Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-04-24
DOWEIL SCHOOL.

Arb0r Day at Dowell School was q
general clean up day. The yard and
school house were thoroughly clean
ed. We planted twenty three trees
of several varieties as follows: Soft
maple, Arbor vitae, Elm, Ash, Box
Elder, Black walnut and catalpa.
One of the boys planted some scataipa
seeds so that next Arbor day we may
have catalpa seedlings of our own
raising. %Ns>as
Our ivy failed to arrive but when
it does come it will be planted around
the school houses as planned. Ar
rangements were made to have. some
house plants started in our window
boxes during the summer so thar next
fall they will be of suitable size for
window gardens.
Great plans were made for the last
day at Dowell and the plans were car
ried out on large scale. The Dow
ell teacher is q great advocate of CEN
tralized schools. His argument be-
ing, that in such a school period in
each day might be used by the boys
practical agriculture and by the girls
N practical course in domestic sci-
ence. The good mothers of the dis
trict have various arguments to put
up against this idea of domestic
science in school and to show the tea
cher that they were perfectly capa-
BILE of teaching this very important
science, they demonstrated to him to
his entire satisfaction their great abil-
ity to prepare such an extremely long
list of toothsome dainties that even
Paul Mohr "a mighty good Judge on
such matters tool could not sample
all the cakes. Why there were angle
food cake, DEVILS food cake, layer
cakes, cakes that were made without
layers, cakes too beautiful to eat and
lastly cakes that could not be elassi-
fed by an ordinary domestic scielice
teacher like myself. ! do not know
the method used in classifying these
cakes whether they are named after
producer or consumer. The devils
food I think is named thusly because
it creates an insatible desire for more
of it's; a.
After dinner the ninety pupils and
visitors listened to program and
then an exchange Of presents took
place between teacher and pupils. In
this exchange the teacher came out
best. kx
Vernon King and Nola Taylor made
perfect records in attendance last year
and received certificates of puhctual-
|ity. There were several others with
records nearly perfect. The follow
ing missing any one day: Ada Wald-
vogle, Mable King and Bruce Taylor.
Pictures were taken of the crowd
and school was dismissed for the long
vacation. Arrangements were made
with the mail clerk to care for the
mail this summer and we hope the
first day of school next fall will be
one to remember as this last day sure
ly was.
Frank Smith and wife spent SUM-
day with her brother, Harry Strang
and wife in West Unity. ss
Roy Curtis spent from Saturday
until Monday with his sister, Mrs.
Roy Lacy in West Unity. ~
Miss Ella Domitio was in Toledo
on business Monday. is
Mr.. and Mrs. s. A. Miller and Mr..
and Mrs. Have Brigham and daughter
Helen have returned from their Win
ter's sojourn in Florida.
The Misses HERNIA and Helen Nc
Kibben entertained large party of
friends at the Montauk Club rooms
last evening.
Fulton county should be well re-
presented at the congressional get
together meeting at the auditorium
next Tuesday. Don't forget the date,
April 28th. Luncheon at noon. fine
addresses by able speakers.