Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-02
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES
BY 0. e. Rice, County Supt.


BY 0. e. Rice, County Supt.
Arrangements have been completed
for holding Library Institute in La
dysmith on the Sth day of December
This will be the first institute of the
kind ever held in Rusk county. State
Supervisor of School Libraries, of
Madison. assisted by Miss Bertha Ber-
gold, Assistant Librarian and others
will be with us to make this a most
helpful institute in matters pertaining
to libraries and their use. This will
come during the same week as the
County School Board convention.
A very interesting and successful
Community Meeting was held last Fri
day evening in Dist. No. 1 Wilson. Mr.
Ray L. Smith, who teaches in this dis
trict is president of the Club there
He is ably assisted by John Jilek, Jr
secretary and treasurer. The entire
community in No. 1 and No. II are
much interested and are Loyalty sup
porting the club. This is the third
meeting held there this term. Coun-
ty Agricultural Representative, G. NJ
Householder contributed materially to
the evening program with his stere
OpticOn lantern, with short lecture
The superintendent regrets his inabil-
ity to attend the meeting, owing to bad
roa II To ictr af no
same day.
Miss Brownie Cameron, Dist No. 6
Washington, reports successful Har-
vest Festival at her school week ago
The exercises partook in part Of the
nature of school fair, the pupils
bringing either garden and farm prod
ucts, as well as various articles as sam
pies of their baking. The exhibit was
nicely displayed in the front of the
room. Premiums in the way of rib
bons, red, white and blue, were award
ed the best exhibits, and Mr.. Sven
son Officiated as judge of awards. A
short but interesting program was rem
dered. Miss Cameron is labOring
faithfully to raise the standard of the
school there. and is apparently sue
ceeding nicely.
Weyerhaeuser schools gave unique
program Friday evening last. Princi-
pal Carnes and his staff of teachers
are cooperating well to give the vii
lage a splendid school. The new mem
bers of the faculty there are nicely
taking hold of the work and will sue
coed in their efforts. Where the pa
irons cooperate earnestly with a corps
of teachers success invariably follows.
Everybody talks up the school, the
students and children catch the spirit,
and good results are secured.
The newt building at Weyerhaeuser
has been completed, and Miss Stubs
Of the Sixth and Seventh grades is
getting the girls of the. school much
interested in Domestic Science work.
This is but beginning, and the de-
partment will be much extended an
other year.
Uniform textbooks are being intro
duced into the rural schools as fast as
seems advisable, that is, when new
books are needed. Teachers and school
officers are advised to assist in this
movement by ordering only from the
approved list sent out from this de-
partment If the clerk has not re-
ceived the list, copy will be sent up
on application. Teachers are asked to
consult list before recommending hav-
ing an order placed
The Teachers Meeting held at the
Training school building last Satur
day forenoon was good One notwith
standing the small attendance. Dis
cussions and papers were presented
which every teacher in rural or grad
ed schools should have heard. Princi
pal Dresden and the assistant teachers
helped to make the meeting valuable
All teachers who could have attended
should have done SO. The weather and
roads were both bad, nevertheless a
few braved both and again demon
strated that they are interested in the
profession which they have espoused
The following named teachers we were
told were in Ladysmith that forenoon,
but did not attend: Marie BelbeclS,
Ethyl Blowers, Chrystella Rhodes,
May Borbeau, Anna Sedmihradsky,
Helen Haasl, Anna Riley, Emma Fond
and LOlly Eysnogle.
Miss Gladys Kaiser began school
last week in the new school in District
No. 5 Grant. This district was formed
from a part of No. 2 and No. 4 Grant
last summer
The new buildings in No. 4 Hub
bard and No. 8 Thornapple are yet in
complete but workmen are pressing
the work as fast as they can.
Mrs. Althea Davis, teacher in No. 3
Grant, is rapidly recovering from her
serious illness at the Marshfield hos
pital, but will not be able to return toll