Jerauld County, SD News.....Text Books for County Schools July 4, 1884
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Wessington Springs Herald
    As per adjournment on June 5th, a meeting was held in the court house for
the purpose of adopting a uniform system of text books for Jerauld Co.

    Delegates from the Twp. Boards were present: Alpena, Mr. Loomis; Center,
Theo. Dean; Pleasant valley, B. R. Shimp; Wessington Springs, Mr. Hawthorne;
Lincoln, L. F. Daniels; Viola, Fred. Kieser; Anina, A. D. Cady; Mr. R. Y. Hazard
having been chosen chairman, and B. R. Shimp, sec. The committee of W. C. T. U.,
consisting of Mesdames Hall, Smart, Spears, Albert and others were requested to
make known their wishes, whereupon a petition with several hundred signatures
was presented asking that "Elementary Temperance Lessons for the Young," and
Steele's Hygenic Physiology first and second books be adopted, accompanied by an
able address by Mrs. Dr. Hall. The books were adopted.

    A resolution to adopt a uniform system of text books was passed. A motion to
adopt Swinton's Readers was lost.

    Finally, the following books were adopted, viz.: Robinson's Arithmetic;
Swinton's Geography; Harvey's Grammar, Ridpath's History, and McGuffey's Readers
and Spellers. A motion carried to make the above selections unanimous and to
recommend absent boards to adopt the same.

    A vote of thanks was tendered the ladies for their presence, and their
determined efforts in the cause of temperance. Adjourned.

                            R. Y. Hazard, Chairman
                            B. R. Shimp, Secretary


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Vol. II, No. 15, p. 1, column 4

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