The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-12
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WILL BE GIVEN TRIAL
 AT STAPLES SCHOOL
New System Has Met With Success in Many Large Cities-Town Fair
 End of Next Week.
tBy Our Special correspondent.)

(By Our Special Correspondent) Westport, July 12.-Vocational- ed ucation is to be made a part of the curriculum of the Staples High School starting with the Freshman class
 which will enter next September. Pu- pills in the upper class will also re- ceive the benefit of the new system
 but especial attention will be given
 those who will enter this year for the first time. Miss Ruth Hall, instruc-
 tress in English at the high school at
 the present time will have charge or the new work in connection W1tn her
 present duties.
 Vocational education is compara-
 lively a new enterprise. For the
 past few years it has been tried With
 marked successes in some or the lar
 ger cities of the country It mas aAso
 received considerable attention from
 the officials of the r. M. c. As of
 the larger cities. It is recognized
 that a great majority of young men
 and women enter the high school
 without any set idea as to what they will probably make their Ilfe's Work.
 Four years have been spent in the high school without the pupil being any nearer a selection. Some even take up a higher education without their minds set as to what shall be their course In most high schools after the first year the pupil is sup posed to choose some definite course of study for he has a number of cleo tive studies to choose from If 8 course to which he is fitted had been mapped out for him in his first year Of work the best elective studies could be selected to meet the requirements of his 1ife's work. It is to eliminate the many unnecessary subjects that a student has in the past taken up that the new system will also prove of val ue.
 The new system will fail unless the supervisors meet with the earnest CO., operation of the pupil himself and his parents. The school board urges that parents especially cooperate with Miss Hall in order to give the pupil a proper understanding of the various trades and learned profes- sions and to assist them in the proper selection of a suitable course of study.
 The seventh annual fair of the Wo- mems Town Improvement association will be held at the Town Hall and the grounds adjoiiing on the afternoons and evenings of July IS and 1S, open ing at 4 o'clock There will be a starting at 8 o'clock. From those who know the variety show will be as good as the best. Supper will be served each evening from until 8. In the auditorium of the hall will be found the salesrooms. There will be a candy booth, household supply booth, linen table, do11 table, a booth for fancy articles. and a mystery tas- b1e.
 Joe Kiaski got out of the chicken scrape, but landed in jail for intoxf- | cation. The court decided that they did not have sufficient evidence to hold Joseph on the chicken theft charge and dropped the count. The court told Kiaski that there was a l strong suspicion that he knew some l thing about the 75 or more chickens that had been taken at odd times from the coop of Horace Wakeman. The court had evidence in a chicken which had been found dead with a l mans tie about it's neck The tie it 1 is stated at one time belonged to Kias- Ri.
 This pig wouldn't cross a bridge, no matter if it had but recently been or had been condemned and there was sign, 'tcross atlyour ! own risk'' The fact that the hog refused to be led or go of himself across the State street bridge, gave the wags among the natives a chance to work overtime. It was not the condemned bridge that the pig to, it was water. His nat lral instincts informed him that water and. himself were incompatible. When he refused to cross the State St. bridge after being pushed, driven and his driver led him around 10 the King street bridge. There the pig went through the same ac- lions as at the State street span. The animal was sold to a party in Norwalk
 
 owner. Later in the day the pig was boxed and in that manner taken safely 70 Norwalk.
 Miss Lillian Pocock has returned to ner former home in England after re- siding in Westport for number of years.
 ri11e, Fla, has leased the Squfres place in Compo street for the sum ner.
 Mrs. Rufus D. s. Putney and chil- 1ren are now at Lake George, N Y.,I where they will spend the remainder of the month.
 Miss Katherine Sherwood of State St., is visiting friends in New York.
 Samuel A. Purdy who is one of the committee which is in charge of the anon picnic of all the local churches s in Bridgeport to-day conferringI with officials of the New England Navigation Go. relative to the charter ng of a steamer for the big picnic Iti s expected that 500 or more will at- end the picnic if it Is held at Locust Erove, l.. I. and the trip is taken by boat. If the boat cannot be secured 5avin Rock seems to be favored by he committee. It is hoped to hold he picnic on either Wednesday OF Thursday, July 30 or 31.