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this year. All the teachers of the school are organized into a study club, pursuing either a professional or literature study.

     A good school spirit prevails, friendly inter-class relations and a pleasant friendship between teachers and pupils. The school board and teachers work in hearty, sympathetic relations.

C. A GORBY,          
Superintendent.     

     During the last few years the schools of Ord have made rapid progress in efficiency. Demands made upon the district for better equipment have been met generously. The census of 1910 gives 672 as the school population. The enrollment of the school year 1909-10 was 632. During nearly all of the calendar year of 1909 the primary grades were housed temporarily, but came into permanent quarters last Christmas. The high school is now comfortably situated for the first time since it outgrew its former allotment of space years ago. Both the compulsory attendance law and the free high school law have worked well with us. Our library is being gradually increased in the direction of utility rather than quantity. It is opened for the circulation of books on Friday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30. A beginning is being made in manual training and domestic science. Rooms suitable for the work in these subjects have been set apart in the new building and will be supplied with apparatus as rapidly as it can he done.

     The normal training work has appeared a pronounced success. Those who are teaching are doing good work, while those who are pursuing the course are earnest and interested. The influence of the normal work upon the school is undoubtedly for good.

     All the high school students take part in debate in 1910-11 the subject of argumentation will be taken as a regular study in the twelfth grade. An excellent orchestra, composed entirely of high school pupils, has taken part in all of our entertainments during the past year. We have an athletic association, which maintains good teams In basketball and baseball. Good habits and a passing grade in school work are essentials in securing a place on these teams.

     Our new school building, erected in 1909, is a substantial structure 85x114 feet, two stories and basement. The material is pressed brick with tile roof. The interior finish is all in oak. All the high school rooms, seven in number, the library, the superintendent's office and a room temporarily occupied by the seventh grade, are on the second floor. On the first floor are five school rooms. In the basement are the gymnasium, 40x60 feet, with eight showers; the manual training and domestic science rooms, various storerooms and two interior closets with sewer connections. Drinking fountains are on the first and second floors. The building is lighted by gas and the laboratory supplied with water and gas. The grounds comprise a block well supplied

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