The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-06-20
ALL THE NEWS
from Somerset Towns
East SkOWhegan.

vicinity especially Saturday night. Sun
day and Sunday night, many are afraid Of
FROST
Reynolds and Nelson moved Henry
Richardson's barn in three days and put
il on the spot without taking up the floors,
4 very good job indeed and the men are
now putting up thirty feet on the south
end which will be very convenient to pass
from the house into the barn.
Estes team with the road machine. Fri
day and Saturday, did very good job
in this district, especially on the Moore's
Mills road.
Our school taught by Miss Wentworth
closed this week and all decided we have
had a very good teacher and the pupils
have learned well.
Mantle Holt had birthday party las,
Saturday, she being eight years old.
Twelve of her schoolmates. boys and
girls. met and had good time and played
games under the shade trees and were
treated with ice cream cake and lemon
AIDE. She had number of nice presents.
Her health has been poor and she has not
been able to attend this term OF school.
The Nutting boy, who caught the three
big salmon recently, was persuaded by a
man from Watervllle, formerly from
Canaan, to exchange them for fish pole
and line, worth about 10 cents; the sal
mon were really worth three dollars or
more. The boy will never make another
such trade and it is very doubtful if the
man ever does.
Rev Ora M. Chase will preach at the
Richardson school house in E. Skowhe-
gan. on Sunday the 23d of June, COM
mencing at 10 80 a. m. and at 2 p m.
Let there be good turnout and fill the
house, good singing may be expected.
Your correspondent leaves Skowhegan
Monday p. m. for Lewiston on visit 10
his daughters and expects to stop till after
the fourth.
About four years ago the vertical sys-
TEN was introduced into the schools oil
this town and is now discarded by BUSH
ness men and business colleges in our
country. Children from four 10 ten years
of age perhaps might learn the vertical
style of writing and it might help them al
first but when they get old enough to
hold a pen properly, should learn to con
meet the letters in word and write a
smooth, running hand, and no better
style of penmanship can be found than
the A. r. Dunton. He was the author
of the Duntonian system and his books
with copies we're used in almost all of our
town schools Tine writer has some OF
these books now and if this style of writ
ing was introduced now it would be a
great thing for the rising generation.
Somebody made money in furnishing ver-
tical writing books, but never should be
used another day in our public schools.
hope the REPORTER will find room
for the following from the Farm and
Home, Springfield, Massachusetts,
Some years ago the vertical system OF
penma ship was introduced into the
Springfield (Mass,) public schools, and
up to certain point with satisfactory
results. This system, however, has been
on trial now long enough to demonstrate
that it is not what people want Business
men don't want it, 1t Is neither rapid.
more legible or more hygienic than the
old style of slant writing. In New York,
Chicago. Worcester and other large cities.
the system has been tried and discarded.
Joseph L. Schwab, director of the Chica-
60 public schools. says: The vertical
system Of writing now in use in our
schools has had no small part In making
the handwriting Of the pupils poor, as il
causes them to write with the cramped
finger movement, instead of the free,
forearm movement. have yet to find a
single bu .iness man, except those who
are engaged 10 the business Of publishing
vertical copy books. who approve Of the
vertical system, and the pretense that IL
is more hygienic than the other systems
is ridiculous nonsense, as one can write
on the vertical or any other slant in the
most hygienic position possible Tne
vertical system Of writing is said to be
the natural system. 1t is easier at the
art; it is easier for the uncultivated
muscles, but we are aiming at results 10
after years. The introduction Of vertical
writing, however, was good thing, as il
has had the effect Of modifying the Sian,
so that the best style of writing today /:
something between the extreme slant and
the vertical The fact that the vertica
writing is not desired by business men is
one Of the great drawbacks. This wa,
why the vertical. which was introduced IN
our business schools. was discarded, after
at least six places were lost by students
who learned that style Of penmanship."