The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

anyone knew so much and felt like say
ing, Venerable men. have come down
to you from former generation.
Heaven has bounteously heightened out
my life that might behold your joyous
day." That we have 500 children of
school age and 400 scholars has been re-
ported herein. But where are the 100
the difierence2 ? 1t is known that Harold
Kent, Iibbie Sykes and Katie Kinnie are
at Troy Conference Academy, James
Sykes at st, Johnsbury Academy, Bessie
Dunton at Brandon Graded School, Katie
Horan at Castleton Normal school and
Ernest West, Harold Bufium, George
Wilson, Artie Batchelder, Earl Edger-
ton, John Griffith, Myra Kendall and
Sarah Bowen and perhaps some others at
Burr & Burton Seminary. Probably some
others are attending private schools at
home or abroad, but it is feared that a
large part of the 100 are getting their ed
ucation on the wrong sides of our school
houses. 1t is for the best and abiding
good of these children that they should
be in the schools and every taxpayer has
a money interest if no other in having
them there. Your attention is called to
this non-attendance in the hope that what
may reasonably be done will be done to
lessen or prevent it, Let there be bet
ter report next year. We have at least
four college students, John Curtis, Jr
at Cornell, John |. Cochran at Harvard,
Edward Griffith at Dartmouth aud James
F. McNaboe at Middlebury. All these
are bright and right young men, good
scholars, and an ornament and an honor
to their homes. Some of them have cap
tured valuable scholarship prizes. At the
late republican gathering at Burlington,
McNaboe was billed to respond to toast.
Six teachers have sent me the names of
their scholars having the best attendance
but they are too numerous to report.
When the registers can all be looked over
the perfects, if no others, will probably
appear in the SITTER or Journal. One
name, however, should be mentioned here
in. There hasn't been a mark against it
for terms. 1t is Maud Brown, district
No. l4-our south village. Probably
there are Others having no marks during
the year. The attendance of all enrolled
considering the sickness is praiseworthy.
You have always had more or less good
schools. You had them before you had
$1,000 supervisor, you had them away
back in days of Auld Lang Syne when
the large boys examined the teachers.
The kind of schools you have always had
and the kind of schools you always will
have, have depended and will depend less
upon school laws than upon yourselves.
Your schools and the magnificent
possibilities of the young nowadays
should never be lost sight of. There
isn't town or probably school district
in Vermont that hasn't some son or
daughter to be proud of. A Winhall
boy is Assistant Secretary of War, and
Somerset boy is Governor of Alaska.
A young man we call a Dorset boy, a
nephew of our townsman; John NJ. Arms
strong, and only twenty-one years of age,
has a salary of $4,000 year in Chicago
house. Nineteen years ago young man
borrowed 500 to buy horse to peddle
mineral water in Duluth, Minnesota
Now he has a salary of $500 per year
and is at the head of systems whose gross
receipts amount to $50, 900 annally.
His name is Archibald A. Mcleod, pres
ident of the Reading railroad company.
Verify our underground have possibilities
that we, old stubs, didn't have. 1t should
also not be lost sight of that everybody
that is anybody between the two oceans
and the lakes and the gulf was born with
the necessity more or less felt of padding
his own canoe. With good school houses
paid for, with schools in good condition,
with a healthy, active ana growing inter-
est among our people in education at
home and abroad as shown by their large
expenditures for school purposes the last
twenty-five years, with juvenile popu-
lation next to the largest in the county,
with gOou teachers to be had for the seek
ing, your outlook for the future was
never perhaps more encouraging.