Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-12-09
SCHOOL BOARD CONVENTION

The annual convention for school board
members and teachers of Iron County
which was held at the court house at
Hurley on Monday of this week was
very successful meeting. Every rural
teacher of the county except one enrolled
and eleven school board members were
present. MIR. w. E. Larson, state inspec-
tor gave three interesting talks during
the day one of which was to the school
board members on the subject of Con.
solicitation" A number OF school board
members expressed their views on the
advisability of consolidating some of the
schools in Iron County. Supt. w. P.
Hagman of Ashland County gave very
favorable report of the benefits resulting
from the consolidation of school districts
near Butternut. Here several schools
were closed and consolidated district
formed more than two years ago A
number Of school wagons run daily on
three separate routes. During the cold
months these wagons are artiicially heat
ed thus inSuring the comfort of the child
rem transported
An interesting feature of the morn
ing's program was an illustrated lecture
on Ventilation" by MIR. ]. F. Kadonskv.
agricultural agent for Gogebic County.
His talk was entertaining and lively from
start to finish but especially so when a
live mouse with which he was expert.
menting escaped and demonstrated to
the audience that it was still very much
alive.
During the afternoon session Mrs. P.
Lenihan, city librarian, extended an offer
of a number of books from this library
>, he 60 4.
county.
While Mr.. Larson was addressing the
school board members on the subject OF
Consolidation" the teachers repaired to
the South Side School where Miss Archie
Lie Dickson, representative of the
Palmer Company of Chicago, gave forty
| five minutes of instruction showing the
rural teachers how to introduce his sys-
TEN of writing in their schools.
At the close of the afternoon session
Mr. George Sullivan, principal of the
Montreal School, brought a number of
his pupils who demonstrated some First
Aid" Work. These pupils handled the
work in mastery way and were highly
complimented by those present. A large
number of pupils in this school have
taken sixty hours of training in this work
and many hold diplomas granted by the
National Bureau of Mines
During the afternoon the pupils of the
fifth grade of our city school under the
direction of Miss Harrington, rendered
several songs which were greatly enjoy ed
by the audience.
The schools where domestic science
and manual training are being regularly
taught exhibited specimens of their work
in the line of cooking, sewing, construc-
ton and wood work, some of which was
very commendable.
The special feature of the exhibit.
however, was an agricultural survey map
from each school district. A prize had
been offered for the most complete map
and the judges had some difficulty in
coming to decision owing to the num-
Der of good maps presented. The decision
however, was rendered in favor of the
state graded school at Saxon which car
ried off the prize in the form of a large
framed picture The Majesty of The
Mater Horn" taken by the National Geo
graphic Society.
Mrs. Fred F. Luedge of the Pritzlaff
Hardware Company and Mr. w. jain
both of Milwaukee, last week presented
the rural school at Springstead with six
dollars to be given as rewards to the
pupils doing the best work during the
month of December.
On Wednesday afternoon of last week
the parents were invited to the Powell
school where appropriate exercises were
given and lunch serS ed. The object OF
this gathering was mainly to demonstrate
the new Stewart Photograph purchased
with the proceeds of the basket social
held last month.