Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-02-15
School Commissioners
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May l.. Stewart. Commissioner

The Commissioner visited the Bay
Shore school on Friday morning. The
new teacher is Miss Verona Clark of
Grand Haven. You should have heard
those boys and girls sing. MIR. Genett
their former teacher, now soldier
boy, would be proud of their patriotism.
The Commissioner also found the
Hopyard school working faithfully
under the guidance of Glenn Snyder.
The eighth grade were busy with
partial payments.
The Normal class attended the
Marion Contest in load from the city.
Their song, beautifully rendered was a
marked feature Of the program.
Phelps helped beautifully with the
music at Marion Oenter and their
teacher, Mr.. Dewey recited, imperson-
ating an "o!d Sister,"
Three more Spelling Contests. Bay
township at Horton Bay on the after
noon of Friday, the 18th. South Arm
in the evening of Saturday the 10th in
the South Arm Grange Hall. Eveline
at 1ronton in the afternoon of Friday
! the 22nd.
The teachers of Beaver Island wrote
this week that they would arrange for
a spelling contest in the near future.
The Com'r will ask the Rev. FIR. Jewell
: to pronounce the words and will send
rules for conduct of contest, together
with prize for champion speller.
Miss Howard of Boyne Valley says
that three times in one week her entire
school received one hundred per cent
in spelling. She has barrel of sweep
ing compound now.
Phelps is buying large supply of
(, new library books, those that teacher
needs in order to follow the Course of
Study.
A request from Evangeline No. A.
asking: What would we need to do to
make our school Standard" this sum-
mer?
Aidirector asks "Why is our school
not on the .''Good School, list? Surely
there is good reason and we are glad
you ask the question.
See notice OF School Officers Meet
ing in another column of this paper.
The Marion township Spelling Con-
test was held in the Marion Center
Grange Hall on the night of Friday,
Feb. 8th. All five schools in the town.
ship were represented, the contestants
numbering six from Marion Center,
ten from Barnard, ten from Phelps,
three from the Nowland school and two
from the johnson school. These 81
boys and girls had averaged at least
95 in their daily spelling classes and
came prepared to measure their ability
in public. In the written contest of
SO words, thirteen had perfect papers.
This is quite the best township record
attained SO far in the eight contests that
have been held. The second largest in
Hayes showed q total Of eight perfect
papers from forty-seven contestants.
In the oral contest it seemed impos-
sible to spell these people down. Miss
Stewart, Miss Bates, and Miss Huntoon
took turns in pronouncing the words
in relays OF two hundred words each.
At the end of the thousand list six re-
mained standing: Dorothy Black, age
IL, grade 8 of Marion Center; Vida
Black, age IA, Marion Center; Eta
Daugherty, age IA, grade Z, of Barnard;
Bertha Smith, age i3, grade Z of the
johnson school; Lottie Ager, age II,
grade 6, of Barnard; and June Lewis,
age IL, grade of Barnard. Little
Dorothy Lewis in the third grade of
the Barnard school went down in the
eight hundred word group on a little
quibble but the CONS is sure that she
can spell the entire thousand and NAV
have misunderstood the word she
spelled.
The prize, a large flag, was awarded
to the township as a whole under the
custody Of the township officers to be
hung over a diploma which will be
sent them bearing the names OF the
victors. Each Of the winners will be
sent flag pin in token OF their ex-
cellent preparation for the contest.
Il At the close of the contest a box
social was held for the benefit of the
Red Cross and the Marion Auxiliary
rejoice at the earning Of twenty-five
dollars to help our soldier boys.
c. j. Vernier, OF Pontiac, who sew.