Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-25

Our public ScnO0lS are DONG excel
lently well as to numbers. The first week
633 were enrolled; the second week 665
were enrolled. The organization of the
High School grade and the work of the
superintendent and High School teachers
are as follows:
Prof. B. F. Jackson has the following
work in the High School grade: IL 10 A.
NJ, Horace (seniors); 2 10 P. NJ, Cesar
(sophOmores); 3:15 P. NJ. Cicero Gun
iors) $40 P. NJ, physics (freshmen).
Also the lowing in the itinerant plan:
A. NJ, rithmetic Grammar A.; 8 :45
A. NJ, ari .hmetic Grammar c No. u;
10 40 A. NJ, arithmetic Grammar G No.
y; 80 p. NJ, arithmetic Grammar b.
He has charge of the rolls and weekly
reports for High School and Grammar A.
Mrs. J. G. Won Buhlow has the follow
ing: 8 A. NJ, Constitution United States
(seniors and juniors); 9 :45, Adv. English
Grammar (seniors); 1O:45, rhetorical du-
ties; II 10, moral philosophy (seniors,
English course); 80 p. NJ, American
literature (sophomores) 2:1O. French
(seniors); 3:15, rhetorical work; 3 so,
rhetorical work.
The superintendent has the following:
s A. NJ, beginners Greek (coll. prepara-
tory; 8, supervision; 9:45, geometry
(sOphOmores); 10: :45, anabasis (coll. pre-
paratory) II 10, chemistry (sophomores) .
In the afternoon general supervision.
Additional work in the High School:
Freshman Latin, Miss Ella Simkins; q;
freshman algebra, Miss Alma Kephart.
The entire rhetorical duties of High
School and Grammar A are in charge of
Mrs. Won Buhlow.
The following persons have performed
literary duties at the morning exercises
in the High School: Lolita Cleaveland,
Emma johnson, Retta Nolan, Austin
Hopkins, Anna Bell, Adda Heath, Flor
ence Radcliffe, Scott Hopkins, Candace
Matthews, John Maynard.
The freshman and sophomore classes
will give public entertainment at School
Hall on Friday evening, October 3. The
school is doing good work in rhetorical
duties.
The itinerant system is carried out in
Grammars A, B, G No. 1 and G No. 2.
Miss II. Cleaveland is specialist in geog-
raphy, Mr.. Jackson in arithmetic, Miss
Simkins in reading and Miss Kephart in
English language and grammar. Miss
Mollie Foster has full charge of Gram
mar d, and is making excellent progress.
Literary duties and instrumental and
vocal music add much interest to the
opening exercises in the High School
Hall. The High School Grammars A and
B grades are present at these exercises.
Railroad office at Seldem RObbed---
Thief Captured.
The ticket office of the c. & NJ. V. Ry
at Selden was broken into on Thursday
night last, and robbed of lot of un
stamped tickets-alI the agent had or
hand. There was no money in the Office
to steal. A stamp, supposed by the THE
to be the ticket stamp, and some other ar
tieles, were taken. The stamp, however
was a private one belonging to the agent
and proved of no use for stamping tht
tickets, which were worthless without be
| ing stamped. Mr.. L. B. Polk, the agen
at Selden, went to work the next morn
ing to hunt up the thief, and succeeded il
capturing him before night. He Learned
about noon that man living OH the rail
road a short distance west of Selden, hat
seen suspicious looking character com,
out of the woods in front of his house oil
Friday morning, and start toward Reese
vile on the railroad track. Getting oil
the fellows track where he came to tn
railroad, he traced it back by a circuitou
route to the depot. At straw stack nea
the depot he found where the fellow ha'
slept, and also found most of the ticket
stolen, the stamp, bunch of keys and
spirit-level taken from the office. FL
then started in pursuit up the railroa
track, finding bunch of torn tickets Of
the way, and overtaking the thief tramp
ing along the railroad between Reesevill
and Wilmington. A bunch of rubbe
-bandsused i'll wrapping punches of tick
cts, taken from the office, was found i
his possession. He was brought to Wash
ington and had preliminary examins
ton before Esq. Kerr Saturday morning
and was held to court in $500 bonds, an
sent to Jail in default, He gave his nam
as Milton Dodd, and said he came frol
near Dayton.
General Kennedy at City Hail.
On the 10th inst. large meeting w;
held at the City Hall in this place, whic
was addressed by General Kennedy,
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