Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-24

| q repairs 22.Us
Baker Paper Co., school sup
plies -. -. ... 22.5C
Grand Rapids Foundry Co..
tools and repairs ..... 24.sZ
Rand Mentally & Co., maps. 30.44
Johnson Service Co., hydraulic
pumps :. :. =. 1900. 6O.o7
Lewis J. Eron, plumbing -. s21s
j. l. Holcomb Mfg. Co., JAM
tors supplies =. ..... sS.74
Bossert Coal Co., hauling &
storing coal 49,. $4,000. 1926
Green Bay & Western F. r.
Co., freight on coal ...... 1868
Water Works & Lighting Com
mission, lights & power 1857
Grand Rapids Water Works,
water pipe and lead 49,. 24O. 25
The First National Bank, in
terest ...,....... 2S5.83
The c. Reiss Coal Co., coal :. SAC. SO
Moved by Commissioner Meihcke,
seconded by Commissioner Nash,
that the bills be allowed as read and
orders drawn. Motion carried.
Moved by Commissioner Kellogg.
seconded by Commissioner Searls.
that the action of the board at the
regular meeting on Nov 18th, in al
lowing the bills presented at that
meeting, b eapproved. Motion carried.
After informal reports and discus
sions of various matters which call
ed for no definite action on the part of
! the board at this time motion to adj
journ, was carried.
c. w. Schwede,
Clerk of Board of Education.
Lincoln Building, Grand Rapids, Wis,
January IA, 1913.
Regular meeting of the board of ed
ucation called to order at 1880 D. m.
by the president.
The following commissioners were
present: Reeves, Searls, Raglan, Bah
cock, Nord, Voss, Hatch, Nash, Mrs.
Sam Church, co..
Absent: Commissioners Brazeau,
Kellogg, Bein, Meilicke, Mrs. E. P.
Arpin, Mrs. Donald Waters, Mrs. B.
L. Brown, 60.
The minutes of the regular meeting,
held on December 10, 1917, were read
and approved.
The following communications were
presented:
Madison, Wis, jan 10, 1918.
Supt. G. w. Schwede,
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin.
Ny dear Mr.. Schwede:-I have ar
ranged conference of the school Off
Gals Of Wood county to be held at the
court house in Grand Rapids at ten
o'clock, Saturday, January 26.
Now, want to solicit your support
and help. I will need it if the meeting
IS to be success. Will you invite to
the meeting the principals of your
ward schools, your school board men,
bers, the editor of your paper, and
any others that would be interested?
wish you would assure any one
that asks that this is not movement
to disorganize or supplant any work
that is now going on in your county.
We merely wish to counsel together
as to how best the schools can help
out the situation.
Yours cordially,
(Signed) J. B. Borden,
Assistant Superintendent.
Superintendent and High School
Principals:
The situation in the manual train
ing field is a very serious one The
Stout Institute has had more than
one hundred fifty calls for manual
training teachers from all parts of the
country since schools opened in the
fall and we have no one to supply. We
graduated seventy-four young men
last year and everyone of them had a
position before the first of September
superintendent write that their man.
ual training teachers are going into
the army and are at a loss to know
how to fill their places.
Unless some provision can be made
to supply teachers it seems inevitable
that many manual training depart
ments will have to close The work in
these departments more and more has
come to be of the pre-vocationaI type
and valuable as preparatory for en-
tering industries and it seems a seri-
Gus proposition to discontinue that
kind Of work just when the country
has entered a period of war and its in
dustrial needs are greater than ever
before. These needs will continue not
only during the war but for some
years after it's close.
President Wilson and Secretary
Baker have both urged students in
industrial schools and in technical
schools to continue their work. It
seems to me that if these lines of
work are not to be given up in the
schools something must be done to
meet the emergency.
What do you think Of this PROPOSE
ton for the Stout Institute:
To offer at the beginning of the
next semester, January 28th, for the
remainder of the year and during the
| summer session an intensive course in