LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SKETCHES


charge providing the board would
employ her regularly if her method
suited them.
  Apparently her method was accept-
able, for she taught until 1887. She
was followed by Mary Hofer. Helen
Berry, Nellie   Loomis,   Katherine.
Bruce, Eleanor Swain, Rose Hoff, Bar-
bara Russell, Martha Rollins, Ida Mc-
Lean, Alice Keith, Stella Trane, Bar-
bara Russell Whelpley, Lulu Parsons,
Margery Sprester, and Beatrice Per-
ham.
  Prof. Albert Hardy became super
intendent in 1880, and in his first an-
nual report to the board of education
he said, "In drawing and music, a long


step forward was made during the
year. What is said of drawing as an
educational force and an esthetic in-
fluence is true also of   music, al-
though, perhaps in a different way.
Music has a refining, elevating influ-
ence, thus aiding greatly in govern-
ing the schools. Its systematic study
demands the close   attention of the
student, the exercise of his observ-
ing powers, and his memory and rea-
soning faculties, and, thus, it becomes
an educational force of no mean order.
Further, it trains the voice, develops
and strengthens the lungs, and great-
ly promotes the health."


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                            THE BINGO CLUB

      Reproduced from an ambrotype. On the left, standing are Mr. and Mrs.
John Sumner; on the right, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Jones. Seated are Miss Lizzie
Brown (Mrs. H. L. Bussell) with the guitar and Mrs. Agnes K. Lord.


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