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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
8
Community speakers discuss library resources schooling and dairying. The session favors school consolidation to improve access, attendance, and outcomes, arguing rural centers can match city schools while remaining local.
Mrs. B. PF. Alexander argues cooperation as the life of the school. She emphasizes that education is a spiritual principle upheld by the entire community including the state, officials, taxpayers, parents, pupils, and teachers working together for systematic child training.
Miss Anna Peterson discusses the National Educational association’s 1911 push for rural school consolidation. She notes committees in Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota urging county and township consolidations with state aid, agriculture instruction, and social centers.
Recommendations favor Green American Elm Norway and two Jin a Poplars for local planting. Russian Olive and Golden Russian Willow hedge work placed outside rows. Plant spacing four to five feet in rows, twelve to sixteen feet between rows. Use rooted Russian Olive and either cuttings or rooted Golden Russian Willow. Add Wyant Plum and Transcendent or Virginia Crab apple trees for clusters near east and south. Maintain ample manure and cultivation, cover ornamental shrubs with dry manure in fall, and water after planting. Plant five trees and shrubs per cluster, trim for upright growth.
Discussion on consolidating rural schools argues the school house should become the social and religious hub of the neighborhood. It envisions a well equipped gymnasium for basketball as part of the school’s social life.
A northern Dakota speaker argues to transform the one room Pherrin district school into a hub for community life. He urges organized effort by teachers farmers and women to enrich education culture and civic engagement through lectures libraries debates and home economics, citing Missouri Ridge as a model.
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