The School Herald from Minneapolis, Kansas • 4

(I Co festotote, May Stpae sl hi it LILLIAS MOUTlMKli, County Superintendent a 1 II ALLY COOL MISS WHITE TIMI'i I 1.VIES MAtl.Wv HALi.u 11 i it History Classics Music 7:00 Geography 7:10 lletliods Kiysics Rff "771 GENERAL EXERCISES i 7, Tamar U. S. Histoid Ioloffy Model School Qrirnce Model School 9:30 I en, and Orthography science ZI 7 Primary Methods physiology Primary Handwork Methods Grammar Kansas History English History ritrn rr cm yTv T7 TP T7 TrS Xr3 ITt 173 (Pi CERTJIHCATE KMU il liih School Credits Certificate Branches Minimum Grade Avenge Grade Months Experience Minimum Age On account of lack of time, lots were drawn, and Earl Frye was awarded first place. Vernon Frye, of 3-1 won third place. The geography contest was held in the commercial room of the High School on Saturday morning.

Henry K. Ward, Dis First Second Two Years One Year None 75 Co 60 12 7 0 go 80 75 20 iS IS All Below First 15 First 14 Tiiird School District 14 School closed April 10, with the visual sumptuous dinner, a short program and a dust gale. Pupils neither absent nor tardy for seven months were: Clyde Sample, Mabel Cook, Stella Cook, Clinton Cook, Alta Cook, Bertha Cook, Adda Woodruff, JVvis Woodruff, Harold Woodruff, Eugene Woodruff, Wilma Hayes, Harrison Blades and Julius Blades. received a Diploma of Honor having; been neither absent nor tardy for three terms. TliVlipst ireneral average: 1 Orthography 2 Grammar and Composition 1 Civil Government 13 Agriculture 14 Classics 15' Music 16 English History 17 Physios 7 Writing 8 Geography 9 Arithmetic 10 U.

S. History Kansas History 12 Physiology and Hygiene 4 Theory and Practice 5 General Science 6 Reading School is always good when everyone tries to make it good. trict 51, won first place, Albert Sissons, Bennington, second, aud Dale Vermillion, Tescott, third. lu the school parade on Saturday afternoon, Zukcrville school woj.1 the $10 prize for the best iloat for rural schools. Districts 18, 25, 10 and 98 won the sets of Supplementary Readers for next best in order named.

The city -schools finished in the following order Minneapolis, Tescott and Delphos. It was estimated that 2,000 The School Contests Following are the results in the school contests held Friday evening and Saturday morning, April 20and 21: The declamation contest was held at the High School auditorium Friday evening. Piano solo. Elta Bateheller, Tescott, first and Adah Prosser, There are great possibilities for Dist. 14.

Before anything better was ever accomplished there was first some dissatisfaction with existing conditions. So long as-people feel satisfied with what they 'have or do not Mabel Cook, Harold Mountain aud Wilma Hayes, Avis Bailey, 3. Patrons who visited school, niias. Blades, A. O.

school children of Ottawa county see the need of anything better there is no improvement. Dist. 14 is not behind the times in anything but the school. The homes and the people are stepping up to the modern standard. The general movement for a bet Culver, second.

1 Rural School Heading, "Bill Chas. Merryfield, District 23, "The Convict's Tillie Barnes, Dis took part in the school parade. Dozens of automobiles also wero in line. The little town of Tescott sent sixty-live children, and Delphos and Bennington did almost as well. Most of the ter school has been shown by i T.i Davis and Ed.

Bailey. Patrons who visited -upon Mothers' day: Mesdames Blades, Mountain, O. B. Woodruff, W. Woodruff, Geo.

Stelter, Powell, A. Hake, P. A. Baker, Geo. Schmidt, Sample, Kimball, Watson and Crippen.

Pupils receiving prizes for im provenmnt in writing, Harrison Blades and Laura Hake. Lester Hayes kept the neatest desk. Harrison Blades won a blue rib everyone, this winter, and the district has the valuation with which to have it. The school board consists of able men. They granted me everything I asked for.

They objected to trict 29, second; "The Ballad of My Sweet Iva Harris, District 88, Graded School When The World- Bursts Cora Chambers, Tescott; Anna Dossey, Bennington, second; third, "How Two Girls Study," Grace Norman. Piano Duet. -Anita Board-man and "Doris Haley, Benning children carried flags, and the parade was directed by members of Co. in uniform. The schools winning the greatest number of points in the various contests of the two days, were awarded a beautiful poster, done in colors, of Nesbit's famous poem, "Your Flag And My Flag." District 26, Bertha nothing 1 did so far as I know.

In their own words, "What we want is a good school," 1 think I can hear the voice of the whole district, and the herald of a bet ter community. Sincerely, Bertha M. teacher. ton, first. In the following there Browne teacher, won the most points in the rural school section, and Tescott won in the graded school section.

bon for his district at the school fair, on his hand woven rug. That's a starter for Pleasant Hill. Look out for next year. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." The teacher and pupils owe a vote of thanks to Mrs. Grace Thomas for her assistance as organist in the Christmas program also to Mrs, Ed.

Bailey and Chas. Blades for put no contests, so each received a pennant: Cornet solo, Walter Wood ward, Culver'. Briscoe Krenkle of District 05 reports ten pupils who will re- Brass Quartet. H. Dyer.

F. "iceive certificates of award for Dyer, Woodworth and M. Grey, Culver. attendance and punctuality this year. Three of them, Agnes Clark, Henry Blaha and William Boy'S Quartet, 11.

Karnes, W. Baldwin, W. White, and O. Weiss, Ada. The penmauship contest was Blaha have been neither absent Lines to Be Remembered.

Today is your day and mine the only day we have the day in which we play rar part. What our part may signify In the great whole we may not understand; but wo are here to play.it, and now is our time. This we know: It is a part of action, not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express lovo in terms of human helpfulness.

This we know, for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads toward decay and Waste. David Starr Jordan. ting in the stage, and to Mr. and Mrs. Geo.

Stelter for offering the use of the graphaphone in the Maypole march. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blades spent one afternoon removing Christinas decorations and cleaning the room.

Mrs. Blades also volun nor tardv duriiur the eight months' term. held Friday evening in the com- Supt. Commodore F. Cool has resigned as instructor in Normal mercial room of the High School.

Mildred Wakefield, of Culver, won first, and Hejen Gaghyan, of Culver, second. tarily cleaned the room after the Institute and will work with the Itedpath Horner Lyceum Bureau during the summer. last day. Geo. Stelter offered us the use of his big team to take a jloat in the school parade.

We appreciated the many little acta of kindness and the willingness of each and every patron. The spelling contest for schools was held at the court room. l4rl Frye, District 31, and Florence Winans, District 53, both missed the same word. Lindsey is the first rural school Quite Likely. Trobablyrthe reason more city men.

don't go back to the farms is that they can't accumulate fortunes big in the county to vote for a nine months term. i.