REPUBLICAN HEWS ITEM.
WING, Editor.
Published Every Thursday Afternoon
By Tbe Sullivan Publishing Co
At the County Seat of Sullivan County.
X.APOBTID. PA.
W #. MASON, i'restiden.
THOS. J. INGHAM, Bec'y £ Tif US.
Entered at the Poet Office at Lajtorte, as
ssoonii-class mail matter.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
Judge ot the Superior Court
W. I). PORTER, of Alleglieiiey.
Electors at Large,
MORRIS 1.. CUmiIER, Philadelphia
B. F. JONES, Pittsburg.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
County Treasurer, VV. A. GUMBLE.
Member of Assembly, L. ft. ZANER.
tjSouuty Commissioners,
F. Vf. PEALE and W. H. ROGERS.
During the winter by simple experi
ments that may be performed in any
schoolroom the students learu of tbo
kind.j of soil, the water holding power
of soils and means of altering such
power, couservation of water and plant
physiology.
As spring approaches experiments in
germination seed testing and seed
pluntlug follow, as well as planning
home gardens, gardens around school
buildings and vacation gardens. At
this season of the year, too, the work
broadens. It leaves the confines of
the normal schools anil takes in all of
the public schools In the city. Arrange
ments are made with oue of the local
seedsmen to sell penny packages of
seed to the children for home planting.
Many of the older teachers are not
trained, so to aid them the board of
education, through one of the normal
schools, issues sheets of simple in
structions to aid the children to cor
rectly plan, plant and care for tho
home garden. They are encouraged to
cure for the garden during the sum met
und to bring something they have rais
ed wholly by themselves to the flower
show in the fall. It may be a growing
plant, a bunch of flowers or u bottle of
seed.
Flower day is an established feature
Of Washington schools. On the 2Dtli
of last September every school iu the
District of Columbia Invited the public
to its exhibit. All buildings were open
until dark, and where the buildings
were lighted they were open through
out the evening. The througs 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 with schools in
the District. Last year 120 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 taught
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
an acre of lawn to be used for chil
dren's gardens. The board has accept
ed the offer and will put the tirst six
grades of a school in the vicinity to
work upon it. Each school will spend
an afternoon a week iu the garden un
der th" regular grade teacher, who will
be instructed from the normal school.
She will be expected to relate the work
closely to the regular schoolroom work.
The time spent in the garden will lie
a part of school time and not after
hours, as has been so frequently done
before, thus making an added burden
on the teacher. Each child will hav«
a plot entirely his own, varying in size
according to his ability. Beside these
individual plots there will be plots teu
feet square of grains, forage crops and
Important local product? for observa
tion purposes.
The garden will be und-r the imme
diate care of the normal school duriug
vacation and will be considered us a
vacation school for the southwest sec
tion of the city, thus fortunately allow
ing the board of education lo grant a
petition tYom the parents of that sec
tion requesting such an opportunity
for their children during the summer.
fJTSAN B. LIFE.
Washington, I). C.
The Berlin (S. Y.) grange recently
held a grange fair, at which the net
proceeds were about SOOO. Grange
fairs are getting to be popular und
profitable.
Farmer, if there Is uo grange in your
town, it is your duty to sfee that thera
(e one orsanlzod.
Anothj- Governor Granger.
Governor I{. S. Woodruff took the
highest degree in the Older of Patrons
uf Husbandry at Hartford ou Nov. 15.
In a speech at a public session lie said:
In thirty-five years since the power of
the grange began <u express Itself In
Rfirieulture we have made snore rapid
Ktri'Jes tlian in ll'fl years before It caino
Into existence. The pranse is getting men
together frequently and profitably. It U
(Raking farming u business and this ljusi
education must goon and become
widespread until agriculture l . actios the
very highest standards of modern busi
ness control until the farmer Is as much
a man of business its the manufacturer,
the banker and the tradesman, until the
influence of the grange ts realized by the
government of every state in the Union,
so that legislation will lend every assist
ance to facilitate the fulfillment of agri
cultural science.
Under the present system of repre
sentation In the national grange, New
Y'irk, with 70.000 members, has just
the same voting strength as Minnesota,
with fewer than U.oou. or Kentucky or
Missouri, with about the same number.
Iu a way it's ull right, aud in another
*'HJ It isn't J. W. DAKKOW.
VERMONT GRANGE HISTORY/
Jonathan Lawrence. Organizer of the ,
First Grange In that State.
Almost 100 years ago was born the
mau who established the llrst grange
Iu the state of Vermont. lie was Jon-,
uthau Lawrence, bom Dec. 7, 1808, at
St. Johnsbury. Next year the Onler In
the Green Mountain State would do
well to celebrate In appropriate man
ner the one hundredth anniversary of
this pioneer's birth. By his lnlluence
and effort Green Mountain grange No. !
1 was organized at St. Johnsbury on j
July 4, 1871. In November of that
year, or Just thirty-six years ago, O. II.!
Kelley, then secretary of the national
grange, visited St. Johnsbury and gave !
the necessary Instructions In the un
written work. Precisely one year aft
er the organization of Green Mountain
grange A'ermout state grange was
gran led a charter and held its first
session with Green Mountain grange
with representatives from eight of the
thirteen subordinate granges then in
existence In the state, /it the forth
coming session of the Vermont state
grange there will be not far from 175
subordinate granges reported with a
membership of perhaps 15.000.
The first master of the Vermont
state grange was Kben P. Colton, who
afterward became lieutenant governor |
of the state, and Charles J. Bell was ;
treasurer, who was governor of the
state in 1904-00. The present state
master Is George VV. Pierce of Brattle
boro, who was elected to the state sen
ate In 100-1 and who is looked upon as
n prominent candidate for gubernato-
Ptei honors iu 1008 if he can be pre- >
vatled upon to accept.
H. J. PATTERSON.
The New Matter of the Maryland !
State Grange.
One of the new men who will occupy i
a seat In the next national grange |
meeting is 11. J. Patterson of College
Park, Md., master of the Maryland
state grange.
He succeeds the
\ late J. B. Ager
IPj \ of Hyattsville,
\ Md., who was
rtS taken ill soou
\ after the na
tional grange
A- meeting at Den
-1 / ver, Colo., last
w/v year and from
\\ tilat "' lless did
112 y _i\ not recover.
I N The new mas
>P /tfW 10 '' has beeu a
\ / member of the
Order for fifteen
years and for
ii. j. r.vTTKKSo.v. thirteen years
was lecturer of
his home grange and for two years its
master. He has beeu secretary of the
executive committee of the state
grange for six years. He is an euthu
slustlc worker, and under liis leader
ship the grange of Maryland will er<
ter upon a new epoch of prosperity
and usefulness.
"SELLING TOGETHER."
A Practical Plan Wanted For Co
operative Selling as Well as Buying.
National Master Bachelder says,"The
co-operative selling of farm products
has a legitimate field In grange worlj
and should be given more attention."
Who will devise a plan that will be
practical'! The fact Is there Is no
more Important problem facing the
grange today than this one of success
fully "selling together." This sort of
co-operation is successfully carried on
only in u few isolated Instances In the
grange. It may well look for sugges
tions from other organizations, as. for
instance, the Neosho (Mo.) Fruit Grow
ers' association, the Sparta (Wis.) Fruit
Growers' association, the Hood Itiver
(Ore.) Apple Growers' union, the Coun
cil Bluffs (la.) Grape Growers' associa
tion, the Fennville (Mich.) Fruit Ship
j pers' association, the United States
Wheat Growers' association. Spokane,
j Wash., and the various fruit growers'
I associations in California.
i
Farmers Urged to Organize.
! Secretary of State John S. Whaleu
j made a brief address on grange day
;of the New York state fair. He ear
i nestly urged an organization of the
; grange in every farming community
: and believes that the state grange
! should bear the same relation to the
farmer that the labor union does to
! men who work in shop, factory or
: mine. Farmers must co-operate for
mutual benefit, and he believes that
the farmer should be allowed to set a
! fair price ou products us much as the
I city man does ou his labor. He also
| believes that the state should provide
n rural school educational system for
: the young people who are Interested in
; agriculture.
An Editorial Suggestion.
The Boston Transcript, speaking of
improved state roads, says that "the
granges might accomplish more if they
| bombarded congress less and gave
greater attention to interesting state
governments." Something in that sug
gestion worthy somebody's consldera
; tion.
Never has there been so much grange
news printed or grange miscellany pub
. Ilshed as now, and in the front rank
stand the newßpupers of New York,
, Maine and New Hampshire.
The national grange executive com
mittee and other prominent grange
officials will attend the national con
ference on trusts und corporations at
Chicago ou Oct 22-20.
i ... . J. W. D4&BQW.
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Davidson Twp. Statement.
W. E. Giltman. Treasurer, lu account with
Dii vlilson Township School District for the year
ending June Ist, 1908.
Township High School 300 00
statu appropriation 176tJ 16
From collet tor, taxes 3185 82
From loans since last report SSOO 00
From county treasurer 1475 00
lJy hauling "pupils 120 00
Building and furnishing houses 4168 00
Renting. repairs etc 31 30
Teachers' wages 418000
" attending institute 126 00
Schoool text-books 819 86
School supplies other than books 194 22
Fuel and contingencies 255 02
Treasurer's commission 197 78
salary of secretary 80 00
l)cl>t and interest paid "2*BBB
Other expenses ffl 92
10176 98 10086 93
Balance on hand 90 05
A Tut. due District, all sources 875 00
Total resources 96.J 05
Amt. due on unsettled hills 1216 3(1
Amount borrowed 8600 00
Total liabilities. 4746 36
Liabilities In excess of resources 3781 81
Witness our hands this Ist day of June, 1908.
HUHT OLSON'. President.
FRANK MAIiARCEL. Secretary.
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