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REYNOLDS VILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1907.
VOLUME 16.
JU'MBKH 11.
Old Home Week Boosters Encouraged l)y Predictions
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v CITIZENS' EFFORTS Fi GREAT CELEBRATION
The Spirit Predicts Twenty Thousand
People will be here from August
19 to 24 of this Year.
FIREWORKS, BALL GAHES AND
FREE STREET ATTRACTIONS
y These are the First Things Arranged for by the Amusement
Committe; and they have a Pile of Propositions a Foot High
from Entertainers Anxious to Spend Old Home Week in
Reynoldsville. Invitations and Envelopes are now Ready
and will be Given Free to Every Person in Town to Send
to Friends, or they will be Sent out from the Headquarters
to Any Address Requested.
The Punxsutawnej Spirit, speaking of the coming "Old Home
Week" celebration and reunion, says :
"Old residents who have not seen the town in years will be on
hand and for the older members of the community it will bring
back their boy and girlhood days. A large number of the residents
of Punxsutawney were born and raised in Reynoldsville and many
of theseare planning to spend the entire week in "their old home.
The extent of the celebration will be hard for the people to realize
and if they but get their think tanks in working order, they will
realize that it is .going to take some money to put the thing
through, but the notoriety and life it will give the town, as well as
the the coin that will pour in from outside towns, will repay the
business men of the town a thousand fold. Invitations are being
sent out by the, thousand and these alone ought to bring ten
thousand people into the town. For the sake of the excitement
alo'ne people from every town in this section will visit Reynolds
ville, which ought to swell the total number of visitors over the
twenty thousand mark. The week of August 19 to 24 promises to
be one long remembered by our neighboring town."
' Speaking editorially the same journal says: "Such a reunion
. of acquaintances of the days of "auld lang sayne" will be a rare
treat, and one worth journeying many miles to see. To the old,
who have an appalling sense of those "lonesome latter years,"
when most of the friends of their youth are long since "in bed and
asleep," as Ben Franklin expresses it, such a reunion will be es
pecially delightful."
Editor Adam, of the Brockwayville Record, a former Reynolds
ville boy himself, sizes things up this way: "The village of Reyn
oldsville is planning to have an "Old Home Week" from August
19th to 24th, and preparations are being made for the best cele
bration the town has ever seen. Reynoldsville has a lively bunch
of enterprising business men and when they decide to give a blow
out you can gamble the tobies on it that there will be something
doin.'"
The Brookville Republican gives the celebration a boost, clos
ing as follows: "The people have set to work with a will which
promises a celebration which will eclipse anything heretofore held
in the town, and our neighbors are no slouches when it comes to
- Some of the former residents of town have already written in j
to express their approval of the reunion. A lady well known in
Reynoldsville, now living elsewhere, wrote last week : "I am glad
to note the movement for an 'Old Home Week.' Boom it all you
can. I shall certainly be there. My grandfather started to boom
the town and you must keep it going." And this is the sentiment
of thousands of other Reynoldsville people whose business interests
have drawn them away, but have not severed the ties which bound
them to the community.
Things are booming all along the line in the Old Home Week
camp and reports from the various committees show that there
has been no let up in the efforts for an all-eclipsing celebration. In
fact all creation is getting excited as was evidenced the other day
when Chairman Gillespie, pondering over the coming celebration,
wandered into his garden to pull some weeds and had hardly com
menced when he was astounded to see a huge fish-worm emerge
from the ground, raise itself fully four inches in the air and gravely
iaquire: "Old Home Week yet ? " .
It only goes to show that when the people of Reynoldsville get
in earnest they do things in no half-hearted way. Just now the
amusement committee has the center of the stage. Their little
"ad" in New York papers brought in a deluge of offers to furnish
entertainment and among them are some of the finest attractions
on the road. The advertising committee received their first lot of
. lithographs and streamers Monday and are now busy decorating
all the barns and scenery for twenty- miles around with a catchy
invitation to the world in general to drop in and see us August
19 to 24. More (free stationery is being distributed on residen-
tial streets and a supply is also
kept at headquarters where it
will be issued free to all who ask.
It would be well for all the citi
zens of town to stop at the
headquarters over the Bing
Stoke Co. store and get acquaint
ed with the rooms and the work
being carried on. They are open
day and night and a secretary
constantly in attendance.
The Invitations
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Are now ready, including a neat
ly printed envelopes in which to
mail them. These are issued ab
solutely free and it is a duty
which every citizen owes to the
town to send out a few or at
least request the secretary to
mail them to given addresses.
A great part of the success of
Old Home Week depends on this.
If the plans of the general com
mittee can be carried out, the
town will be transformed dur
ing this week by bunting, flags
and evergreen, by street arches
and building decoration, into a
fairy city given over to a contin
uous round of pageants and rev
elry. Confetti Privilege Sold for $101
At the committee meeting last
night the confetti privilege dur
ing Old Home Week was sold to
Barney Sisson, of Blairsville,
whose bid was $101.00. Two
other bids of $40 and $42 respec
tively were made.
Attractions Arranged For.
The amusement committee re
ported that for a leading free at
traction they expect to secure
a daily exhibition of an auto
mobile and rider making a thril
ling jump of a gap in mid-air.
This is a costly feature but one
of the latest and best, and will
draw big crowds of itself.
A high tight rope walker will
probably be another daily fea
ture. The committee is in cor
respondence with a number of
other companies.
A series of ball games is being
arranged with the leading teams
of Jefferson, Clearfield and Indi
ana counties.
Out-of-Town Merchants.
A DuBois daily had suggested
that one day be set apart for Du
Bois people. The , idea was
adopted on a wider scale and it
was voted that a special invita
tion be sent to the merchants of
other towns to participate on
Tuesday, August 20, which is
Merchants' and Manufacturers'
Day.
Museum of Relics.
It was voted that a museum
of pioneer relics be opened during
the week. W. C. Murray, H. E.
Phillips and S. M. McCreight
were chosen to manage it. This
will be especially interesting to
the "old timers." Old photos,
war time relics and other curios
are desired.
Meeting Friday Night.
A special meeting of all com
mittees was called for Friday
evening of this week. The re
quest for attendance is urgent.
A Plea for a Physical La
boratory in the Public
Schools of Reynoldsville.
BV AN ALUMNUS.
In a time like the present, when the
public school system baa evolved Into
an organization which not only alms to
control the education of the children
of our land, from the earliest stage of
their development until the period of
self sustenance, but also olTurs a diver
sity of Instruction along the line of
fundamental principals, in both the
trades and the professions, it fairly de
serves the stamp of a University in
embryo. The school of today, with
such co-operative accessories as labora
tories, kindergarten, domestic science
and manual training departments, has
become a more representative institu
tion than when Arts and Sciences were
taught almost wholly by text. There is
a reason now in the prospective arti
sans' or tradesmen,' as well as those
inclined professionally, remaining with
in the range of a general instruction
during: the formative period of their
lives, for here we have placed before
the' youth of practical Inclination, a
a course of Instruction, which If follow
ed otjl will not impair his bread-winning.
qualities or handicap him In the
struggle for majtery in his trade, here
also is that general knowledge which
is so necessary in the following of any
profession. Then the Bchool ot to-day is
one comprehensive In character and
democratic In spirit; comprehensive, In
that It offers a curriculum which it
designed for no special class. This
then Is layman idea of what the
school of to-day represents. Let us ask
ourselves to what degree our schools
approach this idea ? To me, It appears,
they approach the ideal of success in a
degree which l wholly compatible
with the finances at band.
Assuming then, that the faculty and
directors in their official capacity have
given their best efforts to building up
and maintaining high standard for
our school; why cannot we, outside of
the official nature of the affair, offer
some help which will materially aid the
Instructor In the presentation of many
subjects which are new being taught
in the schools.
The following suggestion is not of
fered In competition, or on equality
with other branohes, or Idea, which we
know might be of great benefit to the
school, rather take it as being a feasible
plan to improve the efficiency of school,
and the popularity of certain sources,
at a small outlay and along other lines
which are already In praotlce.
The means to the end is a Physical
Laboratory. What is a Physical Lab
oratory, and what are its uses are per
tinent questions and need demonstra
tion rather than explanation.
The subject of a Physical Laboratory
in our school Is not a new one. Those
who were enrolled in the science
courses, up to the time when our new
building and laboratory apparatus were
destroyed by fire, will remember, how,
with the meager facilities then at band
the cold dry faots of the text were made
interesting and clear by the use of such
material as a vacuum pump, electrical
apparatus, prisms, lenses, etc. There U
no more common or ever present phe-nomoua-
than the physical properties of
hi at, llifht, sound, electricity, magnet
ism and mechanical energy, and per
hups there are no subjects concerning
which the popular notion is so far
from the true facts.
In presenting some of the features of
such a laboratory, that which can In
terest the people most Is not an expla
nation of the apparatus In detail, for
that would be as devoid of Interest as
teaching the soienoe without the ap
paratus, ana certainly Would be futile
within the space allotted.
The most vital question is wbt can
It accomplish ?
Were I to say to some of you, that
the pure white sunlight which shfnes
upon you each day Is really composed of
innumerable shades of oolor, that steam
Is Invisible, that without the medium of
air we would have no sound, and that
an equal bulk of lead and wool would
fall to the earth with equal velocity
were the resistance of the air removed,
what discussion would be aroused?
However with proper demonstration,
just such truths are made clear to the
young and untrained mind at a time
when a flrtt and correct impression Is
nvst valuable. There the prime ob
ject la to give us a true insight Into the
things with which we are in contact
each day.
It is not right only to know that we
have electric lighting and haulage,
telephone systems, steam movers, etc.,
but it Is Imperative that we become
familiar with the properties of nature
that have been harnessed for their
making, and in what manner.
The perfection of any of these things
has simply been an evolution along
physical lines and It Is a simple matter
with proper demonstration to trace
each step, giving tangible proof, and
elemental facts, so that the ordinary
mind can have a perfect understanding
of thrra.
The men, who are responsible for
these great strides in these lines had
tu present their Idea harnessed, so to
spak. That is the discovery of
the phenomenon itself did not arouse
much enthusiasm except among
those similarly employed, and not
until some ; practical application
of the theory was made, did the publio
n ward it with it's interest. To-day
wUh these different lines of work per
fected it is easy to retrace these steps
and familiarize ones self with the
pauses and effects of the principal in
volved. It is this idea of being "on the
right track," the analytical training of
mind, and the praotlcal side of the
problem which makes the influence
of a laboratory felt when it is least
expected.
I would call your attention to the
fact that the pupils In the High School
to-day are at an age when they acoept
the assertion of a text on it's face value.
Their Immaturity does not permit them
to have a deeper interest than to acoept
the statement. However, Immediately
outside Influences are set lo work, in
other words, when these same Ideas are
made to assume a material nature their
interest becomes aroused and results In
the awakening of new ideas. I have
seen men who have spent years of time
trying to perfect "perpetual motion"
machines; when a few demonstrations
in a physical laboratory would have
proved to them that you ''cannot get
something for nothing."
Then among the greatest values of
such a laboratory is the presentation in
a practical manner, the laws and prin
cipals which enter into the physical
side of our workaday lifo. It places
before the pupil in a simple manner,
the discoveries and Information of cen
turies, and leaves him In a position to
begin where the "other" left off, and not
waste time and energy along futile
lines.
The champions of such a proposition
must be the parents, and what parent
does not wish to place before his child
all the modern opportunities of educa
tion and prepare him for his life's
work? " .
An Alumnus
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