Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-23

| Miss Della Emunson, Co. Supt. of Schools and
| Miss Agnes Boyington. Supervising Teacher.
February 1928 is observed all over
| the country as the week of national
songs and while we know that the
teachers have faithfully taught the
words to these songs, we trust that
this week the pupils VIII be given an
| opportunity to sing them so that 1t
may be truly said, 81 Hear Iron
County Singing"
| The pamphlets containing the list
of two thousand words to be used in
! the state spelling contest have been
mailed to the teachers of Iron county
and the pupils who expect to enter
This contest will begin the study Of
| these words at once. This contest will
| be conducted in the same manner as
| the one held last year. The contest IS
limited to pupils in one department
rural schools and two department
state graded schools. The winners in
the town contests shall compete in a
county contest for the purpose OF Sc
| Letting county representative Hulda
Johnson. pupil of the Van Buskirk
Central School represented Iron eOun-
ty at the state fair last year.
The total sale of Thrift and War
Savings Stamps up to date among the
rural school children of the county is
as follows: Curry % Thrift; Kimball
| % Thrift, War Savings; Archam-
bean % Thrift, War Savings; Epson
| 12O Thrift; Quincy 10 Thrift; Cedar I
| Thrift; Weber I Thrift; Saxon State
Graded 118 Thrift, 81 War Saving,
Powell % Thrift, l War Saving; Van
| Buskirk Central 3 Thrift; Moore 10
Thrift; Van Buskirk State Graded 8
Thrift. Total 384 Thrifts, "a War
Savings Stamps.
The pupils of the Powell school last
week received their bronze medals
from the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculo-
sis Association for having kept all
rules formulated by the Wisconsin
Health Guard for the required period
of time. Every pupil in the school re-
ceived a medal and five received spe-
cial honor medals.
The Powell and Springstead schools
haVe been supplied with the fire eX-
| tinguisher known as 'Pyrene.
Marjorie Sherman, a pupil in the
eighth grade of the rural school at
| Powell, holds the record of having
knit a sweater for the Red Cross in
four days. The work is beautifully
done.
A Mothers Meeting was held on
Friday afternoon at Epson at which
eighteen women were present. A pa
triOtic program was rendered by the
school children celebrating the birth
days of Lincoln and Washington. The
exercises closed with Valentine
| box. Mrs. Adams who has charge of
the Red Cross work at Epson read a
! letter from County Chairman of Wo-
mems Work congratulating the
women of Epson on the large amount
of work which has been received from
their circle. They were especially
cOmplimented upon the faultlessness
of their work. The meeting closed
with dainty lunch furnished by the
mothers.
The State Department of Education
is making survey of the general
conditions of rural schools through
out the state. The data is gained in
two ways. Each member of the state
department is expected to visit ten
schools in each of ten different cOun-
ties and thus gain information and
the counties not visited are supplied
with questionaires to be filled out by
the teachers and county officers. Iron
county this week received five ques-
tionaires calling for census, statistics
progress aud promotion of pupils ac-
cording to age, preparation, exper-
fence and salaries OF teachers, divis-
ion of time devoted to the teaching of
different subjects, school and library
equipment, condition of buildings and
grounds, health and sanitary condi-
tions, financial statement of school
districts, teachers salaries and cost
of living. The state inspectors will
make personal visits to Iron county
later in the year.