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Show Closing a Most ' Successful Year lhe (Jrude Schools" of American FertJ Teachers Engnged for Xoxt Year's Work. The grade schools ot American Fork" aro Just closing a most successful year. Thero has been uu excellent record rec-ord of attendanco mado In nil departments. depart-ments. Very few pupil hnvo boon tardy and truancy h- . Imot unknown during the v .. school year. The pupils hao had remarkably good health during all the year, no contagion having been In tho cntlro district. Tho teachers of tho grades missed but very few days from Bchool on account of sickness. Tho majority placed In a room with the pupils of of school. Some changes have been mado In tho grading or thes chools during the past year, which have been most advantageous ad-vantageous to tho pupils and will vory materially advance them In their future fu-ture school work. The pupils or each room wero dUlded Into two sections those pupils who wero able to go rrtoro rnpldly than tho others wero placed In one section aud allowed to advance ad-vance as rapidly as thoy could, whllo tho rest or tho pupils or tho room advanced ad-vanced as woll as they could and mado their grade The fast pupils In soma instances made n whole grade and a hair during the past year, and during the next year will make n grado and a hnir, making three grades In two years. In ono grade thoro wero found twenty-four fast pupllB, who wera placed in a room with thep uplls of tho next higher grade, and beforo the yoar was out completed their own work and also tho work of tho noxt grade above them, completing two years' work In ono. ' . In tho seventh grades the work has been given along the lino of tho high school plan, tho teachers specializing, one tcachor giving both classes all tho geography, agriculture and hygiene, and another teachor the arithmetic and each teacher giving tho other lessons les-sons to his own pupils. This plan has worked splendidly, much bettor results bolug obtained In all tho subjects. sub-jects. Tho best ot harmony has existed among tho members ot tho faculty and the pupils, tho parents and trustees, and It Is tho concensus ot opinion that this has been ono ot the most successful success-ful school years. ' Tho trustees have given tho teachers teach-ers splendid support, and everything that they could do to mako the school year successful , has been done. The patrons of tho schools have given their share of oUpport( tor-,wWfk the""" teachers' deslfoMo oxpe"aS utfh appreciation. Tho buildings havo been woll token caro of and the card-takors card-takors havo done much to help In tho taking caro of tho health of tho boys and girls. Tho schools will close lu two weeks, May 15. Tho following corps of teachers havo been engnged for noxt yenr's work. Owing to tho fnct thnt some of the prlmnry teachers havo not yet been definitely placed as to grado their grades are not named: CharleB W. Whltnkcr, supervisor of tho grade schools; Robert L. Ashby, Instructor In manirol training; Irving L. Pratt, principal of tho Forbes building build-ing tho seventh grnde. TcochorB. Jcsbo F. Steele, seventh grado; Mrs. A. Z Osmond, seventh grnde; Jnno McPhorson, Blxth grade; Eva Lnmbcrt, sixth grado; Lllllo Shipley, Ship-ley, fifth grndo; Mubol Horbcrt, fifth grado. Miss M. M. Rouny, principal of tho Harrington building nnd fourth grnde. Mrs. May Preston, fourth grade; niancho Crandall, Sadie Mitchell, Fern Greene, Sarah Parker, Florence Grcono, Eliza Hlndloy, Janett Latl-mor Latl-mor and Rcsslo Greene, |