Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-10-20


TEACHERS ALPHABETICAL CREED
Appreciate your position.
Be loyal to Iron County
Cooperate with the home.
Decorate your school room.
Encourage the slow child
Form faIr Judgments.
Give pupils 4 fair chance TO explain
their side.
Hold your tongue and your temper.
Inspect the books and desks often.
Judge all work carefully.
Keep your promise to the children.
Love your work
Make few rules
Never nag.
Open your mind and heart to higher
influences.
Practice the golden rule.
Question your motives.
Retain self control.
Study new methods of teaching.
I axe daily exercise in open air.
Use correct clear language.
Voice your convictions.
Worry as little as possible.
X-pand your influence.
Yield 10 Suggestions
Zealously guard fellow teachers
reputation.
The above creed is posted in each of
the rooms in the Eveieth City schools.
The twenty six annual meeting of
the North VISIONS Teachers Associa-
ton will be held in Ashland on October
20 and d. A strong rrogram is promised
for this year with -DeciI emphasis on
rural work. Anon the speakers who
will take part in the program are men
like Paul Voelker, VINO appeared in the
Lyceum Course in norwood last winter
and whose lecture was so thoroughly en-
joyed; DR.. A B. Hall. Fl. L. Miller and W.
W. Theisen, all of Madison; Oscar W.
Neale of Stevens Point Rural Training
Department. Mr. Neale was one of the
conductors of the Iron County Institute
of last year and will be remembered by
all the teachers.
The session on Friday evening will be
of a patriotic nature, designed to aid in
the task of securing the best relation
between the school and the nation at this
time.
This is the Association to which the
teachers of Iron County are expected to
belong and we hope to be we'll represent
ed. The law authorizes the school board
to continue the salary for the time teach
ers attend the convention.
Miss Agnes Boyington arrived home
Friday evening after a visit of several
days in the schools on the Mesaba Range
While there she spent a day studying the
Gary System which is being tried in the
Gilbert schools She also attended the
Lake Superior Teachers Convention which
katrrv hal -,
a day devoted to rural problems.
Miss Muriel White of Epson attended
the convention at Superior on Friday.
Miss Mary Smith, State Supervisor of
Domestic Science accompanied the coun.
" SUPER ntendent on a visit to the Saxon
and Quincy schools on Thursday of last
week. On Friday, Mr.. James Doran State
Manual Training Inspector, and Miss
Smith visited the D. s. and NJ t. depart
ments of the Iron Belt school.
The basket social and dance which was
held at the Quincy town hall last Friday
evening for the benefit of the school was
largely attended and Melted a sum of sos
which is to be used to purchase victrola
and records for the state graded school.
Last Monday morning the children of
the rural schools of Iron County were
asked to donate TO the Soldiers Library
Fund. Thus far the following schools
have responded Saxon State Graded
S195; Quincy State Graded $115; Cedar
S.85; Saxon Union High School $500 We
hope to receive reports from the rest of
the schools at an early date so that the
money may be turned into the general
fund.
The past week a number of school
boards of the county purchased set of
McConnell's Complete Historical Maps
for the buildings under their charge.
The windows and doors in the Saxon
high school building have recently been
metal stripped which will add greatly to
the comfort of the occupants of the build
ing this winter