Show locals better late than never mr obrien one of our teachers vas was seen flipping z paper wads around the court room jed abbott who is teaching in morgan was home during the holidays there were thirty eight teachers present at institute saturday mr john fackrell of west bountiful was in attendance at institute saturday we are unable to account for mr howells silence during last institute A number of our leading t teachers were at institute with their long iong za tail or talo coats on superintendent porter was kept busy building 0 fires opening t windo windows ws etc at institute the trustees of district eight are to be con congratulated on the establishment of a fourth division 1 in their central school three mixed schools have been substituted by partly graded schools durin during the present school year F five ive teachers absent from institute sti tute two from farmington and two from centreville Cen treville near by far off an scene between the local editor and the secreta secretary ry the secretary was seen chucking in the editor aud under er the chin we were all shocked to see sedgwick at institute gernat have gotten out so soon after being bein g married the pupils in farmington are in school these mornings mornin s before the genial face of old sol peeps above the mountain peaks ella chase got a not notice ice from the superintendent that contained a something C very peppery as it brought her to institute on tho the first train saturday morning when a man makes a failure of ev everything e hythin else let him tl try N school teaching deachin C and mr air G C thinks that lie he will find himself a natural born teacher A petition asking ta the county commissioners to unite school districts thirteen and fourteen will bo be taken up for action on monday next the county district plan occupied a prominent place in the discussions of the county superintendents at a meeting held in ill provo dec 2 it was decided at institute that mr mabey is a marvel since he claims that lie he can spell every word with which lie is thoroughly 0 acquainted the xmas holidays had bad a very bad effect on tile the teachers all declare themselves unprepared and a all U ref referred c rr c d to their books the teachers of the district had h a three weeks holiday building and moving ID schoolhouses cause for this extended vacation the teachers of district six F farmington armington accompanied by a number of pupils of the eighth in grade visited some schools of salt lake city and other places of interest friday dec 3rd ard mr naylor went skating with a number of his esth grade pupils owing to his superior in weighty we h ty matters both educational and otherwise the ice was made to surrender too many times to render the evening the most enjoyable in chankin thanking g the courtroom court room janitor for his many kindnesses of the past wo we cannot help ex pressing our fears as to the future an old folks party was given at farmington armington F last saturday for all over forty five years of a age go fr quo one of our lady teachers of F arm wa was s excused from institute so that she could attend the party by taking za down a great many of the hard words then with sonic some study and the help of web ster I 1 at last managed to approach the meaning 0 of f mr air seamans speech on schoolroom mechanics mr air sedgwick gave a party at his home for the teachers of bountiful and their wives and sweethearts miss R was invited and should have very much liked to have been present but T absolutely refused to go 0 o after her the last meeting n of the grain grammar school society was held at trustee woods place after the regular pro program ram an oyster supper games songs and recitations helped to pass away the hours and make the teachers and pupils fa forget aget for or a while the dull cares of this workaday work a day world the superintendent stated at our recent institute that the time of johnny take his topic and sarah take that had passed into the hands of the historian as far as the teachers meetings fleetin ad s were concerned teachers should be willin willing za to do what they themselves require when the teachers arrived at the court house saturday they found a cold room and tho the blackboard mi missing Ving the superintendent went tearing 0 around in his absentminded way demanding to know inow where the janitor or sheriff had got to he wanted a fire built aud and was not particular which one lie he found one of our fellow teachers was seen flying an about with a horse and cart in west bountiful week before last his face was wreathed in smiles and in the language t 0 of the modern novelist ll 11 he se desm ein eit ei t to da deach t fh as it were when the writer met him ho he beamed all over and said dont you know you heard he arda and then with a my mysterious misterio sterio u s air air ho he told her that he was ilu hunting hyrum grant as lie he wanted van ted him to sign a bit of paper she was afterwards informed that he had bad decided to make life one lon long ra sweet song who the fortunate young lady is she is unable to learn prof marshall gave a talk before a large audience in in ington ton ine meeting eting house sunday dec under the auspices of tho the Lon longfellow Z ofellow literary society his subject was the early settlement of virginia and colonial life in the south his treatment of the theme differed considerably from the manner in which the histories take it up those incidents with which every school boy is familiar were but li lightly touched while motives and results were dwelt upon with considerable sid erable detail and in a manner that hat showed that the had an donoto 0 no to the fountain head for lis his information the careworn look which our editor on oil home Hap happenings happening penin 0 s wears during institute waiting im for something funny to happen is sad to gaze upon at least it it gives evidence of the immense mutual strain attendant to her labors the highly philosophical and ideal character of our discussion is not condu sive to the generation of hilarion thought but rather to the germination of lugubrious ones this together with the melancholy memories clinging around the court house accounts for her unhappy plight 0 lit we sincerely hope that in the future conditions will change not only for her betterment b but nut also for the general good of those who are compelled to witness her torture |