NeW PLANS FOR BETTER
RURAL EDUVATION,
Federal Department Wil Educate Oountry
Marms to Better Educate the 60,000
v0 School Uhildren,
Because *‘ the future greatness of the
American nation depends in large
measure upon the prosperity of the
50,000,000 men, women aud children ix
its rural communities,” the Federa
Education Bureau has started to edu-
cate the country school marm, so she
can educate the fifty million in her
little red school house, which is in-
tended to equip them to become pros-
parous,
Every state, county, township and
village in the country and the na-
tional edocation association is help-
ing Uncle Bam in this education of
educators with a view to ultimate na-
tional prosperity.
I'he first step in this campaign was
the organization of the National Rural
Teachers’ Reading circle, through the
co-operation of the National Educa-
tion association and State depart-
ments of public instruction. H., W.
Foght, specialist in rurel school prac-
tice, is directing the work from the
Bureau of Education. Branches have
been organized in 34 states, givine an
opportunity to 250,000 rural school
teachers to have a part in this work.
A two years’ readiug course of nop-
profession books of cultured value,
educational classicr, general principles
and methods of education, rural edu-
cation and rurel life problems, has
been outlined, Those who give satis-
factory evidence of having read intelli-
gently seventeen books from the lists
giver, will be awarded with an Honor
ertificate signed by the U., B. Educs-
tion Commissioner and the State
school officials,
Mr, Foght saye, ‘‘ the greatness and
ilure of the American nation depend
0 the prosperity of its rural communi-
ie The 50,000,000 mer, women aud
children who live in the open country
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Tuicneaty
DR, SUHUYLER LAID TO REST.
Seven Ministers Eulogize Beloved Pastor in
Service Friday Morning, Burial at Qen-
tre Hall,
Dr. William Henry Echuyler, Ph.
D., was laid to rest in Centre Hall on
Friday noon. The funeral was largely
attended, among the number being
ssven ministers. The services were
held in the Presbyterian church and
each minister delivered a short but
fitting eulogy to the worth of the be-
loved pastor. Rev. R. R. Jones, ir
bis talk, emphasized Dr. Behuyler's
life as a citizen in the community, in-
terested in every phase of community
welfare, He was interested in his
parish, but hie interest did not stop
there. It reached out to a larger
sphere, the community in general. It
was through Dr. SBchuyler that we
were led to see the importance of the
“Community welfare,” said Rev.
Jonee. If there has been any * com-
munity ”’ feeling developed in this
neighborhood, or any unity of action
and purpose, it very likely tonk its
rise in the mind of Dr, Schuyler, His
conception of the ministry was that
it is a calling which should influence
every aspect of the life of the com-
munity, and he endeavored live
that idea every day.
to
BIOGRAPHICAL
Willism Henry Schuyler was born
in Hartletop, Union county, October
15th, 1845. His boyhood days were
spent in Bloomsburg and at the age of
iwenty-one years he matriculated as a
student in Lafayette Coilege, from
which he was graduated in 1878. For
the following fifteen years his life was
devoted to teaching, and among the
institatiovs in which he taught were
the Belleville, (N. Y.) Union Acad-
emmy, Lafayette College, Lewistown |
Academy, where he held the position i
of principal from 1877 to 1583; High |
‘chool at Franklin, priveipal in 1884 ; |
New Bloomfield Academy, prineipal
i
fr ma 1884 to 1887. ln this year he |
and in villages and small towns must !
lave more sdoquate opportunity for
wholesome snd remunerative living.
this {or a new
Can come to rural
cally leadeiship which |
Communities only
LGrough the highest degree of educa-|
tion of & cultural and practical kind.
" vital education fs
the teacher. The rural teacher means
Ihe factor in
for rural education and rural Jife
teacher can mean for
uroan education and urban life.
“Therefore we must look
end their
that they be
of the native
thorough education
ihe highest degree of
DiOTE
Le cily
3 ss 4
MBL
to the
prepars-
CULiry leschiers
¥ : $ ii
“IOP, BUG see to iL ehall
men snd women
Dilly, the most
wa
beat
4 professions)
il
iil.
Knowledge and sk
mi et—
Dr. Sparks' Remedy for H adstrong Boye,
Dr. E. E, of The
Penopeylvapia Bilate has his
own remedy for treativg headstrong
¢chool boye, At institute ip
Harnsbarg last week he made these
Teounrke
Take one headstrong, wilful young-
eler and a good, broad, strong palm
and by sppiyivg the latter to the
tender spots of the “enfant terrible”
remarkable results will ensue.
Ibis strenuous reme dy for the prog-
er training of the child was charscter-
ized us ‘“‘a little thing, a simple
virtue.”
“I've no patience with_moral sus-
sion in homes and #chools,” Dr.
Bparks plainly stated. “Give me
good old fashioned mothers with
etrong broad palms who can lay it on
in the tender spots and the teacher
will not have so much trouble,
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Willtamsport Commercial wvollege,
Winter term begins January 4th,
New classes in bookkeeping, short-
hand, typewriting, Civil service, and
ull business branches. A business edu-
cation will fit you to receive from 50 to
100 per cent more than you would or-
divarily receive. Calls received every
week for gradustes. Send for cata
logue, F. F. HeaLgy,
Proprietor,
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Making a trip across the continent
Lo take his bride of a year back howe
with hiw, only to find that his #pouse
Lad left for paits unknown, was the
unhappy experience of Leland O.
Bitavle, formerly of Bellefonte and
now employed as a fltemman on the
railroad in Wyoming. The lady to
whom Btrubble was married, he avers,
was Helen Lulz of Axe Mano, who it
is known, never adopted beer hua-
band’s name but since ber secret mar
Sparar, president
College,
an
tnlered the ministry sod his fire |
charge was that of Everett and i
Here |
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Spring Mills, For fifteen and a half
years be shepherded his flock here and
in that time gained the love of all his
parishioners and the esteem and ad-
mirstion the entire community.
He was a peace-loving wan and had a
{acuity for bringing sbout barmony
Where disruption threatened. He was
regarded Lighiy se a thorough educs-
prepared many men and
women for filling prominent places in
all walks of life,
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Agriculture in First Year for Students,
of
tor and
Hesdjusiment of certain courses in the
#ghiool of sgricullure at the Penney |-
vAuia State College, effective with the
"HALL, PA.
THU
a placard bearing these words :
CHRISTMA
50 LBS, 150 MILES
MAIL EARLY
Parcels Nay be Marked “Not to
The average person knows he
mailing, yet the per cent. of U
wrap and address packages
Christmas season bs
order to
the mails, and in
rigidi rules and regu
y enforce the
mailing matter of all classes,
wrapped and addressed are not 1
present the packages, or tl
but on the other hand t
1
lost or damaged and delivery of
cles that are plyable
and tied with a s
If the
Meats, butt
age. conten
nsed,
in an inner box stre
enough to prevent the escape
fruits, ete Lig id
st 11 nara nt al ry
will guarantee deliv
being too elabora
3
an inquisitive dispos
to do with the amoun
$
ages by the
posuna
cortents,
beginuiog of the next college year,
S PARCELS
20 LBS, ANYWHERE
be opened until Christmas,’
29, 1915.
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NO.
45
Dr, Andrew dohason, Lecturer,
Left a homeless orphan at the age of
twelve yeare, Dr. Andrew Johnson
bas won his own way to a place of
prominence on the lecture platform.
His struggle for an education was &
most difficult one, and the story of his
experience in what Ralph Parlette
calls the Uaiversity of Hard Knocks
Dr. Johnson Is peculiarly fitted to give
& lecture appealing to every class of
people represented in his audience.
No man speaks so feelingly of life, nor
portrays it so teilingly, as the one who
has experienced the lights and
shadows, Dr. Johnson has been
through life’s mill and his lectures in-
spire and encourage.
In Grange Areadis. under the au
of the Centre Hall Lecture
Course, Friday, December 17th.
Ss————
#pices
Orchard Inspector Dies,
T. U. Foster, state orchard inspector,
of last week. He was fifty.
ll two
eke, suffering from Bright's disease.
and for a number of years gave orchard
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Wilson.Gait Naptisls Dee, 18.
The announcement of the wedding
Woolrow Wilson and
rman Galt has been issued and
ur 18th. Ni
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December
i tll
Auman-Decker,
Fueadsy of last week, at the Reform-
1 parsonage ir
+ Boalsburg, John B,
f Milihelm and Miss Leods
weet sme—
LOUALS
Harry W. Potter Is visiting friends
ttsburghb.
¥. B, Jordan of
Frid
Colyer killed four
on whose combined
ret) 100,
iards of Altoona is
home of her brother.
an family,
Mra, George Ri
ling al Lhe
Datrow, d below
i
wili permit freshmen to enroll in the
agriculiural school immediately, Un-
til this new ruling by the council of
sdministratiop, the freshman year has
been regarded sg a probationary period
during which the students continued
their training Io the general branches
of language, mathematics, and ele
mentary science, Formerly (hose
who completed the first year's work
would then register in the school of
their choice.
Beginuing with the firet semester of
neXt year a three-credit course on
Breeds of Livestock will be open to
four-year students. This course is now
offered in the second semester of the
sophomore year. In the second se-
mester of the freshman year there is
scheduled a course in dairy husbandry,
Ibis course will include: productive
handling for city distribution ; the
manufacture of dairy products ; sctusl
operations of feeding, judging, select-
ing of dairy cows ;. milk testing, and
the manufacture of butter, cheese and
ice cream,
For the sophomores there will be &
first semester course in Farm Crope,
snd after February they will be given
special instruction in horticulture and
plant propogation. This course je
usually selected by those students who
expect to engage in fruit culture, mar-
ket gardening, floriculture, and by
those who intend to become teachers
or investigators of horticultural sub-
Jecte,
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All Amendmenss Onery Except Saffeage,
The official vote on the four pro-
posed constitutional amendments was
announced at the capitol a few days
Ago. All smmendments were carried
LOCALS
The Ford owners are putting on ad-
closing up the cars
Mr.and Mere, D. W. Bradford and
Thurs
The straightness of the poles used in
would on the
The old brown earth has been cover |
The Pennsylvanis, Bankers’ Associs-
established a four-year
LT
Messrs. Ray Meyer and Victor Lebo
The Jeaneite Dispatels, dated De-
15,000 Auto Licenses on First Pay,
Almost 15,000 sutomobile lice: ses
for 1916 were shipped the first day of
the month by the Blate Highway De-
partment. When business « pened on
that day 14,608 applications were or
mute
14,608
appilcaticne, 8,626 were for licenses for
pueumatic-tired sutomobiles and 1,1
for solid-tired trucks.
62
The others were
About one-third of the applications
#0 far ure from Philadelphia and about
one-sixth from Pittsburgh. Highway
£9 to file applications at onoe.
Applieatione already in sre more
than six times the number at the same
time last year, and the revenue receiv-
ed for 1916 applications is already
$117,258 ; a year ago only $15,188 was
in hard for 1915 licenses,
No revenue was received for the
three first liceuses; under the law they
Are issued gratie. No. 1 goes to the
Governor and Nos, 2 and 3, respective
ly to the official cars of Commissioner
Couningham sod Lis ohief engineer,
Wm. D. Uhler. Mr. Cunningham
personally got license No. 4. Beustor
William C. Sproul, spoasor-in-general
for road and auto lawe, got No. 7, as he
has done ever since there has been »
license system, he also gets 77 and
777. Noe, 13 and 22, following pre
cedent in recent years, go teapectively
Mre, C. F. Heim snd three children
Harrisburg spent a few days last
KE at the home of the former's sis-
<in-iaw, Mre, W. F, Colyer,
After being lsid up for
sat of
two
L.
teaching
Weer
sickness, T. Moore
rile
18 began
i, easl of Centre
Reuben Garis, who is employed
38 home of his parents in this
pisce on Friday to assist in the annual
bulcherivg.
the
We have promise of electric
they are
If there should happen to
be a slip, we just must have the goods
before Lhe eclipse, the day after ground
hog day.
uot far off,
Among the Reporter's callers op
Saturday was Mre. Jerre Bnavely, one
of the many of the Reporter's faithful
readers sud supporters. Mre, Hpavely
is making arrangements to discon-
tinue housekeeping at Bpring Mills,
and by April 1st will make her home
with her son, Charles F. Louiz, in
Mifflinburg.
Mre. H. W. Kibbe of Meriden,
Connecticut, who for several weeks
was the guest of her cousin, Mre. A. G.
Lieb, in this piace, left on Wednesday
for her home, Bhe was sccompanied
as far as Philadelphia by Mrs, Lieb
who will spend some time with her
brothers in toast city.
Mr.and Mre. J. W. Bromley of
Burms, Iodis, spent from Thursday
antil Tuesday at the home of the lat
ter's brother, Clyde Dutrow, east of
Oentre Hall. Mr. Bromley for the
past six years has been located in
Burmese, Indie, where he is connected
with the Burma Oil Company. He is
on a six months vasestion, half of
which is already spent, and finding
that eix months is but a brief
period in the good old U, B. A,
bas asked for a continustion of hie
vacation for several months more.
Mr. Bromley’s home ie in Pittsburgh
while Mre. Bromley is a native of Al-
toons,
The Maryland Lumber Company is
one of the really big lumbering con-
cerns doing business in the south,
with its main offloe in Hagerstown,
Maryland, One of the meetings of the
directors, ench year, must be held at
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
Edward Btover left on T uesday for
Altoons where he will seek employ-
ment,
Mre. H. J. Lambert of State College
#pent a few days last week looking af-
ter her property in this place,
Rev, D. B, Kurtz is evjoying a few
days bunt for deer with the Hweet-
wood party of Georges Valley, who are
encamped on the Bummit.
Mr. snd Bre. O. D. Eberts and
family of Martha motored to Centre
Hall on Bunday sand were the guests of
Mr. and Mre, G. O, Benner, the latter
being a sister of Mre. Eberts.
Mr.and Mre. M. M. Condo, the
middle of inst week, went to Greens
burg where until spring they will re-
main with their sons and daughters in
that place and other localities in the
Pittsburgh district,
Harry Stover and his bride of 8 few
weeks came to Centre Hall lsat
from Illinois and after #]
week
ending a few
daye al the home of the former's sunt,
Mre. Andrew Zsttle, In this place,
departed for Union county, where the
parents of the groom reside,
John Bmetzler of Bellevue, Ohio,
joyiog bis firet visit in twelve years
lo Penns Valley where he was born
snd raised. He iss son of Mr. and
Mre. David Bmetzier and will remain
for several weeks at the home of his
uncle, James Bmetzler, in this piace,
in
en
During the year closing June 30th,
the Post Office Department through
burglaries and fire Jost $190,000, This
great loss has caused the Department
to issue orders to all postmasters to
make requisitions for one and twe -pent
stamps in amounts to
months only
Inet for three
y instead of one year as
Where surplus stamps
ii vaulte, fire and burglar
proof, this ruling does not apply.
rato fs
LHEeEreloiore,
wn be Kept
E. 8. Ripks, the Hamilton-Brown
shoe salesman, accompanied by Will-
lam Bailey, of the Reporter foros
escaped injury when his Ford car ap-
#et in the mountains near Snow Bhoe,
Saturday. The mountain road
nade rough by freezing while tie rosa
was in bad condition, made traveling
extremely difficult and the [deep ruts
saused the car to work into the diteh.
ipsetiing it. Fortunately the car was
Oing al a slow speed and Mr, Ripka
urned off the power belure the car fell
nl ite side. Little or no damage was
done to the sute.
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Among the out-of-town friends and
reiatives who attended the funeral of
the late Rev. W. H. Schuyler, Ph, D..
rere the following : Rev. J. T. Marsh-
map, Rev, Samuel Martin, Dr. J. V.
Foster, J. H. Musser, State College :
Rev. Walter F. Carson, Dr. and Mre.
Robert Hayer, James Potter, Miss
Florence Love, Bellefonte ; Rev. Sam-
uel Barber, Belleville; Prof. H. D.
Morrill, Ciinton, N. Y.: Dr. Ralph
Steans, Miss Jennie BSteans, Lewis-
burg ; Taylor Reed, Reedsville: Miss
Mary F. Barber, Hazleton: Mre.
James R. Schuyler, Bloomsburg ; Mre.
Brainard Taylor, Mrs. James Osrd-
well, Mise Mariana Barber, Mifflin-
burg ; Eugene Simkine, Pittsburg. = §
Among the varied experiences of
the hunters who are after the wary
buck deer in the Beven Mountains the
first half of this month, that of the
Shuey party of Rsllefonte, encamped
in the *“ Kettle” above Nevil's, will
possibly prove the most amusing. On
the third day of the hunt the chasers
drove a fine four-prong buck from off
“Little Mountain.” One of the
walchers keeping guard on a fire road
eapied the msjestic animal coming in
hie direction and when at close range
fired » “pumpkin® from a 12-guage
shot gun at the deer. The ball struck
the deer at the base of the horn st the
left side of the head, completely up-
rooting the horn. While the blow
was not sufficient to kill the deer it
served to stun him so completely that
all life appeared to have left bim. In
an instant the young hunter was upon
him, and three other watchers station
ed nearby, came in hot pursuit. As
the slayer of the deer endeavored to
stick his game the buck suddenly
came into fall
readers, at 8 union The nkegiving Duy
service in that place : The worshipers
were rewarded for any extra effort or
sacrifices made to be present with a
masterly addres, delivered by the
Rev. J. M. Runkle, minister to Grace
Reformed congregation. His theme
was in keeping with the spirit of the
day and at the close of the service
many took ocession 0 personally ex-
press their appreciation: of his exoel-
lent sermor, of which a brother
to the Rev. Alfred J. P, MoClure of
Wyncote, and Henator Clarence J.
Buckman, of Langbornpe,
except the woman suffrage. The vote
on amendments was ;
No. 1—For 885,548 ; against, 441,084,
No. 2—For 361,188 ; agains, 191,004,
No. 8—For 487,185 ; agalvet, 174,168,
No. 4~For 686 ; mgalnet, 178,667,
Uvolaimed letter in Centre Hall
Deumap, West Virginie, where the
plant is located, and it was this meet
ing of the directors that E. M, Huyett
of Centre Hall attended last week, rep-
resenting the interests of the MeNitt-
Huyett Lumber Company. The
Maryland company is prospering in
every way. Ite plant is a double band
mill, with » capseity of 100,000 feet of
lumber in ten hours. There are now
in the yards ten million feet of lumber,
representing but a small portion of the
original 18,000 acres of standing tim-
ber the company is working on.
riage Lo Btrubble in Akron, Ohio, in
July, 1914, has lived at home and iater
at Biate College under her maiden
Lsmue. Btrubble plsuned to surprise
kis bride by coming at this time in-
stead of several weeks Inter as he had
written her, and take ber back home postoftior, December 1st: Hiram L.
with him where Le had furnished a rose, J. L. Winegarduer, J. D. Valen-
home since his mwarrisge. The hus tine, ostruseter,
band returned to the west on Tuesday
of last week, a sadder but wiser man. Friday evening of next week Dr,
i —————— Audiew Jobson will appear in Oen-f minister said, “ Cortain ly it was one
0 Soin ae si Uikintmus posrt oaran | 0 ali ue the shir number on the]of the finest addresses ever delivered
And seals at this office, Ain Jeanette within my knowledge.”
Suyder County Editor Dead,
Joseph Lombard, seventy-six years
old, of Belinagrove, formerly a Snyder
county associate judge, was found dead
in aetable by his wife, Death was
due to heart disease. He was soctive
in Republican politics,
For forty years Mr. Lombard was
editor of the Boyder vounty Tribune.
He served in the Olvil war.
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