The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-09-16
CoxFLrEScE IrESs.

CoxFLrKSoE IrENs.
The recent appointments Of postmasters
Tor here and Ursina don't please everybody
The outgoing pcstmasters are less disappoint-
ed than many Others. Keep quiet, boys, it
will oaly last four years.
We want oil. aud We are going 10 have IT,
IL We can't find IL right here, we viii have
il shipped over the 3. &. o. Should the p
L. buy that other little road, to which the
name Of Youghiogheny is attached. We
might get it on the South Penn in the course
Of time.
The teachers for our public schools for the
ensuing term have been chosen. Mr.. A. s.
Flanagan Is to have charge ofthe frst room.
at salary OF s55 per month Mrs II. Han
son of the second room. and Miss Nellie
Wentworth Of the third room. each at a sal
airy Of So 80 per month That the Ccnflu-
ence schools have not been kept up TO what
they should be. or ought to be, is well
known fact, and the cause Is not mystery.
number of efforts have been made to eie-
vate our schools and bring them up to what
they should be, but up TO the present time
but little good has been accomplished. The
fault is not with the taxpayers, but with the
directors themselves, and no one else, Nine
tenths of those who pay the taxes are not
only willing, but desiross, of paying sala-
ry such as would justify an experienced and
qualified teacher for at least the first and
second rooms. This could be done without
| increasing the taxes more than one mill, il
other things were properly conducted
There is no little dissatisfaction among the
people here at the pretended false economy
of few OF our directors. Talk to them
about $50 per month for the first room. and
they are instantly seized with labor-pain:
and act as god-fathers for each other, hoping
some day 10 be able to christen the projec
economy" II must be said, however
that this is not the condition Of all of oul
directors. There are a few who desire to dC
! justice to the schools, and also 70 the tax
payers. but they are yet in the minority anC
will have to he until after next spring elec
/ ton, when it is confidently hoped that ther'
will be but one Of the objectors left, as thre'
are TO be chosen at that time.
/ Those who have so much TO say about th'
| poverty Of the taxpayers, are seldom sincer
in what they say. Name the man. in Con,
fluence, who is not willing to pay a tax suf.
! fcient to maintain good school, outside oI
some of the directors themselves II is al
ways cheaper to support good school thar
poor one.
| Last winter an effort was made to adop
Ranb's series f readers in place of Apple
I tons. The board adopted them by a vot,
of five 10 one. The citizens were dissatisfied
contending that Raub's readers were no i'm
I provement upon Appieton's. The question
was again opercd, because the change wa
not legally made. and the whole matter re
considered. but despite the objections of tn,
people. the board did again adoDt Raub'.
readers by vote OF five to one. One of tn,
directors remarked that +" 1t wonid look lik,
child's play to reverse their former vote ,
The people, however, carried the mattel
into court, and had the action of the direct
ors set aside. Last night Raub's reader
were again adopted. by vote of four to two
The people have gained one vote in the las
year, and from present indications they viii
gain two or three by next spring.
This unnecessary change will cost the peo
pie here enough to have advanced the sala
ry of teachers about so per month. The
only book that the taxpayers did wish tc
! have changed, was Patterson,s speller
This book don't suit our schools, and the
people have been waiting for the time tC
come when this book could be taken out OF
our school. But now, when the time has
arrived. the change is not made, and for NO
known reason other than to oppose the will
of the people
When Jacob c. Show. our newly appoint
| ed postmaster, promised certain persons
that in the event Of his success, he would
net put the office in the store room now oc-
cupied by Simon Croft. they supposed that
he vas tIuly sincere. The report is now
that he is going to violate that promise
Those who signed his petition know that
l. W. Weakland had convenient and de-
sirable place for postoffice and that Mr.
Show did not have it, and when interrogat-
ed upon the point where be intended tbeof-
fice to be in the event ofhis appointment, he
made some promise and if he makes the re-
moval now in contemplation he will bring
upon himself the contempt of many ofthose
who signed his petition. irrespective OF par
Ties.
CONFLUENCE. SKPT. IL, 1855 Y.
The season of the ''sere and yellow leaf
is approaching.