The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-10
COUNTY SCHOOL LETTER

VI tnc pItSTdLH complete review OF
the Reading Circle books.
This is the time of the year when
teachers should stimulate ideas of
practical seed testing among the older
boys and girls.
Plans are under way to consolidate
the schools of Swan Lake and Spring
Valley townships in Turner county
and thus do away with seven small
and unattractive district schools
Tardiness is in many respects worse
than absence. Children who are con-
tinually tardy at school form a habit
that is likely to continue after school
days are over and be the cause of
miserable failure in real life. BE on time!
This week the school clerks will re
ceive report of district institute atten-
dance ofeach division of the January
meeting. Under the same cover we
have also enclosed an extract of the
latest law upon compulsory attendance.
This week occurs the corn judging
and bread baking contests for rural
boys and girls given under hedirection
of the extension service of the Southern
Normal at Springfield. We hope
many of the rural schools will be repre-
sented in this contest.
We note an ever increasing tendency
among school officers to install slate
blackboards. Experience has proved
that all substitutes are inferior in every
way. The most satisfactory board is
forty weight inches wide and placed
from twenty-four to twenty-six inches
from the floor.
Bambas School No. l9 is rejoicing
over the receipt of complete set of
standard measures for both liquid aud
dry measure, pencil sharpener, new
library case and an outline map oil
slated cloth of the United States.
Josephine Jones is serving her fifth
year there. That's an enviable record.
Awards for library work have been
issued to the following pupils during
the past week: sylvia Rehurek, William
Kucera, Annie Kroft, DeWight Boese,
Alvin Ratzlaff, Alice, Margaret, Nina
and Jonas Schultz; Lillian Soukup,
Josie Travnicek, Maggie aud Belle
Engel, Sylvia Rehurek and Tillie
kucera
Successful Farming" for February
contains a sentence in which there are
ten words spelled differently than they
appear in our older editions of the
spelling book. "As | perambulated
thru the crowds in the thorofare thru
out the day, tho the sun was thoroly
warm, found catalog containing
program in which the pedagog was set
to give the prolog to play entitled
1.-The Decalog"
Lesson l66 and the two immedi lately
following it in our grammar for the
eighth grade should be carefully studied
by Bon Homme county teachers. These
lessons have to do with the correct
forms of letter writing, and the reason
the county superintendent makes men,
ton of them is because be receives
great many letters from teachers who
sSShA w ldlI III GuCll SuOltS dt gOOu
ferm'' in letter writing.
Last weeks Notes We're written be-
fore receiving reports Of the Avon,
Scotland and Springfield divisions of
the January teachers meeting From
all three sources comes the report that
good meetings were held despite the
bad condition of the weather. Many
excellent papers were read by the va
rious members on the several programs
and marked interest in the meetings is
reported from every point.
Perfect attendance awards have been
issued to the following: Ferdinand
Rauch, ELLA, Laura and Hazel SattIer,
Henry Bender, Norman Bangert,
Alvin and Viola I.orenz, Luverne
Bochman, Charles rravnlcek, Emil
Uherka, Emil Rehurek, Olive Hoaglin
Johanna Odena, Alice, Anna, John,
Levi, and Nina Schultz, Allan and
Markie Boese, Emil Rehurek, Elmer
Klemme, Rose Nelles. Frank Tupa,
Ellen and Henry Petrik, Adolph and
Steven Ptak, Alwilda and Frances
Davis and Helen Kortan.
A very pleasing exhibit of school
work reached the county superintend-
ent's desk last week from the pupils of
the First Grade at Scotland. The ex-
hibit was made up of cards decorated
i'll keeping with the work of February
on one side and upon the other side
very neatly written little message to the
county superintendent. We pause to
remark that work of this sort is very
timely. These children exhibit a bet
ter knowledge of form" in writing