The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-12-01
Local Correspondence.
REPUBLIC NEWS.
EDUCATIONAL.

There seems TO be an encouraging
interest in educational matters among
the people of our township which IS
manifested in their efforts to secure
competent teachers and in the general
desire to make the school house COM
Portable and attractive.
The ways Of teachers are higher
than last winter; females receive the
same as males. The schools of the
township are several of them in oper-
alton, Others will begin their winter
session next week. The teachers have
nearly all had experience in the bus
mess and will compare favorably in
qualifications, with those Of other To-
calities. Those in Districts No. l, ?,
1 and : occupied the same position
last winter. The following is list of
the teachers employed in each of the
subdistTicts No. !, c. w. Baldwin,
No. ?, w. H. Pearce, No. 8, Miss
Frona Sherman, No. 4, Miss Ella E.
Lapham, No. ), Republic Union
Schools, No 6, B. F. Moore, No. 7,
Miss H. r. Porter, No. 8, ]. w. Shaft
ner, No. 9, w. Il. Lickey. Several
of the school houses have been repair
ed and furnished with blinds during
the past year and one new one has
been built in No. ?. This is the best
school building ever erected in the
township, and as for as construction
is oncerned is worthy of being refer
red to as a model for future building
comm ittees- The walls are OF brick
and every thing is substantial from
foundation stones to roof. The room
is light, airy and pleasant. The desks
are of oiled ash without painting. ].
B. Stearns, D. NJ. Neikirk and John
L. Cole were the building committee,
D. D. Ogden contractor.
The township board met on Satur-
day last and accepted the building.
The entire cost amounts to about
$3.50. At that meeting the part of
fractional district No. q, falling in this
township wHs attached to District
No. Z.
The Republic Union Schools will |
close next week for a vacation of
three weeks; the next term beginning
on the first Monday in January.
The Seneca Normal school closes its
fall session with an exhibition on
Thursday evening of this week, in
stead of Friday evening as before an
nouneed. Next term begins Dec.
10th.
Miss Baldwin the assistant goes TO
her home near Cincinnati to spend
the vacation.
DEATH OF W. o. DEAN.
Mr.. Wickliffe o. Dean, recently a
esident of Defiance, o., but formerly
of Reed township in this county, died
on the 22d inst in the Lunatic Asylum
at Dayton; aged A years. Mr.. Dean
has been suffering with insanity near
ly two years past, resulting from soft
ening of the brain, from which disease
he died. His remains arrived in this
place on Thursday, the oath, in charge
of a gentleman from the asylum, and
after brief religious services at the
residence of Mrs. c. Spooner, were in
tered in the cemetery here.
THANKSGIVING
Was observed with services at the
Baptist Church. Addresses were de-
livered by Revs. Wilcox, Hall and
Eckman. A union prayer meeting was
held at the same place in the evening.
In the afternoon there was an ad-
vance on Turkey all along the lines.
PERSONAL.
Samuel Mercer, from whose side DR..
Spoon er removed a tumor not long
ago has nearly recovered from the
, fleets of the operation.
Josiah Corbett, Eeq., has been con-
fined to his house several weeks with
illness.
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