Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-11-11
INSTITUTE AND
CONVENTION
Time Off For Teachers and Pay
For School Board Mem
berS
IMPORTANT PROGRAMS
ARE PREPARED
Comment On Conditions Observed In
Many Schools by the Super
intendent
By Il. Fl. Burns, County Supt.

lntttluent
By r. Fl. Burns, County Supt.
The annual school board convention
for Rusk county. Wisconsin, will be
held at the court house in Ladysmith
on Wednesday, November IT., begin
ming at Ten o'clock, Il. III. 1t is the dufy
of the clerk of each school district 10
attend the convention. 1t is the priv
lege Of the director and treasurer or
each district to attend. Each Scilool
officer who does attend full time amt
obtains Il certificate of attendance
signed by the county superintendent,
is entitled TO four dollars and mileage
at the rate of three cents a mile, go
ing and returning from the meeting.
The compensation and mileage are
mid from the district treasury. We
suggest that school board membe"s
come TO the court house as early as
. 80 for the purpose of informal dis
,mSsiOn and enlargement. of acqualnt-
ancc. Questions which school officers
desire to discuss or to have infOrm1-
ton on may be written out and placed
i'm a question box which will be pro
yidcd for that purpose. An effort Will
be made to give careful cOnsideratl m
10 all such questions. The program
will start at ten o'clock sharp. 1t IS
ms follows:
Program
Opening Remarks OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
.-.-......-. Supt. II. II. Burns Ladysmith
Addrcss-"Why We Have Schools.
Supt. Robert LOhrie, New Richmond
Address" School Attendance"
Inspector \. \. Thomson. Madison
II :00-IntermiSSiOn
l:15 Music Training School
Talk-"The School Boards Part in
Extensive Reading ...--.,,-.-..,.-.--
Adele Felch, first assistant Rusk
County Training school
Talk-"My Observation Among the
Schools
AXel IIOugum, supervising teacher
Addres First Glass Rural Schools
Inspector 4. A. Thomson. Madisoh
Talk THE Relation of the Training
School to School Boards
Prn Il. NJ. Dresden, Ladysmith
The convention will close at ) 80 /.
IN. 10 enable those who live in remote
parts of the county to get home at II
reasonable hour.
The committee on common schools
for Rusk county held special session
al the court house ON Saturday, Nov.
>. This meeting was for the purpose OF
app0rti0ning property among the sev'
tral districts which were affected by
virtue of the creation Of the Ut. Dis.
No. l.. town of Rusk and StubbS. OW
ing to the fact that some of the neceS-
Sary information was not at hand, III
committee adjourned pending comma
nicatiOn with the districts from which
information is required.
Institute Dates
The annual institute for Rusk cou.-
~ teachers will be held at the training
school building i'll Ladysmith on FRI
day and Saturday, Nov. Is and ~
The outside conductors who will J."
here for this institute are: Pres. y
l.. vi
school. Prof NJ y. BussewitZ. secre-
tarv of the Wisconsin State Teachers
Association and member of the faculty
Of thc Milwaukee, normal school, ami
Miss Mayabcl G.. Bush. supervisor ~
common schools from the Office OF the
state superintendent. Miss Bush VIII
hr here on Saturday. the 10Th. only
She has had wide experience as super
visor Of city grades. We have asked
her To speak primarily for the benefit
Of the teachers in the grades OF the
village and city schools.
The law provides that school boards
may give teachers time off without
deduction from their pay when such
time off is used in attendance at an
institute. Certificates of attendance
are given to all who are entitled -
them and these certificates of attend
ance when delivered to the district
clerk. constitute an authority to eXef-
else the right conferred upon boards
rs indicated above. We recommend
that Friday. Nov. 18th. be given to all
teachers who desire TO attend the in
Stitute
Field Work
The field work of the county super
intpndcnt'S office is receiving constant
attention. Mr.. H0ugum, the super
wishing teacher. has recently been pres
cnt at: Pleasant Valley school, Dis.
No. ;. town of Rusk, in which Miss
GLADYS Leplcy teaches. Here he found
2G children enrolled. % of whom were
present In the Bear Lake district Ct
Rusk, he found III enrolled, IS oi
whom were present. They were being
taught by Miss Pearl Good, whose
home is at Canton, Barron county
At the RuSk Farm school, Val NJ
Crackcn was found in charge of the
school. SiXtyfOur were enrolled, I'll
of whom were present. There is nc