Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-03-23
School Commissioners
-- Notes

May L. Stewart. Commissioner

The Ironton Mothers Club took up q
collection to buy six rolls Of paper
towels. The primary room begins to
serve warm noon lunches. This is the
eighth school to begin doing this, four
Of them in Eveline.
Friday, March the 9th, Eveline No. 2
had debate, Resolved that the plow
has been and is OF more benefit to
humanity than the sword" Miss
Brintnall writes that the affirmative
side won by two points but that there
were good arguments on both sides.
A spring term record Of neither
absent nor tardy means fair ticket to
the boy or the girl. Now is the time to
win. Premiums for school work remain
the same as last year with the excep.
tion that we hope TO add an oral spell.
ing contest. The fair comes during the
last week Of September this year and
every teacher will be back to her
district to collect the work she has
saved thruout 1916-l9l7 and to make up
her exhibit for the 1917 Fair. Then il
she is true enthusiast, wouldn't it be
fine il the school could come in body
and teacher, school board and boys and
girls, all join in the celebration of our
Charlevoix County Fair.
The secretary Of the Teachers Re-
tirement Fund asked for the list of
teachers and officers this week.
A few mistakes had been made in the
eye tests Of last September and these
few had to be taken over again. They
are now ready to summarize.
Five schools visited this week.
Grade spelling contests and compar.
ing averages is working fine in Horton
Bay. Mr.. Erfourth reports great en-
thusiasm.
The pupils in Advance have all but
one earned their large diplomas for
Home Work.
The Tainter school have all earned
their large Home Work diplomas.
Marion Center asks for 16 large GER
tificates for months OF perfect and
punctual attendance. Miss Berg re-
ports splendid attendance in spite Of
weather, roads, etc. that are given a
excuses in few other localities.
II is rather difficult to sort out the
host sfI,danfc on O hoaie NJ ona axso;p
alton, especially when that examine
ton came after school terms OF unequal
length in different places, and in the
midst Of illness, or conflicting interests
in others. The fact that the date Of the
spring test is noted in the directory
will partly do away with this difficulty.
A few Of our boys and girls have how
ever done work which seems especial
ly worthy of note. Those whose stand
ings have seemed better than the aver
age and more than praiseworthy are AZ
follows:
Stanley O'Dell, Alton; Richard
Shepard, Alton; Percy Batterbee, AZ
ton; Edith Croker, Deer Lake; Eva
Barber, Deer Lake; Mary Cihak, Cedar
Valley; Will Zoulek, Cedar Valley;
Mitchell Wabegenies, Garden Island;
Catherine Gallagher, st. James; Doris
Nice, Ranney School; Dorr Jennings,
Rock Elm; Minnie Hudkins, Rock Elm;
Mary Chew, Chaddock School; Van
Williams, Green Town; James Nc
Donough, Green Town; Katherine
Greene, Sunny Side; John O'Donnell,
Sunnyside; Lois Milne. Clarion; Alice
Cotton, Clarion; Gordon johnson,
Curfew; Iris Dodd, Johnson; Wesley
Beattie. johnson School; Forrest
Brown, Ironton; Edward Hammond.
Ironton; Frank Pacl, Ironton; Ma
tilda Lew, Three Bells; Lyle Wange-
man, Three Bells; Herman Lew, Three
Bells; Mildred Wangeman, Three Bells;
Fred Looze, Three Bells; Max Wright,
Three Bells; Leslie Gibson, North Bay;
Harriet Voelker, North Bay; Violet
Stoldt, North Bay; Marie Stoldt, North
Bay; lila Voelker, North Bay; Ada
Ellis, Wildwood; Josephine Ellis, Wild-
wood; Daisy Burns, Wildwood; Clair
Bates, Wildwood; Genevieve Erick.
con Wildwood