Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-01-26
Balance on hand July 1, 1916 $7H.

April 20, 1916, j. M. May,
Institute work ...... ..... ll.oo
April 20, 1916, J. II. Ames,
Expenses ...... ...... -. l4'o5
April 20, 1916, j. Nj. May,
Expenses ...... ...... ...' 14.o9
July 10, 1916, d. w. Maloney,
printing .... ..... ..... 350
Total .... ......$ 1913
Nov /, 1916. Balance in State % 90
Bank ........ $500 p "o'''
Clerk Hire Account.
Nov. 1, 1915. Balance on
Hand ........ ...... ......@ q. 90
Allowance ...... .".... ..... Zo.oV
Total in fund 80. ....$ $3.50
Expended during the year -. 9.l5
Balance on hand ....-.$ 3772
The management and the work OF
the Training School is very salts
factory. The enrolment and attend
ance better during the past two
years, and a good spirit pervades the
school,
An additional years work for the
students who enter from the eighth
grade classes has been prepared b.
the Board, which offers extra work
in Agriculture, Business Arithmetic,
Farm Bookkeeping, Penmanshlp,
Commercial and Physical Geography,
Business correspondence and Com
mercial Law.
This course is designed for those
students who desire work that will
be Of especial value to them in their
homes on the farm, thus fitting them
for more advanced study in that dL-
rectiOn.
The county Agricultural Represent
alive will have charge of the classes
in Agriculture seven weeks each WIN
ter term, continuously, and a part
of the year, he will have classes
once a week.
The faculty Of the school consists
Of Principal B. NJ Dresden Misses
Leila V. Parfrey, Assistant Principal
and Josephine Grow, Critic Teacher
in the Model Department.
This latter department is for pro
Viding, as the name implies, truly
Model School in which the senior
students are first required to OBJ
serve daily for several weeks actual
teaching, a period each day, by the
Critic teacher, after which each SEN
Tor is put in charge Of class there
and held responsible for the govern
ment and progress of the class civ
en- her. This practice teaching ex-
tends through a period Of twenty
weeks under the constant SUPERVISED
and direction of the critic teacher
hn TO1io
Practically, this means that each
graduate Of the school goes out as
an experienced teacher, equipped for
her first rural school the next fail.
A very large percentage Of the grad
yates have proven to be successful
III their schools in this and other
counties where they have been en-
ployed
These County Training Schools, {
which Wisconsin now has thirty, are
among the most popular and usefu
schools of the state. Their commits
sion is to prepare teachers for the
rural communities, and many of them
after q few successful years work
there, are promoted to positions in
state graded schools. Notwithstand-
ing the thirty training schools in the
state, the demand for these teach
ers much exceeds the supply.
Each session of the legislature pro
yides for more of these schools, and
since their first organization by the
legislature of 1899, and so satisfac
tory have these schools been, that
not one case of a training school
having been discontinued, Or turned
over to a high school in the state
has been known. They are with us
10 stay and Rusk county has reason
TO be proud Of its Training School
for teachers.
Report Of the Supervising Teacher
A year ago the Committee on Com
mon Schools as prescribed by sta
tute, elected as Supervising Teacher
Miss Louise Wegner for the rest o.
the school year ending June 80, 1915
During the year she made eighty
nine visits, chiefly to the rural dis
tricts, spending from one-half to
whole day at each school. She re
ports her observations and finding!
to the county superintendent at tht
close of each week, and he SENDS (
written summary of her criticism an
suggestions to the district Clerks
These, together with Inspections
made by the superintendent tend tt
bring about needed corrections ant
improvements, and to keep us AM
school officers and teachers in clos
er touch in matters pertaining t
school improvements. | feel tina
much good has, even in the shor
time thus spent, resulted to man,
schools and districts.
The law permits the committee t
place the salary from $50 to $50 pc
month, not exceeding ten months i
a year, and her necessary expenses
The salary fixed by the Commute
for Miss Wegner is $40 and expenses
which is paid by the county, and IL
ter returned to the county by tn
State, so that the county is not d
rectly burdened with this expense.
I wish at this time to call the al
tention of this Honorable body to til
fact that a typewriter has never bee
provided for the County Superinter
dents office, and because of tn
amount of correspondence, reports i
duplicate and in triplicate SO fire
quently required by the state an
xyario1r. dana nOtc and iOCtit11tiOn