Show Our Schools County Supt Eggertson visited the graduating class on Thursday last lIe gave the students examinations in Spelling and Arithmetic Dr Byron W King accompanied the Superintend ant to the Central school during the ncr noon of the same day lIe delighted the children with selections and imitations and they came in contact with his great minda fact that is nn inspiration to anyone Recently the Juvenile Court officers came to the schools of this city and 1 talked to the children They gave much good counsel and advise and told the children what they must do with regard to truancy swearing lying and the using of tobacco in any form In I S all the company of officers consisted l of Judge Noon Officer Roper Marshal 1 I Dart Justice Dahle and Chairman Larsen Lar-sen of the school board Supervisor Ed M Rowe gave nice tare before the Sabbath school workers work-ers of the Nebo stake in the tabernacle taber-nacle at Payson on Sunday last His subject was The Library of the Sabbath Sab-bath School Workers NOTES It is a pleasing fact that Miss Minnie Berry recently received word from the State Board to the effect that she had been granted a life grammar grade diploma This lady is now the highest certificated lady teacher in the Spanish Fork school district Mrs Shepard the lady who lectured on temperance the other evening in the city pavilion paid the public schools of our city a visit on the day before her lecture She congratulated the teachers teach-ers on their work and said she had taught school in Salt Lake City and the east for years bat had never seen better dicipline in any schools than in ours In her lecture she said that the schools of our city are in a splendid conditionEd condition-Ed M Rowe and L W Nielsen will attend summer school this summer at at the University of Utah or theUniver sity of California Other teachers have I expressed their intention of going away to school this summer During this week and next examinations examina-tions in all the grades will be conducted by Principal Rowe These examinations examina-tions are final as schools will close on Friday May 1st All children must bin b-in school until the last bell is rung Promotion means much to every pupil In order to complete the High School Mr Nielsen has begun his work at 830 lathe morning The school me ting the other evening eve-ning proved a sad dissapointment to teachers and pupils They expected to see erected this yenr to the honor to the taxpayers and trustees a splendid school building The dissapointment is great for the reason that the overcrowded over-crowded condition of our schools has occasioned the pupils no little inconvenience incon-venience Anyon i who knows the least about schools knows that our rooms have been overcrowded this year This cannot be gainsaid though some who have never visited the schools I I speak to the contrary There is not a school district in the county so poorly equipped with school b tildings as Spanish Fork Springville at the present time has four splendid I brick buildings and notices are out announcing an-nouncing an election to decide whether or not the people will erect a four year high school building the ensuing year Look at Lehis splendid structures Notice the Peteetneet at Payson as it looks complacently upon the city Mark the pressed brick structure at Salem erected at a cost of 20000 Why then stand we idle Our children clamour for room our teachers reiterate reite-rate their mnrmnrimrs and flm > 1n M m v do so to deceive It is not a wise idea to scoter our children over town in isolated buildings and rooms Already we have had to do this and we notice its ill effects Children in isolated rooms cannot receive re-ceive the full general dicipline that children assembled in well equipped modern buildings can receive The very fact of central school houses being erected as they are corroborates this statement Now from various sources comes the cry Let us reconsider Does it not appear that we have heen too hasty That school proposition was voted against before it was fully understood The trustees were not given an oppor I tunity to fully lay their plans before the people the persons who let location come before school building prevented What did the people learn about obtain ing the money with which to build The trustees had data to present but it was not listened to Why put a dam per upon education 0 woe to those who trample on the mind They know not what they do or what they deal with Let us reconsider |