The Pioneer News, 1920 - Bullitt County Public Library

and good old reliable horses will
come back again.
Ideal Washers
We have bee informed that some
purchasers of Ideal Washers have
failed to follow directions for
operating same. You are mistreating
us by not following directions. Lutes
& Co.
April 2, 1920
School News
Mr. Muir Funk, who is now
attending school at Georgetown and
Mr. Sam Ridgway, who is at the
University of KY this year spent the
week end with relatives in the
county.
Miss Meta Riley Cooper finished her
school at Harned Friday.
The school was closed most of the
fall on account of the teacher being
compelled to undergo an operation
for appendicitis but even at that, the
school has been quite a success in
every way.
Miss Elizabeth Stamper, of Lebanon
Junction, left Monday for school in
Bowling Green.
Miss Jennie Carpenter has accepted
the principalship of the Kenwood
School near Louisville and began
her new duties Monday.
Mr. S. B. Simmons, Chairman of the
Shepherdsville School Board, has
been selected as Chairman for Bullitt
County of the Democratic Party and
will call a meeting soon, in which
delegates will be appointed to the
State Convention.
While we have not received the
copies of the new school laws just
passed, the following advance sheets
have just reached our office.
The Pioneer News, 1920 - J. W. Barrall, Editor
Transcribed from Microfilm by Edith Blissett in the year 2004
1. To create a non partisan county
School Board of five members
selected from the County at large
with authority to establish districts,
appoint County Superintendents and
teachers, fixing minimum school
rates at 25cts and minimum salary
for County Superintendents of
$1200. (The minimum salary is now
$600.)
2. To establish minimum salary of
$75.00 per month for public school
teachers. (This is more than double
the minimum salary in many of the
counties. All cities have made
provision for increasing salaries,
also.)
3. To provide for an educational
survey of the schools of the State,
appropriating $10,000.00. This
survey is to be made by non-resident
experts and is to include all
educational institutions of the State
supported wholly, or in part, by
public funds.
4. To amend the Constitution so that
the State Superintendent may be
appointed instead of elected and if
elected, may succeed himself. (At
present, the State Superintendent
cannot succeed himself, no
difference how efficient he may be.)
5. To provide that teachers’
examination shall be conducted in
counties and papers sent to State
Department of Education; requiring
high school education and normal
training as qualifications for the
teachers.
6. To provide for appointment of a
School Attendance Officer and make
attendance at school compulsory up
to age sixteen, unless youth has
finished eighth grade.
This is one of the best attendance
laws in the Union.
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To require evidence as to age and
physical fitness for youths fourteen
to sixteen years old to receiver
permit to work.
8. To provide for physical education
as a part of a school course in all the
schools at the State. This law
provides that the State University
and all State Normal Schools shall
provide courses in Physical
Education and after July 1 st , 1921,
all graduates from teacher courses in
those institutions shall have
completed one or more courses in
Physical Education.
9. To allow State Superintendent of
Education appropriation of $11,000
for clerk hire.
l0. To fix qualifications for graded
school trustees.
11. To require half hour instruction
weekly in the Public Schools in the
humane treatment of animals.
12. To employ an assistant State
Superintendent as a salary of
$2500.00 per year.
Sutton - Bradbury
Miss Mirian E. Sutton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sutton, of
Louisville, and Mr. Geo. Bradbury
Jr, of Belmont, were quietly married
in Jeffersonville last Thursday.
After spending a while with relatives
and friends, the popular young
couple will go to Iowa to reside.
Both young people have many
friends in this county who wish them
all happiness and success in life.
Work on Bridges
The material has arrived and the
contractors began work on the
bridge at Buffalo Run Monday.