Grandma Sawyer is on the sick list. Alder Sawyer had to leave his work on Apple River to come home and care for her.

Report has it that Davey Austin has gone to work in the logging camp on Sand Lake.

Rev. White will line down at Rusk on his farm and preach the gospel.

Rev. Malkewick will hold meeting in the school house at Olof Anderson at 2 o'clock p.m. Sunday Nov. 19th and at Mammer's in the evening.

Frank Larson came home from Duluth Friday.

Chas. Akerline of Freya visited at Landstromm's last Sunday.

Nels Wicklund has put up a wind mill. Nels is up-to-date.

Gust Anderson is busy building a stone cellar for M. Geving.

Meeting was held by Rev. Berg in the Mission house Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of Rush City, who have been visiting at Gust Flodin's went to Webster Tuesday to visit relatives.

Auction was held at Mattsen Bros. Tuesday. Many people were present.

Miss Ida Lind of Rush City has been visiting at Gust Flodin's.

Martin Giswold was hustling around in our town Tuesday.

S. Danielson and son of Wood River are taking rock on Erich Anderson's field for building purposes.

Thure Geving came home Saturday from Dakota. He says he likes that country very well.

Mrs. Wicklund of St. Paul came up Saturday for a visit at Mrs. Litonius.

Gust Larson is fixing up his house in a modern manner.

Alf. Zetterberg and Bertil Litonius were at the city Saturday.

The Modern Woodmen meet in their hall Saturday evening.

Eric Anderson has done good work with the pine stumps on his farm this fall. He will continue until his farm is a Dakota miniature.

Conrad Nero was at the burg Saturday.

Mr. Sundin of Spirit Lake is building a fine residence on his land here.

   The village school opened Oct. 2 a good attendance in all departments. Twenty-two are enrolled in the high school, thirty-four in the grammar department, thirty-eight in the intermediate, and fourty-six in the primary.

   The right education of all these children is the chief desire of all parents, for they realize that there are the germs full of possibilities needing the right kind of instruction in the right way. All the powers of a strong person are in existence in a child, but they are immature, not adjusted each to the other. These are some of the facts always kept in mind by the teacher in each department, and all efforts will be made to do the best for each pupil. It sometimes happens that pupils will pass over work that they do not understand, and if allowed to go on their powers will never be developed as nature intends they should. Such cases will receive our attention at once. A pupil that's been permitted to pass from one grade to the other without having completed the work in the grade from which he or she was promoted will be put back to finish the work, and those that fail to make a class record, and also fail in the examination must take the work over again.

    The weakness of the present school system is in the middle grades, pupils are not ready, as a general rule, to enter the high school after they have passed through the eight grades, therefore we must be very careful in grading and promoting classes, all grading is done for the best interest of the pupils.

    If the pupils have not mastered the work required in the grades, they cannot do the work in the high school.

   The high school is for the community, and it is intended that it must help pupils in the community and especially those who do not intend to go to college. It is the object of every high school to bring young people a knowledge of themselves; to prepare them for life; to find for what they are best fitted; to fit for good citizenship; all of which essential for a moral life, to happiness, and for the perpetuity of the state.

   The old idea of instruction was to gain culture. This cannot be done, life is too short. The new idea is to learn one thing well and refer everything to it. That is what will develop complete manhood and womanhood.

W.F. STEVE
Principal.