Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-02

EDITOR CHRONICLES: 1t shall be
the object of this brief sketch TO throw
the sunshine of truth ON libelous scrap
which appeared in the CHRONICLE, also
the Gazette igned-Fogy-or Sewells-
vile Correspondent. Mr.. Fogy seems
to think or rather have you think,
Sewellsville and vicinity are much be-
hind this age ofimprovement, and that
her ambition napproximates to no higher
aim in life than ''fox chasing and money
making" and that these two aims sur
pass and swallow up all aims at educa-
tiOnal improvement or agricultural adj
vancement.
] viii merely state that one of the
Professors of the Franklin College re-
,ceived his entire education in the Sew
iellsvilie school,. and one Physician at
the principal part of his education in
out several teachers, and bids fair to
send several more As to the house,
holders, if there is one single individ-
ual within the precincts of this District
who are in any sense of the word an
enemy to education, / must say l am
an entire stranger to the individual.
But as to the ctors-Mr. Fogy-you
are mistaken. The only thing favOring
the opinion-Mr. FOgy seems to enter
tain of these men is this-that they let
Mr.. Fogy, Tor somebody else) fogy
three months, at forty dollars per
month with their school, before they
could quite move the courage to give
him "Paddy's hint" to takea polite
exit. a-ts II ,,lsr- -e.s Il. -. srs-a
They did it though, and that's what
bites Mr.. Fogy. 1t isn't fogyism.-
Why bless you dear sirs-if Mr., !,
gives a true account of himself (and We
believe he does, and had been.intrusted
with the education of the youth of this
place, and could have prevailed in get
ting them to follow closely his ex-
ample-they would have been hurled
back into the old fogyism of our fore
fathers as far back as Lot when he fed
from Seldom, or David with his host of
female friends. Mr.. Fogy asserts that
our Directors think education a silly
thing, Q believed he used the word
ftsilly. % One of our Directors is an
old school teacher himself, alse his
lady, and one daughter. & :-sss :
Mr.. Fogy you must whet your pen
and try it again; your little piece of comr
position, that you have labored over SO
hard for the last ten weeks, don't take
well here where we all know the truth.
AS for our other two Directors, their OPP
portunities and circumstances have
been different, but their zeal for educa-
ton is identical with the first mention
ed. The old school house Mr.. Fogy
speaks of, is a new school building 36ft.
by "a, neatly and well finished with bel.
fry and. bell, costing 81 900. The old
benches are 20 patent double folding
desks or seats, manufactured in Rich.
mond, Indiana. And the "0ld stove
that was thrown away and gathered up
again. is new Burnside stove, No. 1,
costing 5000. Our school room is fur
nished with every convenience this age
of improvement has suggested,
As for apparatus Mr.. Fogy, do you
think you could have used these blocks,
cubes, globes and charts had they been
i'm the school room this winters?
1 fear the material in the upper story
called brain, partakes too much of the
nature of brick, wheat batter to enable
Cubes, Globes, &C., to be of much bene-
fit. Well will merely say we have,
or had, a full apparatus which might
have been destroyed in tearing down
the old school building or some good
house holder may have taken these
valuables home for safe keeping, and
through neglect, they have not been
returned, guess we are on an average