Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-09-08
SCHOOL NOTES

\ meeting Of all of the teachers in the
school system was held in the senior
iii:,h school auditorium Monday after
noon. All of the. teachers feel very
enthusiastic and are starting in to make
the school Year 1e2O-21 one of the best
that the Willmar schools has ever
known.
school opened for enrolment pur-
poses on Tuesday morning and the
number of pupils who entered indicates
that all OF the available rooms in the
school system will be filled. The Juni-
or High School enrolment was 302, but
large number are absent so that we
do not expect to have any room to spare
when they all come.
In spite of the fact that the new
building is still unfinished. school is
| running quite smoothly. The contract
ors are hurrying up their part of the
work and We hope to see them leave us
to ourselves in about three weeks
Th third and fourth grades of the
Lincoln School will be brot over to the
Central group as soon as the new rooms
PLANNED tor them are ready. For the
present they will attend only a half
day each day at the Lincoln Building.
The new Biology Laboratory will be
ready in about two weeks. Some very
tine equipment has been purchased for
this room and will be Installed soon.
The Normal Department holds forth
| in the old attic room of the Central
Building. The new rooms are nearly
completed so that the students can
move in some time next week.
Eight new typewriters were received
for the Commercial Department this
week. They include two l.. c. Smiths.
two Royals and four Underwoods thus
li!uhinS it possible for the students to
let acquainted with three of the most
popular machines.
The new commercial course is prov
'nS to be very popular. So many stu
cents have enrolled that it is impos-
slhle to care for them all. We have
ohlE one teacher to do the work and
some method of eliminating a few of
the students will have to he adopted
" nile many OF the students who regis
tered for this work do so because they
wish to he into business, many others
are taking the course because thew
lhlnN II Will he easy. The problem of
eliminating the latter and retaining
the 1ormtr is not an easy one.
Miss Carrie =. Larson, our Home F,c
onomics teacher, had the misfortune
to break her arm just before school
opened. She has sent in her resiyna
ton, but SO far we have been unable to
get any one to take her place. The work
in this department is heavy and it is
necessary to set teacher of consid
cradle experience. We hope to have the
ed ho
Miss Florense Lockerby is the latest
addition to the school faculty. Miss I,o-
ckerby comes from Faribault and will
Industrial Building.
4 few changes have been nade in
text books. They are as follows: Eng
lish l-Ward's Sentence and Theme"
Chemlstry-Brownley and others "Prin-
ciples of Chemistry" Sth Grade His
tory-Mace Petri School Hist of U.
s. 7th Grade Arithmetic-Stone's "Jr
H. S. Mathematics Blk. l. 3rd Grade
Spelling-Aldine Speller Blk. I.
Football practice began Wednesday
afternoon with an unusually large squad
| OF men out to try for the team. The
| new locker rooms are not ready so the
boys are dressing in the old drawing
room of the Industrial Bldg. We hope
to have the school grounds cleared of
rubbish and SO that they may be used
| for practice purposes.
The new gymnasium is, nearly ready
! for use. Most of the apparatus has
been set up. Lines for the different
games have been painted on the floor
and the floor has been oiled. Black lines
are used for basket ball and volley
ball courts. red for the baseball dia-
mond and green for the handball courts