Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-05-30

her home at Laporte, Thursday,
May %, 1907, after an illness of
about one month.
Mrs. Conklin was the wife of r,
A. Conklin, of this place and was
one of the oldest residents of our
town. She was born in Susque-
hanna County and removed here
shortly after her marriage in 1865.
When young woman, Mrs. Conk :
lin united with the Baptist church
and has ever been a faithful and
consistent Christian woman. Her
cheerful disposition and her keen
sense of humor together with her
marked originality, made her a
great favorite among all who knew
her. She was a faithful wife, a
good neighbor and a loyal friend.
In all works of charity in this
neighborhood, where she has spent
most of the years of her life, as
we'll as in the work of the church
with which she was affiliated, she
has always taken prominent and
useful part. She will be greatly
missed not only by the members of
her immediate family but by an
unusually large circle of neighbors
and friends.
The funeral services were held
from the Baptist Church at this
place, Sunday afternoon and were
conducted by Rev. f. R. Powell,
of Jersey Shore, a former pastor of
the Laporte Baptist Church, and
the remains were laid to rest in
Mountain Ash Cemetery.
Is the "little red school house" of
happy memories about to go? This is
il possibility.
About 100000 children attend
these country school houses and a
movement is on foot to provide better
things for them. 1t is believed that
such single schools are inferior and
that by system ~ consolidation
they could be raised toa level of
to yn schools and high schools. Rep
resentive c. II. Davis, of Minnesota
and Prof. Willet NJ. Hays assistant
secretary of agriculture, are leaders
in this movement.
What does school consolidation
mean: 1t means doing away, away
says Prof. Hays, with four or five
country "district schools aud re-
placing them with a good size,l
school with faculty of five or six
teachers who are competent and
equipped to teach more than three
R's-tO teach them the rudiments of
agriculture and of the domestic arts,
us the manual trades and the d0meS-
tic arts are now being taught in many
city and town schools. Agriculture
! is becoming great science. We are
teaching it more and more in the
agricultural colleges which are being
established in every state.
Why not make the rudiments of
such teaching universal: How an
it be done. There is bill before
Congress, introduced last season, by
Representive Davis, which answers
this question. 1t provides federal
aid for agricultural and industrial ed
ucation in primary grades. For cost
of an up-to-date battleship complete
system of rural industrial education
could be started in every state in the
Union. Ten cents per capital 81 900
600, is all that the bill calls for The
money would be proportioned to each
state and territory according TO its
population.
Another slight operation for the
removal of pus was performed upon
George Nelson in the Lycoming
county Jail Sunday. Nelson will not
be tried at the June term for the
murder of Policeman Maloney.
William Seersacker, Il brakeman
of the Delaware and Lackawanna
Railroad, rescued a drowning boy ,
Anthony Ferretu, in Toys creek Sat
urday. While riding on the tender
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