THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA.
Annual Report of the Schools of Col
umbia County, Penfc'a.
During the year the wtrk done in
the schools of the county was in keep
ing with the conditions underlying and
governing them. A stronger educa
lional sentiment was noticeable
throughout the entire county.
The county institute was one of
the best ever held here, and it was
the best in the attendance of teachers.
Every teacher except one was present,
and this one enrolled, but was absent
on account of sickness. I
The instructors were Hon. N. C.
SchaetTer, Drs. J. P. GorcV, E. Oram
Lyte, J. P. Welsh, Miss Qertrude Ed
round, Miss Nellie Moore and Profs.
Byron King and I. D. iresh. For
the evenings : the Chiago Rivals,
Roberts Harper, Byron King, Will
Carieton, Miss Vida Ibwman and
Elfleda Barnes Gottschalltsoloists.
The local institutes we : held dur
ing the year at Bentc , Berwick,
Buckhorn, Espy, Jamisor Uity, Main
ille, Millville, Numidia, iupert and
cillwater. It is necess y to unite
seveSfd townships and us form a
local i?.titute district 1 order to
reacn eachtcacner anavery com
munity in loOd, instituifork. These
meetings are Vinfcily-well, attended
and productive of much good. The
teachers of the various districts gener
ally take an active part in the meet
ines and do practical work and the
Professors of the Normal give valu
able help.
tsince our last report seven new
school houses have been erected,
One in Briarcreek, one in Catawissa
township, one in conyngham, one in
Fishingcreek, one in Jackson, one in
Roaringcreek and a two room build
ing in Sugarloaf.
These are good substantial build
ings furnished with the latest and best
furniture and supplied with slate sur
face. The building in Catawissa
township is unquestionably the best
house in the rural districts. Well
lighted, well heated from the cellar,
and with convenient cloak-rooms, it is
a school-house of which the directors
and people may be proud.
The directors of Orange purchased
the old Academy building at Orange
ville and remodeled it, making of it a
three room public school-house.
The directors of Scott having re
modeled the Espy school house and
the one at Al media and put into both
the hot water system of heating now
have the best school houses in any
district in the county except the large
boroughs, and their buildings com
pare more than favorably with the
best in these boroughs. In other dis
tricts school houses have been repair
ed and made more attractive and
comfortable. We still have, however,
one school house that has the some
what ancient board seats and desks.
The directors say that they will re
place these soon with proper patent
desks.
The outbuildings in a number of
districts are not what they should be.
Some districts have tried to comply
fully with the law, others have compli
ed in part, and others say that they
will comply with the provisions of the
law in this matter as soon as possible ;
yet it is necessary to state that the
outbuildings in some districts need
prompt attention.
A graded course of study was pre
pared for the ungraded schools of the
county, and was distributed at the
last county institute. The majority
of the teachers did better work be
cause of it. The directors of several
districts adopted it and a number of
pupils in the rural schools completed
the course last year. Better work
and better results may be expected
the coming term.
It has been noticed during the past
five years that of the young men and
women who attend the examinations
for teacher's certificates, those who
are all round the strongest and most
practically prepared, come either di
rect trom ti.e ungraded schools or
from the country school after a term
at the summer school or the Normal
and stand higher and are stronger
than are their sisters and brothers
from our high schools with similar
advantages. This speaks well for the
ungraded schools and should inspire
the teachers to do better work, and
should encourage the directors to
select only the best teachers, and sup
ply all necessary apparatus and appli
ances for the country schools.
In Fishingcreek township we have
something of an illustration of what a
district advanced school may accom
plish. The directors finding it neces
sary to erect another building at
Jonestown to accommodate all the
pupils decided to locate the new
building at such place as will accom
modate all ti;e larger pupils of Tones-
town district and be convenient also
for the larger pupils of adjoining dis
tricts in the township. This was done,
and only the advanced pupils attend
cd school at the new building, ao
far as we can judge from the work of
one term excellent results will be se
cured by this arrangement. It is
worthy of note here that the township
of l'ishingcrcek is doing well in edu
cational matters, four years ago
they still had the two term system,
but with the hearty co operation 01
directors, this was soon discontinue!1
the length of the term was increased
the average salary paid teachers was
increased, a graded school was estab
lished at Stillwater, and last year ar
rangements were made for the ad
vanced school at Jonestown.
During the year every school in the
county was visited once, about eighty
twice, and a number three times. It
was necessary to go a third time about
fifteen miles in order to visit one
school. At the two previous attempts
to visit the school it was closed by
the teacher. In every district it was
noticed that something had been done
by the boards of directors to advance
the schools and make them more
efficient. In one hundred and fifty
two of the two hundred and thirty
seven school rooms in the county
there is slate surface, a number of
other rooms have excellent black-
board surface ; globes are tound in
seventy school rooms j libraries, or
- ... .
the beginning ot a library, in sixty
nine rooms; unabridged dictionariei
in one hundred and fourteen rooms ;
charts in one hundred and eighty six
rooms ; maps in two hundred and
seven, including those rooms having
good maps on charts. There should
be more dictionaries and more
libraries.
There were ninety-eight men and
one hundred ana lony-one women
teaching in the county last year, and
as we get it there were ten thousand
and thirty two pupils eurolled in the
schools. In five districts the average
salary of male and lady teachers was
more than it was the previous year,
in eight districts the average salary of
both was less, and in fifteen districts
it was the same as the previous year.
In one district the average salary paid
the lady teachers was larger than the
average salary paid the men. The
average daily attendance of pupils in
eighteen districts was larger than that
of the previous year ; in nine districts
it was less, and in one district it was
the same, The cost of schooling each
pupil per month in twelve districts
was greater than it was the previous
year ; in fourteen distiicls it was less,
and in two districts it was the same.
Two hundred and thirty-two of the
twb hundred and thirty-nine teachers
reDort that they take educational
journals and read regularly books on
professional subjects, misisagreai
improvement over a few years ago.
and it shows in the work. Our
tpar.hers as a rule, are faithful, con
scientious, and capable, and give evi
dence of trying each year to be better
prepared and to do better worK, out
the fact that a school sends out pupils
a large majority of whom fail to come
uo to a very reasonable standard is
the best evidence of the continued
utter incompetency of some teachers
It is to be regretted that in several
districts directors decreased the sala
ries of teachers.
A poor teacher is dear at any price,
but a good one is rarely, if ever, fully
enumerated for his work, and should
be retained even at an increase of
salary. During the past two years.
because of an increase in the length
of. the term in some district, and a
slight increase in salary in these, and
others, we have been able to have
better teachers, and to keep our good
ones in the county.
As the salaries are being lowered
and the term shortened these best
teachers are again leaving the county
to secure positions in districts where
the term is long and the salary good
This is very untortunate. It we
would have good schools we must
employ cood teachers, and such
teachers can be secured and retained
only bv the continued assurance of
being paid reasonably good wages,
It is not urged that directors should
pay large, or increased salaries to
teachers who, year after year, do no
better work, but it is a fact that
fair salary must be paid to secure and
return a working, studious, progressive
teacher.
I was unnecessarily interfered with
and delayed in my visitations to the
schools this year to go to Bloomsburg
to show the minority county com
missioner and county auditor that the
receipts deposited by me with the
authorities when the $200 allowed by
law was secured for the county institute
were proper and sufficient voucners to
them, and conclusive . evidence that
the money had been properly received
and had been expended in accordance
with the provisions of the law.
Our accouut was tound to be cor
rect, and it was audited without our
giving any other receipts or vouchers
than those given when the money
was received; in October but since
this matter has been brought up,
may be of interest to the people
the county to know bow we have been
running the county institutes financi
ally.
It affords us pleasure to be able to
account to the people for every cent
received and expended at every county
institute we have held and to take this
opportunity to let them know how th
business is done.
The receipts of my predecessor's
Mr. Grimes', last institute, according
to his statement furnished us, were
$ii57-45 i the expenditures of his
last institute, according to the same
statement, were 1,038.54, leaving a
balance for our first institute of $18.91.
The receipts of our first institute
of 1890 were $682.40
Balance from Mr. Grimes. . . 18 91
WASHINGTON.
Making in all 701 31
Expenditures of institute of
1890 624.12
Leaving a balance of 7719
Receipts of institute of 1891
were 777 5
Balance from 1890 77.19
Making in all 854.69
Expenditures of institute of
1891 699.68
Leaving a balance of 155.01
Receipts of institute for 1892
were 759-50
Balance from institute of 1891 155 01
Making in all 9' 4-5'
Expenditures of institute of
1892 847.11
Leaving a balance of 67.40
Receipts of institute of 1893
were 79-5
Balance from institute of 1892 67.40
Making in all 796.90
Expenditures of institute for
893 72997
Leaving a balance of 66.93
Receipts of institute of 1894
were 805.25
Balance from institute of 1893 66.93
Making in all 872.18
The expenditures of the insti
tute of 1894 were 756 45
Leaving a balance in bank of 115.73
Each year at the institute a com
mittee of five teachers is appointed to
aud.t the accounts of the institute for
the previous year.
I have the itemized, audited state
ments of these several committees
and the receipts for all money paid
out at each institute and any one at
any time may examine the accounts
of each and every institute.
It will be seen that the receipts at
any one of our institutes never amount
ed to the sum received by Mr. Grimes
at his last institute, and it will also be
noticed that at no institute were our
expenditures as great as were his at
his last one. It will also be seen that
the expenditures of each institute were
kept within the receipts and that we
have always had a balance on hand.
The receipts of our institutes have
been less than those of former ones
because every year since we held
institutes and not before there has
been another lecture course in Blooms
burg, but notwithstanding this the
people there have always generously
supported the institute lecture course.
That we have been able to hold as
good, or even better institutes, with
less receipts and with a less expendi
ture of money than was formerly
done needs no explanation from us.
Arbor Day is not generally observed
in this county. While some districts
take some interest in the day the ma
jority have never evidently given the
matter much attention,
Beautiful silk flags were presented
by the Sons of America to the Berwick
schools, and the Women's Relief
Corps of Berwick gave to each school
in Briarcreek township two nice ones.
I his township continues to have a
seven month term 01 school, at an
increased salary to teachers, and has
one graded school.
the majority ot the directors are
doing commendable work, and are
careful and faithful in the discharge of
their duties.
In nearly all districts they are more
careful in selecting teachers, and it is
encouraging to state that most direct
ors now fully realize that the little
people in all schools should have the
best qualified teachers.
The Berwick schools lead the county
in the quantity and quality of appa
ratus with Catawissa borough a close
second.
The Pollard System of teaching
reading has been in the Catawissa
schools and in two rooms in the
Bloomsburg schools during the year,
No remarks on this system will be
ventured at this time.
The Berwick directors have estab
lished a Cooking Department in con
nection with their schools. It is ably
conducted by Mrs. Kusil.
The object of this department is to
train the young ladies of the High
School and the Grammar grades in
the art of cooking, and each class is
instructed in this art for one half
school day each week.
The people of Berwick are to be
congratulated on having this depart
ment established in connection with
their schools. It is the first of the
kind in the county, and no doubt will,
as it should, receive the attention and
hearty support it so well merits.
Some of the Boards have decided to
have music taught regularly in their
schools. This is a commendable
move, and if a teacher is engaged who
is well qualified to teach music the
results must be satisfactory and prove
the wisdom ot such action.
The High Schools of the county at
the close of their terms graduated
about the usual number.
The Normal continues to prosper,
and this year graduated the largest
class in the history of the school,
namely, one hundred and forty five,
In conclusion, I desire to thank
all who have aided in any way to make
the year s work successful.
Respectfully,
William C. Johnston
of
She Was Particular.
. Chitdrcn Cry to
Pitcher's Castorla.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castorla,
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, August 9, 1895.
Senator Gorman is evidently letting
the other fellows do all the worrying
about the situation in Maryland. He
has gone for his usual August stay at
Saratoga. He was in Washington
just before starting, and said ; " The
ticket is first-class in every respect,
and the democratic party is to be con
gratulated. The trifling objections
thai are being raised against it are no
more than were to be expected. The
truth is thete is less objection than I
expected, and much less than has
often risen before when tickets were
named, and the party majority has
been larger than usual when the votes
were counted. I anticipate no more
than the usual amount of difficulty in
carrying on the campaign, and look
for a good majority for Mr. Hurst and
the other nominees. There must
always be disappointments in politics,
but the party in the end will get to
gether and win, as usual. I have no
fear whatever of the result in lSovetn
ber. Long before that time all real
democrats will be united for the com
mon cause. '
Comptroller Bowler has heard the
argaments in favor of the constitution
ality of the sugar bounty, and against
his assumption of the authority to pass
upon the constitutionality of an act of
Congress, but he has not announced
his intentions. From what has been
learned from other sources it will not
be surprising should he, because of
his doubt of the constitutionality of
the original sugar bounty clause of the
McKinley law, refuse to approve the
payment of the money appropriated
to pay sugar bounties until the Courts
have declared the law to be Constitutional.
How many of the newspapers which
make a practice of misrepresenting
the acts and intentions of the adminis
tration, both at home and abroad, will
make public the fact that the U. S.
minister to China was the first repre
sentative of a foreign government to
demand of China, at the time of the
recent destruction of missionary pro
perty and massacre of missionaries,
not only reparation for damage done
and the punishment of those who did
it, but the fullest protection for
Americans temporarily residing in
China? This demand was made in
June and its effect may be judged
from the more recent massacre of
English missionaries, which has start
ed the British lion to roaring at the
Chinese dragon at an awful rate. In
that massacre not an American was
killed or injured, although they had a
mission station near by that of the
English who were killed. Talk is
cheap, but when it comes to acts this
administration is not behind that of
any other in the history of the country
in protecting Americans and Ameri
can interests abroad. The fairness of
the republican papers in your vicinity
can be judged by the way they treat
this Chinese incident. It's brick
houses to ginger cakes that most of
them will ignore it entirely.
Secretary Morton has more than
once shown that his ideas on public
affairs are of the good, old Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew Jackson sort of
democracy. He has just given
another instance of it. Some time
ago he said to a newspaper man in
regard to a proposition to pay a gov
ernment bounty on agricultural pro
ducts : " If it will pay to raise and
export agricultural products, there is
no bounty needed. And if it will not
pay to raise and export agricultural
products no bounty should be given."
Ihisdidnot please the editor of the
New York periodical for whom the
interview was secured. He fixed up
an answer to the secretary s words
and this week Mr. Morton receive! a
proof of it. In reply Secretary Mor
ton has written him a short letter,
from which the following paragraph,
which is a nutshell statement of the
whole bounty question, is taken : "Be
kind enough to explain to your read
ers how the bounty is to be raised to
pay the producer of agricultural pro
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dollar that is not taken from the
pockets of its citizens by means of
taxation ?'' The bounty system is
merely a modern application of
" robbing Peter to pay Paul, and
there is no doubt of its being class
legislation of the most vicious kind,
although it is difficult to convince
those temporarily benefitted that it is.
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