The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-08-21

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The having OF the corner stone or TINS
hesuiIful high school is in Keeping WIN
The biz things accomplished IN the cum I'M
munity. Wcirton may We'll De caiIeI Dc
lille. wonder city Of me T mpn,Tvelous,
and i'm keeping with the deVe!opmchl
along the river line north ahH SUI a. ~ =,
soon there will be one continuing I''s
from here TO Wheeling
Present Day Schools.
tenn Is II matter in which all Of us may
take pride. The total value o. a.
school PROPERTY IN West Virginia ,!i,. ~ IL
twenty million dollars an a"cre sf evt
Years. The number OF school houses is
6.g21, Of which l6H are high sch9ovs
Total number uf teuchers employed o.
Remuneration of school youth 4oS,96s
rrrnllmen, IN schools 3Gi,S7l. Aver.
az" daily attendance 22l.O63, Cost OF
education average salary paid ie1chers'
all grades. 1919 O46;aI,; Iolai ot 5IiliSn
nine hundred and eighty-four thouSandi
lLrnc hundred and nifty dollars. lntat
number If high schools. icy. SumoGr ~, ~
four year high schools o. re" -,
school buildings have Deeh ereCtcu a. "
cost Of So. .0O0
Early Education.
THE school building whS or the mos
primitive kind in the early days mage VI
logs usually, ~ by - feet ana a 's rSe
liiIdinG was one IL by ~ feet. Inc
walls which were about eight 10 Ten
feet high were made ~ round logs,
nntCh.ti down. chinkcd and daubed WIN
mud. covered with clap poaFu reol he'N
I'm place with Wcight-nhles.
The School Master.
In tho early days thr discipline was
rigid. and Il pupil WAS logged unmercl-
fully for any infractinn 1T the Wrltten
rules which were r'ad by inc tedcher
HEst morning of SCHOOL
In 1851 my father-iu-law. Major tr!AH
y. Orr Of Kingwond. now IN his eighty
fourth year, taught term IN the noun,
Iajns east of Evansville in Preston
cn rI,iI Evansvlle is small village
now, but then WAS Il famous town. 10
raied on the Northwestern Turnpike.
Major Orr remembers that John Tyler
spoke there in 1870. when a candida. {. c
had good order after he mad thrhsnSu ..
nine of the big boys. or his thirty
pupils, he, TO this day calls ehch ny
name, although only two are living. + or
in money or other mediums or eNchahSn.
sd56 We Of today owe much TO me
itincrant school teacher. and inc "iu
Methodist circult-rlder ~ tue iloIlGcI
days They preached Win Ertat l 49,
and spirit, mixing prose a7d poetry
Rihlc doctrine and hell-tire and ofim-
s,nnr. with fervrr that shook the Jog
ruftcrs, and brought scores OF nuakihg
sinners 10 the mnurncrs bench.
Superstitions OF Pioneer Days.
"Onr nionccr parents were supersu-
tions. They believed in witches. omens'
smells and magic charms. This IS not
nj all surprising when u Is remehl"el'il
that among the most enllghtcned peop'SS
of Europe, less than two hundrea a,,u
ff,y wears ago. witches were pGhIlciF
hurncd At the stake. IF Cne was S'rlcN-
en- with Il malignant disease. the cause
was ut once traced to some enc IN tue
Vicinity who extended an evil influence
over him. .,o1,
nv q, witch or some person OF az evil ma
tiIr", This was evidenced by their lah-
inp back track when in chase or
running in an opposite direction Wnen
called, When dog was afflicted. ths
Lords prayer was written on bspn nIfciT n a a
corn pone. WIS fed to the dog.
"When q lad, Major Orr was sent 10 Il
peiebhor,s house 10 borrow some fire.
During the night n storm mad ocGurie I,
nnd IrhteninE struck tree, setting II
on Arc; when the lad came TO IT, be
could not sec any sense In walking t"o
miles further TO borrow q thing %hiGh
an inscrutahlc power had placed IN ms
wav, so hc took hot GOALS from the IT,
md returned home. 4 lady BY the name
e. 1Junt. would not eat the victuals
cooked with the lightning made nre, De
Iirvinr II was bewitched. and would
bring bad luck.
We Are Supsrstitious.
We are .uprrstitiuus today. II II
rains on Monday. IT Will rain four days
thai week. \ visitor must 80 out the
same door entered. or II Is bad luck
II Won forget something on leaving
down awhile before you start out again
II some one gives you seed or cutting,
do not thank them or It Will not grow 1t
is unlucky for thirteen TO dine together