The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-23
Homm School (No. 46) about six
miles northwest of Sank Centre on the

miles northwest OF Sank Centre on the
Todd county line was awarded first
prize for general exhibits. Last year
this school held second place, but the
teacher, Miss Alice Parker, assisted
| by her pupils and the school officers,
Messrs. Henry Quistorf, Bernard Wal
ter and John M. Miller, was determin-
| ed to win first place, and her efforts
met with success. The exhibit from
this little country school is certainly
deserving of praise. While it does
not range over the entire lot of en-
tries, like those of the semi graded
schools, there snot single piece OF
work that is not first-class. The gen.
eral average of the work, besides
eight individual prizes, earned for
this school the first place among the
rural institutions. Besides the excel
lent academic work shown, several
bird houses, fine collection of weed
seeds and an exhaustive collection OF
insects (the only one shown) add to
the value of the work from this school
One must be well acquainted with
country roads to find the school that
won second prize, for it is hidden
away, in District Number Sc, behind a
hill just half mile northwest of Col
legeville station. For the past two
years Miss jeanette Guthrie has been
employed here, and her efforts, aided
by those of the school officers, Messrs
Alex Broker, Frank Gill and John B.
Stitch, brought the school well to the
front. Seven individual prizes were
awarded pupils from this school, the
larger number of which were for in
dustrial work.
District No. 100, better known as
the Mccormick lake school three
miles east of Sank Centre, captured
third honors in the rural list, and the
work submitted well earns distinction.
The general average, rather than the
number of prizes, determined the ac-
ton of the judges in this instance. Sc
veral very unique and attractive table
mats, made with the aid of specially
constructed looms, are among the ex-
hibits, and attract considerable at
tention among those who visit the
school exhibit building. During the
past year the school was in charge of
Miss Florence Compton, and the
school officers are C. d. Wilcox, Will
liam C. Elliott and John Frakes.
Although Miss Helen Katsmarek
had only one years's experience in
teaching, she succeeded in doing work
in District Number &c in the town.
ship of Brockway (The Guck or Keif-
fer school) that earned for that insti-
tuition the fourth place among the 1874
rural schools in the county. The work
submitted by the pupils of this school
is all in the academic class and con-
sisted of booklets, penmanship, drawn
maps and relief maps. The school of
ficers in this district are Henry M.
Knettel, John Peternell and John
Slivnik.
District Number 1876, better known
locally at the Gray school in the
township of Ashley, was awarded fifth
prize. This school has been on the
winning list for three years, and it's
present exhibit is a credit to those
that have gone before. 1t comprises of
rugs, language booklets and maps.
For the past two years Miss Josephine
Hanson of Sank Centre has been in
charge. The officers are J. Leslie
Gray, James Swift and John Gray.
Primary Work Exhibits
Two years ago the state Depart
ment of Education added to the re-
quirements for special state aid the
regulation that every school, making
application for this aid, must have,
in addition to the other equipments,
$1,000 worth of primary material, con-
sisting of construction paper, raffia,
reeds, modelling clay, sticks, pegs,
numbers, letters, ETC., and the regula-
ton was highly welcomed by all ear
nest teachers and superintendent. In
rural schools, where one teacher has
to teach all the grades a posi-
Die sub-division-the greatest problem
| is the profitable employment of the
little folks, the beginners. With the
| aid of well selected primary material
ithis problem was minimized, and,
what is more, the work done by the
primary pupils is one of the principal
features of the present educational ex-
aibit. A number of schools prepared
work along this line, and this display
IS, after the sewing, the most extern
sive shown.
The first prize was awarded to the
Gutenberg school, which also won
first prize in general exhibits of the
semi-graded section. As already
stated this school has a primary ex-
lhibit covering almost fifty square feet
Almost every conceivable line Of pri-
mary work has been done by the little
folks at Gutenberg. There is paper
lcutting, paper folding, raffia anG
reed work, and an elaborate collection
of drawings illustrating child lore
such as Little Red Riding Hood