Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 16, 1920, Page 2

. “Sept. 13, 14, 16—Red Lake. fair, Red Lake, Minn. . Sept. 15, 16, 17—3eltraml_Counzy fr. Sept. 23—First day of autumn. « Sept. . 24-25—Clearwater county fair at Bagley. October_12.—Discovery of America, 1492, ] _Nov. 2.—Presidential election day. { Nov. 11.—Armistice day. - Nov. 25—Thanksgiving day. P R S R S R b x SHEVLIN - b 5% b o4 3% kO 3 ok ok A The Shevlin public Bchools -opened Monday, Sept 13th, with one of the Jargest attendances in years. A con- siderable advance has been made in the school this year, the teaching Yac- ulty being-enlarged from three teach- ers, as in previous years, to four. In addition to this a full freshman high ®chool course of four subjeets . has been added, with Miss Olsen ‘of Mc- _¥ntosh, in charge. The rest of the faculty is composed of Miss- Roder, grammar grades and Miss Mikkelson and Miss Miller, both-of Minneapolis, in charge of the primary and interme- diate grades. * ' $ «L. A. Larson, manager. of the-Shev- lin Mercantile,Co., spent Sunday at Clearbrook visiting relatives.. On his return, he was accompanied by his wife, who will be in- Shevlin this week, : - = Mr, and Mrs. Eckstrom of Bemidjl visited at the O. E. Peterson-home on Sunday_afternoon. Alf Rain spent -several days the first of this week at Bemidji visiting relatives. i John Desjardines spent Sunday at Bemidji. The Clearwater county fair boost- ers passed thru Shevlin Sunday morn- ing. They were accompanied by the newly organized Bagley band, which gave an open air concert. Those who accompaniel ‘the boosters to Clear- water, Leonard ‘and Gonvick were: Geo. Berfield and family, H. Davis, Mr. Traaseth, F. F. Phelps and fam- ily, Emanuel Hanson and family, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Rider and family, Roy Delaney and the Hendrickson family. Bill Bromaghin was a Bemidji call- ed Saturday. Jergen Hanson, Harvey Amadon and Mr. and Mrs Ludvig Holum took in the movies at Bemidji Surday eve- ning. Bill Kaiser was a Shevlin caller, Saturday evening. A. L. Kaiser was a business caller in Shevlin Monday afternoon. Mabel Rauk spent several days the latter part of last week visiting at the Krog home in Bemidji. Mr. Fritchie companied by his wite and wo children, Buddy and Pearl, returned from St. Paul the last of last week, where'they attended the State fair. L. A. Larson, accompanied by O. G. Lee of Baigley; returned to Shev- lin Saturday after.a week in tie twin cities attending to business matters in the interests of the Shevlin Mer- cantile Co. ; v Billy Weinch spent Saturday even- ing at the home of his parents. Miss Mildred Berfield left - nursday for Warren, Minn., where she will teach for the ensuing school year. Those who motored to the Red LzXe Indian reservation Sunday were Mr. ond Mrs. Thorpe and family, Mrs. ONE NEW HIGH SCHOOL Up Record Clip for Past Twenty-eight Years Washington, Sept. 16.—New high schools are being established in the United States at the rate of one-every twenty four hours. : And for the past® twenty-eight years the United States has main- tained, this record breaking clip in educational construction. The num- ber of high schools having increased 452 per cent since 1890 to & present total of nearly 17,000. = These are other figures on ‘the state of our nation’s high . schools were made public’ today in a report by the United States Bureau of Edu- cation. o) s In 1890 only 60 per cent of Ameri- can high schools were. public, today 87 per cent are public s¢hools accord- ing fo the report... -~ e ‘The 13,591 public high schools of the country haye enrolled an army of 1,735,619 students. If these students were stationed at three feet intervals a line would be formed from ‘Wash- ington, D. C., to Kansas. City. And it would take a high scnool in- spector walking at the rate of 3 miles an hour 41 days to review this “army.” he i In 1890 but 21,882 students were graduated, In 1918, dents recelved their ‘“‘sheep-skins.” Gir] graduates, now as then, ex- ceeded the number of boys. ‘ Phe American high school army of more than 1,700,000 is taught by a total faculty of 81,034 teachers. In 1890 there were but 9,120 high school teachers. A feaurp of recent educational de- velopment, the report poimts out, is the increéasing dominance of women in the high school fleld. “Today 'nu{— 1y; two-thirds of all high school teach- ers_are women. ' - More than one-tenth of the inhabi- tants of the United States have had or are having a high school educa- tion. Five times as great a propor- tion of American youth.are nmow’in High school class rooms as there wer in 1890. - r R One-half of-our thirteen thousand- odd public high Schools have an en- roliment of between 27 and 100 stu- dents, 623 enroll over 500 students and 278 more than 1,000. g The largest high school in the country is the Polytechnic Evening high school (for boys) Los Angeles, Cal., with 8,440 students. The next four in order are: Commercial High school (for boys) Brooklyn, N. Y., enrollemnt 7,608. Morris High school (co-education- al) New York city, 5,785. ‘Washington_ Irving High school (girls), New York_city, 5,785. Stuyvesant ‘High school (boys), New York city, 5,325. = cans have attended or are now enroll- gh schools, only one-se¥enth children’ who enter the first grade finish high school. California, with 2.7 per cent has more of its population in high u;h?l class rooms than the other statés. Kansas’ record is almost as high. South Carolina is at the foot of the high school attendance column with’ but a “trifle over one-half of on€ per cent” in high school." The nation- i wide average is one and one-half per cent. i Vermont leads in the :matter of | “EVERY DAY IS U. S. MARK Report Sl;owa Nation Has K—ep! . 224,367 stu-, ‘Although one-tenth of all Ameri-|d Rcuk, Carl and Mabel, Mr. and MrS., pi0p, gcliool graduations,” more than &ngu%hm?sh I;Dnd-lgafl;;ly- Mg- ;;““ one-fourth . of. its entering students L. gsi L Ga&d McDonald, Mr. an TS. finishing with a high school diploma. 1:4“ gr ox];. 3 Texas has more of its high school _Mrs. Ben Bredeson and Mrs. Lud-1 eraduates continuing their education e H?I“m motored to Bagley Satur- iy college or other schools, more than ay a ternoon. 60 per cent of its high school gradu- AT Fritchie has set up his I"“"“’,ztes continuing their studies in some house in the M. W. A. hall and ex-!yinq of_schgol, 48 per cent going to pects to be running in the immediate future. His machine is a late model « Motiograph and patrons can be as- sured of the best in pictures. Mr. Fritchie has dlso contracted for some of the best films out. One, which he jep, will show soon is “The Whip’”, was shown to full houses for several nights in Bemidji. Every one should turn out and boost Mr. Fritchie fh his effort to make Shevlin a live town. XX LSRR R R R R * TURTLE RIVER * icollege. North Carolina comes sec- ond in this respect and Kentucky 'thhrd. .. Rhode .Island, Maine, Com- { necticut and Nebraska send the few- , est students, in proportion, on to col- ‘e The average number of students taught by one high sachool teacher is 20.3 as compared with 26.5 in 1890, g L3 + The average high school principal recelves $1,272 per annum.- The aV- erage of city high school principals is $2,431, rural principals $1,184. °, ' P T S L R The District of Columbia payo_ltn A very pretty wedding took place on Wednesday, Sept. 1st, at the home of the bride’s parents, when Roy L. Conat and Miss Ella Otterstad were united in marriage by Rev. Osmond Johnson in the presence of about twenty ‘relative and friends. The bride wore a gown of white organdie and a white net veil. She carried a beautiful shower bouquet of white Sweet peas and pink and white rqses: Miss Margaret McGrath of Coler- aine was bridesmaid and wag dressed in pink satin, wearing a white hat. Mr. Martin Otterstad, a brother of | the bride was best man. The room and arches were pret- tily decorated in pink and white streamers. After the ceremony a wedding supper was served. The fol- lowing day the bridal couple went to Honey Island on Turtle River Lake, where they spent a week. i | 1 | 4 H £ Shorts, Salt, Miss Margaret McGrath, who has spent several weeks visiting friends returned to her home in Coleraine on Tuesday. ; i WILSON WILL BE ASKED : TO ASSIST IN CAMPAIGN v New York, Sept. 15. — President Wilson will be asked by the demo- cratic national committee to partici- pate actively in the campaign for Cox and Roosevelt. This announcement was made to- day by George White, national chair- man, following receipt of information from the: White House that the presi- dent is willing to contribute such effort as may be possible. Phone 851 Whether you wanta .~ _ or just a hundréd p'our‘ids"df" ) Hay, Oats, Corn, Barley, Bran, or Chicken Feeds Courtney Seed & Feed Co. Seed, Feed and Potatoes - Office at Sunshine Grocery fillllllllllllIlll|l|lllIlllllllllllllllllIIIlIIlIIIllllIIIIII|lIIIII!ImllIIllllIIIIllmlIIlIlIllli ' THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER INEWU. S5 TENNESSEE | - BEGINS MAIDEN CRUISE | (By United Press) New York, Sept 15.—The U. S. 8. Tennessee, newest and largest memb- .|er of the United States mavy, sailed on her maiden cruise today: The official launching ‘took 'place a¥ Brooklyn - Navy - Yards several weeks ago, but delayed electrical in- stallation and wiring Kept her in the yard until today, when she:left for Newport to take-on:twelve togpedoes. From there she will sail. on a six- weeks' cruise afong- the, Atlantic coast and later go to Cuba, Mexico Panama and’ Hawali, . ultimately “to join the Pacific fleet-at San Francisco . Acceptance trfals will be hell in November. tery of. oil-burning bollers:generate enough steam to drive the' gigantic ship at a speed ofi21 knats. Her com- binations of turbines and-dynamoes | wil] generate 27,000 horsepower. “The Tennessee displaces. 32,500 tons an dis manned almost exclusive- ly by seamen from -her ‘namesal® state, highly skilled-electrieians be- ing the only exceptions. Her com- mander is Captain :Adolph” Staton. R KRR EKK KK * BIG LARE' . * i_it*#*##il’*iti—t#& Felix Scott returned from Wal- halla, N. D., harvest fields last week. ‘The Big Lake Farmers’ club met at Charles Bloomquist’s last“Wednes- day, Sept. 8, but on account.of the wet weather the crowd was small. The club served some of Clifford & Co.’s' special coftee and it was fine. ] The thanks of the club ‘are- offered Mr. Clifford for the coffee. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. ‘Alton and son returned home from’ the twin- cities and other points. - -~ . e Charles Bloomgquist: and son Earl drove-to- town .with their: first load of spuds Saturday. Sir. Bloomquist blaced three picked potatoes in the front’ window of the First National Bank for inspection. rhn = Orin Wold, Carl Weldon, Miss Eve- line Wold .and Miss Nellie. Weldon motored to Bemidji Saturday 'night and took in the show. - S Frank Groves. returned’ from the harvest fields of North Dakota Sun- day morning and walked 13 miles out to_his home. He is going to attend the “Ubiversity 'school at Crockston the first-of October. o Chas. Bigomquist got 200 bushels per acre off his Early Ohios this year. It looks as if ‘Bjg Lake school is not going to get a school teachér this year. n b B There will be a Sunday school pic- nic at Swenson school house next Sunday, so there will be no Sunday school at Big Lake school house. The Concordia Young. People’s so- ciety met at the home of Barl Bloom- quist Sunday, Sept. 12, in theafter- noon. Everyoné had a good time. Mr. and Mrs. E. €. Bergh Visited at Mr. and Mrs. George Clark’s-Sun- Yo, e A e A There will be % Union ~Sunday school picnic. at..the Swenson. sehool' Sunday, Sept. 19,. Everybody wel- come. : MENNONITES LOOKING . B . TOWARD_ QUEBEC|/NOW Winnipeg, Sept. 16.—Menhonite colonies in southern Minitoba and Saskatchewan are turning their eyes toward Quebee, to escape strict'school laws in this province. - . Inypractically all _their ~ private 'schébls they teach largely in German and Manitoba laws forbid the use of any except_the English language in all classes unless linguist. . 2 The orthodox colonies had contem- plated moving enmasse to Mississippi but the legislature in that ' state blocked the move. ‘They. contemplat- ed moving. to Brazil for a time, but’ that plan was abandoned. H A A A A AN AAARAARAAAA A principals the highest salaries, fol- lowed by Californta, Arizona. and New Jersey in the order named. ' Nebraska pays the lowest salaries to her principals. 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