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DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORY – PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS – IRON MOUNTAIN TEACHERS

[Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings]

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[NOTE: Boldface in text added.]

School Record, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 10, Number 7 [March, 1910], pages 25-26 [This was the Iron Mountain school newspaper.]

THE SCHOOLS. At first Iron Mountain was part of

Breitung Township. A sub-district was organized in 1880 and John Wicks, Andrew Boyington and John Kern were chosen directors. They started to erect a two room [sic – two-room] building to be ready in the fall of 1880. It was situated on the northeast corner of Brown and Iron Mountain streets, one block north of the present Carnegie Library. The building was not ready for occupancy until January, 1881. Will H. Shephard was the teacher and taught eight months, closing the first of September.

At that time, Keelridge [sic – Keel Ridge] had a considerable population and was part of the Iron Mountain district. In the fall of 1881 a one-room building was erected there. The teachers for 1881-1882 were Miss Alice Downs, and Miss Belle Kern in the Brown Street building, and Miss Edith Forsyth at Keelridge [sic – Keel Ridge]. The next year a two-room addition was made to the Brown Street building. The teachers for 1882-1883 were Mr. C.H. Van Anda, Miss Agnes Hawley and Miss Ella Atkinson in the Brown Street building, and Miss Edith Forsyth at Keelridge [sic – Keel Ridge]. The following summer, Keelridge [sic – Keel Ridge] having been largely abandoned, the school building was moved to Chapin location. In October, 1883, the Central school was ordered built at a cost of $7,500.

TEACHERS.

1881

BROWN ST. SCHOOL William H. Shephard.

KEEL RIDGE SCHOOL

1881-1882

BROWN ST. SCHOOL

Alice M. Downs, Bell Kern.

KEEL RIDGE SCHOOL

Edith Forsyth.

1882-1883

BROWN ST. SCHOOL A.J. Van Auken [sic – Anda], Supt., Agnes Hawley, Ella Atkinson.

KEEL RIDGE SCHOOL Edith Forsyth.

1883-1884

BROWN ST. SCHOOL

A.J. Van Auken [sic – Anda], Supt., Margaret Teller, Agnes Hawley, Allie Wicks, Clara Congdon.

(The latter in a rented room on Brown St.)

1884-1885

CENTRAL SCHOOL

A.J. Van Auken [sic – Anda], Supt., Magaret [sic – Margaret] Teller, Agnes Hawley, Chetty Wheeler, Sarah Gray, Allie Wicks,



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Minnie Flaherty, [later Mrs. Edward George Kingsford]

Ella Penglase.

BROWN ST. SCHOOL Clara Congdon, Jane Van Auken. [later Mrs. Albert Eleazer

Robbins] Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain,

Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 6, Number 15 [Thursday, September 5, 1901], page 5, column 1

END OF THE LONG VACATION. _____

The Public Schools Will Resume Regular Sessions on Monday Next.

The city schools will open next Monday, with the following teachers in charge of the several departments:

L.E. Amidon, superintendent. Hulst High School – C.W. Greene,

principal, and teacher of mathematics; Earl Blough, of La Grange, Ind., science; Aymer D. Davis, of Eldora, Ia., History; Minnie Lester, of Tuscola, Ill., Latin and German; Mary Thompson, of Pontiac, Mich., English; grades – Lillian Cutler, Ella Smythe and Ella Penglase, of Iron Mountain; and Minerva Updike, Grass Lake; Irene M. Baker, Thomsonville; Clara G. Swanson, Hudson, Wis.; and Mabel D. Field, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

Lincoln – Agnes Bolan, Augusta Suwalsky, and Inez Lawrence, of Iron Mountain; and Lou E. White, Brookside; Alberta Pope, Vermontville; Rena Conklin, Charlotte; Bertha Blackmer, North Adams; and Winnifred Bartlett, Coldwater.

Central – Ella Harper, Winifred Downs, May A. McDermott and Permelia Brown, of Iron Mountain; Mamie G. Corcoran, Grand Rapids; Marian

MacDonald, Caro; Lillian Van Alstine, Kilbourne, Wis.

Chapin – Mary Dickie and Elizabeth Skillen, of Iron Mountain; Lenora Laughlin, Ishpeming; Rose McMonagle, Hermansville; Anna A. Richardson, Marquette; Katherine Spencer, Cadillac; and Adella Wheeler, Greenville.

Farragut – James C. Smith, of Iron Mountain; Blanch [sic – Blanche] Vance, Sutherland, Ia., Margaret Stewart, Redwood Falls, Minn., Ina L. Perrin, Traverse City; Maude Limbach, Centerville; Margaret Kavannaugh, Two Rivers, Wis.

Washington – Maude Monroe, Mamie Dillon, and Jennie Penglase, of Iron Mountain, and Clara C. James, of Oshkosh, Wis.

Ludington – Carrie McConnell and Lucy E. Plowman, of Iron Mountain; Minnie Russell, Tecumseh; Anna Uren, Norway.

Mabel Reynolds, McGregor, Ia., not located.

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain,

Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 10, Number 15 [Thursday, August 31, 1905], page 1, column 3

THE CITY SCHOOLS. _____

THE LONG SUMMER VACATION WILL END TUESDAY MORNING.

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A Complete List of Instructor [sic] Engaged for the Year – Positions

Assigned and the Buildings.

The long summer vacation comes to [an] end next Tuesday when the public



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schools will reopen for the fall term. The course of study remains about the same as last year. Following is a list of the instructors engaged with their positions:

PUBLIC LIBRARY. Superintendent – L.E. Amidon. Substitute Teacher – Lulu Hughes.

HULST HIGH SCHOOL. Principal – John F. Reed, mathematics. Music – Kathryn Allison. History – Edward C. Jacobs. English – Mary M. Thompson. Latin and German – Anna M. Bates. Science – Royden E. Webster. Commerce – Jessie E. Perry. Domestic Science – Alice M. Gunn. Manual Training – Stanley Garthe. Eighth Grade – Minerva Updike. Eighth Grade – Augusta Sulwalsky. Seventh Grade – Maude Leinbach. Seventh Grade – Margaret

Kavenaugh. Seventh Grade – Lillian Cutler. Sixth Grade – Emma Peterson. Sixth Grade – Gertrude Saw.

LOWELL SCHOOL. Fifth Grade – Agnes Wolske. Fourth Grade – Marie A. Pariseau. Third-Second Grade – Mary Skillen. First-Primer – Ella Penglase.

WASHINGTON SCHOOL. Third Grade – Katherine Reardon,

principal. Second Grade – Anna Parmelee. First Grade – Jennie Penglase. Primer – Delia Finn.

LINCOLN SCHOOL. Sixth Grade – George C. Price,

principal. Sixth Grade – Frideswida Spratt. Fifth Grade – Edna L. Nash. Fourth Grade – Marion MacDonald. Third Grade – Lulu Dillon. Second Grade – Agnes Bolan. First Grade – Genevieve Graham. Primer – Marie Hyslop.

CENTRAL SCHOOL. Fifth Grade – Ella Harper, principal. Fifth Grade – Mabel MacReynolds. Fourth Grade – Elizabeth Wolske. Fourth Grade – Elizabeth Skillen. Third Grade – Anna M. Uren. Second Grade – Mattie E. Dawe. First Grade – Helga Peterson. Primer – Leonora Laughlin.

LUDINGTON SCHOOL. Third Grade – May McDermott,

principal. Second Grade – Lillian Eldridge. First Grade – Louise Dunnebacke. Primer – Winnifred Downs.

FARRAGUT SCHOOL. Sixth Grade – Roy D. West, principal. Sixth Grade – Mary M. Seed. Fifth Grade – Edith Edwards. Fifth Grade – Margaret Thull. Second Grade – Estella Robbins. Second Grade – Hannah Hansen. First Grade – Elisabeth [sic -

Elizabeth] Bissell. Primer – Cora Luxmore. Cadet – Essie Seibert.

CHAPIN SCHOOL. Fourth Grade – Flora D. Hatch. Fourth Grade – Elizabeth Hamilton. Third Grade – Eloise Alton. Third Grade – Mary M. Wallace. Third-Second – Eugenia Pariseau. First Grade – Laura Schmidt. First-Primer – Isabelle Henning. Primer – Elsa F. Koeler. Cadet – Daisy Rizzardi. Mr. Reed is principal of the Lowell

school and Mr. West of the Chapin school.


Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 11, Number 15 [Thursday, August 30, 1906], page 1, column 1 [photographs of grade school buildings]



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SCHOOLS OF THE CITY. _____

WILL RESUME THEIR REGULAR

SESSIONS NEXT TUESDAY. _____

A Complete List of Instructors Engaged – Buildings to Which

They Have Been Assigned.

The several departments of the public schools will resume their sessions next Tuesday morning and it is anticipated that the enrollment will exceed that of last season. During vacation the several building [sic – buildings] have been thoroughly renovated and repaired and are now in prime condition. Supt. Amidon has made the following assignments of teachers to the various buildings:

LIBRARY BUILDING. Superintendent – L.E. Amidon. Substitute – Lulu Hughes.

HULST BUILDING. Principal – John F. Reed, mathematics. Music – Kathryn Allison. History – Emma Kassebaum. English – Clara I. Stalker. Latin and German – Anna M. Bates. Science – Royden E. Webster. Commerce – Jessie E. Perry. Domestic Science – Jessie K. Palmer. Manual Training – Stanley Garthe. Deaf – Jessie Banford. Eighth Grade – Minerva Updike. Eighth Grade – Laude Leinbach. Seventh Grade – James E.

Glasspoole. Seventh Grade – Margaret

Kavenaugh. Seventh Grade – Herta M. Heers. Seventh Grade – Frideswida Spratt. Sixth Grade – Emma Peterson.

Sixth Grade – Gertrude Saw. LOWELL BUILDING.

Fifth Grade – Agnes Wolske. Fourth Grade – Marie A. Pariseau. Third-Second Grades – Mary Skillen. First-Primer Grade – Ella Penglase.

WASHINGTON BUILDING. Principal-Third Grade – Katherine

Reardon. Second Grade – Anna Parmelee. First Grade – Jennie Penglase. Primer Grade – Delia Finn.

LINCOLN BUILDING. Principal-Sixth Grade – George G.

Price. Sixth Grade – Gertrude Welsh. Fifth Grade – Edna L. Nash. Fourth Grade – Marion Macdonald [sic

– MacDonald] Third Grade – Lulu Dillon. Second Grade – Matie [sic – Mattie] E.

Dawe. First Grade – Genevieve Graham. Primer – Marie Hyslop.

CENTRAL BUILDING. Principal-Fifth Grade – Ella Harper. Fifth Grade – Clara Windhauser. Fourth Grade – Elizabeth Wolske. Fourth Grade – Elizabeth Skillen. Third Grade – Mary M. Wallace. Second Grade – Ina Perrin. First Grade – Elizabeth Bissell. Primer – Leonora Laughlin.

LUDINGTON BUILDING. Principal-Third Grade – May

McDermott. Second Grade – Lillian Eldridge. First Grade – Lotta Linder. Primer – Winnifred Downs.

FARRAGUT BUILDING. Principal-Sixth Grade – C. Fred Abel. Sixth Grade – Ada B. Smith. Fifth Grade – Elizabeth Johnson. Fifth Grade – Grace A. Palmer. Second Grade – Julia Smith. Second Grade – Eugenia Pariseau.



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First Grade – Laura Schmidt. Primer – Cora Luxmore. Primer – Florence Mason.

CHAPIN BUILDING. Fourth Grade – Margaret Murphy. Fourth Grade – Edna F. Bryant. Third Grade – Eloise Alton. Third Grade – Minnie Swanson. Second Grade – Alma Abel. First Grade – Nellie Morrissey. Primer – Isabelle Henning. Primer – Rena Conklin. Mr. Reed is principal of the Lowell

school and Mr. Abel of the Chapin school.



SCHOOLS READY _____

ALL DEPARTMENTS RESUME

REGULAR SESSIONS ON MONDAY. _____

Supt. Amidon Has Assigned Corps

of of [sic] Teachers to the Nine Buildings – Number of Changes.

The several departments of the nine

school buildings of the city school system will resume regular sessions on Monday next after a three months [sic – months’] vacation. The teachers are arriving on every train. A meeting of teachers will be held at the high school on Monday afternoon. Following is the assignment of teachers furnished The Press by Supt. Amidon:

CARNEGIE LIBRARY. L.E. Amidon, superintendent; Sabra L.

Nason, librarian; Lulu Hughes, substitute. HULST SCHOOL.

J.F. Reed, principal, mathematics; Kathryn Allison, music; Herta M. Heers, drawing; Emma Kassebaum, history; Clara I. Stalker, English; Anna M. Bates, Latin and German; Royden E. Webster, science; Marion U. Ney, commerce; Jessie K. Palmer, domestic science; Stanley Garthe, manual training; Minerva Updike, eighth; Maude Leinbach, eighth; Margaret Kavenaugh, seventh; Stella Braeger, seventh; Frideswida Spratt, seventh; Zaidee Bovee, seventh; Emma Peterson, seventh; Gertrude Saw, sixth.

LOWELL SCHOOL. Agnes Wolske, fifth; Marie Pariseau,

fourth; Mary Skillen[,] third, second; Ella Penglase, first, primer.

CENTRAL SCHOOL. Ella Harper, principal, sixth; Mary

McCole, fifth; Elizabeth Wolske, fifth; Elizabeth Skillen, fourth; Mary M. Wallace, third; Eugenia Pariseau; [sic – ,] second; Mabel Richards, fifth; Elizabeth Bissell, primer.

FARRAGUT SCHOOL. Fred Abel, principal, seventh; Ada B.

Smith[,] sixth; Sigrid Johnson, sixth; Edith Jochim, fifth; Elizabeth Zoeller, fifth; Rose Meyers, fourth; Blanche Y. Stewart, fourth; Elizabeth Johnson, third.

CHAPIN SCHOOL. Minnie Swanson, third; Loretta

Murphy, third, second; Julia Keefe, second; Julia Smith, second; Susan Williams, first; Harriette Porterfield, first; Alma McCullough, first, primer; Jessie Beebe, primer; Cora Luxmore, primer; Florence Mason, primer.

LINCOLN SCHOOL. Paul F. Finner, principal, seventh, sixth;

Edna L. Nash, sixth; Agnes Bolan, fifth; Marion Macdonald [sic – MacDonald],



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fourth; Lulu Dillon, third; Matie [sic – Mattie] E. Dawe, second; Laura Schmidt, first; Isabelle Henning, primer.

LUDINGTON SCHOOL. May McDermott, principal, fourth; Belle

Ripley, third; Grace Ware, second, first; Winifred Downs, primer.

WASHINGTON SCHOOL. Anna Parmelee, principal, third; Delia

Finn, second; Jennie Penglase, first; Rena Conklin, primer.


Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, Number 52 [Thursday, May 14, 1908], page 1, column 5

CORPS TEACHERS _____

A GOODLY NUMBER OF THE

PRESENT STAFF WILL RETURN. _____

Supt. Amidon is Hard at Work Sup-

plying Places of Those Who In- tend Seeking New Fields.

To date the following teachers have

been engaged to teach school in this city, all but the last three being members of the present corps:

Kathryn Allison, L.E. Amidon, Anna M.L. Bates, Jessie Beebe, Agnes Bolan, Rena Conklin, Lulu Dillon, Winifred Downs, Della Finn, Paul F. Finner, Stanley Garthe, Ella Harper, Herta M. Heers, Isabelle Henning, Lulu Hughes, Edith Jochim, Sigrid Johnson, Margaret Kavanaugh, Julia Keefe, Cora Luxmore, Rose Mayers, Mary McCole, Alma McCullough, May McDermott, Loretto

[sic] Murphy, Eugenia Pariseau, Marie Pariseau, Anna Parmelee, Ella Penglase, Jennie Penglase, John F. Reed, Mabel Richards, Gertrude Saw, Elizabeth Skillen, Mary Skillen, Julia G. Smith, Frideswida Spratt, Blanche Stewart, Minerva Updike, Mary Wallace, Royden E. Wesbter [sic – Webster], Susan Williams, Elizabeth Zoeller, Edith A. Lenox, Mildred A. Carnes, Myrtle Seibert.

Misses Bovee, Braeger, Bissell, Dawe, Elizabeth M. Johnson, Kassebaum, Leinbach, MacDonald, Mason, Nash, Ney, Palmer, Peterson, Porterfield, Ripley, Schmidt, Smith, Stalker, Swanson, Ware, and Agnes and Elizabeth Wolske, and C. Fred Abel of this year’s staff will not return.


Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 12, Number 52 [Thursday, May 21, 1908], page 1, column 4

MORE NEW TEACHERS _____

Engaged at the Last Meeting of the

Board of Education.

At a regular meeting of the board of education held last Friday evening Misses Margaret Kavenaugh and Blanche Stewart, of the present corps of teachers[,] were re-engaged, having reconsidered their determination to leave the city. Following is a list of the new teachers elected at the meeting:

Elizabeth Criswell, Morris, Ill., high school, commercial.

Lena E. Danforth, Massena, N.Y., high school, domestic science.

W.W. Woodward, Republic, Mich., principal, Chapin-Farragut.



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Nellie Berwalt, Bessemer. Edna E. Braisher, Oshkosh. Catherine Deasy, Marquette. Laura M. Durick, Portage, Wis. Tessie Feeley, Champion. Meta Lenthold, Iola, Wis. Bessie M. Lewis, Omro, Wis. Frostelia M. Lintz, Marquette. Nellie A. Malone, Oshkosh. Lorlie McMahon, Oshkosh. Ida V. Olson, Escanaba. Jennie Pecard, Bessemer. Louise Rushmore, Marquette. Vivian L. Thrun, Eagle River, Wis. Nellie Whelan, Hartford, Wis. Myrtle E. Williams, Berlin, Wis. Eva M. Wirth, Shawano, Wis.

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 15, Number 15 [Thursday, September 1, 1910], page 1, columns 1-2

SCHOOL VACATION _____

COMES TO AN END NEXT TUESDAY WHEN STUDIES

COMMENCE. _____

Complete List of Instructors En-

gaged for Year; Attendance Will Break All Records.

The long vacation for the public schools

will close on Tuesday next, when the various departments will resume regular sessions.

During the vacation season the several school buildings have been thoroughly clean [sic – cleaned] and repaired. At the Hulst building new heating radiators have

been placed in the several rooms, the manual training department has been enlarged, and two rooms in the basement have been fitted up for high school students. The Ludington building has been supplied with a new roof.

Supt. Amidon predicts an increased attendance in all departments. The attendance at the high school promised to reach 250, much the largest in the history of the schools, and sixty larger than last year. All departments are badly overcrowded and another building is needed. The Press understands that the board of education has debated in an informal way the erection of a new high school building and the question of a bond issue for such a structure may be submitted to a vote of the tax-payers [sic – taxpayers] at no distant day. The plan most favorably considered is to erect the new high school building on the Central school site, containing one block, and removing the Central building to the property north of St. Joseph’s church, which the board purchased some time ago.

Following is a list of the instructors in the several schools together with their home address:

Iron Mountain – Kathryn Allison, L.E. Amidon, Agnes Bolan, Josephine Dillon, Lulu Dillon, E. Winifred Downs, Stanley Garthe, Ella Harper, Edith Johnson, Gertrude Laing, Cora G. Luxmore, Marie A. Pariseau, Ella Penglase, Jennie Penglase, Daisy Rizzardi, Elizabeth Skillen, Mary Skillen.

Ishpeming – Simon R. Anderson, Klara L. Kjesboe.

Ruth Bailey, Jacksonville,Ill. Nellie Berwald, Bessemer. Oshkosh – Edna Braisher, Maud A.

Crum, Jessie Braisher, Lillian Eldredge. Lillian J. Brown, Hancock. Mary L. Burris, Plattsville, Wis. Jane Cochrane, Washington, D.C. Ethel Collins, Wadena, Minn.



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Rena Conklin, Charlotte. Elizabeth Criswell, Cambridge, Ohio[.] Edna Cummins, Rose Hill, Ill. Lena Danforth, Massena, N.Y. A.J. Dean, Bay View. Marquette – Catherine Deasy,

Elizabeth Mohrman, William F. Mullaly. Ruby J. Delbridge, Colchester, Ill. Edith M. Dolf, Michigamme. Tessie Feeley, Champion. Carrie M. Fosdick, Pontiac. Maude M. Foval, Warren, Ill. Ruby G. Fuhrman, Plattsville, Wis. Goldie Gabel, Greenup, Ill. Matilda Golden, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Herta M. Heers, New Ulm, Minn. Margaret Kavenaugh, Antigo, Wis. Julia Keefe, Elkhorn, Wis. Mildred Koster, Platteville, Wis. Clara W. Long, Mt. Morris. Claire Maris, Tuscola, Ill. Edna Mayer, Marshall, Ill. Genevieve McDonald, Ontonagon. Gardia J. Merreitt, Iowa Elizabeth Merritt, Rondo. Mary E. Morrill, Warner, N.H. May Mundy, Fennimore, Wis. Viola Pelunck, Alma, Wis. Mayme Ratz, Brighton. J.F. Reed, Elmwood, Ill. Gertrude Saw, Negaunee. Petronella M. Scanlon, West Depere,

Wis. Julia Smith, St. Johns. Annie G. Stanley, Omro, Wis. Vivian L. Thrum, Eagle River, Wis. Mabel Tousley, Wheaton, Ill. Bennetta Treloar, National Mine. Anna M. Trondson, Black River Falls,

Wis. Minerva Updike, Chelsea. Sue E. Welch, Richmond, Ill. Nellie Whelan, Hartford, Wis. The teachers have been assigned to the

several buildings, as follows:

Carnegie Library – L.E. Amidon, superintendent, Agnes Bolan, grammar supervisor, Edna E. Braisher, primary supervisor, Sabra Nason, librarian.

Hulst School – John F. Reed, principal, mathematics; Kathryn Allison, music; Herta M. Heers, drawing; Sue E. Welch, history; Jane Cochrane, English; A.J. Dean, science; Ruth Bailey, Clara W. Long, ninth year; J. Gardia Merreitt, Latin-German; Elizabeth Griswell, commerce; Lena E. Danforth, domestic science; Stanley Garthe, manual training; Anna M. Trondson, deaf; Minerva Updike, Margaret Kavenaugh, Elizabeth Skillen, Gertrude Saw, Vivian G. Thrum, eighth grade; Petronella Scanlon, Marie A. Pariseau, Maude A. Crum, seventh grade.

Lowell School – Catherine Deasy, principal, sixth grade; Elizabeth Morhmann [sic], Gertrude Laing, fifth grade; Goldie Gabel, fourth grade.

Washington School – Julia Smith, principal, third grade, Florence B. Corssen, third-second, Julia Keefe, second, Jennie Penglase, first, Ella Penglase, first-primary, Rena Conklin, primer.

Lincoln School – Simon R. Anderson, principal, seventh grade, Lulu Dillon, sixth, Josephine Dilllon, fifth, Claire Maris, fourth, Nellie Berwald, third, Ruby Fuhrman, second, Viola Pelunck, first, Tessie Feeley, primer.

Central School – Ella Harper, principal, seventh grade, Matilda Golden, sixth, Maude Foval, fifth, Mabel Tousley, fourth, Bennetta Treloar, third, Mildred Koster, second, Nellie Whelan, first, Edith Dolf, primer.

Ludington School – Mary Skillen, principal, sixth-fifth, Elizabeth Merritt, fourth-third, Edna Cummins, second-first, E. Winifred Downs, primer.

Farragut School – William J. Mullaly, principal, seventh, Mary Burris, Edna



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Mayers, sixth, Carrie Fosdick, Edith Johnson, fifth, Ruby Delbridge, Mayme Ratz, Lillian Brown, fourth.

Chapin School – Jessie Braisher, principal, third, Ethel Collins, third, May Mundy, Klara L. Kjesboe, second, Annie Stanley, second-first, Lillian Eldredge, Genevieve McDonald, first, Daisy Rizzardi, Mary Morrill, Cora G. Luxmore, primer. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain,

Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 19, Number 15 [Thursday, August 27, 1914], page 1, columns 1-2

SCHOOLS OF CITY _____

ALL DEPARTMENTS WILL RESUME SESSIONS ON

WEDNESDAY. _____

Manual Training Division Has Been

Enlarged by a Well-Equipped Blacksmith Department.

The various departments of the city

school will resume regular sessions next Wednesday. A meeting of the teachers will be held on Tuesday for the discussion of plans for the year. The instructors are about the same as last year. Following is a list, as furnished by Supt. Amidon, together with the buildings and the positions assigned:

HIGH SCHOOL – OFFICE L.E. Amidon, Superintendent Agnes Bolan, Grammar Supervisor Susan E. Williams, Primary Supervisor Mrs. Annette Page, Music Supervisor Mary V. Moore, Drawing Supervisor Lattie M. Gervais, Clerk

James D. Cudlip, Truant Officer HIGH SCHOOL – TEACHERS

Katherine Sheridan, English Gladys M. Boise, English Vera Lutje, History Mamie Knickerbocker, History Minnie J. Talbot, Mathematics Edith F. Salter, Mathematics A.J. Dean, Science Florence K. Wilson, Science Esther A. Stavrum, Latin, German W.P. Potter, Commerce Myra Collinson, Civil Services Stanley Garthe, Manual Training Glenn H. Myers, manual Training Minna Baab, Domestic Science Bessie Rogers, Domestic Science

HULST BUILDING S.R. Anderson, Principal, English Lulu Dillon, Eighth Gertrude Saw, Eighth Minerva Updike, Eighth Joan Sullivan, Eighth Edna L. Nash, Eighth Nellie Jordan, Seventh Edith Reynolds, Seventh Adeline Welte, Sixth Christina Pederson, Sixth, Fifth Ida Gleason, Deaf

WASHINGTON BUILDING Clara Kjesboe, Principal, Fifth Minnie Hegdahl, Fourth Julia Graefe, Third Johanna Flaa [sic], Second Jennie Penglase, First Ella Penglase, Primer

LINCOLN BUILDING Mary Skillen, Principal, Seventh Georgiana Tyler, Sixth Gladys Cox, Fifth Alphild Carlson, Fourth Nellie Lynch, Third Agnes Swanson, Second Anna Hallberg, First Eva Gordon, Primer

CENTRAL BUILDING



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Mary McCole, Principal, Seventh Bertha Couture, Sixth Lottie Hewson, Fifth Florence Keightley [sic], Fourth Clara Meyer, Third Lillian Cameron, Second Golda Salchert, First Genevieve Clement, Primer

LUDINGTON BUILDING Winifred Skillen, Principal, Seventh,

Sixth. Eda Cola, Fifth, Fourth Carrie E. Toan, Third, Second Winifred Downs, First, Primer

FARRAGUT BUIDING [sic – BUILDING] Frank D. Bullock, Principal, Seventh Lucilla Reidy, Sixth Angelina Theriault, Sixth Edith Plambech, Fifth Esther Dunstone, Fifth Edith L. Glover, Fourth Minnie Larson, Fourth Maree Schaeffer, Fourth, Third

CHAPIN BUILDING Ethel McCallen, Principal, Third Ora Slocum, Third Alta Hulbert, Second Agnes M. Leiper, Second Lyda Gill, Second, First Alvah Rowe, First Abba Watton, First Cora Luxmore, Primer Daisy Rizzardi, Primer Mae Bengry, Primer Some substantial improvements are

being made at the high school building. A forging-room [sic – forging room] has been established in the basement with fourteen forges and anvils, so that, with two classes per day, twenty-eight pupils maybe instructed in blacksmithing and iron work. A new lathe has been added to the manual training room and a large cabinet, with eighteen compartments for storing incompleted [sic – uncompleted] work, has been built in the small room adjoining the

workroom. The commercial department has been equipped with new desks, twenty-four in the recitation room and twelve in the typewriter room. Each desk has five drawers with individual keys, so that, if necessary, they can be used by five different classes in [the] same day. There are also ten new type writing machines. A new steel letter file has been added to the equipment of the superintendent’s office.

The improvements at other school buildings include new steel fire escapes at the Farragut and Ludington schools, redecorating and kalsomining at the Hulst and also at the Carnegie library.

A purchase of $400 worth of new books has been made for the high school library.

In general all the buildings have received attention and are now in perfect sanitary condition. All the doors in all the buildings have been changed to that they now swing into the halls.


Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 20, Number 15 [Thursday, August 26, 1914], page 1, columns 3-4

SCHOOLS OF CITY _____

ALL DEPARTMENTS WILL RESUME SESSIONS ON

WEDNESDAY. _____

Manual Training Division Has Been

Enlarged by a Well-Equipped Blacksmith Department.

The various departments of the city

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SIXTH GRADE

Geography…………………… .80 Penmanship Set No. 5……... .10

SEVENTH GRADE Sixth Year Reader………….. .40 Arithmetic……………………. .50 R. & H. Grammar……………. .50 Penmanship Set No. 6……… .10

EIGHTH GRADE Civics…………………………. .50 Physics……………………….. .50 Following is a list of the teachers,

together with their assignments and place of residence:

Superintendent – Leslie A. Butler. SUPERVISORS.

Grammar – Agnes Bolan, city. Deaf – Ida Gleason, New Richmond,

Wis. Primary – Klara Kjesboe, Ishpeming. Music – Annette M. Page, Pittsburg,

Kansas. Art – Grace Simons, Kalamazoo.

HIGH SCHOOL. Civil Service – Myra Collinson, Port

Huron. English – Gladys M. Bloise, Denver. English – Vera Barker, Grand Rapids. History – Mamie Knickerbocker,

Breedsville, Mich. History – Marie Ronan, Marshall, Mich. Mathematics – Minnie Talbot, Berlin,

Wis. Mathemathics – Edith M. Salter,

Traverse City. Latin – Emma M. Swigart, Ann Arbor. Science – Florence Wilson, Ann Arbor. Science – Aurie J. Dean, Nashville. Commerce – W.J.Potter, Sparta, Ill. Manual Training – Stanley Garthe, city. Manual Training – Glenn H. Myers,

Flint.

Domestic Science – Bessie Rogers, Sycamore, Ill.

Domestic Science – Jessie M. DeBoth, Green Bay, Wis.

Agriculture – [no listing] HULST SCHOOL.

Principal – George T. Lusk, Green Bay. Eighth Grade – Minerva M. Updike,

Chelsa [sic – Chelsea]. Eighth – Edna Lenore Nash, Sparta. Eighth – Nellie Jordon [sic], Hayward,

Wis. Eighth – Adelina K. Welte, Ludington. Eighth – Lulu Dillon, city. Seventh – Josephine Dillon, city. Seventh – Christine Pederson,

Hayward, Wis. Seventh-Sixth – LaDore Henderson,

Traverse City. Sixth – Angelina Therriault, Marquette.

WASHINGTON SCHOOL. Principal – Johanna Flaa, Ishpeming. Fourth Grade – Minnie Hegdahl,

Ishpeming. Third – Julia Graefe, city. Second – Agnes Leiper, Escanaba. First – Jennie Penglase, city. Primer – Ella Penglase, city.

LINCOLN SCHOOL. Principal – Mary Skillen, city. Sixth – Edith Plambeck, Michigamme. Fifth – Esther Dunstone, Hubbell. Fourth – Alphid Carlson, Marquette. Third – Nellie Lynch, Hillsboro, Wis. Second – Agnes Swanson, Ishpeming.

Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 23, Number 11 [Thursday, August 1, 1918], page 1, column 1

School Matters.

At a recent meeting of the board of education, William J. Cudlip was re-elected president and Richard C.



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Browning the secretary. No tenders were received for coal in response to the advertisement. The board was given to understand that no hard coal would be available for any of the school buildings and that soft coal would be delivered as needed at the market price at the time of delivery. A.J. Kearste, supervisor of the manual training school, tendered his resignation to the board. He stated that it was his intention to enlist in the navy. A.J. Valeske, in charge of the printing department, who resigned to accept a similar position at Escanaba, has enlisted in the navy, according to information received here. School taxes will be about the same as last year despite the fact that the bonded indebtedness to be liquidated is considerable less. Salary increases and the high cost of coal and other supplies are responsible. Some of the janitors were voted more pay at the last meeting. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain,


SCHOOL MATTERS

A Partial List of Teachers Engaged For Incoming School Year.

Following is an incomplete list of the

teachers who will be employed in the city schools during the coming year. Supt. Travis, from whom the list was obtained, tells The Press that he hopes to fill the remaining vacancies. It will be noticed, too, that no German instructor has been engaged, and that Spanish has been substituted. There is a scarcity of manual training instructors, the men having “all gone to war,” and this

department may have to be curtailed greatly. The assignment of instructors to grades and the several buildings will also be postponed until shortly before the schools re-open.

HIGH SCHOOL M.B. Travis, superintendent. Marie Ronan, principal. English – Hazel Dutt, Vera Barker,

Anna Buck. History – Annie Johnson. Mathematics – Jessie Swan, Ruth

Reiman. Latin and Spanish – Adelaide Russel.l

[sic – Russell]. Domestic Science – Sarah Hickox,

Grace Thacker. Commerce – W.P. Potter. Music – Kathryn M. Allison.

GRADE TEACHERS Merle Brake, Chloe Hardy, Edna

Nash, Nancy Jackson, Orea Prenevost, Irene Bebeau, Helen Garvey, Katherine Kasteleck, Eliza Thomas, Ellen Johnson, Louise Nehil, Norine Ryan, Mary Skillen, Minnie Larsen, Dorothy Goulet, Isabelle Peterson, Esther Stenstrom, Edith Palmbeck, Gertrude Munn, Athlyn Bangs, Agnes Condon, Anna Anderson, Anna Hallberg, Guy Hoadley, Polly Goldsworthy, Ida Gleason, Olive Edwards, Mary McCole, Alma Baril, Ruth Tornquist, Clara Meyer, Laura Trestrail, Alfreda Nyman, Goldie Salchert, Anna Plambeck, Winifred Skillen, Edith Faust, Anna Hager, Edith Johnson, Myra Gatherer, Gwendolyn Eade, Ellen Hager, Nellie Paronto [sic – Peronto], Hildur Anderson, Jennie Larsen, Henrietta James, Alvah Rowe, Lillian Carroll, Fern Proper, Mathilda Nicholson, Alma Rusko, Nannie Fredstrom, Bertha Kriedeman, Mrs. Grace Thomas, Pearl White.



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Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 23, Number 15 [Thursday, August 29, 1918], page 1, column 6

SCHOOLS OPEN TUESDAY _____

A Complete List of Instructors

Engaged for Present Year.

The several departments of the city schools will re-open next Tuesday for the fall and winter terms. There have been many changes in the high school faculty and grade teachers. A number of studies have been abolished, notably German. The buildings are all in prime condition, having been thouroughly [sic – thoroughly] renovated. A meeting of teachers will be held on Monday at which time the grade teachers will receive their assignments. The assignments of the several buildings follow:

– High School – M.B. Travis, Superintendent. Marie Ronan, Principal-History. Grace B. Thacker, Domestic Science. Sarah Hickcox, Domestic Science. W.P. Potter, Commerce. Guy Hoadley, Manual Training. Clinton Brake, Science. Adelaide Russell, Latin and Spanish. Jessie Swan, Mathematics. Ruth Rieman, Mathematics. Hazel Dutt, English. Anna Buck, Rhetoricals. Vera Barker, English. Aimee Johnson, History.

– Hulst School – Merle E. Brake, Chloe Hardy, Edna

Leonora Nash, Nancy Jackson, Irene Bebeau, Minnie Larson, Helen Garvey, Katherine Kastelick, Eliza Thomas,

Theodore Lenz, Polly Goldsworthy, Ida Gleason, Olive Edwards.

– Washington School – Edith Palmbeck, Athlyn M. Bangs,

Agnes Condon, Anna Anderson, Anna Hallberg, Gertrude Munn.

– Lincoln School – Mary Skillen, Orea Prenevost,

Dorothy Goulet, Isabella Peterson, Esther Stenstrom, Ellen Johnson, Louise Nehil, Norine Ryan.

– Central Building – Mary McCole, Alma Baril, Ruth

Tornquist, Clara Meyer, Laura Trestrail, Alfreda Nyman, Goldie Salchert, Anna Plambeck.

– Ludington Building – Nannie Fredstrom, Bertha

Kriedeman, Grace Thomas, Pearl White. – Farragut Building –

Winifred Skillen, Edith Faust, Anna Hager, Edith Johnson, Myra Gatherer, Gwendolyn Eade, Nellie Peronto, Ellen Hager.

– Chapin Building – Hildur Anderson, Myra Carlson,

Esther Lundquist, Jennie Larson, Henrietta James, Alva Rowe, Lillian Carroll, Fern Proper, Mathilda Nicholson, Alma Rusko.

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