—— YOl.. Cl. CONSOLIDATING LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSES race Mann, In IS38, In Massachu- setts, ture ol fzed two or more establish a "union solidation movement the impetus of its n stat 18669 pay out of ransportation ralized *hool, Mont: was township 1883, elghteen the board of that we have the t sickness solidating schools, the school “For 18 attendance dren; no and like saved years for anspst i among them The children more no more accidents. the plan the t Al the dipped exceedingly. wnship at least ittend a The con- of but them wil by visit- hildren Ww n hool house everybody I no schools making people duty echools are graded; in verted to the plan, bringing the country to consolidate them, worth seeing: then the morelikely to do their ing them." 400 Such Schools In Pennsylvania From Massachusetts the consolida- tion movement Ohlo Indiana and finally all over the coun try. While the abandonment one teacher schools approximately sections, vet in Kentucky. ind movement ha see WAY up be spread into and of wrought abou was equal proportions the Penns) heen « «aI St arr greater extent than States than 400 o« enrollment Pennsylvania Education more than an enroime States other ISO; May Get Siate AM 1 transportation : not including purchase of vehicles than purpose Year, $3.000 in approm receive State for this year. The for each effect the Down in Montgomery one-teacher schools were centers prior 1823. Practically all of the districts there use motor busses which In a majority of cases are owned by the district. trans portation has emphasized the need for good roads in Union county and today when roads are improved, thelr relation to tmnsportation sal ways considered. Pupils Get Better Attention. in the consolidated schools Montgomery county have a great advantage over those who attend the little red school when the tim: devoted each week is following. table the week For more ates $200 to State also one-tencher consolidated dist county school closed rict. sixty to Sehool achool Btudents of house fo each subject in minutes subjects considered, the number to tw een of devoted each is compared as i and much sub several the her consolidated schoo the sohond Note given to onaolidated one tens how more attention ject in The the subjects minutes spent first column echool and the second teacher school: . History and Civics Arithmetic Reading Spelling Language Geography .. aT Music ... vag Drawing Writing ............. “ks Bewing Fibieun 130 ? Other advantages for the child at tending a consolidated school are: (1) grouping of children so that bright pupils may take more subjects while manual skill may be developed in the training of children who make slow academic progress. (2). Better social development be cause of large numbers of children of the same age and mental development Associating together, , (8). Opportunity for mass athletics / and organized play. (4). Contact with the practical arts such as home-making for girls and (Continued on foot of next column) ’ is each the « school opposite umber of The consolidated ones eoltmna the stihjects in the topresent on for figures the in the Frurr + the 1860 350 1650 B50 800 336 os ous 1000 : 750 a70 venses S10 30 «+ 385 15 135 30 EAE LUTHERAN SYNOD Treasurer Dies Suddenly After Read Ing Report—Officers With Brotherhood Meeting, Sur Horton daugt Wagner, D. D., ted president officers, is Ler, John vin reole nit won M. | elect Ww Ww nu of D D. Sec Rearick, .(¥ i Rev, flinburyg etary. RB. IL. elected Wm, propriated Selinsgrove, the synod to T synod Serover treasurer of T. Horton. 8.500 cead he from treasury for Susqg the oniy church ¢ bounds of the The lowing V. Lesher, John Russell Knoebel George Martin men for organization fi Lew! Haaver Keyner oe were ordained Andrew and Wilson Harold the Derr, and Fegue, ond-year in seminary licensed sessions banquet hundred Dr, Ohio, Nat out riod of a year cone men at wob W. executive Brotherho line h hoods FRIDAY IS PATRONS DAY LOCAL HIGH AT SCHOO! Bake Sale, omens Bible (as wil cated by 1 hui d= even: Sunday sch hole the in tur <1, X © male room Mitter! ing, on ing, May bread, Pies, cream and be snge, in Fellows’ ind consisting of home-made and Tow womemade candies will al- Everybody is invited to “By ng the Odd 8 lay afternoon cakes cookies wo on ome and buy order of Comm. SALARY INCREASE SIGNED. Bill Providing for 8500 Boost for Mem- bers of Legislature Receives Fishe er's Signature, Despite Apparent Indication It Would Be Vetoed. Salary boosts of $500 a bennium for members the general assembly are provided in the bill of Represen- tative Howe, of Allegheny, which was approved by Governor Fisher. The hill gives them substantial in- creases in their mileag allowances from the State, permitting them to collect five cents a mile a round for each week they attend sessions This {8 the second salary boost the legislature since 1518. Prior to the session of 1021 they received $1560 a biennium and mileage for one round trip a session at the rate of 10 cents ia mile. The 1819 legislature raised their salaries to $2500, increased the mileage allowance fo 30 cenis a mile for one round trip a session and in- creased their postage allowances, The new law makes the salnrteg £3.- 000, Starting with session of * 1031, when all members of the senate and house Will receive the Increases, the State's bill for salaries of the members will be increased $125,000 a biennium, and for a session as long as the 1927 one, which was one of the shortest on record, the total mileage allowance will run to $60,668, instead of $26,000, Hold over senators who served thelr first term this year will not receive the Inciease in 1929, but the new sal: aries of the house members and new senators will Increase the Htate's bill by $116,500 next sefelon. The law does not change the postage allowance, which is left at $160 a session, nor does it change the $500 salaries allow. ed for a special session. ’ of for also © for (Continued from previous column) agriculture for boys, (5). Development of art apprecia tion through the employment of sue parvisors of music, drawing and pen- manship, BELIEYE SLAIN FOREIGNER i Case May L'nk Up Wih Rebershurg Flght~Think Body Was 80 Miles~—~Look for Early Arrest. welwEnoer Oui Poll with waluable make an arrest The man whose n, N dav examination State and to in Brookls {| SSOUrg the 3 A was Impossibl thoreugh CU Be nditie posed of nn lh iiinsaniin Reformed Classis, annual in assis of Oh t Fi oe Reformed pened Ww mess ion United Monday. The States a 8. G out aide Bart} Horrible 1 Fate of Ml Hand, Pag £ # and fell filled is win He ths Al pit. wi Ih was and an al ne one hand out and edge of tHe pit thereby if and arms {rom { The helpers got him from the pit rushed him to the i pital, whe» he died Surviving him are his rents. three brothers and Charles L., Mrs. Charles Mra. Frank Fredericks, Clyde and Miss Azelin Caskey. Lock Haven. cn —————————— WwW. C. T. U. Group Institute, Friday of this week a group insti. tute of the W. OC. T. U. will be held in Petrikin Hall first session is at 2:30 P. M., during which session ad dresses will be made by Mrs Frank P. Knoll, Mra. V. C. Ridge, Mra. BR. M. Beach, Mra. 1. H. Leitzell: followed by a box lancheon The evening session ithe Methodist church, Bellefonte, and Mrs, Ella M. George, the State pre { dent, will be the speaker. quid aught Kal keeping oe being his sinters wife. 1a - three Chatham, Butler, Jr, ail of Of He will be held in As hb Faculty and Class Entertained. and Mre. J. W, Zerby gave a to the faculty and senior class Gregg Township Vocational Wednesday evening of last week. The following members were present: Prof. ©, M. Watts, Mian Mary Lobb, Miss Mae Morrow, Mrs W. J Keown, Prof J. W. Decker. Prof. J B. Park, Irene Zerby, Ella Albright. Laelia earick:s Florence Rearick. Florence Smith, Naomi Neese, Mr. dinner the School, of Berna dine Wagner, Gladys Ziegler, Dorothy Lee, Sara Vonada, Rosella Heckman, Philip Vonada, Stanford Hettinger, Martin Bhreckengast, Wiliam Walker, James Hosterman, Stewart Confer, Charles Hering. and Melvin Grove. LA Conerete Road In Mann's Nasrows. Bids will be opened on Friday of next week for 3150 feet of fond, 18 feet wide, through Manns Narrows, covering the section where the new bridge Is being built by the trolley company, rallroad company. State Highway Department and two townships, The road will begin at Rosemont. the first turn south of the new bridge, wheres the road will eut through a private yard enclosed with a stone fence, and extend over the bridge to the north for a distance of about one thousand feet. During the next summer it Is pretty certain that a concrete youd will be built from the Burnham borough line through to Reedaville, » 66 FAIRS THIS YEAR. Department of Agrvienlture Dates 2i-September 2 at AllAugust | Hall, nounces for Centre The Elected for 7th & Sth meeting the tench DOPOUEn Mr. Maney EXperiance ag i segs township school rm rn———————— County Grange to Meet, (31y Plans for Marketing Wool cnt Freight Rider Back te Hosplt al REBUILD “OLD MAINT tn o— In signing the Legislature appropri ation Lill of $4.000.000 for the Pennsyl- vinia State College, including $1.000, 000 for new buildings and their equip. ment, Governor Fisher requested that the first bullding tem to be given at. tenion by the college trustees be the reconstruction of “Old Main,” the five story structure erected between 1858 and 18684. The top floor and attic of this building have not been used for about five years and the tower has been closed as unsafe for a longer pe riod. The bullding now houses the general administrative offices and a arge number of classrooms The out: or wil be left standing as they interior to be nilit entirely, cording present plans. Other bullding will consideration walls are, the rid git tes given executive by the during needs bw the of the trustees and annual meeting week in early June, x undergraduate sohools great need of added classroom lagoratory space. anil apportion- the State building fund will real task for the trustees. No announcement has becn made as yet concerning a bullding program. College officials are receiving indea- careful by committee at Commencement board ite Each of thw #2 in and ment be of on tions of pleasure from all parts of the State in the granting of the largest State appropriation ever received at one time by the State's own institu: tion of higher learning. The State College request for $4.234500 was des clared by trustees to be the absolute minimum with which the college could continue its present work without nes glect to some part of it. Even thoagh the new appropriation ie the largest ever received, college authorities will find it Impossible to A all demands made upon the college service hy peo ple uf the Biate, The building request was granted In full by Governor Fisher. Lack of sufficient State funds prompted him to reduce the genera! maintenance item from $2,181,000 requested to $2,100,000; the agricultural extension amount from $650,000 to $630,000, and the ng- rieultural research fund from 8403.500 to $270,000. These amounts are to be timed during the next two years, IN AUTO WRECK Lock Have County n. P och, of as Away ‘nn Centre Saturday Night. ———————— Tractor Hum No Interference. %1 k Ha Weil Hinliday, Ovienkirk Thursdays, Cupples Half Day The Emery tle stores and Tuesday and eve- joeed beginning next Stores will not heretofore (CHANTS. 8) will be i evening. Thursday afte ning of each week, Thursday, May 26th. close Friday evenings adv na ME} A ————. a —L A Second Richellen Theatre, is to have a second Rich- the foundation for which is now under construction. The site is on the vacant lot next to the pop- ular Richelieu. The structure will be 200x200 feet, two stories high in front, providing a stores room and entrance on fist floor and one apartment on the second floor. The theatre will have a seating capacity of about £00 The project being financed by Messrs, Richelieu and Thompeon, own: of the Richelieu theatre. which gunrantees the theatre wili hand- somely equipped and conducted to the advantage of the public who delignt in faving the slivered mirror. inp ———— Rural Danee Halls Regulated. Mumford bill signed by the Gov: ernor pubs all dance halls outside bore coughs and cities under police super vigion. Yearly permits costing $10.00 per year must be obtained from the county treasurer: dancing must be discontinued at midnight on Baturdays and at 1 a. m. on all other days. Chil- dren under 16 years must leave the place at 5:00 PP. M., unless accompan’ ied by adults The measure fixing the rate of ade vertising the mercantile appraisement according to circulation was vetoed be: cause it would increase the cost Another measure falling the Gov. ernor’'s approval was one that would fix a penalty of two per cent. on bor: ough taxes not paid within sixty days and an additional one per cent. theres after for each mionth. . The bill placing the maintenance of Htate'nld highways upon the. departs ment of highways was not approved, Mr. Fisher said that this would in crease the department's annual main: tenance and replacement charges §$1.- 181,560. 4 bn MAIR. T. HB Jodon, of Pleasant Gap, will hold a public sale of Ohio pwe-—~Hol- steins and Guernsevs, all t. bh tested «at his barn, on Saturday, May 31st, Bellsfonte elicu theatre, ers we ae at one o'clock, NO. 21 HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS. ( Real estate and involving of Joseph Howard business man, How ard ated at residence was disposed having been purchased Ginter Tyrone Mr. Ginter also bought another jot for $410. Another property containing a dwelling house was bought by Diehi’s widow, Rena 2. Diehl, for $1186. while BR. H. Bennison of Howard bought a lot for $485. six out of to graduate State Police 26th in will have course at assignee Westmores he sale o prominent COTEUMm Diehl $6100, by John 8, thelate Diehi, were he Joseph of for of George Relber one of A Class of thirty-seven from the Pennsylvania School, at Hershey, on the sant. at which time he completed a four months’ that institution. He been ed to Troop A, Greensburg = has snd county. The prospective trooper war here to subpoena witnesses in the two cases of Reiber va CO hell, Tis ed fon trial during the second week of The case is the result of a Ccol« of automolsies, Amy court. igion A stranger thought to have been & State road official of some degree, ariving a coupe came within an ace of hitting the local freight train while standing on the crossing on Saturday wporning. He came in from Olid Fort at a high mate of speed and for some reason fallsd to observe the train which was standing still until too close to stop. The car was shot over seve eral ditches and landed against a cand bin. The car was not damaged to any extent. With the least possible fuss and scarcely a word the man hurried away but at a more moderate gate. As was forecast in the lssue of this raper of last week, Clay W. Recsman was elected one of the five commis sioners of Camden, New Jersey, He polled the third highest vote cast for any of the candidates. The probabile ity is that he will have charge of the Department of Parks and Public Prop~ erly. The Journal of Commerce. pub~ hed in Philadelphia, In a pro-alece tion issue. devoted more than a half volumn of its space to recite to Ite renders the special fitness of Mr, Rove man for the particular office for which he was a candidate, and stressed the fact hat he was nominated a can * - didate without effort on his part. Wi \
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