REPUBLICAN HEWS ITEM.
CHABLES L WING, Editor.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
tfy The Sullivan Publishing Co.
A.t the County Seat of Sullivan County.
LAPOHTP, PA.
W r. MASON, Presidcn.
a lios. J. INGHAM, Sec y & Treas.
Kniered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
second-class mail matter.
tj.ie flii ml red ni:d Twenty of tlie lU4
i.Vndeil .Schools Have I'rnct ienl In-
Hti-uetioii 1" tin- Improvement of !
St liool tiroamlN and In Sehool Gar
dens,
(Special Correspondence.]
The necessity of educating children
Ju tlie cultivation of the soil has been j
apparent to the secretary of agricul
ture for a long time, lie is untiring in
his efforts to fur.her it. Trained teach
ers are necessary to accomplish it, so
v, ith the hearty consent of the secre
tary l>r. 1!. T Calloway, chief of the
bure ui of plant industry, has placed at j
the command of both the white and
colored normal schools of the District
O' Columbia such facilities as are nec
essary to give an elementary training
in horticulture and agriculture. By
thus Inspiring the young teachers its fu
ture in tilt: education of the young is
assured. During the last three years
the work has grown from a greenhouse
9 by If) feet and a strip of land for
garden purposes 1(1 by 300 feet to a
greenhouse by 100 feet and a garden
of an acre and a quarter. The depart
ment of agriculture furnishes the op- j
port unity for the work and the schools |
the teachers. Two hundred and ten I
students are in the classes this year. !
Each one of these indents is thus pre
pared tot ■ icii i!i -subject lu the city
schools. Taring U. • :'i4l the students
propagate plants fr mh ceCings for the
winter school.'o ;.; ...... tin spring gar
den, plant In.'.lis uv.: ;m.rs :.nd for win
ter forcing, collect giroca and tree
seeds.
During the winter by simple experi
ments that may be performed in any
schoolroom the students learn of the
kinds of soil, the water holding pow.er
ol soils and means of altering stub
power, conservation of water and plant
physiology.
As spring approaches experiments in
germination seed testing and seed
planting follow, as well as planning
ijouie gardens, gardens around school
fciuildings and vacation gardens. At
■his season of the year, too, the work
wontlens. It leaves t!;e co:tfl;;:>: - . of
®e normal schools and takes in ail of
tfc' pu'ilic schools in the city. Arrauge
iA'.its are made with one of the local
s* dsn en to sell penny ltackages of
silvl to Liie children for li >ni • plan.in,". '
Mjuy of th" older teach. ts are uct
trained, so to aid them the board of
edycatlon, througli one of the normal [
selViols, Issues sheets of simple in- i
striy-ti as to aid the children to cor- j
reefy* plan, plant and care for th ■ 1
home garden. They are encouraged to !
care tor the garden during the summer [
a:i 1 to bring something they have rais
ed wh '.ly by themselves'to the flower
show la the fall. It may be a growing
plant. iw'bunch of flowers or a bottle of
seed. |
Flow.V day is an established feature
of Waslliugtpn schools. On the '_'t)lh
of last September every school in the
District of Columbia Invited the public
to its exhibit. All buildings were open
until dark, and where the buildings
were I hted they were open through
out the evening. The throngs of peo
ple who visited the schools gave suf
ficient proof of the appreciation of the
public for the movement.
Civic Improvement, is thus encouraged
and also by school ground Improve
ment. Three years ago there was but
one garden connected Willi schools in
the District. Last year 12(i of the 121
graded schools made an effort to im
prove their surroundings. The teach
ers are urged to relate whatever is
done outdoors to the subjects taucrht
in the schoolrooms. Skillful teachers
relate geography, arithmetic, spelling,
composition, literature, drawing and
design to the garden.
The latest encouragement given by
the department has been the offer to
the board of education of more than
sm acre of lawn to lie used for chil
dren's gardens. The board has accept
ed the offer and will put the first six
grades of a school In the vicinity to
work upon it. Each school will spend
an afternoon a week in the garden un
der th • regular grade teacher, who will
lie instructed from the normal school,
h'lie will be expected to relate the Work
closely to the regular schoolroom work.
The time spent in the garden will be
a part of school time and not after
hours, as has be»n so frequently done
before, thus making an added burden
on the teacher. Each child will have
a plot entirely his own, varying in size
according to his ability. Beside these
individual plots there will be plots ten
feet s.inn it* of grains, forage crops and
important local products for observa
tlon purposes.
Th • garden will be under the imme
diate care of the normal school during
vaei: ion and will be considered as a
v.Mcisjon school for the southwest sec
tion of the city, thus fortunately allow
ing lie board of education to grant a
p-iilion from Ihe parents of that sec
lion requesting such an opportunity
for their children during the summer
SI'SAN B. I.II'E,
Washington, 11. C
'li e Berlin (X. Y.i grange recently
p'ld a graime fair, at which tic net
iroceeds were about SOiii. Orange
airs are getting to be popular and
i lo:. table.
1 'aruler, If there Is no grange In your
own, It Is your duty to see that there
one or.'imi 'ed.
THE GRANGE
Conducted by
3. W. DARROW, Chatham. N. Y..
Prais Correspondent New York State i
'Grange
NATURE STUDIES.
PROFESSOR L. H. BAILEY OF CORNELL
WRITES ON SUBJECT.
lie Think* Farmer* Should !*ot Be
Impatient In De in it n<l in fjr Concrete j
Ite*lilt», but Ratlier Make Haute I
Slowly ami Permanently.
[Special Correspondence.]
There is now a decided movement
looking toward the introduction of agri
culture and related subjects into the
public schools. More than thirty of the
states and territories have taken some
kind of official action in this regard.
Just how these subjects ate to be in
troduced is not yet determined, and it
may be several years before any effi
cient body of agricultural thought is
introduced into the greater part of the
public schools. There is 110 question,
however, that this introduction is
sure to come. The whole tendency of
our civilization is to put the educated
man into the work of the world and to
give every person a training for effi
ciency in the life in which he is to
engage.
All this does not mean that we
are to neglect the fundamental prin
ciples of education, Bather we are
to work out the fundamental princi
oles of education in a new way.
We are to work them out in terms
of other subjects from those that
we customarily have used. 1 doubt
whether distinct separate courses In
agriculture will be found to be prac
ticable in most of the elementary
schools, in the primary grades the
nature study idea will be the leavening
Intlueuce, putting the child directly in
to touch with the things with which
lie lives. The nature study movement
endeavors to use common affairs and
objects and phenomena as means of
training the mind.
In the intermediate grades the proba
bility is that agriculture will be taught
by giving agricultural applications to
the general fundamental subjects that
already are in the course of study. We
have introduce I too many subjects into
the schools. We need to simplify rath
er than to complicate the school course,
i ' ; rn.live local applications
in tii.' siiiuios that are now a part of
the school work. 1* or example, aftei
the fundamental work in number is ac
ipiired the problems can lie very large
i- i. ;d. !n e are sn l '! ieut agricul
ilir ;> .tl » i.l I' l >!■ us to afford ;
I
a (Tort. (Hi by the eopar.,.. . iup an« lTTid
diem an problems Hint are in use in the
schools. The geography teaching now
r pi !> ,' i wwii the local en
v;i u: lit. , g ii part of this local
( 11-. milieu, is t ■fa nr. 8, and a good
de.ii of the i .r.iing can be taught in
the u'oogra, !:y class. .Manual traiuing
, i ! > given auVagrlcultural trend
u U i i. cessary. The saine can be said
if t.i . ing and other subjects.
When the high scii 101 is reached, sep
arate > ptional courses in agriculture
tuny well be given as sooli as teachers
and faci.ltles are provided. This work
.-.ltoul-1 11 • of a scientific* character, of
equal training value with physics or
chemistry or botany, and it should lead
direcily to entrance credits in the ag
rieuiiiii-al colleges and universities.
I iiciieve in i very effort that tends to
ar.iu e the public to the necessity of
intr; .ucing these subjects into the
school.;, and I shall use all my efforts
to extend the sentiment. However, 1
hope i:: i; the t'. inning population will
not be too i npatient in demanding con
crete results or in forcing formal agri
cultural s-'dp'-is into the schools. We
must make li.iste slowly and in doing
• ,i !. ; ke it 112 mdamcntally and pcrma
n ".illy. We must not forget that
1....||» i» ( . schools and that their gen
eral tone must be elevated and their
g it 1 ' 1 e.icy increased before we
im;i '. . i ,r i.ny successful results 111
the teaching of common life subjects.
Men '.v to inrrodu 'e agriculture into the
rural » I »:»». as they exisl at the pres
e.it day will lie of no particular eouse
i):: i T':~> whole tone of the school
r.i.;-i ! «; i .. ed. This elevation must
come from il:e elevation of the senti
ment ~i the community. More money
u u.-t 1 had for the schools in order
that betiiu' facilities and better teach
er.; may lie employed and the whole at
! mospliere of the school be made attrae-
I tive 1,. H. BAILEY.
I'll ft.l: tion 100,000.
At a fair estimate, based on examlna
• ti'.a: of circulation figures given in
, newspaper directories, this grange de
; partmeni :;p|iears every week in pa
pers whose combined circulation is np
p o: iniately 40(),uil(l. That means that
at a low estimate it will fall into the
hands of I.OtiO.IKH) people. Thus is the
grand work of the Order and its benef
icent doctrines being promulgated
through the medium of the press. The
grange owes fealty to the papers that
publish these matters nf special inter
est to its members.
Ohio tirnlitre Note*.
The co-operative committee reported
contracts with thirty-nine firms.
The receipts of the state grange ex
ceeded the expenses during the year
by the sum of 5i.1511.77. making the
total assets of the slate grange at pres
ent sis,.Vix.r.7.
Sixty -five classes formed and six li
braries founded Is certainly a good re
port for the first year of the Ohio
state grans*' agricultural and domestic
economy committee under supervision
of III'. Thompson, president of the Ohio
•State university; I lean Price and .Mrs.
Mary E. I.ce.
John D. Reeser's Big Store, Bank Block, Dushore, Penn'a
CA3H STOIAB- I
Here ore some seasonable offerings at prices heretofore unheard of in this locality. All we ask you to do isl
to compare quality and prices, and the keener the comparison the surer we are of your future patronage.
Our Muslin Underware Assortment Ladie;- .lersey Ribbed (lau/.e Newts-ami drawers; vt>i» from s<: to "4c'j
drawers lilic to -48 c
is still complete although the sales the peat week were heavy. Prices raufie- SI I. .KS AXl> OX Foli |>.K all si vies an.l widths. The l.smodc an,
drawers 23e, 48c, and 98c; coraet covers 2dc .ioc |S«N bßc, ~»• and %c: ...gl.t , , , •
gowiiH 50c, 1.-5 to 1.98: skirts hoc 98c, 1.2;> to 2.87. ./j 0 .. • 6 ' 1 ,v, i
LA L> IKS' WJIITK WAIST ASSORTMENT and price* are holli important i<, i i- 1 i , i ,
~ .. , ... . 1 ' W e are agents lor <_ hase and Sai.liorns hi«rh grade teas and colleen. t >nr
factors with us: prices Iron, 98c, 1.25 to 3.%. is „ K . lihewt , v , r „ howll in Sullivan Conn.v. We handle the lied,
LACK CI'RTAINS the greatest stock ever attempted even by thin more is now Jlan.j brand 40e. chocolates 20c 11.. tide Hon Hons 1.0 c; the vers best at one|
heing displayed; prices per pair 48c, 88c, 98c, 1.25, 1.38 to (>.50. hall price wha' you pay el sew here, 10 dillercut kinds to seleci from.
John D. Reeser's Big Store- Bank block
' * ' r - " '• *
CultivateXhe Habit of buying repu ble
"good from a reputabe concern
We are agents for W. L. DOUGLASS SHOES fro 2.50
uk to 5.00 p?
[ ifitTTTlfTiyffT' —¥ Wood School Shoes
I Jrorboys has no equal.
Shoes for'
a A COOD ASSORTMENT
!k £ \V\ °. 112 CHILDRENS' and
\ LADIES' Heavy Shoe
P && p \<s Fine Goods at correct
prices
''CATALOGUE
Clothing Made to Order
All have the right appearance and guaranteedgotsd
in both material and workmanship andjprice mte.
Wi* also manufacture Feed, the Flap Brand. It is not elioap, luit
good. Is correctly ina*le. Ask your dealer for it or write ws for prices.
NORDMONT SUPPLY. Co.
General Merchants, P mont l |™am mPlu"
USTOIR DMONT, IF A..
HoV About This ?
Our line of carpets this year is double what it was
last year. In tact we have the largest and greatest line ot
Floor Coverings
eyer shown in this section of country. The line consists
of Brussels. Wiltons, Mouquetts, Velvets, I'ro-brussels,
all wool Ingrains, C. C. Ingrains, Union Ingrains, and
Granite Ingrains. Cordemon Carpets, and the new Mon
tana Carpet.
R UGS RUGS UUGS
Our line of rugs is ver> strong this year, in fact >Ol.l
will be surprised when you conie to look it over to tin.!
such a variety-ofcolors and sizes. Rugs 9*l > feet rai srj
in price fron\s j.40 to $28.00.
We Have NOT Slighted the
Matting Department.
We h.tve all the new and catchey patterns in uh
grades from 121-2 cts. to 49c per yard.
Molcom beef Lacier,
Furniture Cr Undertaking
DUSHORE, PA.
TELEPHONE.
Try The N-'vVj 1' a Job Office Once.
iKine Printing
. neat _ av6k 1 \\r . 0,.- *.
> MODERN KACIL"""< V'V C i" 11111
i
Williamsport & North Branch Railroad
mZMEDE TABLE.
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S. D. TOWNSEND, D. K. TOWNSEND,
Gen. Manager,Hughesville Passenger Agent.
Reduction Sale of
SHOES.
Drecrt bargains
for everyone.
J. S. HARRINGTON, Dushore,Pa
HRST NATIONAL BANK,
THE. PA.
CAPITAL STOCK DcWITT UODINE. President.
$50,000
JEREMIAH KELLY, Vice Pres.
Surplus and
Xet Profits, W. C. pRONTZ, Cashier.
50.000.
DIRECTORS:
Transacts a General „
L)c\\ lit Bouino, Jacob ler, 1 cuor RtiocHT,
Hanking hiisiness. Jcioniiati Kcliy, Win, Frontz, AV. (.'. Frontz,
Accounts of Individ- j;iui«'.~ K. Hoak, John C. Laird. Lyman Myi'rs.
lials and Firms lVtcr l-ronlz. \\ . Sinn's, Daniel ll.l'oust,
solicited. """■
j MM** /y c wii T gjS [
IHrllf factory loaded shotgun shells Jnt !
"Newßival, "" Leader," and "Repeater " \
Insist upon having them, ta>.c no c'.lier*; and you will ret the best »hells that money can buy. p»
ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM. ►
"MAKES PROPER DIET*
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