shall be furnished the board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund.

Section 460-19. The term teacher as used in this act shall include all persons employed in teaching by any city board of education, or school board or other managing body of any city, town, village, or rural school district in this state, and all superintendents and assisstant superintendents of said schools, all supervisors of instruction, all principals and assistant principals, and special teachers of said schools.

Section 460-20. This act shall not include cities of the first class.

Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

June!

The month of roses.

Hurrah for teachers' pensions!

The N. E. A. at San Francisco, July 8-12. Flag Day is Wednesday, June 14. Observe it in your schools.

Taylor county has voted to establish a county training school for teachers.

ty normal school will be held June 22, when twenty-three will be graduated.

Fond du Lac has finally decided that the high school year shall be nine and one-half months, and nine months in the grades.

Prin. Benjamin C. Tighe of the Waunakee township high school goes to the principalship of the Coleraine, Minn., high school.

Prin. C. C. Parlin of the Wausau high school

The forest fires last month destroyed a country schoolhouse at Athelstane, Marinette county.

Sheboygan is to have a new ward building to be built this summer at a cost of from $30,000 to $40,000.

Supt. John W. Steenis of Waupaca goes to the east St. Louis high school to take charge of the history work.

The Two Rivers school board has voted to have a regular medical examination in the schools beginning next year.

At Superior they are discussing the question of dividing yearly teachers' salaries into twelve payments instead of nine or ten.

The second commencement of the Green coun

tion, has resigned to enter business in Boston.

The summer school in connection with the Marinette county training school will be held at Marinette, opening June 26 and continuing six weeks.

The Price county training school has issued a most attractive annual catalog. The school is in a highly prosperous condition with a bright fut

ure.

H. B. Shue of Hayward, has donated a tract of ten acres to the public school for the purpose of allowing the boys to carry on experiments in agriculture.

Miss Maude Brewster of the Antigo training school has secured a leave of absence. Her place will be taken by Supt. Mattie McMillan of Juneau county.

Prin. J. F. Whitford of the Milton high school has had his salary increased $250 for next. year. Twenty-one pupils will graduate from this high school the present month.

A committee from the legislature recently investigated Stout Institute at Menomonie, and have made a very favorable report on the acquisition of the same by the state.

Supt. Mary D. Bradford of Kenosha, has had her salary increased from $2,000 to $2,200 for next year, and liberal advances have been made in the salaries of the other teachers of the city.

With the students included in the correspondence courses, the University of Wisconsin has this last year instructed nearly 10,000 young men and women. The total resident attendance is 5,538.

The first annual exhibition of school work at Onalaska was held last month and attracted the general attention of the citizens. Supt. Halvorson has built up a strong public school sentiment in this city.

Frank E. Balmer, head of the department of agriculture in the Lewiston, Minn., consolidated schools has been elected principal of the La Crosse county agricultural school at Onalaska, at an initial salary of $1,600.

Supt. G. F. Loomis of Waukesha, has been reengaged for another term of three years. The school board has adopted a ruling that no teacher shall hereafter be employed unles at least a full course graduate of a normal schoo.

Supt. Mary McNely of Price county has just issued her annual report in pamphlet form. It has many illustrations typical of school life in her bailiwick, and contains much valuable material and data relating to educational matters.

The summer session of the Green county normal school, as we learn from their special catalog, will begin June 26, and close August 4. Supt. George B. Haverson of Monroe, and Mr. Herbert Laube of Ann Arbor, Mich., will assist the regular faculty.

The Cardinal is a monthly publication issued by the students of the south division high school, Milwaukee. One number has recently reached us, and an examination of its contents reflects great credit upon the students both for its literary and commercial features.

The Rock county training school for teachers has organized its work and will begin August 28, 1911, with Miss Ella J. Jacobson and Mrs. Georgia C. Hyde assisting Prin. F. J. Lowth. A summer session will be held beginning July 3, and closing August 11.

In the election of county superintendents in April, a peculiar situation arose in Vilas county where A. J. Austin and Grant Cook each received 491 votes. There being a tie, the present incumbent retains office according to the interpretation of the statutes.

W. B. Robertson of the Manitowoc high school will be principal at Phillips next year; Prin. W. J. Sizer of Shiocton goes to Union Grove; T. J. Hugill of Wilton to Hillsboro; Royden Kester of Beloit College to Prescott; and V. T. Thayer of Ashland to Iron River.

The sudden death of Mr. F. S. Thompson at Minneapolis, on April 24, is sad news to his host of school friends in this state. Mr. Thompson was for a long time in the active school work, and of late has represented the American Book Co. in the northwestern part of Wisconsin.

In the annual report of Supt. G. F. Loomis of Waukesha, he states that the failure of students in the schools was due largely to late hours, cigarettes, and parties. The high school now enrolls 260 students, and there are 1,449 students in all of the schools, with a corps of forty-three teach

ers.

Lightning last month did a good deal of damage to schools. A ward building at Fond du Lac was struck but no one injured and the blaze was soon extinguished. In a district school near Marinette, lightning caused the death of one child and injury to several others. At Niagara a schoolhouse was struck. No one was fatally injured.

Supt. J. E. Roberts of Chariton, Iowa, who comes into the Wisconsin educational field as head of the Stevens Point schools, is a graduate of Bates College of Maine, and has his master's degree from Simpson College, Iowa. He has had some fourteen years of experience in the east and Iowa, and has held his present position for the last two years.

The Milwaukee normal school bulletin for the summer school shows the opening June 26, and

closing August 4. Among the outsiders who will make up the faculty are Miss Anna E. Christman of the Waushara county training school, Miss Annie Reynolds of the Sauk county training school, and Miss Marie Baright of North Adams state normal school, Massachusetts.

We regret to chronicle the illness of Pres. Albert Salisbury of the Whitewater normal school. Mr. Salisbury was obliged to secure a leave of absence for the purpose of recuperating in a Milwaukee hospital. Reports are that he is growing stronger, and his thousands of friends in Wisconsin wish him a speedy return to health.

Miss Elizabeth Schneider teaching near Wausau, has brought suit against one of the members of the school board for $2,500 damages based on the belief that she was belittled and ridiculed in the presence of her pupils and members of the district board. This is quite a novel suit, the outcome of which will be awaited with interest by others who have had the same experience but who have not sought the courts for redress.

The Oshkosh normal school has issued a summer school bulletin which may be obtained free for the asking. The summer school will be held June 26 to August 4 inclusive, in the normal building. The members of the summer school corps of teachers, outside of the regular faculty, are Prin. A. H. Cole of Langlade county training school, Prin. W. H. Luehr of Sheboygan Falls, and Prin. A. B. O'Neil of the Oshkosh high school.

Milwaukee: Supt. Pearse has declared that school all the year around is practicable, but does not look for the adoption of the plan in Milwaukee at present. The school board proposes to have a special speller prepared for Milwaukee children. An option has been secured on two blocks near River Side Park for the new east division high school. Prin. Shong of the west division high school favors the cap and gown for commencement exercises as a means of promoting democracy. This saves the cost of expensive wearing apparel. Prin. R. L. Cooley is the new president of the Milwaukee Principals' Association. C. E. McLenegan, for so long at the head of the west division high school, recently appointed city librarian, is quite prominent before the public at the present time in his efforts to give

new life to the work. Charges of unwarranted dismissal of assistants by Mr. McLenegan have been lodged with the library board.

Among the changes noted since last month are the following: Supt. Fred Thomson of Columbus goes to the superintendency at Menomonie at $2,000; Prin. J. F. Wilson of the Ashland high school is advanced to the superintendency there at $2,300, John J. Staley of the high school takes Mr. Wilson's place; Clifford E. Granger goes to the superintendency at Sturgeon Bay, and Supt. C. G. Stangel of that city goes to the principalship of the Manitowoc high school at $1,800; E. G. Beckwith, assistant in the Manitowoc high school becomes principal at Wabeno; Allen P. Jenks, assistant in the Viroqua high school gets the principalship at Blanchardville; J. L. Hooper of Milford graded school goes to the principalship at Johnson Creek; P. F. Finner has been elected principal at Cassville; Roy Martin of the University will be principal at Colby; Walter C. Houston takes the Eagle River principalship: H. H. Williams, from out of the state, goes to Ellsworth; Prin. W. T. Ream of the Mondovi high school takes the east side principalship at Green Bay; B. F. Adams of Soldiers' Grove goes to Kiel; J. M. Beck of Phillips will be superintendent at Lake Geneva; E. E. Carr will be principal at Marion; May Crosby, assistant in the pal at Marion; May Crosby, Stoughton high school, takes the principalship at Muscoda, her home town; Guy A. Benedict will be principal of the Stevens Point high school, and Supt. J E. Roberts of Chariton, Iowa, comes to the superintendency there; J. J. Haas of Friendship goes to Tigerton; G. W. Puffer of Oakfield goes to Weyauwega; Karl Evert of Merrillan goes to Winneconne; Rudolph Soukup of Oshkosh goes to the Sturgeon Bay high school.

THE TEACHER'S PRAYER.

"May every soul that touches mine

Be it the slightest contact-get therefrom some good,
Some little grace, one kindly thought,

One inspiration yet unfelt, one bit of courage
For the darkening sky, one gleam of faith
To brave the thickening ills of life,

One glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists,

To make this life worth while and Heaven a surer heritage."

The Journal of Education.