Show School Matters County Superintendent of Schools T B Lewis is now at work on school matters and makes flattering reports He states that several new districts have been organized in the county and are pushing forward the good work of education with all possible speed In many of the districts dis-tricts under Mr Lewis supervision new school buildings are being erected and he has marked with pleasure that they are not only of amore a-more permanent character but much more attention is being paid to details Instead of being satisfied satis-fied with the bare walls there is a general and anxious desire to make the buildings comfortable healthy and convenient The arrangement is better and the appliances and appointments ap-pointments are of a better and more modern class In some of the districts dis-tricts the trustees are leading out finely and are taking such an interest inter-est in the work that the inhabitants of the districts are becoming imbibed im-bibed with it and the result is a general leading out in the right direction di-rection The school year just closed has in this county been the best and most satisfactory in many That is the attendance has been larger the class of teachers has been better and the pupils have made more satisfactory progress Regarding normal scholarships allowed this county Mr Lewis i states that there are nearly double the applicants this year that there were last Salt Lake County is entitled en-titled to send eight normals to the University Last year thirteen ap applications for a normal scholarship scholar-ship were made This year twenty have applied already and there is little question that more applications will be sent in This is as good an evidence of increasing interest as can be found In his visit through the county there were a number of districts to which Mr Lewis would liked to have made special reference but thought it would be best not to However he did speak of the work being done by Mr N Bawden who is teaching in the Mill Creek district dis-trict Mr Bawden is a cripple and his government for this reason in a district what has heretofore been considered difficult of management is causing comment so successful has he been |