Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-03-08
School Commissioners
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May L. Stewart. Commissioners

Junior School Auxiliaries are now
being organized in every school of the
county. We hope they succeed. This
merely means that the school has a
Red Cross fund of its own, keeps il for
Red Cross supplies, and elect its own
officers to take charge of the buying
and the making. One more mark in
the child-citizen movement.
Miss Anita Mcdonald of the Three
Bells school spelled the entire 1000
words correctly in the written contest
at Eveline township. She is only IL
years old and is in the sixth grade.
Anita did well indeed and the Com'r il
sorry that her name was left out thru
mistake in last weeks notes.
Two Of the mid-year examination re.
turns were lost either in the mail or in
this office. The teachers kindly con.
sented to copy the reports again and
directly after this the best results will
be published.
The Com'r is anxious now to learn
the names Of all who are planning to
teach next year az well as all who will
be interested in attending our County
Normal next year with splendid open.
ings awaiting them In 1919.
All teachers wishing to change loca.
tons next year are urged to communi.
cate with the Com'r now.
All schoolboards wishing new teach.
ers are urged to secure their teachers
EARLY. The Com'r is ready to help
In every way to bridge over the short
age of teachers that exists all over the
state. Wages will necessarily have to
be higher if We are to do at all well or
in some cases il we are to get any
teachers at all.
Supt. Keeler has issued an honor call
to teachers to stand back OF their con.
tracts when once they have entered
into them. We would not wish to
duplicate the German trick Of consider.
ing contracts as mere scraps Of paper
Supt. Keeler has also published call
to school boards urging them to hire
their teachers NOW.
Miss Mary Berg Of Advance has been
compelled to give up her school be.
cause of i'll health. Mrs. Crane takes
her place. Mrs. Crane has life certi-
ficate.
Mr.. Byers Of the Springwater school
has resigned because of the illness of
his sister Mrs. Flagg takes his place.
Miss Hansen of Rock Elm feels that
she cannot return to her school. The
school board has accepted her resigna.
ton and has hired Mrs. Hutton to take
her place.
Miss Clancy will not return to the
Harmon school for the spring term.
Three teachers are in view for this
position.
Miss Redfield of Murray writes, we
want some Red Cross work to do. What
can we doP Just now they plan social.
The Chaddock school, so Director
Chew reports, has 80 new books from
the Young Folks Reading Circle.
Miss Bardwell of Wildwood writes
that OF her pupils have been neither
absent nor tardy for four months.
Splendid in a small school, too.
The lronton primary room is doing
Red Cross work for busy work They
are using five-cent classics for supple.
mentary reading. They plan bird study
from now on for morning exercises.
The Business Calender Of the Direc.
tory stated that the promotion tests for
rural schools would be held on April
1926. Since this is also the date OF the
teachers examination in Charlevoix
many teachers could not be present at
their schools to conduct these tests.
They are therefore changed to one
week earlier, Thursday and Friday,
April ls-l9th.
The Magee school reported FAll pre-.
sent" for the two weeks ending Feb.
l4th. Many children have very bad
roads to travel and this Is an unusually
good report. The South Deer Lake or
Sudman school reported only on s.'yis
absence in two weeks. This days ab.
sence was due to illness.