Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-14
FINE PROGRAM
SKILLET CREEK
FARMERS CLUB

from the club meeting on Friday even
ing, but the rooms at Cozy cottage
were comfortably we'll filled and the
time was enjoyably and profitably
spent.
Visitors who were there from North
Freedom, besid es Superintendent Dav-
les, who was one of the speakers, were
Mrs. G. w. Davies, Miss Carrie TRIUMPH
and Miss Blame. From Baraboo there
were Superintendent Kingsford, the
other speaker of the evening, Mrs.
Kingsford, Mrs. Osborne, and Miss Hor-
ton. A balky auto kept some
others from attending. Joseph Rod
we'll very generously responded to a
number of requests for music on his
dulcimer. This old fashioned music
was rare treat and much enjoyed by
all.
The first number following the music
was recitation, the Country Boys
Creed, by Master Orrle Cahoon. This
was we'll rendered and the boy deserves
much credit for gracefully passing over
a few forgotten words, without i'm
pairing the Sc nse of thelpiece.
Mrs. Dora Cowles read timely Sc
lection from James Whitcomb Riley's
poems. Superintendent Kingsford
was detained by school board meeting
in the city 80 the president chose to
m axe the announcement in the early
part of the meeting.
The next meeting the club will be a t
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Ryan
on Friday evening, Oct. 22nd. This
will be the sesond of the mutual inter-
ests of city and county meetings. Sec
rotary j. w. Frenz of the Baraboo
Commercial club will tell of the trade
advantage which the city of Baraboo
has to offer to rural patrons, what
farmers can do to help make better
Baraboo and what can be done for mu-
tual benefit through united effort. w.
A Toole of the Skillet Creek Far
mers' club will speak in somewha
similar lines from the rural residents
viewp int.
1t Is expected that there will be q
good attendance from the city of those
" no take practical interest in the
get-toge ;ner idea The Misses Gatti-
ker have extended to the club an invi-
tation to hold meeting at their resi-
dence some time in November. The
meeting will be held on Friday evening,
Nov. 9th. Editor H. E. Cole has also
invited the club to meet at his home
sometime in the near future.
Apples were passed around during
visiting intermission. Following visit
ng intermission and music, Superinten-
dent Davies spoke of the progress and
needs of rural schools. Important fac
ora in the makeup of rural schools are
scholars teachers, parents and other
taxpayers, school laws, home indue n
ces and the general environment of the
scholars,
/ bility of all country children continuing
to be farmers, although more mistakes
are made in leaving the farm than in
keeping to their parent g vocation, but ne
insists that if they look toward to staying
on the farm their education should be
directed with that end in view. A man
intending to become carpenter would
not take a course in horse shOeing,
prospective lawyer would not take
medical course It then becomes neces-
sary that teachers of country schools
shoud be trained in rural lines of
thought. Teaching should be in the direc-
ZION OF farming interests and not coun-
ter to them as is sometimes the case.
Among the laws passed by the last
legislature of special interest to rural
SCH ools, are in the following chapters,
which may be found in the copies of
session laws which have been distri-
buted by the local papers. Chapter Sd
provides for a county Educational Com
mittee Of three and two supervisory
teachers. The two appointed by the
Sank County board are, Mr.. Weinke and
Miss Brooks. These supervisory teach
ers are to look after various schools and
advise the teachers when necessary.
With more than two hundred teach
ers in Sank County and need for more
than three thousand miles travel to
visit all of the schools in the county it
can been seen that it is desirable to
give closer inspection than has been pos
tibie in the past
Chapter $40 provides for the payment
of bonus of increased salary to teach
ers who hold the same school more than
one year Chapter $50 provides that
state graded schools which carry work
beyond the eighth grade may receive
payment for scholars from outside, tut
lions to be paid by the respective
towns as is now the case with high