Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-01-29
COUNTY SCHOOL NEWS
Prepared by Miss Ida Bradley, Co Supt. Of
Schools, and Miss Margaret Hardie, Su-
pervising Teacher.

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The Epson school instructor, Miss
Pauline Gutowski, had a pleasant moth
ers meeting last Friday in the school.
After an informal program given by the
pupils, dainty lulch was served to the
mothers.
The following is a letter received from
the Near East Relief Committee:
To the Teachers and Pupils of the Schools
of Wisconsin.
The children of sorrow once more
stand before you. They are rendered
homeless and hungry but they are not
hopeless. In their simple faith they turn
trustingy to their more fortunate sisters
and brothers of rich and prosperous
America.
Children of Sorrow! There are I'M
common thousands of them; hundreds of
thousands under American care. 1t is
an appalling number of pitiful orphan
wards the Near East Relief must shelter
under its wings. There is now table
twenty-four miles long which the boys
and girls and mothers and fathers of
America must furnish with food
Fatherless and motherleSs these are
the children of Armenians, Syrians and
Jews, made homeless and dependent by
the atrocities of the Turks
A diet of bread for breakfast, bread
and soup for dinner and bread for supper,
yet this slender ration means life to them.
Seventeen cents day or five dollars a
month will feed and save from starva-
ton one of these children of sorrow.
The Near East Relief, comprising a
band of the most prominent Christian
men and women of the nation and the
state of Wisconsin, beseeches the teach
ers and pupils of this great state to make
a small sacrifice of time and money in
order to save their Christian brothers
and sisters in the land of the Divine
Child. Their hungry eyes are looking
across the sea at the we'll fed American
boys and girls and their longing hands
reach out asking for bread
By adopting one of these orphans, by
signing pledge to furnish food, pupil
or group of pupils in every grade, in
every school of Wisconsin can bring a
smile to each child of sorrow.
Won't you do for one of these, of
whom the Master said, "As ye do unto
the least of these, so doye unto Me"
Sincerely.
The Wisconsin State Committee
Near East Relief
Send all money collected for this
purpose, to the county superintendent of
schools.
When Miss Bradley attended the coun-
ty superintondents' convention at Madi-
son recently, the governor announced
that any superintendent who desired to
do SO, could receive enough volumes of
the book entitled, Wisconsin in the
World War, to place in all the schools of
their respective counties. These were to
be sent free, subject only to transporta-
ton. Miss Bradley has written to the
governor for forty volumes of this book,
to place in all the schools in the county.
There is bill brought up in the state
legislature, which is now in session, as
to whether the teachers retirement law,
should be reduced from twenty-five to
twenty years. Miss Bradley has written
/ to our assemblyman, Mr. Mark, stating
that the committee of common schools,
people and herself approve of this
measure.
We are to place in every rural school
and state graded school in the county,
a printed list of all the names of the
graduates of that respective school dat
ing back for the last Is years. This will
serve as an incentive for the pupils in
the grades, to follow in the footsteps of
these gradudtes,-to go onward in their
work until the goal is reached.
The following are the pupils who won
the prizes for the best essay on "Tuber-
culosis, A Durable and Preventable
Disease" The winner will receive a $40
prize. The money received will go to
the school though rather than the pupil.
A gift in form of a picture would be an
excellent remembrance of this occasion.
Ruth Brown, $40, 9Th grade essay, Spring
stead school. The prize for the best 9th
and 7th grade essay went to the Curry
and Quincy pupils. AS we haven't re-
ceived their names, as yet the winners
names will be announced next week.
The Van Buskirk state graded school
under the direction of the instructor,
Mrs. Ed Anderson, has organized a gar
ment making club for the girls and a
stock judging club for the boys
Mrs Marion Vonderheid of the Spring.
stead school, Miss Ellen Olson of the
Central school and Miss Alice Jackson
of the Simon school have purchased a
hot lunch equipment for their schools
Hot lunches will be served daily to the
pupils.
Placements Of Labor.
During 1920 the eleven free employ