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Roundup Public Schools Brief History Showing the Rapid Development of the PUBLIC SCHOOLS of ROUNDUP D JRING the spring of 1908 Round tin opened lier first school in a one-room building where one teacher taught 2f> pupils. This term continued for only three months. A four-room building was erected during the summer of the same year and school opened in November with two teachers and an enrollment of 100 pupils. In December, the following month, a third teacher was employed for the remainder of the school year, At the beginning of the school year 1 -i,.. in 1909 two more rooms were secured and three teachers added to the corps, making six teachers in all. There were 200 pupils enrolled during the year 1909-1910. In 1910 the present eight-room build ing was begun, being completed in January of the following year, and oc cupied about the first of February, 1911. For the year 1910-1911 seven teachers were employed, besides the principal, and 250 pupils were enrolled The shown present year, 1911-1912, has j a marke», increase over last I * SCHOOL NOTES +j Manual tr- ' !ng lias been started in the primary and intermediate grades in the form of basket weaving and cap making. Educators all over the country are advocating more and more a thorough system of manual training. ' The idea of this system is to train S the hands as well as the mind, make the pupils' education more prac- . ticable and applicable to his everv day * life. Nearly all the city schools have * their work shops, beginning with the primary where they make many things that surprise the observer. The little a* tots show skill in their baskets, raffia, parasols, doll houses, etc. Through the grades the work is made more difficult. They learn to weave more is intricate designs, learn the uses of various tools and exhibit their simple carpentery with pride. At last the high school has its regular manual training department, with carpentery, w( cd carvinc, furniture making, brass craft and sewing and cooking for the girls i irecring the super-abundant energy of growing hoys and girls into lift fai cha,i"f*!s, co-ordinating hand ami brain. As yet hut little of this work has been done in the Roundup schools owing tc the lack of means at % possibilities of this work in education. On April 12 the high school will have charge of the program for the Literary club. Six high school boys will give 'Pyramus and Thisby" from "A Mid summer Night's Dream'' by Shakes- j peare. This little comedy Is full of j fun and the boys are working hard to make it worth while. The high school girls will give a farce in one ' act called "The Sweet Family," which will bring out many undreamed of tal ents in the performers. After the pro-, n and time. But on Patrons' day, those interested in the progress of the school will be more than pleased at the ex hibits of various kinds of work in the primary room and the baskets, pic ture frames and relief maps in the Fourth grade room, thus showing the H. E. MARSHALL -for MAYOR A Straightforward, Businesslike Administration for the Best Interests of All. EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE year with an enrollment of almost 350 pupils and one additional teacher. The building is now crowded and plans are already being formulated for the : completion of the building during the coming summer. The high school has an enrollment of 30 and is doing very good work, There will be another high school teacher employed for the coming year and an increased enrollment is ex peeted. The management is looking forward to making it a State Accred Red high school during the coming year. Another primary teacher will be em ployed for the ensuing year. Much interest is being manifested by the pupils throughout the school, as well as by the teachers, patrons, and Board of trustees. Tlje outlook for the Roundup public schools is quite prom ising and bids fair to continue to hold its own as one of the most promis j ing institutions of the "Miracle of the I Musselshell." gram all of the rooms will be open for the inspection of Patrons 'day ex hibits. About 85 new books have arrived tor the library and are being cata logued. With only one more examination -rades are making extra efforts for order to make their ' l)et,er vvor S ra( ^ es - to.....7~ . * ♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * . . . . KLEIN NEWS * * ***+****++++*++++ Jimmie Tinnan was sick with tonsi litis several days this week but is a* work again. Fred Baldwin left Thursday for a visit with home folks in England, Charlie Harryman has moved into Douse No. 43 from Old Roundup. ■Vrs. Carrie Koening of Minneapolis is tlie guest of her sister, Mrs. J. \V. Howard. News from Bear Creek, Montana, announces the arrival of a babv bov at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. I March 27th. Congratula ! I % few remained to the dance given af ter the show. j M. H. Fletcher lias been quite ill this week but is much improved at this writing. j Dan Mclnnis returned Saturday from j Butte where he has been receiving treatment since his accident in the mine in December. He is recovering slowly but does not as yet have the use of his feet. j The ice and high water have washed j out the railroad bridge over the Mus selshell river between Klein and Roundup and owing to this fact the ' mine will be idle for several days until the bridge has been repaired, Mrs. L. A. Olive of Roundup was a Klein visitor Wednesday. Branch lions. Henry Fievet of Farrell is slowly n coveting from a bad case of pneu monia. A large number of Klein people attended the play given by the Chase Lister Co. at Roundup Saturday night, +♦+++♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦ ♦ RYEGATE + (Ryegate Reporter) The people who pass through on the trains need not be very much open to criticism if they get the im pression that Ryegate is the headquar ters of till the farm implement com- ! panics doing business in the country, j There are ten new rigs recently re 'ceived in Ryegate and when these : were unloaded from the train there ; was no thought given as to where these should be put, consequently, they were scattered all over town. Some bright mind later devised the scheme that they should all be trans ferred to the park and given honor able abode until such time as their owners headed them for the country where they are to figure prominently in the development of the Ryegate country. The school board met Tuesady af ternoon in the offices of Attorney Carothers and after several minor things were taken care of, bills al lowed, etc., the sale of the bonds as advertised was taken up and the dif ferent bids compared. Before any de cision on the part of the board was made, however, an injunction from the federal court at Helena was served on the member and the clerk of the board restraining them from further proceedure in the matter. The in junction was given by the court to Keller Bros., of Denver, Col., who had previously purchased the bonds at private sale and which sale was called off by the board for the reason that County Attorney O'Neil instructed the county treasurer not to file the bonds hereby tying the matter up so that the bonds could not be delivered to Keller Bros, at Denver as per agree ment. The board on Tuesday, In obeyance of the injunction of the fed eral court could not do otherwise than adjourn their meeting to a future date or until such time as the papers set ting forth the nature of the Kellen' ease were received. These will prob ably be here in a day or two and then the hoard will be informed as to what course to pursue. In any event the district will receive the money for the bonds as there were a number of bids and in case the court injunction Is dissolved the bonds will be sold to oilier parties. * DELPHIA NEWS ♦ (Special Correspondence) Ralph Ilogan was a caller in Delphiu last Friday afternoon. Robert Durham came down from Roundup Tuesday morning. Mrs. E. B. Carter and children of Fattig spent Sunday afternoon in Del phia. Mr. and Mrs. \Y. F. Stuart went up to Roundup Sunday night remaining until Tuesday morning. Mrs. Flynn and daughter Margaret came down from Roundup Sunday morning. Margaret will remain a few days, having not fully recovered from her recent illness. Joe Ross was in Delphia Wednesday I looking after a car of hay that was flipped in for Earnest Snelling of Fat ! tig. Mr. and Mrs. Limabarry and child I ren have moved down to the Handle ranch to work for Mr. Watterson. Frank Caldwell, who has had charge of the pumping at this place, expects to leave in a few days for the coast having a 30 days' vacation, j Roy Peirce came down from Round "l' Sunday morning and will remain on his homestead to begin farming, j Mrs. George Spendiff went up to j Roundup Monday morning on the fly e,1 > returning home in the afternoon on t,ie local, The river was not so high this year as it was two years ago. The ice all washed over on the northwest side at this place and the water was over its banks for awhile, but did not last long. E. E. Snelling of Fattig and Ben Steele of Hawk Creek were in Delphia Thursday morning. For mayor, vote for Marshall. BASEBALL DANCE AT KLEIN. Dance and Basket Social to Be Given at No. 2 for Baseball Team. Preparations are being made by the baseball enthusiasts at Klein for a benefit dance and basket social to be held in Dreamland theatre Monday, April 8. The proceeds of the event will go to the benefit of the ball team, for the organization of which steps have already been taken. Tickets will be one dollar. Ladies are kindly requested to bring baskets containing lunch for two. The baskets will be sold to the highest bidder :r auction. While engaged in his spring adver tising campaign The Fad came pretty near having a runaway one day this week. By quick and heroic action, however, a disastrous accident was prevented. Vote for Marshall for mayor. F. M. WALL COMPANY Carries the Nicest and Most Complete Line of Furniture, Rugs and Portieres We can Furnish Your Home Complete. Terms Made on the Monthly Payment Plan MONARCH MALLEABLE RANGES Sole Agents for REX and MONCO Flour Chase & Sanborn Teas and Coffees Prompt, Courteous and Fair Treatment Is Our Motto F. M. WALL COMPANY Sells Everything for Everybody PHONE NUMBER 1 LISTEN. YE LEAP YEAR LASSIES. The lady out in Illinois was not the first one to set down a code of morals for the young girls who selected leap year to propose to her sons. There is a careful mother in Brooklyn, the wid ow of seven handsome daughters and eight handsome sons, who says she knows from experience what qualifi cations a woman should have to get married. Mrs. Rice is her name. She has married off all her daughters, al though she admits it was no easy task. But the boys are all at home, most of them of marriageable age, because the girls to whom they have proposed, or who have proposed to them—this is leap year, you know—have not come up to ilia's requirements. Now here are the momentous requirements: No woman should ask or be asked to marry one who— Smokes cigarettes. Drinks. Uses profane or vulgar language. Reads naughty books. Fails to go to church on Sunday. Spends her evenings in dance halls or saloons. Does not consider her mother or sisters. Has no business prospects. When these requirements were put up to a young lady of the footlights who had attracted the attention of the of the elder Rices, she replied to ma that what Bhe wanted was not a daughter-in-law but a candidate for a deaf and dumb asylum. FAMOU8 COFFEE MAN DIES New York, March 27.—John At buckle, the well known coffee man, died early today at his home in Brook lyn. He was 74 years old. Death was due to a general collapse caused by old age. The body will be taken to Pittsburg tomorrow for burial. Mr. Arbuckle leaves an estate of many millions. He first became a national figure as a coffee merchant. Later he took up the sugar business as a rival of the Sugar Refining Company. Of late years he has devoted much time and a great deal of money to the rais ing of sunken vessels by compressed air. THE ADVANCE OF 8CIENCE Washington, March 28.—What the scientific world is doing in various lines is being shown in a remarkable exhibition that opened today in the National Museum, in connection with the annual meeting of the Washing ton Academy of Sciences. Specimens of scientific instruments from various departments of the federal govern ment and from other institutions like the Carnegie Institution are on exhi bit. The Weather Bureau, the Depart ment of Agriculture and the War De partment are also represented at the show. THE COLONEL DOES SOME BOOSTING WHILE IN BUTTE Butte Inter Mountain Contains Inter view With Roundup Booster. Butte Inter Mountain: Col. E. j. Crull of Roundup is in Butte today on his way home from Helena, where he attended the meeting of the republi can state central committee at which he represened the party in Mussel shell county. Colonel Crull is a pio leer of Roundup and one of its best known lawyers. In his opinion the outlook for the entire Musselshell country is particularly good this year. "Already new settlers are beginning to come in, many of them being at tracted by the Northern Pacific lands, which were put on sale last year," he said today. "The outlook for the farm ers o four section is particularly good. The mines tributary to Roundup have had a notable season, the production cf coal being very much larger than last winter. Indeed, we think that operations will be extensive through out the summer in this field. Business is good, and Roundup and the various towns in the Musselshell valley are growing rapidly. There will be a not able increase in the valuation of prop erty in our county this year. Last year the total assessment exceeded $9,000,000, which was more than twice as large as the valuation of any prev iously formed new county in the state, I believe, and four times as large as that of not a few new counties. The county is making steady progress in every direction and in a few years we expect to have one of the richest sec tions of the state. "As an evidence of the material growth of Roundup I may say that the city's postoffice will in July be made a second class office, its receipts for the year having exceeded $8,000. That limit was reached last week, and the rules of the department are that an office that exceeds that amount in the fiscal year becomes a second class office, wih an increase in the salary of the postmaster and his assistant and the addition of a clerk to the of fice. That, we think, is a very good showing for a town that is only four years old." j i ; a I I SUMMONS—For Publication. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE Thirteenth Judicial District of the State of Montana in and for the County of Musselshell. Inga Olson Sievertson, Plaintiff, vs. Andrew Sievertson. Defendant. The State of Montana sends greetings to the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to ans wer the complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the clerk of this court, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the plain tiff's attorneys within twenty days after the service of this summons, ex clusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or ans wer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. The said action is brought to dis solve the bonds of matrimony exist ing between the plaintiff and defend ant, upon the grounds of desertion; also that plaintiff be allowed to re sume her former name and that plain tiff be awarded costs of action, and such other and further relief as the court may deem meet and proper in the premises. Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 29th day of March, 1912. W. G. JARRETT, (Seal) Clerk. HORKAN & BEEMAN, Attorneys at law, Forsyth, Montana. (First pub. March 29) ANXIOU8 FOR PEACE Austria, With Troublas of Hor Own, Would Liko to Boo Poaeo Bo twoon Italy and Turksy. Vienna, March 26.—Austria is par ticularly anxious that the Italo-Turk ish war shall be brought to an end without delay. Trouble is appearing and with it is almost certain to come a renewal of the trouble in Albania and this may lead on to war through out the Balkans. It is known here that a number of conferences have been held between the rulers of the Balkan states and that in all of them preparation» are being made for trouble which it is feared may not be longer delayed. Italy at this time does not desire a war which will mean the division of European powers, nor in fact does any one of the great powers. BOY SCOUTS ENTERTAINED. The young ladies and girls of the Congregational. Sunday Bchool enter tained both the senior and junior pa trol of Boy Scouts last evening in the Congregational church from 8 to 9:30. The early part of the evening was spent in playing games and tricks after which refreshments were served consisting of sherbet, chocolate and wafers. About 40 were present.