The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-30
COUNTY SCHOOL LETTER

II COUNTY SCHOOL LETTER
I There was only one failure ia di-
dactics at the recent first grade sxami,
4 nation.
| Onalee Aney, of Springfield District
/ No. 1. was awarded Forty -Four
Month diploma for perfect attendance
during the past week.
The returns Of, the March teachers,
examination have been received from
the State Department, and while We
were disappointed with few Of them
we must say that OH the whole they
are very satisfactory indeed.
This Office has just received several
copies of the ann ouncement Of the
Summer School and Joint Institut.
of the Southern State Normal. ThY
session opens June 12th, and of7sr
many inducements'to teachers.
We stamp the legend First Clas
Mail" on each set of monthly repor,
as they leave the Office. and see tha
postage is fully prepaid. In additin
we call attention to the fact that j
will require at least as much postag
for their return to the Office, but some
how or other certain teachers still seer.
to believe that two cent stamp viii
carry their reports back. We are takin.
notice of this and forming some con,
clusions too.
The Tyndall division OF the District
Institute met last Saturday At the high
school building. Practically every
member was present and took an 40
tive interest in all that was presented
at the meeting. The address Of Supt.
Everhart aud Rev. Filipi were excep-
tionally inspiring. Mrs. Everha rt
brought sixteen Of her primary boys to
the meeting dressed up as sailor lads.
Their songs and marches were fully
appreciated by every teacher and visit
or. Space forbids u more lengthy write
up of the meeting, but we cannot re-
frain from mentioning the instrument
al duets given by Messrs. White and
Setter and vocal selections rendered
by Supt. Everhart and Miss Thomas.
Neither must we neglect making favor
able mention Of Miss Laura McBur-
ney's admirable rendition OF "The
Riuebird.n
The annual meeting of the school Of
ficers held last Friday was success in
every way, even though the weather
man was half way inclined to give us
poor weather. James McCollum, OF
Pleasant Ridge Dist. No. IS, opened
the discussion on tine subject of elm
provement of School houses and
Grounds" McCollum struck a respon-
| sive chord with his co-]aborers, and
from the time he made his opening re-
marks until the close of the day, every
school officer seemed filled with en-
thusiasm. The round table discussions
brought forth many interesting phases
of school management. The outside
speakers were DR.. Franklin Jones Of oul
State University; Professor Grover c.
| Allen, of our Southern State Normal
DR.. Koobs, Chairman of b. H. County
Board of Health, and Miss Conn, the
Red Cross Visiting Nurse. DR.. Jones
pres ented his listeners with many in.
teresting problems of present day edu.
cational standards. Professor Aliens
address was illustrated with slides fur
nished by the U. s. Department of Ed
ucatiOn, and he took as his subject
"Some new Methods in Rural Educa-
tion." He made strong plea for con-
solidation of rural schools, and drov,
his points home very forcibly by thi
aid of pictures showing actual console
dations as they exist in various regions
of the United States DR.. Koobs tool
as his subject Health Supervision o
Schools" and urged the school officer
to make the sanitary conditions of the
schools such that the pupils would frs,
of all have strong bodies.
Miss Conn spoke briefly on work o
the Red Cross Visiting Nurse.