THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
County Superintendent's Annual Report
of the School of Columbia County,
The inost promising features of the
work during the past year were the
ircreise in the number of pupils at
tending school and greater regularity
in attendance.
While more interest was manifested
in the woik this year than ever before
by palroi s, directors, teachers ami
pupils, yet there is room for improve
ment in various ways in many
districts.
The majority of our directors are
cj reful, capable and conscientious,
and seem ever ready to do whatever
in their imlment tends to make the
schools more efficient.
The attendance of directors at the
directors association at our last coun.
ty institute was the largest ever known
at a regular meeting of the association.
Excellent addresses were made by
Superintendents li. R. Johnson of
Union county and J. George IJenht
of Lycoming cou lty.
It seems no more than right that
directors should receive actual ex
penses for attendance at the sessions
of the association for the one day
during the county institute.
It was suggested at the last meet
ing that as the district receives
through the directors who attend, the
Lenefils of the association, that it
would be proper for the district to pay
i!ie actual expenses of those who
attend the meeting.
The county institute was held
October 21 25. All the teachers
i.i the county except two were
present. One of these was absent
on account of sickness.
The institutes during the past few
years have been very largely attended
by teachers, directors and citizens,
and have been unusually interesting
and successful.
Interesting and excellent instruc
tion was given Ly Dr. Arnold Tom-
kins of Chicago, 111., Supts. R R
Johnson of Union county, J. George
Uecht of Lycoming county, Miss
Margaret McCloskey of the Lock
Haven Normal School, Mrs. L. N.
Allen of Yonkers, N. Y., Prof. Wm.
Noetling and Dr. J. P. Welsh of the
Lioomsburg Normal, and Plot. E. K.
Richardson of Berwick. Prof. J. A.
' Sp;nkel had charge of the music. The
lectures were given by Dr. James
lledley, J)r. Byron King and Rev.
Tho.nas Dixon, Jr., and a concert, by
me Anon concei t company.
Eight local institutes were held.
They were better attended by
teachers, directors and citizens than
ever before.
Special efforts were made to give
natural science a prominent place 011
the program of these institutes and
Prof. Cope of the Normal did good
work in this subject.
Valuable instruction was also given
by other members of the P'aculty of
the Normal as well as by many of the
teachers of the county.
It is necessary to state this year
again that a number of the out-buildings
are not what they should be and
that therefore the law in this particu
Jar has not yet been complied with
m some districts.
One new school house was built
during the year and many were re
paired and made more attractive and
co.. .'ortable.
The P. O. S. of A., erected poles
at a number of school houses in the
county and presented those schools
with beautiful flags. This society is
to be commended for the good work
it is thus doing
While many of our schools have
unabridged dictionaries, some libra
ries, or the beginning of a library, and
a few have good supplementary read
ing yet there is a great need of im
mediate attention to these matters
and improvement in them.
Each school should have an un
abridged dictionary and a library.
Our directors as a rule have been
careful and wise in refraining from
spending large sums of money for
u..e'ess charts, but they might invest
to great advantage more money in
dictionaries and supplementary read
ing. In many districts teachers are
more carefully selected, and most di
rectors are now fully awake to the
fact that the little people, or primary
pupils, should have the very best
teachers.
There nre in the county two hun
dred a;.d thiity (230) schools. Of
these eighty nine are graded. Twenty
two (2t) school rooms have not suffi
cienc seating capacity.
One hundred and thirty-seven
school houses are considered good.
In two-hundred and two (203)
school:; the Bible is read.
We held twenty-five (25) examina
tions and examined two-hundred and
twenty-six (226) applicants. Of these
forty three (43) were rejected.
One hundred (100) of the teachers
of the county are males and one-hundred
and forty three (143) are
females.
Thirty five (35) is the highest
average a.r,c of the teachers of any
district and nineteen (19) the lowest
average age of the teachers of any
d strict. '
Fifty (50) teachers this year had no
previous experience. Of these one
(1) was a college graduate, three (3)
came direct from the common
schools, six (f) were educated in
seminaries or academies, seven (7)
were from High Schools, twelve (12)
were Normal graduates, and twenty
one (21) had attended Normal
Schools.
Ninety two (92) teachers had more
than five years' experience in teach
ing. One hundred and fourteen
(114) held provisional certificates,
thirty five (35) held professionals,
eighteen (18) held permancnts, seven
ty two (72) are Normal graduates,
and two (2) college graduates have
State certificates.
One hundred and fifty-nine (1 cn)
of our teachers attended Normal
Schools, thirty-six (36) were educated
in the common schools, forty five
(45) in academies or seminaries, and
three (3) are college graduates.
Every school in the county was
visited once, seventy (70) were visited
a second time, and a number were
visited three times.
It was found at the time of the
regular visit that one hundred and
fifty-eight (158) schools had been
visited by directors.
During the past six years I have
visited every school once each year
ana always from seventy (70) to a
hund.-ed (100) a second time.
A teacher was employed to teach
music regularly in the schools of
Bloom and Catawissa. The work ac
complished along this line in these
schools shows that this was not only a
desirable move but a successful one.
The graded course of study prepar
ed for the ungraded schools of the
county and placed in them two years
ago has done much to systematize the
work m these schools and make it
stronger and better. It is hoped
that this course or a similar one, with
all possible improvements, will be
continued, "and that the time may
soon come when each rural district
in the county will regularly graduate
each year a number of young men
and young women who may most
properly upon such graduation re
ceive from the directors and the
superintendent a common school di
ploma. It is done in other counties
and it can be successfully done in this
as the work with the course during
the past two years fully demonstrates.
The Berwick directors have suc
cessfully continued the cooking
schoDl. This school is under the
efficient supervision of Mrs. Kusel
and it has proven an excellent thing
for the young women of Berwick.
The Berwick people may be proud of
their cooking school, and this depart
ment of their schools should receive
the united and hearty support that it
deserves.
Our teachers as a rule, do faithful,
hard, honest work.
I shall ever gratefully remember
the generous and kind help that so
many of the teachers always so will
ingly and cheerfully gave me.
A few years ago not more than
fifty per cent, of the teachers were
regular readers of educational
journals but to day less than seven
per cent, do not read regularly such
papers.
The High Schools of the county
graduated about the usual number.
The Normal is in a very prosperous
condition and continues to graduate
large classes.
Having been reliably informed at
the County Institute in October by
those requested to look into the
matter that it was the intention of a
large majority of the directors of the
county to reduce the salary of the
county superintendent at their next
triennial convention, I informed the
directors of the county and the pub
lic immediately after the Institute
that I could not, therefore, be a can
didate for a third term.
In conclusion, I desire to thank the
directors, the teachers, the citizens
and the pupils for the kind, generous,
faithful support given me during the
past six years, and I trust my succes
sor may be accorded similar kind
treatment and hearty co-operation.
Wm. C. Johnston.
Reading Employes' Relief fund.
The statement of the Reading
O
Railroad Relief Association for May
shows payments for benefits aggrega
ting ip1S.030.30. Of this total there
was paid on account of deaths, $5,420
60; accident disablements, $5,544.50;
sick disablements, $7,083.20, Eleven
death claims were paid, five occurring
from accidents and six from natural
causes. The total number of new
cases reported during the month was
573-
Ttia Same the World Over,
The following is the statement of
some observing individual: "Never
judge a person by his outside appear
ance. A shabby old coat may enwrap
a newspaper publisher, while a man
wearing a plug hat and sporting a gold
headed cane may be a delinquent
subscriber.
Taken in time Hood's Sarsaparilla
prevents sciious illness by keeping
the blood pure and all the organs in
a healthy condition.
Subscribe for the Columbian.
' TRY TRY AGAIN.
Keeping vegetables with
stalks in water till cooked.
the
Keeping eggs by burying in salt.
Keeping carrots and turnips by
burying in layers in a box of sand.
For seeding raisins, pouring
boiling water over them and then
draining.
coasting or broiling meat over
as hot a fire as possible.
Roasting potatoes with meat by
paring and putting -on a rack in the
pan.
Hickory-nut macaroons made of
five unbeaten eggs, one pound of
chopped meats, one pound of powder
ed sugar, one tablespoonful of flour,
two small teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, dropped in tiny cakes in wax
ed paper in the pan.
Rubbing irons with a little wax
to prevent starch sticking.
Taking ink stains from wash
goods by rubbing with yolk of egg
before washing.
Adding a pinch of salt to the
white of egg in beating to make it
froth.
Removing schorch from linen by
spreading over them this mixture :
The juice of two onions, one-half
ounce of white soap, two ounces of
fnllers earth and one half pint of
vinegar, all boiled together and cool
ed before using.
Peach pudding sauce of the
extra juice in a can of fruit, with a
little sugar and water and a few drops
of almond extract : boil up and serve.
Good Housekeeping.
Don't think that your liver needs
treating if you are bilious. It don't.
It's your stomach. That is, your
stomach is really what causes the
biliousness. It has put your liver out
of order.
See what's the matter with your
stomach.
Sick stomach poisons liver and then
there's trouble. Shaker Digestive
Cordial cures stomach and then all's
well. That's the case in a nutshell.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is no
secret. Formula's on every bottle.
But it's the simple honest way it's
made, the honest Shaker herbs and
other ingredients of which it's com
posed, that make it so efficacious.
Any real case of indigestion and
biliousness can be cured with a few
bottles of Shaker Digestive Cordial,
Try it.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents
to $1.00 per bottle.
G0NGRES3 AND THE CANNON-
How Monumont Associations Are Supplied
With War Relics.
" Congress keens rinht on nassinir
resolutions donating condemned can
non to the at Lous battlefield, Grand
Army and monument associations
throughout the country " said an
officer of the ordinance corps at the
war Uepartment, " though it is a
well-kno,vn fact that the Government
has hati no condemned cannon on
hand for twenty years or more. All
that were left on hand after the war
were given away in ten years, and
since then to supply these donations
the Government has had to make
hundreds and hundreds of cannon for
the express purpose of condemning
tnem.
" As a rule these soldier monu
ments are placed on a square or ob
long base and four cannon are need
ed, one for each corner, to properly
set them off. With the cannon al
ways go the carriages j kept properly
painted they will last practically for
ever. The present Congress has do
nated 120 cannon so far, and proba
cy lorty more will be ad-led before
they sojourn. As there is on hand
but seventy-five cannon for which
there is no present use, seventy-five
or one hundred will have to be made
immediately, and ' also immediately
condemned, so as to comply with the
law." Washington Letter in the
Chicago Record.
The season is annroachincr when
one opens his mouth at the risk of
letting in a fly. Scientists claim that
the common fly is not a very nutri
tious article of food for human beings.
To our knowledge, no one has ever
contradicted the statement. The
taste of flies is not pleasant, but that
doesn't handicap them as a luxury.
The pickling factories haven't intro
duced them yet, and until then the
savory olive will hold dominion over
popular delicacies. Don't swallow
more flies than you positively must.
I hey iv:ually die a violent death and
lr 'e th! .gs very unpleasant for the
stomach. Never eat the wings of a
fly. Science proves that they are
quite indigestible.
. Mo Crepe
When you take Hood's fill. Tfir lig, nlilash
loned, sugar-coated lulls, which U-.ir you all to
lili'ces, are not In It witli Hood's. Kasy to tuko
and easy to oneritto, Is true
ol Hood's rills, which are
up to date In ovry respect.
Safo, certain and sure. All
PiEls
drncglsts. ar.0. C. I. Hood ft Co., Lowell, Muss.
Tuo ouly IMUs to take with Hood's Kursapurilla.
Hoods
oat In the rain
A good penciling in a cold rain is often the beginning
of consumption. Yet no one claims that the germs of this
disease existed in the rainwater. Then how was this brought
about ? The exposure was followed by a cold ; the vitality was
lowered; the cough cout.i.ucd for some weeks; the throat
and lungs became congested ; and thus all the conditions
were favorable for the growth of the consumption germs.
of Cod-liver Oil,with hypophosphites, does net directly attack
these germs and kill them. But it does tone up the whole
system and restores the body to health before serious harm
is tioiic. 1 lie germs ot consumption thrive best vvnen the
system is weakened and the throat and lungs congested. Do
not delay until it is too late, but treat your cough early.
Scott's Emulsion is oue of the very best remedies.
50 cU. anJ i a SCOTT & llOWNE, Chemists, New York.
ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO.
DEALERS IN
Cigars, Tcfcacco. Candies, Fruits and Huts
v SOLE AGENTS FOR
Henry Maillard's Tine Candies. Fresh Every Week.
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F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco
Sole Rgenla for the following brands of Cigars-
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fiitefl Iow &qd Gfcod Woifk.
For the finest and best stoves, tinware, roofing, spouting
and general job work, go to V. W. Watts, on Iron street.
Buildings heated by stram, hot air or hot water in a satisfac
tory manner. Sanitary Plumbing a specialty.
I have the exclusive control of the Thatcher steam, hot
water and hot air heaters for this territory, which is acknowl
edged to be the best heater on the market. All work guaran
teed. W. W. WATTS,
IRON STREET.
SHOES I
Our Spring Styles of Shoes
aie nearly all.
25 years experience in shoe buying puts us in the Iront
rank of shoe dealers.
Comfort, style and durability are combined in our shoes.
Co?.:;r:ii Irdv and Main Sts.
I It's the Lame Leg
that BeU the pace. A chain is no
stronger than its wuakest link. For
X weak spots anil placw that seem big
because they hurt, try
Johnson's Belladonna Plasters.
In Pat's phrase, they "suck out"
the soreness and pain. Look for
the Red Cross. No others bear that
Bign. It means excellence plui.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON,
Manufacturing Chemists, New York.
Those who once
buy SERLIU'S
keep coming back
mixture make a
the flavor of cof
fee delicious.
Ail Grotcrt.
For Your Prutcction
wo positively Btutn
t hat I his remedy does
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nul coMt.lii imucuiy
or any ul:icr 1i:jui1jus
drutf.
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CREAM PALM
rieonses the Nnsal
Passives, AliayH In
11. unm.it Ion. Ileitis the
Soil's, I'mluctH tlw
Membrane from i 'olds,
Keslores the hensun
01 Taste and tiiurll.
IT WILL cure.COLD'nHEAD
A nurtli'le Ih nnnll,1 flltiiltlv lotrt thn nexuttt
and Is atfretmlilo. l'rlce so cents ut Di ul-l'Isis
or by mull.
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WANTED-A MAN
In oanli county for onn year to hire and supciln
tend agents. tC5amonth. HUmp ae, exper
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Something New !
Fred Kuiner's improved Ar
tificial Stone Pavement. All
kinds of cement work. Prices
low and all work guaranteed.
All orders by mail promptly
attended to.
P. O. Box 374.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Removed !
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HARDWARE,
TO
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Cnn la Keen In ttiirruHmiHlrrUUnu!r ir thn Kit-tin-
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Send for circulars giving testimonials
ami prices.
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tiOLB MAS If FA CTUH RUN,
Springfield, Mass.
I jr-Aguncy for Woomslnirg at the UOLUM IHAN
0"loe- 8-1 -aiu.
Fine PHOTO
GRAPHS and
CRAYONS at
McKillip Bros.,
Bloomsburg.
The best - are
the-cheapest.
THE MARKETS.
W.OOMSBUKG MARKETS.
COHRKC'TKU WFEILT. BXTA1L rHTCS9,
Butter per lb $
Eggs per dozen 14
Lard per lb .10
Hani per pound .u
rork, wlmle, per pound ,06
Beef, quarter, per pound .... .07
Wheat per bushel ,qo
Oat3 " " 28
Rye " " '. .50
Wheat flour per bbl '. . 4.00
Hay per ton 12 to $14
Potatoes per bushel .ao
Turnips " " , 1j
Onions " " 40
Sweet potatoes per neck ae to
Tallow per lb .1
Shoulder " l
Side meat " " to
Vinegar, per qt OJ
unecl apples per lb oe
Dried cherries, pitted 10
Rispberries T
Cow Hides per lb .1
Steer " " ZZ
CalfSkin
Sheep pelts ' '
Shelled com per bus
Corn meal, cwt 3 00
gran. " i!oo
unon
Middlings "
1. CO
1 00
.13
Chickens per lb new
old.
Turkeys " " l2I
r,pp?c "
.12
Ducks " "
.10
08
COAL.
No. 6, delivered a jo
" 4 and s " 3.50
" 6 at yard a.aj
" 4 and s at yard 35
Bring the Bablss.
INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS USED.
Slrictlv first-L-lau mm
' , f j 1 1 . 1 n j 11 .T,
crayons and convs nt rcfunnnlJn n,;.. w-
use exclusively the Collolion Anstolyi'e pa-
..., in sctuiing (jrenicr neamv ol linisn
and permanency of results. CAPWELL,
MARKET SQUARE GALLERY.
l-2i-iy.
Over Ilartman's Store.
CITY HOTEL.
W. A. Ilnrtzel, Prop. l'tter F. Heldy, Manager
IV o. 121 West Main Street,
llLOOMSllURO. PA.
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Uatn rooms, hot anil cold water, and al
modern conveniences. l!nr ttn lnl iik u.
wines and liquors. First-class livery attached
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
G. Snyder, Proprietor,
(Opposite the Court House
BLOOMSBURG, TK.
Lari?e and convenient cnmnl
rooms, hot and cold water, and all nioUern
conveniences
HIRES RnntPi
tains the best herbs, berries
and roots nature makes for
rootbeer making. Take no
other.
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