Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-05
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MANCHESTE Err.

Miss Morang. who teaches the Wash
inston school at The Outlet; Miss Nc
kerney, the Mckinley school on the Pond
road: Miss Jones, the Longfellow school
at The Forks; Miss Fifield, the Lincoln
school at North Manchester, are all plan
ming to observe Arbor day May in a
| little different way than formerly. In
stead of the usual children'S exercises
parents and citizens are invited to be
present at 10 o'clock on that day and
meet the teachers and children and dis
cuss the conditions. needs and response
| biities of rural education.
| The time has fully arrived when pa
rents should rally themselves to become
interested in this vital question of school
advancement and betterment. This is an
| age of rapid progress and development
and there is no reason why our children
in the country, breathing pure air. sur
rounded by all the beautiful. inspiring
| things in nature. if rightly guided should
not be able to make as great strides along
educational lines as children in our cities;
for in some ways we have an advantage
| over them in having all that heart could
wish for in our nature study work, for 1t
| is by investigation and discovery that the
chld's perception is quickened and the
mind developed And there is no better
place for this than in the broad open
country.
} Many times we wish for our children
| in the rural schools some of the advan-
tages which the city gives along educa-
tional lines that we do not have. Let us
then lay claim to more for our schools.
* ;,, and time iS
not far distant when we shall stand equal
| if not outrank.
In this State about one half of our pu-
pills are enrolled in country schools and
we hope that in the future, as in the
past. by the right method of instruction.
that we shall be able to send more prac-
| teal, energetic young men and women to
the front ranks than ever before. 1t
| therefore falls upon us who are older to
press the needs of education in all its re-
uuirements. The superintendent, COM
mittee and teachers cannot do this great
work alone 1t calls for the interest, help
and support of every resident of the town.
| Let us then one and all do our part to-
| wards the education of the children in our
schools.
The following are a few of the topics
| which are urged to be discussed at our
| Arbor day meetings:
The closer relation of the home and the
| school.
The establishment of a school expert
| ment station where the boys and girls
will learn the fundamental facts of the
cmployments of the community and gath
| Ell and distribute new facts in relation
thereto-gardens. dairy. horticulture. etc
| Beantifying the interior, exterior and
| grounds of schoolhouses.
| The establishment of a branch of the
School Improvement League of Maine.
| II is earnestly requested that as many
! of the parents as possible be present and
help make beginning in this educationa
| work.
| The Pond Road Social Club will meet
with Mrs Carrie Foster at her home or
| the Pond road Friday afternoon.
Albert f. Farr has succeeded in having
the New England telephone put in his
house.
| Mr. Boswell OF Quincy. Mass. has ar
rived and is visiting her daughter Mrs
Chas. Moore. on the Pond road
Mrs. Bertha N. Crocker visited school:
| Monday and Tuesday.