats is from the
aisle in the middle of the room.
These long seats will each hold three
grown persons. Aside from these
seats being rather high from the floor,
the school house is comfortable
enough. Miss Frances Cooley is the
teacher, and presides over the in
.ellectual destinies of seven young
tiers, when her brood is all in school.
Near the village of Werley is a
good country school, conducted by
Miss Kathryn Mommsen. Here is
an enrolment of Ia, but with a foot
of snow on the level, and more than
that in the hollows, the average at
tendance is about 10. Here an effort
is made to keep the building modern
and sanitary.
In Muscoda village Mr.. Brick
found the school closed; Christmas
was still being celebrated 1t is pos
sible that recent tragic events have
operated to keep down the interest in
the schools. Anyway, there was
nothing doing, so the superintendent
shook the snow of Muscoda from his
boots and took a train for the setting
sun region. But he stopped off at
both Blue River and BoscObel, where
he found fine school work being dune.
And he liked the work he saw being