The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-27

health of the child should receive our
most careful attention. To this end
the school house should be pleasant,
comfortable and inviting. The school
house should be properly heated, ven
tilated and thoroughly cleaned at
least once month.
The outbuildings should be kept in
sanitary condition. This means that
the vaults should be cleaned occasion
ally and the building kept in good
repair.
Health means cleanliness, pure air,
light and sunshine in the school room.
1t is said that nearly one hundred
thousand people die annually from
tuberculosis in the Mississippi Valley
and about five hundred thousand are
always afflicted with that disease in
the same region. The home and the
school by maintaining proper condi-
lions therein may greatly lessen or en-
tirely stamp out this terrible plague.
In all but two or three school houses
in the county, special provisions have
been made for properly heating and
ventilating the school building.
A closed cup rack should be found
in every school for the proper care of
the individual drinking cups with
which the law requires each pupil to
provide himself. Suitable provision
should be made for the care of lunch
baskets.
In a few of our schools the practice
has been established of serving, during
the cold weather, at least, one warm
dish to each pupil at noon which dish
is prepared in the school, This is a
splendid practice and should find its
way into every school in the county.
A year ago Joint School District
No. 2, Wheatland and Burlington,
erected splendid one room brick
school building at a cost of about
$2,500.00. This building has a base
ment and a basement furnace, 1t is
up to date in its construction and
equipment and is credit to the
district.
Number 8, Salem, raised its school
! house during the past year and con-
structed a basement under the same
| which is also heated by a basement
furnace. District No. 9, Pleasant
Prairie, erected a new school building
during the past year.
Schools boards did much during the
past year in the way of providing for
the comfort and efficiency of the pup
lis by supplying better school condi-
tions and the good work should go on
until all our schools are supplied with
the conditions necessary for carrying
on the best school work.
The school period is the period of
map building for life. It is said that
! a lack of respect for authority is our
greatest national fault. The home and
the school by working in harmony and
through cooperation, each in its own
sphere can do much to remove this blot.
A school should be a group of law
abiding people working in harmony
with each other and learning to deal
and feel with each other in spirit
that will prepare for better future
of the nation.
The number of school districts in
the county is sixty-four and the num-
Der of teachers employed last year
was seventy-nine.
The number of teachers receiving
$4,000 and less than $4,000 per month
was 70; number receiving $4,000 and
less than $4,000 per month was 10;
number receiving $500 and less than
10000 per month was 8; number re-
ceiving 10000 and less than $4,000 per
$4,000 and less than $1,000 per month
was s; number receiving $1,000 and
less than $500 was 2; one received
$4,000 per month and one received
$4,000 per month
Five institutes of one day each were
held during the year. These institutes
were well attended by our teachers
who received much light and inspira-
tion from them and the work of our
schools was thereby much improved.
-Four teachers 6Adu1ud GlUuS were
held during the year at which sixty
five applicants for certificates were ex-
amined. Of these three received first
grade, nineteen received second grade
and thirty-three received third grade
certificates. Ten faild to pass.
Of the teachers who were employed
in our schools last year, fifteen taught
for the first time, thirteen had had
one years experience, ten had had two
years experience, ten had had three
years experience, eight four years
experience and twenty-three had had
more than five years experience.
Forty eight of the teachers last year
were teaching in their position for the
first year, sixteen were serving the
second year in the school, nine were
serving their third year, four were
serving their fifth year and two were
serving for more than five years in
the game school.
The grades of certificate held by the