Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-02-17

It takes real courage to choose wisely,
but your future happiness depends upon
a wise choice Therefore:
Choose truth, not lies.
Choose to be master of yourself
Choose to be success and not failure
Choose a stainless name rather than
sulled reputation.
Choose to be doer and not an idler.
Choose for friends people who are in
line with the worlds best work.
Choose the CompaniOnShip of wise and
great books as lite comrades and teachers
Choose what has been tried and tested
by the best people who have lived upon
the earth.
Choose to make 4 noble and useful
career, and the mere choice will be a
start on the way 10 it.
Choose the way of useful service and
Of honest toll rather than dubious paths
to sudden riches.
Choose now. with changless choice, the
best way according to your best light; -
Popular Educator.
Many schools throughout the county
held appropriate exercises on Monday to
commemorate the birth of Abraham
Lincoln.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Great captains with their guns and drums
Disturb our judgment for the hour
But at last silence comes;
/ These all gone, and, standing like tower,
Our children shall behold his fame.
The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing
man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not
blame,
/ New birth of our new soil, the first
American.
On Wednesday, February q, Miss
Margaret Hardie. teacher at the Curry
School together with her pupils will hold
a mothers meeting. Invitations have
been issued to the parents and short
program has been prepared.
This office has received the report that
two additional Young Peoples Reading
! Circles have been organized, one at Emer-
son where Miss Lucy Abli teaches and
the other at Curry whel Miss Margaret
Harde is the teacher. Miss Hardie also
reports having read the required number
of professional books TO earn a Teachers
Reading Circle Diploma.
At the convention of county superin-
tendents recently held at Madison, it was
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which the spelling pamphlets were issued.
and the great number of words in the
list, it will not be considered necessary
for the pupils of each school to attempt
to learn the entire list. Each teacher
may give daily as many words as she
thinks wise. The preliminary contest
will be given in each school on the num-
Der of words studied. The winner will
then study the whole list before the
county and state contest. Will the rural
TEACHERS please consider this item as a
notice from the office
Since this work has been taken I'D
great interest has been manifested by
both teachers and pupils. In every case
the pupils are putting forth their best eff
fort to master the words and we trust
the result will be a record of which Iron
County can be justly proud.
For the benefit of rural teachers, the
following is brief summary of the COM
pulsory school attendance requirements:
Report all pupils who are not reasonable
IN their regularity at school, who, live
within two miles from school, who are
not sick and who do not hold common
school diploma. Do not report others
Send in reports the last Friday of each
calendar month whether the school
month has been completed since the last
report or not. Pupils can not be com
PEELED to attend during the first month of
school but when once enrolled must at
tend regularly for one hundred and TWEEN
~ school days.
Miss Alice Jackson who teaches at
Sand Rock has arranged short program,
valentine box and lunch to be held in the
school house on the evening of February
II. The portion of lunch not donated by
parents is TO be purchased with funds
from the treasury of the Current Events
Club"