Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-22
SCHOOLS MAKE
GOOD RECORDS
Reports of Attendance Received for
Last Month by County Superin-
tendent Of Schools
ALL LIKE HOME CREDIT WORK
Scholars Anxious to Win Prizes For
Attendance Records

are taking a lively interest in the
Home Credit work and in trying for
the best records of punctuality, ac-
cording to County Superintendent of
Schools, Miss Margaret Moore.
Two prizes have been offered as
an incentive to the pupils of the
rural schools to better their attend
ance records. The prize for the best
record made by a nine months term
school is to be a $50 sixteen foot
slide offered by Richardson & Monks
and the first prize for the seven
months term schools will be a set
of gymnasium apparatus which is of
fered by c. d. Simonds' Drug Store.
The Naples school in District No.
20, Miss Bessie Curran, teacher, lead
the nine months term schools the
first month with an attendance per-
centage of 100. The pupils of this
school who were neither tardy or
absent were Helen Bond, Reva Blk
Ter, Dolly Dobson, Snowdie Dobson,
Dennie Morice, Anna Moore and
Howard Moore.
The schools of District No s,
Miss Tressa O'Brien, teacher, and
District No. 8, of Porthill, Miss Hen
rietta Rath, teacher, tied for first
place as to punctuality and attend
ance for the seven months term
schools, each having 100 per cent.
There was no hardness in either
school. The honor roll of Miss o.
Brien's school is as follows: Trel-
lice Woodward, Edward Newton, Har-
ry Newton, Early Newton, Mary Hill,
George Hill, Harry Hill, William
Hill, Matilda Herman. The honor
roll of Miss Rath's school is as fol-
lows: Lester Daufau, Verna Rath,
VIM. Geizleman, Roy Hawks, How
ard Minckley, Eckert Osborn, Vera
Osborn, Ford Osborn.
Following is the percentage of
attendance of the various schools of
the county. The average attendance
of the county schools for last month
is 97.7. This report does not include
Independent School District No. a
and one school in District No. ~
and one in District No 8, the two
latter schools starting November list.
District No. /, ID pupils, 94.7 per
cent; District No. 2, II pupils, SO
per cent; District No. 3, pupils
100 per cent; District No. 5, Is pu-
pills, SO per cent; District No. 6, 81
pupils, 98.6 per cent; District MOI
IL pupils, 97.9 per cent; District No
8, IL pupils, 95.7 per cent; District
No. 9, 8 pupils, 100 per cent; Dis
trict No. 10 (Sinclair), 7 pupils, $751;
per cent; District No. 10 (Meadow
Creek, Is pupils, 80 per cent, Dis
trict No IL, 25 pupils, 99.1 per cent
District No. IL, 16 pupils, 94.7 pei
cent; District No. 10 (Cow Creek
II pupils, 98.3 per cent; District No
10 paradise Valley, 10 pupils, 9.
per cent; District No. Ia, 100 pu
pills, 98.2 per cent; District No. Is
Fl pupils, 97.4 per cent; District No
16, 10 pupils, 95 per cent; Distric
No. IT, % pupils, 9S.S per cent
District No. Is, 9 pupils, SO per cent
District No. 10, 16 pupils, 9s.4 pc
cent; District No. 20, IL pupils, 10'
per cent.
Most of the schools of the count,
found time to take up the specia
Home Credit work in the busy mont
) of September. Prof. Carlson, prin
cipal of the Northside school, Dis
: trict No. Ia, after a meeting wit
! the parents gave out the Home Credi
blanks to the students, who with yer
few exceptions took up the worl
! Prof. Carlson says both the parent
and the pupils in his district ar
greatly interested in the new plar
Z One of his pupils is particularly er
= thusiastic since he has learned tina
: he will receive 10 minute credits fo
= each COW MIXED instead of 10 mir
. utes for the whole milking.
+, Miss Loughney, of District No. L
and Miss Danforth, of the Moravi
: school, had spelling contests. Mis-
: Collins, of District No. 6, had
S spelling contest and program. Pro
G. w. Warren, of District No. 5, ;
S Addie, says, eve have spent near
n all our available time before scho
p in the morning, at recess, etc, burr
: ing stumps and carrying away rock
g lin general clearing of the scho
:, yard for gardening work in Il
i spring and so we can erect son
lsimple playground apparatus in Il