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The best Farmer i'm Town

TIC b0BC FARMER III TOWN.
has the greatest success because he has the best
implements to wo rk with. Flows are the most
important of any tool; the best plow to-day and
the easiest for man and beast IL the new "Le
Roy Plow." The large variety Of styles adapt
them to all the conditions Of soil. You can ind
just the plow for your needs, and every pillow Is
guaranteed as represented. We are not In
s.Trust or Combine" Call for catalogue and
full particulars at JACOB GLOVER SONS, Stat
ford.
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MANSFIELD.
Mrs. Whitmore Is i'll.

Mrs. Whitmore Is i'll.
George Hanks Is visiting at Hanksville.
Harry Copeland is at work for E. s.
Smith.
Mrs. Gilbert Williams of Mansfield
Center Is seriously Ill.
All. Freeman, who has been seriously
i'll, Is reported much better.
Gilbert Williams has sold his place to
Mr.. Gordon of Willimantic.
The recent freshet considerably dam
aged the roads in this vicinity.
Mrs. Harvey and little daughter are
visiting Mrs. Harveys' parents.
George LeValley has gone to visit hill
daughterin Worcester for few weeks.
Mrs. Mary Simonds spent the Sabbath
with her sister at Gurleyville last week.
James Forsyth has gone to Providence
where he has q position in a thread mill.
Miss Margaret Gill Is boarding at E. L
Smiths boarding house for short time
Mrs. Henry Hanks has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Clune, at Willimantic
Mise Helen Whitaker spent a few days
with her sister, Mrs. Davoll, at Westford
recently.
Mrs. Sewall, who has been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Smith, returned home
Saturday.
Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Smith are enter
tanning their two sons and families from
New York.
Miss Flora Hammond will leave Mr.
Smiths mill soon, and resume her duties
as teacher.
Miss G.. N. Turner has returned to hel
home, after visit Of many weeks al
various places.
Miss Gertrude Martin has returned tc
MIR. G. G. Dunham's. She has beer
away for several weeks.
Last Sunday afternoon Fred Williams
of Chaffeville saw five deer In lot ir
front of his house. 1t is said number
of deer make their homes around the
Cooney rock near Chaffeville.,
The girls basketball team from Will.
mantle came to Storrs Saturday afternoon
and were defeated by the college girls
team, 6 to Is. Miss johnson of the locals
scored the only baskets thrown.
Mrs. Gleason and her daughter, Mrs
Ida Church, are going to move to Spring
Hill. They have been living at Mansfield
Center, In Mrs. Barrows house. Mre.
Barrows' son and wife will occupy the
house vacated.
Gurleyville.
Miss Helen Whitaker was at West.
ford with her sister, Mrs. Davoll, over
Sunday.
Rev. E. F. Smiths wife is failing, and
some Of their relatives are with them at
the parsonage.
There was no service Sunday evening
on account of the illness of the wife o.
Rev. E. F. Smith.
Henry G. Barlow and daughter, Ruth
from Westford, have been visiting Mr.
Barlow's sister, Mrs. Henry Mason.
Miss Gertie Martin of Chaplin, who
has been in Florence, Mass, for a few
weeks. has returned to F. G. Dunham's.
Miss May Thompson went home Thurs
day night to see her brother from Dan
bury, who is visiting his father, Phil,
Thompson.
o. 8. Chaffee, George Walker and thu
administrator, Ralph Storrs, met Satur
day to appraise Mrs. s. P. Chaffee'
goods. Elijah Simonds of Oxford ant
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Simends of Spring
field were also present, but returned hom
Monday.
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A Gard.

We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
to refund the money on 50-cent bottle Of
Greene's Warranted Syrup Of Tar II it
fails to cure your cough or cold. We
also guarantee 25-cent bottle to prove
satisfactory. or money refunded.
W. D. HEALD, Stafford Springs.
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Real Estate For Sale.

In pursuance of an order from the Probate
Court the real estate of the late Lydia s. Wilson
Is now onered for sale at price that will make
renting property. Said property consists of
good two-story house, fitted for two tenements,
and about one-half acre Of land, and is situated
on the Main street, in the village of STAFFORD
Hollow, Conn. An immediate sale is desired for
the purpose of closing up the estate. For terms,
ETC., address JAMES N. SIBLEY, Executor,
soft STANFORD. Conn.
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Secretary John D. Long has sent his
resignation to President Roosevelt, and
the portfolio has been offered 10 Con-
gresham William 81. Moody of Massa-
chusetts.
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Fifteen people were killed, and many
were injured by wreck on the Southern
Pacific railroad in Texas early Sunday
morning.
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To cure cold in one day take Laxative
BromO Quinine Tablets. All druggists
refund the money II 1t fails to cure. e.
w. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
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TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE,

Notice is hereby given to all persons liable to
pay taxes in the town of Mansfield, that have
warrant placed In my hands to levy and col.
the town Of Mansfield, on assessment list Of
1901 and for the purpose of receiving said taxes.
at Morrow, at Lincoln Bros Store, March IL,
from 10 a. M. to II M; Mansfield Depot, at A.
r. Campbell's Store, March IL: from II 80 a. m.
to %, M; Eagleville. at F. o. VintOn's Store,
March 49, from 10 a. M until $50 p. M; Mansfield,
at L. L. Lyons store, March ID, from 10 a. m. to
II a. M; Storrs at q. v. Beebe's Store, March
IA, from IL m. to p. M; Gurleyville. at o. g.
Hanks Store, March II, from 10 a. m. to ~ m;
Mount Hope, at b. o. MOOres Store, March IL,
Shtppee's Store, March 1S, from p. NJ to p M;
Mansfield Center, at Alfred Odens Store, March
ing this notice win be charged at the rate of
per cent after 30 days, and be liable to other
legal charges.
Dated at Mansfield this 18th day Of Feb, 1902.
GURLEY j. JACOBS. Collector
P. o. Address, Box 100, Will1mant1c.
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The constitutional convention on We'd
nesday, by vote of "a to 76, passed the
one representative from a town plan.
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Resolutions, obituaries or cards OF thanks In
serted at one-half advertising rates. Births,
marriages and deaths inserted free. Communi-
cations received without signature always COM
mitted to the waste basket without attention.
This paper is mailed regularly to Its subscrib
ers until definite order to discontinue is re-
ceived and all arrears are paid in full.
THIS Paper and The Connecticut Courant
semi-weekly, furnished for $s.15 per year.
We are not responsible for, nor do we by pub
fishing, endorse the opinions Of our correspond
ents.
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The senate committee on Wednesday
reported In favor of the Nicaragua canal
route. s..rr
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APPROXIMATION!

We proclaim our offer to the people
that We sell VINOL on positive guar.
antee. III is does not succeed in benefit
hg You we win refund the entire amount
e purchase money.
Il you are troubled with any Of the
following ailments we know that VINOL
win help you. Anyway you should give
yourself the chance TO be benefited By
u, particularly rs you take no risk In
lssing money Il It does not help you.
an Ram Down.
No Appetite,
an Tired Out Dehkxyka6ody
Gain flesh
Abaybesd0nI Get Strong
Dyspepskas
Weak People, Old People,
PaEo Women
Rron0hiAs, Pale 0hlYdr0ns
Sore Lungs,
ErreEabiyvfy, Nervousness,
Chronic Colds,
Ha0ktfng Dough-.
Murskng Mothers,
Weak NEOkbos.es
Come in and get book which tells all
A. C. EAT ON
DRUGGIST.
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P. Broadway has taken the agency for the
81 BEST KNOWN" FLOUR

Along the line of the Central Vermont railroad
He has handled this flour In a small way for the
past year. and finds it what its name implies
He has just received two cars of it and will sell
to any family one barrel, as an advertisement.
for "a so. The regular price, $500 per barrel.
Every barrel is warranted to be satisfa Glory or
money refunded ''Say ! that flour is all RIGHT"
ia the expression Of one of the merchants who
will receive our prompt attention.
You don't have to go TO the city to get prices
on Grain and Feeds. Go to West Stafford to the
Broadway Mill and get prices that will make you
smile, or send a postal card for prices on Corn,
Meal, Bran, Mixed Feed, in fact anything in the
grain and feed line.
G. p. BRADW
West tafford, Feb. 18th, 1902.
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A strike among the freight handlers at
Boston Is causing much inconvenience to
shippers of freight. At present there are
&c, 900 men out. The trouble was first
started by a strike Of the teamsters of the
Brine transportation company of Boston.
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DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
N, The First National Bank of STAFFORD Springs
at STAFFORD Springs, in the state OF Conn, at the
close OF business, February 18th, lSo2
Loans and discounts, ............. 800, 7e4 81
nWerdrafts secl1red and unsecured,.. 3O7 20
n 3. honds to secure circulation. $4,000 90
Stocks se eos er eff and xtures 1865 GO
Due from National Banks {not reserve .,
nue ts agen s1SDroved reserve agents $500 g
internal Revenue Stamps. 149 30
1,hacks md other cash items ....... 235 43
Notes of other National banks, ....... 1873 90
Fractional paper currency ,nickels ana <. o.,
LAW H1T1s' MONEY RESERVE N BANK,
yz1,speesie notes s'S SsSs 90 90 1909 50
X ner cent. Of circuiation], $500 90
Total. s417,9Y go
can,tal stock paid in $4,000 90
Surplus fund, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000 90
Undivided prcats, less expenses and 80 o,o ;,
National bank notes outstanding 4s,6OO 90
me IN other national banks, $3.50 80
Due to State Banks and Bankers. %
Due to Trust Companies and Savings =,
individual deposits subject to check s45's74 So
Demand certificates Of deposit. 1885 IA
Total. S417,971 go
state of Connecticut, County of Tolland, IS
/, r. g. Sanford, Cashier of the above-named
bank do solemnly swear that the above state
ment1s true to the best OF ny k1oW 1a1g ana
belief. F. &. SANFORD, Cashler.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th
0"' VI '' CHAs. F. HARDWOOD, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
E s S S$SSSsaA95 Directors"
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FARM FOR SALE.

good dairy farm of rs acres. suitably divided
into moving and pasturing. situated on Stafford
Springs, Stafford Hollow, and Stafordville.
pleasant summer resort. House large and COM
mOdiOus. Variety of fruit. Owner Obliged to sell
on account Of i'll health. Inquire Of
4W J. r. BIJCK Stafford Snrap~s
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Glte 1are<x.
Thursday, March 13. 1902.

LEWIS MCLAUGHLIN, PUBLISHER.
$3.50 year. II paid strictly In advance 81 .s5
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Prince Henry of Prussia sailed for Ger
many Tuesday.
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The river steamer, Providence, was
capsized by sudden squall near Vicks-
burg, Miss, Wednesday. Twenty-one of
the passengers and crew were drowned.
Only nine of the people on the boat were
saved.
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w of Tolland Coun-
w ty. Must be in good condition and cheap.
5w Address INSURANCE" care The Press.
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GMALL Farm to rent for 1 or years.
~ Easy terms and good chance to the right
person. For particulars address
4W j. G. SPARKS, Wilmington.
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Chicago proposes to exact rent for store
rooms that project under the sidewalks.
the rate suggested beingfrom Is cents to
so per square foot.
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TENEMENT To Rent over The Press
l. office. Running water and water closet
coSey tenement for small family.
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DkESS Making; Cutting and Fitting
teaching the same. Harwood block next door
west of Rays market. MRS. A. Il. GRAY. 3w+
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THO RENT.-Tenement on Main Street.
Il W. III. REED.
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EOR SALE-Calf and a four-year- old
l. Durham cow, ne mich.
4w49 OTIS MANN, Ellithorpes.
The Press., 1902-03-13

nOG FOUND Black and tan fox
~ hound, with white feet and a white stripe
between forward legs. j. w. Baker, WestfOrd.
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MILL the person who borrowed from
w my Office map of the L. W. Crane land
please return same without delay.
ALVARADO HOWARD.
The Press., 1902-03-13

THE Annual meeting of the Stafford
Il Springs Cemetery Association will be held
in the Library Building Monday, March oath, at
7.3O p. m. W. D. HEALD, Secretary.
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NOTICE.-As nv spring term COM
~ mences March 18th, will agree to give in
struct1Ons free on all instruments purchased Of
me after above date. PROF. JORDAN.
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term for No. was only 3-5 weeks
This school was closed on account of
smallpox, and three others suspended
from the same cause.
From the above township report we
wish to call attention to only two of
the many lessons said report presents
to us superintendent, teachers and in
fuential citizens.
The first lesson is that the average
attendance is entirely too small compared
with census and enrolment. We must
increase this average attendance.
THE SECOND GREAT NEED OF OUR
SCHOOLS IS THE AGITATION OF THE
IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
AMONG THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE,
NOT ONLY IN THE SO-CALLED BACK
WOODS DISTRICTS, BUT IN THE
TOWNS AND CITIES AS WE'LL The
town and city schools need little help
and encouragement as well as the rural
schools. We must not forget the town
and city schools in our recently developed
desire to assist the already fairly good
county schools. We superintendent,
teachers and leading citizens must take
the lead in arousing an interest in public
schools among the masses by intoxicating
sound and practical views on education.
The second lesson presented by the
above township report is that the county
and not the township should be the unit
in the apportionment of the county
school fund The present school law re
quires per capita apportionment to the
townships, which causes an injustice to
large townships thinly settled by reason
of poor lands in favor of smaller town
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schools. but at each of these points We
have a comfortable house and a term of
from four and one-half to five months
public school annually.
The people are more deeply interested
in the public schools than they have ever
been, because they are depending entire
ly upon these schools for the training
of their children.
This much we have said on public
education in the county as a whole, now
we ask you to follow us through the
details of the progress and needs of our
schools. Facts and figures will tell more
than our pen of our progress during the
last ten years, so we ask you to examine
carefully the following tables of statis-
tics taken from the records in the office
of the Board of Education for the years
1892 AND 1902 CONTRASTED.
Year, 1892, census report Of white chill
dren in the country districts, 4,414; en-
rollment 2605; average attendance, L.
1872 number of districts in county, 62
per capita apportionment, Is cents;
length of term in county in weeks, II.
Year-1902, census report of white chill
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born, twelve miles north of Goldsboro,
thriving town of splendid mercantile
business. has one of the best public
schools in Eastern North Carolina. In
the outlying country districts of the
county, this board, besides what we have
in contemplation, has already erected
and equipped with modern furnishings
twenty houses, such as are shown by the
illustrations on this page.
In addition to this, the country dis
tricts have promptly taken up and are
maintaining with avidity the full quota
of libraries allowed them by the State
appropriation, besides a number of pri-
vately maintained travelling libraries
that reach all sections of the county.
JOS. E. ROBINSON,
Chairman Wayne Co. Board Education.
Goldsboro, n c., May 80, 1902.
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school house, the trustees will require
a good up-to-date teacher.
Fourth, that the influence of good
school houses. good school attendance
and community pride in school property
upon the sentiment of the community
for good roads is a natural consequence
and will necessarily result in good roads
throughout the county where such schools
are fostered
Fifth, and then, after good school
houses, good teachers, good school at
tendance, good roads, good citizens ac
lively interested in all these things, will
follow, as day follows darkness, better
home conditions, better farms, better So
cial relations in the community, greater
glory to the State.
In a State so wondrously favored by
nature as is North Carolina, with such
vast industrial resources such unlimited
possibilities, such unrivalled climatic
conditions, the one chief need whereby
to take advantage of all these and out
of them create achievements is an edu-
Gated citizenry, and the Wayne County
Board of Education went to work earn
estly and is still working hopefully and
with growing encouragement to make
Wayne county-the native and resident
county of North Cardinals educational
and greatest Governor-the banner coun-
ty for education in the State. and we
believe we are now near, if not already
occupying, that goal.
The county seat of Wayne-Goldsboro-
is the best town in the State, and in that
town are 1.-The best graded schools DR..
Curry says, from Maine to Mexico"
Mt. Olive. also in Wayne county, the
most fruitful trucking section of the
South, twelve miles South of Goldsboro,
has a most excellent graded school.
Fremont, near which is the old Aycock
homestead, where Governor Aycock was
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PROGRESS OF WAYNE COUNTY
SCHOOLS IN TEN YEARS.

The school officials of our county will
ingly take. advantage of your Educa-
tional Edition to show the progress and
needs of our public schools.
We wish to say right here that public
sentiment in favor of public schools has
been slowly but firmly taking hold of
our people ever since the doors of the
first little log school houses were opened
to the people just after the civil war,
and the progress made in our schools is
measured by this gradual growth of pub
lie sentiment. If any one were to ask
us to offer evidence to prove the state
ment made above. our answer would be
embodied in these seven word: Private
schools have disappeared from our
county. The old Goldsboro Academy, the
Butler Academy, the Goldsboro College
for Young Ladies and the Chapman Home
School have all gone forever, but Colds
boro township now has, instead of all
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one-room school building.

in a one-room school building.
We have in the county about 20 houses
like the cuts marked ca. We have in
the county about 80 houses like the cuts
marked OBJ. We have in the county
about Is houses like the cuts marked (c).
1t is the intention of our county board
of education to move out of these old
shacks marked (c) just as rapidly as
possible. We have been building good
houses for several years. We think that
our county board has a splendid plan on
the Improvement of houses. For in
stance, the OBJ houses must stand just
as they are with as little being spent on
them as possible, until all the (c) houses
have been replaced by houses like the
cut marked No. /, Brogden township. We
have built seven during this year; five
like No l. Brogden and two like No. 4,
Buck Swamp, and furnished nine with
patent desks. Our board has used in
round numbers 81 800 for building pur-
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study of books; but it comprehends the
effects and results of object lessons, as
well; and therefore the Board of Educa-
tion of Wayne county is endeavoring to
do a work that will make it's impress
for good upon all classes and communi-
ties of the county.
To this end, therefore, when we took
charge of the educational interests of
the county we addressed ourselves to the
conditions as we found them and as they
confronted us. We found the public
school houses of the country districts,
with one or two rare exceptions, mere
"shacks''- sample of which is shown
by an illustration on this page: We
found in consequence, no community
pride in school property, and, naturally,
a dwarfed interest in education, and a
train Of other retarding conditions and
influences that were appalling to grapple
with, but with the adjunct of the untir-
ing energy, peerless ability and splen-
did executive efficiency of our County
Superintendent, Mr.. f. I. Atkinson, this
board accepted the responsibilities that
confronted it and went unostentatiously
to work with oneness of purpose, which
it deliberately recognized as vitality es-
sential to any measure of success.
We recognized, First, that a good
school house in q district begets a spirit
of self-reliance that will have an eleyat-
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of Supt. T. D. McWhorter.
Ten years ago Nahunta Academy, in
what is now known as Buck Swamp
township, was doing splendid work for
the farmers boys and girls in the north
ern end of the county. The sessions of
this school were continued ten months
in the year, but like all the other private
academies in the county it has passed
away. Were we to pass the spot upon
which this school once stood we would
see nothing to indicate that ten years
ago Old Nahunta Academy flourished
there, but in sight of this same spot we
can see today a comfortable public school
house where, on May A. 1902, we closed
a very successful term of six and half
months public school,
Pine Forest. Failing Creek, Piney
Grove Hood Swamp-all good old timey
'old field country schools (said by many
to be the best class of schools the State
ever had) have ceased to exist as private
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poses and desks during this year. With
that $4,000 we could have continued our
schools nearly two months longer which
would have given US a six months term
instead of 81 four and one-half months
term.
OUR GREATEST NEED JUST NOW is
READY MONEY WITH WHICH TO
BUILD AND FURNISH SCHOOL
HOUSES.
For the special benefit of the patrons
of the public schools of Wayne county
and also for others interested. We ask
you to allow facts and figures to impart
further information on the progress and
needs of our public schools. The Stats
tics given below is a tabulated report
of the school work in Wayne county for
the year ending June 80, 1902, given by
townships. The kind of school house
now in each district in Wayne county is
shown in this township report by the
letter A. B and G placed in the column
marked-condition of house. By re-
ferring to the cuts we can see the kind
of house A. B and stand for respect
lively:
REPORT BY TOWNSHIPS.
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provement as compared with the year
1892 AS to the condition of our school
houses we ask YOU to examine the ac-
companying cuts of some of our best and
some of our sorriest houses. We believe
that these Photographic features will
give you more information of what
Wayne county is doing for education
than you could get from a pen picture.
The cut marked (c) represents the
poorest school houses in Wayne county
today, and is typical of what all our
houses were ten years ago. The cuts
marked OBJ represent fairly good houses
furnished with home made desks.
The cuts marked (a) represent our best
houses in three styles. They are nicely
finished up and painted outside and in
side. They are furnished with modern
patent desks, and the arrangements as
to light, heat. cloak rooms. etc, are
about as good as we can hope to have
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To the Editor: The Board of Educa-
ton of Wayne county appreciates your
Splendid conception of an educational
edition of your widely circulated paper
and gladly avails itself of the emporium
gity of placing before the reading public
through this medium IAN epitome, at
at least, of what Wayne county is doing
for the education of her children-the
ends we have in view and the results
we hope for and anticipate, not alone
upon the children, but upon the parents,
the teachers, the community, along all
lines OF intellectual, moral, physical, So
cial and material development for edu-
cation is not restricted to mean that
which the brain receives from the mere