Show Miss Mary Merrill was a visitor at the Lincoln school on Friday I UC 0 i Miss Laura Beeson has removed from the Miller to the Victoria v 0 H G Webb county superintendent of Carbon cpunty was a caller at the state department of public Instruction last week OOC The Oquirrh school gave one of its delightful luncheons on Tuesday ° 01 0 0 Miss Leone Sampson of the Bryant school has resigned her position and accepted a position in the training school i 0 0 It is learned that Mr Giauque has suffered a slight relapse during the past week a fact which his friends regret re-gret to hear < = > < s > 0 Mrs A S Martin has been substituting substi-tuting at the Grant school the past week 000 The grade meetings of Supervisors Young antI Elliott will be held in the High schdol building on Thursday Jan 12 J C > 00 Miss Murphy has returned from the east and has resumed her duties at the Collegiate institute 000 Superintendent William Allison of the Ogden schools visited the city schools the past week < > 0 0 Mrs W S Webster substituted at the Oquirrh Lowell Grant and Hamilton schools the past week I 0 < The Educational club will meet in the city and county building on Monday Mon-day evening Supervisor F B Elliott will present a paper upon The Function Func-tion of Art in the Education of the Individual In-dividual 000 The L D S Business college has enrolled en-rolled fifteen new students for the winter term V 0 0 A delightful luncheon in honor of Supervisor Su-pervisor Elliott was given at the Lincoln Lin-coln school on Thursday < y v Quite a large number of cases of illness Ill-ness caused by la grippe are reported among the teachers of the city 000 Miss Lenore Sampson visited Miss Lawson of the Lincoln school on Friday Fri-day 000 The citizens of Gunnison Sanpete county are displaying much energy along educational lines At a recent meeting it was decided to erect the coming year five new school buildings I in various parts of the district which I are to be completed by September 1899 An eightroom structure will be erected I in Gunnison a fourroom building in I Centerfield and three oneroom buildings build-ings at Willow Creek West View and j the outskirts of Gunnison Aside from i some funds nosy on hand for the purpose pur-pose the district will be bonded in the sum of 8000 I 9 0 1 > Professor Horace Cummings of the training school will speak before the teachers of Cache county at Logan Jan 14 High School News The work in six classrooms was so seriously interrupted on Tuesday and Wednesday boilcrmalcers in the I ScottStrevell yard as to render a par I tial suspension of instruction necessary neces-sary + The High school has been pleased to welcome the following visitors during the past week Misses Auro Rodgers and Clarice Thatcher class of 98 Miss Ruby Peyton of the Collegiate institute insti-tute Mr Sprague a graduate of the same school class of 97 Mr Tucker man of the Ogden High school Mr D H Adams of the Madison school Ogden Og-den Miss Jessie Hammond of Ogden Miss Lydia Clark of the department of Latin of the Cheyenne High school Miss Haynes of Eureka Miss Lydia Benz of this cityMiss Lily Fahrni of Draper Professors Edmunds and Ly man of the university o 00 I On Monday last our orchestra of nine members took part in the concert at the penitentiary playing three selections selec-tions which were much appreciated by those present < = > w COn C-On Tuesday the school resumed its work very auspiciously the attendance being unusually good for so early in the term indicating a desire on the part of the students to persevere in their studies < 9 < i > < J > Miss Harriet E Chapman who spent the holidays at Plattsburg Neb enjoyed en-joyed her visit The weather was much colder than here She did not return to her work till Wednesday Her classes were conducted by Mrs C M Stebbins on Tuesday o N1 0 Miss Susan G Stokes of the department depart-ment of biology reportsa pleasant vacation va-cation in Denver Much snow fell there during her stay W 0 V Much interest is being taken in our lyceum as shown by the increase in its members University Notes The next lecture of the faculty course will be given tomorrow night in the chemical laboratory building by Dr Orson Howard The subject Facts and Fictions in Natural History is avery a-very interesting one and gives promise of a very instructive talk c > vc > Jan 12 the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln will be fittingly celebrated cele-brated by the Delta Phi fraternity o 0 The two strongest societies in the university the Zeta Gramma and the Delta Phi are soon to compare their strength in a joint debate o ci > O Instructor C K Edmunds recently informed the members of his advanced physics class that they were expected to assemble on Saturday Jan 7 to do some special work In physics Yesterday Yester-day morning accordingly the class assembled as-sembled in the physical laboratory with pencil and notebook prepared for a few hours of hard physical I work When the students entered the classroom class-room their attention was attracted by I a notice on the blackboard inviting them to perfect freedom In their experiments f exper-iments on gas Mr Edmunds had I made arrangements for the hasty preparation prep-aration of a report and soon each student stu-dent was busy experimenting with the i physical properties of things culinary While the girls made the candy and prepared the oysters the boys prepared the celery and froze the cream Soon j the various courses were served each I in some kind of laboratory dishoysters in crucibles and ice cream In watch crystals Each student experimented so successfully that he declared the culinary cul-inary department of physics the most interesting one of all V < 5 > 2 > The college men or the Delta Phi fraternity announce their intention to give another ball atjChristensens The date selected is JandiK The committee arranging this ball is the same as made the last one so successful and the same telling features the unique invitatipns and the enlarged orchestrawill ber made more attractive than ever Training School Items William Allison superintendent ofthe Ogden city schools paid a vlsi to the training school last Wednesday JQ 0 Principal William Bennion of the branch normal school at Cedar City sand p ° H Adams prjncIpalofOsdens largest pUblic school the Madison both visited the training school on Thursday They were well pleased with their observations ob-servations and commented freely upon the good i results obtained in Speer arithmetic 0 0 + < 2 4 Mrs Virginia Stephen a sister of Mrs Lydia SPierce has been absent from her grade almost all week on account ac-count of poor health Mrs J D Ken worthy has been substituting in her stead 00 U Miss Carrie Lamson who has been substituting for Mrs Pierce in the beginners be-ginners grade for a number of weeks past concluded her labors in the training train-ing school lastFriday night Her services ser-vices here have been able and efficient effi-cient 000 The teaching corps at the training school after many necessary changes of this year Is < now constituted as follows fol-lows Supervisor of training Miss Catherine Dopp principal of training school Mr J E McKnight eighth grade critic teacher Miss Rachel Edwards Ed-wards seventh grade critic teacher Mr D C Jensen sixth grade critic teacher Miss Nellie Craft fifth grade critic teacher Miss Anna Youngberg fourth grade critic teacher Miss Va leria BrInton third grade critic teacher Miss Elizabeth Kimball second sec-ond grade critic teacher Miss Lottie Burch first grade critic teacher Mrs I Virginia S Stephen beginners grade critic teacher Miss Leonora Sampson superintendent of drawing Instructor Edwin Evans superintendent of nature work Mr Horace Cummings supervisor super-visor of physical culture Professor Maud M Babcock supervisor of manual man-ual training Instructor Alfred Bond supervisor of music Instructor R L McGhie Branch Normal The winter term opens on the 9th Students are already arriving 000 Many students have during the holidays holi-days visited with their student friends 000 The trustees of the county met in convention on Dec 30 at Cedar City and organized the Iron County Trustees Trus-tees Business association A business committee was elected to attend to purchasing apparatus and supplies for all the districts in the county 000 Some of the county schools will not commence until the 9th owing to the teachers residing in other counties and wishing longer holidays to visit with relatives v 3 > 0 Many cases of pneumonia are reported report-ed in this region Drs Middleton and Fisk have so far been very successful in their treatment of the disease B Y A Notes Special Correspondence Prove Jan 7School resumed session ses-sion again Tuesday after a vacation of nearly two weeks There has already been an increased enrollment of eighty five and conditions are indicatory of more within a week or two The enrollment en-rollment UD to date exclusive of the I kindergarten is 879 This would have I been increased considerably if the I branch school at Beaver had not been established The latter has an attendance attend-ance of 1S2 students Virtually therefore there-fore the academy has an attendance of 1121 counting the kindergarten which has an enrollment of sixty The academy has a number of societies I socie-ties that meet weekly and biweekly 1 These aim to furnish amusement as 1 I well as instruction to the students Eminent lecturers on education ooli tics etc throughout the state by solicitation so-licitation frequently visit and Instruct the pupils The pedagogium and physical phy-sical societies each meet every fortnight fort-night one alternating with the other The former deals with pedagogical subjects Sub-jects the latter with philosophical Another An-other society the literary society which meets every Saturday night as its name indicates takes up exclusively literary subjects The first session oC thissoclety is held tonight The auditorium in the college or adjacent ad-jacent building has been furnished with firstclass opera chairs The seat have adjustable tablets on which t write ihis room seats 800 i 1 and sum > lles a longfelt want in tne academy Previous to the holidays this room was used for a dancing hall and it so admirably suited the purpose that it was with regret the students viewed the transformation on their return That competition is good incentive to school work is frequently evidenced in the academy by invidious comparisons made b r memlSers of the various classes No resentment is taken but rather allowance madd for undue class patriotism On thewhole the school may be complimented for the kindly feeling existing between all Agricultural College Tho term opened Jan 4 with all instructors in-structors and most of the old students on hand Fifty new students have registered reg-istered + o 0 The extreme cold weather makes everybody wish the new boiler had been set during the vacation There Is cold comfort on the windy side of the buildings 00 0 President Tanner was almost the sole < representative of the college at the State Teachers association He has been 111 most of the time since the meeting and is now scarcely able to perform college duties I J y The parents and other friends of Mrs Faris have been visiting that lady during dur-ing the holidays I 0 < > Mrs Tanner is still at Spanish Fork where she was visiting during vacation I being detained there by the serious illness Ill-ness of her little daughter Boa Most of the college people remained comfortably at home for holidays No swell parties nor unusual event disturbed dis-turbed their needed rest < i > 00 A letter from Dr F W Brewer announces = J an-nounces his dangerous illness in St Louis He is at his wifes misters and attended by his daughter I dOG i A debating society has just been organized i or-ganized consisting partly of college students and meeting weekly In the old Methodist home in the city > 0 0 Mr Suttor a traveling prohibitionist lecturer addressed the students at chapel Friday morning He occupied most of the time for firsthour classes so that drill was omitted in order to complete the regular class work of the day |