Los Angeles, Seattle, and other Pacific Coast cities have made a considerable raise in the schedule of teachers' salaries. While we have never believed in the oft quoted maxim that good salaries make good teachers, yet it is gratifying to all interested in the teaching profession that these cities have been sufficiently wise to realize the importance of paying larger salaries. Los Angeles paid salaries to the principals of the schools that were inadequate. The proceedings of the California Teachers' Association for 1899 has been issued. Copies may be had by members of the Association by sending 15 cents for postage to the secretary, Mrs. M. M. FitzGerald, 1627 Folsom Street, San Francisco. This volume contains the notable addresses of Dr. Burke, President Jordan, President Wheeler, and others. It is a valuable contribution to educational literature and is printed in a large, handsome volume of over 400 pages, clear type, well bound, and complete in every particular. The consolidation of rural schools to form union elementary schools, rural school supervision, and transportation of pupils are matters which have for some time attracted much attention in other states. Recently the subjects were discussed in the Report of the Committee of Twelve on Rural Schools. Since the publication of this Report the subjects have attracted much attention in The last Biennial Convention appointed a committee, consisting of Prof. Ellwood P. Cubberley of Stanford University, Supt. J. W. Linscott of Santa Cruz, and Supt. J. W. Graham of Kings, to consider the subjects and draw up an Act for presention at the last session of the Legislature. As no satisfactory plan presented itself no report was made. When the subcommittee of the Educational Commission met in January the subject was one of the first to receive attention, and the proposed act, which we print in another part of this issue, was presented by Prof. Cubberley and adopted. The advantages of concentrating scattered rural schools into one union school were pointed out by the Committee on Rural Schools in their Report, and have been emphasized by the State Superintendents of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Indiana, and other states where the experiment has been tried and proven to be successful. Briefly, they are as follows: 1. The employment of more teachers to do the same number and grades of work, resulting in better teaching and longer recitation periods. 2. Improvment in class work and school spirit, due to the influence of larger classes in the school and more pupils on the play-ground. 3. A chance for supervision of rural schools. 4. A chance to enrich the course of study. 5. Retention of better teachers. 6. Longer school terms. 7. Greater community pride in the school. 8. A substantial saving in school money. In many of the more thickly populated counties of this state there are one or more natural concentrating centers, and the proposed law would permit superintendents to make a trial of the plan. Educational Associations and Teachers' Institutes. EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS. The California Teachers' Association, San Northern California Teachers' Association, Marysville, November 1, 2, 3. F. S. Reager, President. MEETINGS. Biennial convention of County and City Superintendents, San José, August 28, at 10 o'clock A.M. SUMMER SCHOOLS FOR TEACHERS. University of California, June 25th to August 3d. State Normal School, San Diego, July 2d to August 10th. State Normal School, San Francisco, JuneJuly. Pacific Grove Summer School, Pacific Grove, June 18th. Eight weeks. The Summer School for Teachers, Tacoma, Wash., June 26th to August 14th. Summer School of Science for Teachers, Pullman, Wash., June 25th. Six weeks. Puget Sound Summer School, Seattle, Wash., July 2d to August 10th. University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, June 20th to August 1st. Western School News. A. J. Matthews has been elected principal of Arizona State Normal School, at Tempe A. T. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler is booked for a course of lectures at Chautaqua during vacation. Superintendent F. J. Barnard of Seattle has been re-elected at an increase of $600 a year salary. Carl C. Nielsen has been appointed a member of the County Board of Education of Solano County. Prof. H. Clayton has been elected President of the State Normal School at Ashland, Oregon, to succeed W. T. Van Scoy. Geo. F. Mack and Miss Alice Gartlin have been appointed members of the County Board of Education of Amador County. Mrs. A. G. Campbell and Mrs. Mabel C. Kinney have been elected members of the County Board of Education of San Diego, Cal. The City Board of Education of San Francisco has abolished the Spring Valley Evenning and the Le Conte Primary Schools. The commercial department has been transferred from the Polytechnic High to the Mission High. Arrangements are now being completed for the introduction of manual raining, sewing and cooking. Prof. Earl Barnes was married to Miss Anna Kohler at St. Helena recently. Miss Kohler is a graduate of S 1:] and until the end of the school year taught in the Stockton high school. Prof. Edmund C. Sanford of Clark University is a guest of Dr. F. B. Dresslar of Berkeley. He will lecture daily in the Summer School Course, from 9:30 to 10:30, in the University of California. Joaquin Miller, who has been quite a feature at Teachers' Institutes during the past four years, has gone to China as war correspondent of the New York Journal, Chicago American and San Francisco Examiner. He does not expect to return to the United States until November 1st. D. A. Mobley has been elected principal of the Stockton High School, at a salary of $2,000 per year. He succeeds F. E. Perham. Prof. C. C. Van Liew, president of the Chico State Normal School, is one of the lecturers at the University of California, Summer School. S. D. Waterman, Superintendent of Schools of Berkeley for the past year, was united in marriage to Mrs. Ida Marie Sanor of Alameda on June 20th. W. W. Payne, who was a successful high school principal in San Diego County for a mber of years, is now principal of the schools of Astoria, Oregon. num Madison Babcock, Joseph O'Connor, Richard Faulkner, and J. B. Casserley entertained Superintendent Atkinson during his brief visit to San Francisco, while on his way to the Philippine Islands. Miss Lida Lennon, music and art; Miss Marie Hall, primary department; Ruth Mery, grammar department; Mrytle Brown, primary department, are the new teachers at the Chico State Normal. C. C. Adams, at one time a member of the firm of the Whitaker & Ray Co.,a graduate of San Jose Normal and Stanford University, was married recently to Miss Price, a beautiful and accomplished teacher of Anderson, Shasta County. Captain Howard Ford of Colusa, has been elected to the principalship of the Vallejo schools, to succeed C. B. Towle. Capt. Ford has distinguished himself in the National Guard, in the regular army and as an educator. M. B. Turner has resigned the presidency of the State Normal School at Cheney, Washington, and J. H. Miller of Lincoln, Neb., formerly editor of the now defunct Northwestern Monthly, has been invited to accept the place. Clyde Olney, a graduate of the Fresno High School, and also of the University of California, has been elected as principal of the Fresno High School, to succeed H. W. Abbott. The latter resigned because the Board refused to increase his salary. State Superintendent Thos. J. Kirk and wife; Morris E. Dailey, President of San Jose Normal; Principal Hayman of Colusa: Superintendent Foshay, of Los Angeles; Suderintendent Bingham, and Principal Whitney of Tacoma, are among those who attended the N. E. A. from the Pacific Coast. F. H. Leach, deputy superintendent of Public Instruction of Washington, has resigned to accept the superintendency of the schools of Chehalis, Washington. Superintendent Leach has been identified for many years with the educational work in Washington, and is a progressive and successful educator. Superintendent F. H. Plumb, a member of the State Board of Education of Washington, a man of sterling integrity and progressive educational views, has been elected to the principalship of one of the North Yakima Schools. He is now serving the second term as Superintendent of Schools of Yakima County. P. W. Kaufman, principal of the high school at Ventura, was elected superinten dent of San Bernardino schools, at a salary of $2000 per year. He accepted, but resigned in a few days, on account of a newspape controversy in San Bernardino in referenc to salary. Principal Kaufman has grad ually grown in the estimation of school peo ple. He has done excellent work at Ventura and he has done well, not only for himself but for the profession of teaching, by refus ing to go to a town where there is likely t be a fight on account of financial support. Trinity County held the last institute o the school year, June 20th, 21st, and 22 Prof. T. L. Heaton was the only instructor and his lectures proved both interesting an profitabel, dealing with matters relating t rural schools. Weaverville is a long distan from book centers. The large collection recent pedagogic books which Mr. Heato took with him received careful attentio from the parents and teachers and man titles were taken down for school and priva libraries. A collection of over sixty fi etchings and engravings accompanied t books. These and the two lectures on the proved very interesting to the teachers a general public. The mothers of Weavervi were as interested in the institute as were t teachers. So should it be, for they too a teachers. Trinity County has in its supe intendent, Miss Lizzie Fox, a wide-awal progressive educator. School and Home Education. George P. Brown, editor and publisher of School and Home Education,' one of the most useful men and one of the best of publ cations, has met with a great loss through a very disastrous fire, which destroyed all the buildings on five blocks in the heart of the city. His subscription list is lost, as arel arge and value collections of records. All subscribers should send their name and address and the time to which their subscription was paid to George P. Brown, Bloomington, Ill., at once. Pass the word along." All right, Brother Winship, we pass it along, but with the remark that it would be a distinct loss to educational journalism to have " "School and Home" disappear in smoke. We trust that not only the old subscribers, but that many readers of this notice will send a new subscription to "School and Home." It is an original, thoughtful, impartial and helpful journal. The following named graduates of the University of California have been placed in schools in various parts of the State: Miss Lena Macauley, 200, teacher of Latin and Greek in Mills College; Miss Lily Hohfeld, 99, in Yreka High School; Miss Rose Hohfeld, '99, assistant teacher in Red Bluff High School. Miss Gertrude Allen, '00, succeeds Sidney Elston in the San Diego High School. Mr. Elston will take a similar position in the Berkeley High School. Roswell Wheeler '96, goes to the head of the history department in the Alameda High School. Miss Emma Garretson becomes a teacher of French and German in the Alameda High School. Miss Beatrice Reynolds has resigned from the faculty of Vassar College to accept a position as teacher of Greek and Latin in the Los Angeles High School. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, aad prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and herefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the only contitutional cure on the market. It is taken nternally in doses from 10 drops to a teapoonful. It acts directly on the blood and ucous surfaces of the system. They offer ne hundred dollars for any case it fails to ure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio. So'd by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. WARNING We occasionally learn of agents and liverymen are cautioned against THE WHITAKER & RAY CO. 723 Market St., S. F. Tehama County School Notes. The County Board of Education granted but two grammar grade certificates at the recent examination. The board displayed sound judgment and good sense in not making many changes in text-books. A large class of applicants for graduation from the grammar schools presented themselves for examination this year. Eight of the number averaged over 90 per cent the highest being from Principal G. K. Bingham's class and the second from Miss Lena Nangle's at Proberta. One of the eight was a little girl twelve years old from the Tehama grammar school, Miss Beatrice Simpson. One of the sad events of the spring was the death of Evelyn Cain, the primary teacher at Antelope. She was ill but a few weeks, having contracted consumption. She was а most estimable young lady and will be missed from our body of teachers. Miss Marie Sabelman completed her term. The Red Bluff High School closed recently after a most successful term. The attendance grew steadily from September last. A class of seven graduated, most of whom will attend higher schools. Too much credit cannot be given Principal O. E. Graves and his corps of teachers. The trustees of Red Bluff Grammar School showed good sense in their recent selection of teachers without applications. Some teachers had not dreamed (?) of being chosen. This is as it should be. Many teachers display a woeful lack of professional spirit in applying for a dozen schools, creating the impression that there is a la ge surplus of teachers. The new teachers in Red Bluff are, Misses Edith K Johnson, Lydia Walters, and Estella Matlock. G. K. Bingham is retained as principal, and E. B. Warmoth, as vice. The new trustee is W. F. Luning, the weilknown county surveyor. Corning school has grown over 100 per cent. Six teachers will be employed this term. The immigration to Maywood Colony is the cause of the rapid growth. Principal A. W. Glover, it is understood, will not be retained. We are sorry to see frequent changes, especially in the principals of our schools. Three teachers. G. K. Bingham, E. B. Warmoth, and Miss Jeanette Fihs, are engaged this month (June) in taking United States census. Miss Retta Counsel, formerly a member of our County Board, and for many years in the Red Bluff schools, has gone East to remain. Principal J. D. Sweeney has gone to Pacific Grove to take a course in history in the summer school at that place. He is accompanied by his wife. He will, no doubt, return to Tehama, where he has been for the past twelve years. At a recent meeting of the supervisors, H. L. Bankhead and Virginia De Shields were appointed on the board of education, vice G. K. Bingham and E. B. Warmoth. Ex-Superintendent Bel'e Miller is teaching this summer near Lyonsville. |