Charlevoix county herald., 1917-03-09
SCHOOL OFFICERS MEET
ING WELL ATTENDED
School and Farm Problems
Discussed.

Inc morning session OF the ScnOOl
officers meeting was called to order
in the assembly room of the Boyne City
High School at about ten thirty with
good crowd and with everyone ready
to hear and to enter into the spirit of
every address. Due to poor train con-
nections Mr.. Coffey arrived late in
Boyne Falls and the meeting opened
without him and proceeded for the
entire morning while he and his fellow
passengers from Petoskey were cheer
fully as possible driving thru the drifts
to Boyne City.
Mr.. Cook of Owosso gave the first
address OF the day on what is the
County Agent?" He explained at some
length the work and possibilities of
rural leader. In closing he had with
him the entire audience and could well
feel that his trip was worth while.
The school commissioner then talked
about school registers, county normal
and state normal training, the location
of teachers by system VS.. chance, the
text book problem, Libraries, hot noon
lunches, officers bonds, busy work,
results of the county survey, school
house improvements by immediate and
gradual working plans, and the list of
office supplies and forms furnished by
state and county. The meeting was
then adjourned until LOO p. m.
The first address of the afternoon
was on phases of school law both old
and new that have given little trouble
in the working out of the different
phases. Mr.. Coffey was decidedly
pleased with the wide-awakeness of the
officers and the numerous questions
asked during his address. He explain
ed later that the pension law was in
effect now and would be collected this
year but that he had no authority to
state how or when it would be collected.
This will rest with the Retirement Fund
Board and they will send word to each
school board just as soon as the entire
system is worked out. The secretary
of the state Retirement Fund Board is
now busy studying out just how he will
90 at this but the law has been in effect
for some time and could not be operat-
ed in full until the procedure was COM
plete and the law declared constitu.
tional.
Several of the business men and
farmers were very anxious to take a
straw vote to see how the body of
school officers felt toward the procur-
ing OF county agent in Charlevoix
County. By motion made, seconded,
and favorably discussed, the meeting
stood strongly in favor of this subject
There was but one dissenting voice
when the motion was put to vote and
the ayes were loud indeed 81 ayes and
one nay.
In his second address Mr.. Coffey ex.
planned the new bulletin gotten out by
the Department "Rural Schoolhouses.
The school rooms with work rooms and
special supply closets for the teachers
were new to some of the officers but
the remodeling of the old school was
review lesson to most of them. How
ever all were very attentive and the
interest unwavering. In concluding
his speech he read a few lines from
Edgar Guest on "Unselfishness" ex-
planning the need of doing for the child
because Somebody Must Care" The
citizens of the future will be whatever
we make them and their success, if
success they achieve, will be because
somebody cared.