The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-21
COUNTY
SCHOOL NOTES

Plentywood is to have a Parent
Teachers Association Judging by the
interest and enthusiasm shown by
the members of the Committee of
Fifteen which met with Mrs. VIM.
Erickson on Tuesday afternoon of
this week for the purpose of making
preliminary arrangements, it will be
live one. A meeting for definite
organization purposes will be held
several weeks before the opening of
school next fall. Every man and
woman In the community, interested
in child welfare and community well
/ fare, will be invited and urged to
attend. The Parent-Teacher Associ-
alton is coming to be a live factor
In the educational and social life of
up-tO-date communities.
Ihirty-four teachers took the ex-
animation in PlentywOod on May 9th,
18th and 8th. They were Thorwald
Brekke, Adrinana Ganeau, Elma La
llberte, Velma Crawford, Muriel
King, Lois Bantz, Therese H. Grims-
rud, Olga H. Waller, Martha c. Pet
ersen, Susie A. Legge, Helen K Mil
Ter, Marie Solseng, Ali Walo, Rach-
el M. Randolph, Orpha L. Woodland,
Oracle e. Higgins, Mrs. Eleanor
Henke, Mrs. Hazel Lee, Alphild Eng
strOm, Mrs. Cora Debing, Mrs. Ruth
MunsOn, Mrs. Bessie Dick, Agnes
Jacobsen, Carolyn Kurtz, Vema
GoOdlaXOn, Mildred BOrnstedt, Osta
Madsen, Lois Cosper, Esther SOren-
son, Mrs. Coda Boley.
A large majority of Sheridan Co.
teachers have given excellent salts
faction this year and have been re-
elected to their present positions
Many are planning to take normal
training at summer school this sum
mer. This normal training, in addi-
ton to that received while teaching
during the past year, will add ap-
preciably to their efficiency as teach.
ers, as well as to their pleasure il
their work
The following pupils have beer
neither absent nor tardy during the
whole school year just closed: Phyl
lis Decker and Jack Goss, Dooley
Mrs. Potter, teacher; Rosetta an,
Arthur Engdahl, Dist. No. 65, Elm;
BrinBman, teacher. Perfect attend
ance certificates have been issued t.
these pupils. Eleven certificates hav
been sent Prof. May of Medicin
Lake for the pupils in his schoo
who have been neither absent no
tardy this year. Great credit is du
the above pupils, and their parent
and teachers, as well, for coopera
ton in the formation of habits o
punctuality and dependability whic
will make for reliability during life
The Plentywood schools were tn
last to be visited by a Representative
from the County Superintendent
Office this year. Outstanding anon
the observations made in this schos
were the general appearance c
cleanliness and orderliness which pre-
walls, and the attitude of cOurtes
and good will on the part of bot
teachers and pupils. The pupils {
= the first grade, taught by Miss He!
Z erdahl, have mastered twelve tex
in reading this year and are no
reading with comparative lease ar
accuracy in a second reader.
1t was the writer's privilege to oil
serve a vocal music lesson taught /
Miss Jaclman, in which third graz
pupils learned in one period, withOl
the help of an instrument other ths
a tuning fork, and by note, not
imitation, the complete air of Of
song. Before the recitation clos
they also sang the words to the tul
thus learned. Anyone caring to vi
3 ness a ike demonstration may do