Show J I Educational Enterprise e of r Fairview The progress of out schools is due to the push and energy of the tea teaChers teachers teach teaCh- hers h- h ers who seem to ex exert rt every every faculty within their ir reach to promote the cause cause of edu education The school meetings which are held monthly have all been extremely extremely extremely ely profitable but J the e climax was reached in the last o ohe one l which was held December 24 1893 The people turned out e en mass and filled the the th meeting meelin l house ous to o its utmost capacity There were class exercises exercises exercises exer exer- and flag drills V together with songs nd re it q rom i the V elo lower r depa departments which ere vere all ll well rendered and show showed d' d that thai talent existed like the u unpolished diamond but ut only needs careful training to bring aring the sparkling brilliancy to the surface V t A short history of our district schools schools and prognostication of the eighth grade was given by A. A U. U Miner which is Visas is as follows follows follows- VV Teachers fellow fellow schoolmates and friends as we look back upon pon our ou district schools and note not the progress of the past few years we feel to exclaim with admiration what wonders have been wrought what obstacles leS' leS have been ren reni removed ved what summits have been s surmounted W We have as asit it wei were wei emerged merged from frem a adry adry adry dry sandy desert where the flood of knowledge flowed but a short distance distance distance dis dis- tance from rom the V t fountain unta n wh l e it came babbling forth to make mak the dry V parched prairies productive V i Fountains of knowledge have since been tapped and nd V floods have burst forth V in m n irie n quantifies quantities ready lo to make th the sterile soil produce produce produce pro pro- duce and bring forth its abundance of good trea treasures ures hidden beneath the rough and unpolished surface J John ohn ct A-ct Acton n and George Bowering Dowering were monuments in n their heir day in our district schools but their old foggy ideas in govern governing g gand and teaching have l long ng si since ce passed ass d bene beneath th the theotice notice otice o of f this progressive s ive age V The pup pupil l is is' is 00 no io ion longer er forced with the rod to pr preparation but by bythe bythe bythe the spirit of love lo aI and azid d interest V his achievements are acquired V V The Th intelligent t. Q-t. te teacher er of today by easy s 's steps eps l ads th chi child q from the known to the The Thc three Rs once n e i f formed our but now it t is enlarged upon and intended to allaround all allaround allaround around and not merely merely on one sid side L. L A. A Wilson and V Christensen brothers stepped into the field already surveyed by by Acton and Bowering Dowering but p pushing their con conS jV VV V V d V V V VV Ir I r it w- w V V V V V V V VV V V V V V qu quests farther into the unknown bringing forth small streams of knowledge and arousing some of the once dormant faculties into ac activity vity Then came the flood of light through day who did away with the lash ash established new principles and wrought great changes in the field of education V Nor did it stop here for the motto onward an and upward is our aim seemed to stand forth bolder in inactions inactions inactions actions than words kindled an an anas aspiration aspiration as- as in the minds of s soul ul of the students and they bid a short farewell farewell farewell fare fare- well to the district schools and stepped one sound higher on the ladder adder of progress V V CONTINUED NEXT WEEK |