Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-01-18
NOTES FROM THE COUNTY sU.
PERINTENDENT.

All schools are in session again af-
ter the Christmas holidays and every
child should be in school for at this
season of the year the best school
work is being done.
We are unable to get teachers, five
schools being now closed for lack of
same.
On account of pending Legislative
acts concerning the employment Of
county agents, it is thought advisable
to postpone bringing man here to
present the matter to the county CON-
missioners for the reason that no def.
mite terms could be made until after
the close Of the legislature.
The superintendent visited our new
Superintendent of Public instruction
N. C. Macdonald, and Mr.. Edward
Erickson, who succeeds Mr.. Macdonald
as Rural and Consolidated School In.
spector, concerning plans and arrange.
ments under the new management
There will be good many changes
in the forms used in this Office and
quite few will be eliminated. Some
slight changes and improvements will
be made on all. Especially notice.
able are the changes in the clerks
and trcasurers' reports. A gooG
many of the unnecessary items have
been left out and the reports will no,
be so complicated as before. The
changes will be appreciated by al
concerned.
Frank s. Henry inform us that il
is planned to put up for sale mex,
summer all the school land in EN-
mons county. The legislature will bt
asked for an appropriation to dcfra,
the expense.
The following children received
certificates for three months perfect
attendance: Jennie Van Soest, ant
Bessie Van Soest, of Baker No. 10,
Alton Lenhart, Rachel Lenhart, Roy
Albrecht, Willis Shepard Fred iSholt:
and Lucille Sholts, of Williamsport
No. c; Katie Renncr. Harold Renner
Sadie Brush, Ann Carrie Calquhou,
and Alice Calquhoun, of McCulley No
22; Merlen Chase, of Dana No. 23
James Schlangen, of Emmonsburg
No. 81, and Magdalina Gross, Clars
Buchler and Carl Buchler, Of Bakkel
No. 10; Verna Simpkins, Of Williams
port, and Thelma Harwood, Of Dan
bury, were issued Neertidrates'-f III Qsnfn'
months perfect attendance.
The rules of the North Dakota Es
say Contest, 1917:
1. ESSAYS may be on the genera
subject of North Dakota, Her Re
sources and Her Opportunities" o
on any special subject coming unde
the general topic.
2. Essays must not be more tina
five hundred words in length.
i 3. They must be written in ink Q
typewriter.
II q. The name of the writer
the writer's post Office, tn
name (or number) and ac
dress Of the writer's school must az
pear in the upper left-hand corner {
the first sheet. In the upper righ'
hand corncr of the first sheet shoul
be written the class or grade of tn
student. as for instance:-Any st,
dent doing work which is above eight
lgrade work should write "First e
second or third or fourth) Year Hia
School" Any student doing grade
work in any school where two or mo,
teachers are employed should nan
the grade, as First (or secone
Grade" Any student in 1ur,
school which does not employ mo-
than one teacher should write Il
word Rural"
s. All essays must first be SUI
mitted for competition in the eras
rural school or high school in whis
the contestant is student, the teacl
er or principal selecting the best esse
or essays (not to exceed one in al
one grade or rural school, nor five
the high school). The best essay
essays SO selected by the teacher I
principal are to be submitted to Il
county superintendent not later thu
February /, 1917.
6. A local committee, acting wi
the county superintendent, will sele
from the essays submitted from Il
different schools, the best five hi
school essays, the best five grad
school essays, and the best FIVE rur
school essays to be entered in Il
State Contest. All essays so chos'
are to be in the hands Of the Educ
tional Department Of Appreciate
Week at the University not later tn
February 18th.
z. The winner of the first place,
each of the three essay contests Il
graded school, rurai aad higl, scho
contestsl shall receive twenty dolla
in gold. The ten students recciviI