1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

572 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
Pupils who are transported into the town schools have the privilege of
using the soup kitchen, feeding 250 a day free of charge, or cafeteria for hot
lunches at cost price of food materials.
The school has one teacher giving her entire time to working in the
homes of the non-English-speaking people, doing Americanization work. The
health of the school children is not neglected. Two nurses give their entire
time working with school children, and one doctor has, in the past. The
board recently hired a dentist to give his full time to school work.
The members of the Hibbing school board, the Independent
School District No. 27 of St. Louis County, in 1920. were: C. E.
Everett, Hibbing, clerk; Frank Andley, treasurer; T. J. Godfrey, chair-
man ; Dr. F. W. Bullen, W. F. Kohagan, R. Ray Kreis, directors
C. C. Alexander, superintendent. The last named is recognized as
A CONCRETE-FLOORED BUILDING MOVED SUCCESSFULLY TO NEW
HIBBING THE OLD COLONIA HOUSE, ON ITS WAY TO NEW
SITE, THERE TO BE RENOVATED AND RENTED TO SCHOOL
BOARD AT $500 A MONTH, FOR USE AS TEACHERS' APART-
MENT HOUSE
one of the most capable educators of the state, and the Hibbing system
has been described as "Out-Garying (the famous) Gary."
And the certainty is a good field in the Hibbing district for the
fullest and most capable work of the most able educators. In Hibbing
school last year thirty-nine nationalities were represented, Americans
predominated of course, but attending school were : 759 children
of Swedish origin, 393 Clovanian, 257 Servian, 200 Norwegian,
933 Italian, 186 German. 320 French, 918 Finnish, 256 Croatian, 417
Austrian, and smaller numbers of other nationalities. In very many
cases, the children acquire American ways and speech before their
parents. In many cases, the children go to school by day, and the
parents are just as enthusiastic students by night, and while the parents
are in school the school administration sees that their children
are cared for in the home. It is a very enlightened system, producing
good results for the town and nation. There was an enrollment of
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