Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-26
sIARrIN's FERRY.
Attendance on the Public sChOOls-Loca'
News.

AftrluAntt OA Ahu NS'@S SN--~
News.
"Oa.y .hree pupils to graduate this year
in city of over seven thousand people.
while the school enumeration shows 80 D
children within the school age, and the
roll hooks of the echOol show l, 100 IN NJ =
tendance" This w8s the very earnest re
mark which John Cation, of the Marietta
Collere. included in his address at the pub
lie school commencement Friday nigh.
II does show something radically wrong,
not with the school but with the people
who have children. 1t shows that the
Laws of Ohio, which call for children to b
sent TO school till they are fourteen years
old. are shamefully violated, and that the
community must in time suffer from the
ignorance IN which its children are brought
up. While Mr.. Shreve was in charge OF
the schools his greatest trouble was
10 get the pupils to teach
end siuce Mr.. Sparks has beeu
here he has experienced exactly the same
difficulty. kindergarten work, industrial
exuositions and all imaginable induce
ments have been held out 10 induce the
children to attend. But the inducing Of
the children to attend the schools is rot
the matter which needs attention. Parents
must be reached, ard it seems that the
only power which will touch their cases IS
the strong arm of the law. No man, how
ever. feels it incumbent upon himself 10
force another man to send his children "a
school. and the result is that while the
law is good and we'll framed to reach the
case, il is entirely ignored. There is an
croapjzatio in this city, of which one Ct
,he prime objects IS the fostering ard
maintaining of the public schools 1t Is
to be sincerely hoped that it may put forth
some effort by the time school commences
again TO do away with the non-attendance
Of so many children. 1t is crying shams
that the public funds must be spent for
such glorious institutions, and tina. at the
same time such a small proportion OF III
children, for whose benefit they are main
tanned. should receive the benefits so freely
offered.
Memorial Day will be more generally
observed in Martins Ferry ibis year than
ever before. Arrangements have been
made whereby nearly all the secret socl-
cites and trades unions, as we'll as the SOL
diers, Some of Veterans and Sabbath
Schools, will participate. The public
school children will be there, too, with
their continental uniforms, and will dc
some drilling for the diversion of the pso'
pie in the grove.
The procession will be formed in the fol
! lowing order:
Column form on Hanover street, righ'
resting on Fifth First il line, fire de
partmeut, with apparatus appropriately
decorated with flowers ann national colors
/ Second. Thoburn Post, G. A. R, No. IL
and all ex-soldiers who care to join IN
Third, Sons of Veterans. Fourth, ladie'
of Thoburn Post Relief Corps and la
dies of the Recksbites. Fifth, secre
societies which care TO turn out, arranged
in the order of their arrival. This division
will include the Knights Of Pythias, Ode
Fellows. American Mechanics, Hibernlsni
and all other secret societies and tradeI
unions, which can be induced 70 take part
Following this division will come the pub
tic school cadets and Sabbath school chill
dren. The line of march will be dowr
Hanover to Second, up Second TO Centre
TO First, to Washington, TO Second, tC
Fayette, to Third, to Hickory, to Fourth
to Hanover, to Fifth, to Walnut Grove
At the grove the following programme viii
be carried cut: Music by the choir, prayer
by Rev. H. n. Campbell, music, memoria
service of the Grand Army Of the Re
public, by Chaplain G. A. r. Post
assisted by the members. Music and ad
dresses by Rev. j. s. Winters and Prof. E
E Sparks; singing of America by the con
gregation, led by the choir, with dOxolOgy
and benediction by Rev J. S. Winters
The lines will then reform, and decorate
the graves marked by the committee. A
delegation of soldiers will decorate the
graves of soldiers in Riveryiew cemetery.
The following general orders were issued
yesterday:
HEADQUARTERS THOBURN Posi- No. y, J
DEPARTMENT OF OHIO, G. A. R,
MARTINS FERRY, O., May 25, 1889. }
General Order No. l.
First. In obedience to general orders
from National and Department Headqusr-
ters, the officers and members of Thoburn
Post No. y, Department of Ohio, G. A. r +,
and all exUniOn soldiers are requested TO
meet in G. A. r. Hall Sunday morning st