The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-14
DEP ARTMENT WORK.
Millbury School Au-
thorities Adopt the
System.
WILL Be TRIED, IN TWO SCHOOLS
One Teacher viii Instruct
in All the
Grades.
WILL Be TRIED IN TWO SCHOOLS

Millbury, Sept. 13.-At a meeting of
the school committee last night it was
decided to introduce departmental
work into the Providence street school
and the Union grammar school.
The departmental work has been I'M
der consideration by the school COM
! mittee for a long time, and last year
| the idea was put into practice in the
! Burbank hill grammar school and met
with great success.
| Under the new order the work in
| grades 8, 6, Z and will be divided.
| Before all the work in grades and 6
! was under one teachers control, and
! all the work in grades and was in
! charge of another teacher. By the de-
! partmental work, one teacher will
| teach all the history and geography in
| all the grades from the fifth to the
| eighth and the other teachers will
| teach all the grammar and arithmetic
! in the grades from the fifth to the
| eighth.
! In this way4both the teacher and the
| pupil derive the benefit AS the teach
4 er has only two kinds of subjects to
| prepare for her pupils, she can make a
! speciality of these two subjects and be
! better prepared to teach her pupils.
| The departmental work is the near
| est approach that can be made in the
! schools of the small towns, to a spe-
! cial teacher for every subject.
! The subject of having special
! teacher for every subject is being
| strongly agitated in all the school
| boards in New England and also by the
| teachers in the various schools. Sew
| eral of the teachers in the schools that
| the departmental work will be intro
! duced in, were seen by The Spy man
| today, and seemed to be well pleased
| with the new way of teaching. The
! departmental work will be introduced
| into the Providence street and Union
| grammar schools as soon as Supt. c.
| S. Lyman can make the necessary
changes in the various departments
which will be done in a very short
time.
Two drivers from North Grafton had
an accident in the yard of the ST.
Charles hotel this afternoon. The men
had two horses and two bicycle sulkies
in charge, and were coming from Tx
| bridge, on their way to Sturbridge fair.
They were riding in one sulky, and had
the other one hitched behind. They
| drove into the st. Charles yard to feed
| the horses and get dinner. AS they
were driving in, they attempted to turn
around, and the bicycle wheel on the
front racing sulky gave way. A wagon
NdS IllICu anu the DEOkGH SulhY was
placed aboard, and the men proceeded
on their way to Sturbridge.
Thomas Kenney of the west side has
horse chestnut tree that is causing
much talk. The tree was in bloom this
spring and bore horse chestnuts, and
i now it is in bloom again, and will prob
ably bear another crop later in the
fall
George Pierce, an employee of the
! Cords mills met with an accident this
morning while at his work. While he
was cleaning up his machine, the little
finger of his right hand got caught in a
gear, and the finger was cut off to the
first joint. DR.. j. r. Lincoln dressed
the wound.
The Y. P. S. C. E. connected with the
i First Congregational church, at meet
ing this afternoon voted to equip the
parsonage with town water at it's own
4 expense. George Malleliou and Moses
!. GARFIELD were appointed to take the
matter in charge.
Il officer Thomas Brown, who patrols
the streets in the center of the town.
has received notice from the board of
selectmen that his patrol duty in the
future will extend as far as Washington
street on the west side. This order will
protect in a measure the interests Of
the PARTIES signing the petition circu-
lated in the west side a week ago for
police protection, and the buns will not
trouble them in the future.
Work on the state road for Sutton
Will be commenced in short time. Asa
Goddard of Worcester has secured the
contract to build the new state road
and already teams are arriving to do
the work, which will be started as soon
4 as possible. AS soon as the work is
commenced, the present road to Sutton
will be closed, and the highway over
Burbank hill will be used.
Conductors on the Worcester. & Sub
urban line are putting in their orders
for regulation REFERS as described in
the orders issued by the company last
May. The REFERS are to be blue and
will be used as the company directed.
The football meeting that was to be
held this evening at the home of Floyd
Rice on South Main street has been
postponed and will be held at a later
date.
Ruth Perkins of Oakdale was the
guest of friends in town today.
Daniel Stein has resigned his position
on the Worcester & Suburban.
A large number from this town at
tended the cattle show at Uxbridge to-
day.
A bad hole in the road in front of the
Kinneary home in the west side is very
dangerous to teams at night. The hole
is caused by the bursting of water
pipe of the Millbury Water Company.
Edward Bath of Worcester is the
guest OF Eugene Wood, Jr., in the west
side for a week.
A meeting of the Second Congrega-
tional Church was held at the church
parlors this evening to take action on A
legacy left to the church by Andrus
March Of Charlton amounting to $1,000.
trustee to receive and take care Of
the legacy was appointed
/ Tee
sistant at the Providence street school
has been sent to the second school in
the Union grammar school,
Mrs. H. M. Goddard, Mrs. Ira N, Cod
dard, Mrs. G. A. Church, Mrs. S. A.
Cook, Mrs. G. II. Clement and Mrs. OIL
i've Cook enjoyed a trolley ride to Bos-
ton today.
prayer meetings were held at the yari.
Gus churches in town tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs Titus Mosely have re-
turned from two weeks vacation
down the Providence river.
Edwin G. Putnam of Elm street has
IN his possession a full grown dipper
duck and has 1t on exhibition at his
store The duck was captured by Archie
z. Martin of this town and is regarded
as very good capture as the dipper
duck is the most wary bird known
Inc Worcester & Suburban road Off
Gals must have in view a very early
winter for today they had the snow
pillow brought up srom the lower barn
70 the Worcester and Suburban barn on
West Main street.
The Ladies Benevolent society con
nected with the Baptist church hold
their quarterly social and supper In Tho
vestry Of the church tomorrow everssne
at $50 o'clock A supper will be served
at $50 and Will be followed by the en-
tertainment at o'clock with a duet Nv
Misses Ethel Fisher and Marion Water