Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-02
MPORTANT MEET
Of OHIO TEACHERS
Pedasogues From All Parts
of State to Attend.
NEW FEATURE At GATHERING
Survey Commission Embodying Plan
for Reconstruction of Buck
eye School System viii
Be Submitted.
D. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.

Special Columbus Correspondent.
Columbus, Ohio.
"HE holiday meeting of the Ohio
teachers, to be held in Colum-
bus next week, will be the most
important of the kind held in
many years. The report of the state
school survey commission embodying
a plan for reconstruction of the school
system Of the state will be submitted
at these meetings. A new feature of
these meetings will be state meeting
for country teachers. This will be the
first of the kind to be held. Teachers
from every school district in the state
will be present. The various associa-
tions that will meet are: Ohio State
Teachers association, Superintend-
ents, Principals and Supervisors Sec
tion of the Ohio State Teachers asso-
citation, Ohio School Improvement fed
GRAFTON, Ohio High School Teachers
association, State Association of
Township Superintendents, State As
sociatipn of School Examiners, State
! Elementary Teachers association and
Country Teachers association. The
meetings will be held Dec 20, 80
and 81.
State Agricultural Meeting.
Two United States senators are ex-
pected to be drawing cards for the
annual state agricultural meeting to
be held here Jan. IA and Is. The SEN
| ators will be Pomerence of Ohio and
Kenyon of Iowa, and they will come
from Washington to tell of the effort
made to secure 100000 from the ma
tional treasury to fight hog cholera.
Diseases among swine will be among
| the many things of interest to farmers
that will be discussed during the con.
ference. Rural education will be one
| of the themes of discussion The pos.
sibility of developing in the country
some of the attractions that lure farm
boys and girls to the city is to be one
of the interesting things considered
There are to be shown also motion pic
lures of the recent trip of the Corn
Boys to Washington. All farmers in
stitutes in the state will be recessed
during, the two days of the state
meeting.
Students Getting Even"
Ohio State university students are
finding new and novel way Of
getting even" with the Columbu:
laundries for raising the laundry rates
The retaliation on the part of the stu
dents consists of sending their wash
| ing back home" through the medium
Of the parcel post. The student whose
monthly allowance doesn't keep pac,
with the rapid increase in Columbus
laundry rates finds the new polio,
both economical and expedient. HI
can send his washing home and hav,
1t returned practically as quickly al
he can have it done at big steam
| laundry here, and the postage cost il
almost inconsequential when com
pared with the laundry tariff of Il
cents for shirt and cents for cuff
Laundry packages can be sent from
here to any part of the state virtual,
for from to cents. Five cents car
ries one pound package and cent
four pound package Girls as vel
as boys are adopting the new plan
and it is indicated that the system vii
become universal unless the laundrie
begin to descend in their charges.
| Used Rubber Stamp to Forge.
Although unable to either read O
write, Jerry Norman has beef
brought to the penitentiary to serve
term of one year for forgery. He wa
| Wi OF 1.
ago, but was released on probation
When the word came to the peniter
tiary that Norman was up to his oil
tricks again, the officials were incline
to place no credence in the report, bu
an investigation developed that it wa
true. Norman was found to be using
rubber stamp to work his forger
stunt. He was taken in charge by tn
state parole officer and brought to tn
penitentiary.
Unusual Proceeding.
So that deaf sister of the decease
would know what was said by the off
ciating ministers, a stenographic re
port was taken of every word uttere
at the funeral of Caroline Read, z;
which was held Monday afternoon
The sister for whose benefit this wa
done is Rosa Reed, who, with her sis
ter, were members of the Methods
church more than so years. The
were inseparable. The proceeding wa
most unusual one.
Tells of Captured Flag.
"The rebels outnumbered us five t
one when they captured our flag" sal
State Law Is Attacked.