Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

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ALL SCHOOL elections in Delawar
will be held tomorrow afternoon, Sat
urday, June 18th, between the hour
of two and four o'clock. The Whining
ton City school election was held las
Saturday, which is the only place il
Delaware to hold these elections or
a different date from the balance oi
the State.
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IN ALL PARTS of Delaware the
harvesting of the wheat crop is well
under way and the heads indicate
that they are filled to an average con-
dition. The grade of the wheat has
not been reported on, but the weather
is favorable for it's curing. Unless
wet weather prevails for the next
three weeks, the crop will be saved in
good condition. In view of the past
two years experience, when rains
damaged much of the wheat in the
shocks in the fields, grOwers-if they
profit by experience stack the
wheat to a larger percent than in
any former season. The drawback
to doing this, is, the lack of men who
can put up stack of wheat that will
withstand storms. That kind of work
is an art which few in this part of
the peninsula have.
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THE NEW State Board of Educa-
tion has been named by Governor Den
ney in Pursuance to the new school
laws which take effect at July first.
The selections made by the Governor
are strictly non-partisan, as two are
Democrats and two are Republicans
of well known standing. Upon them
rests the responsibility of naming the
Commissioner of Education, who will
either make or break the administra-
tion of the school laws as they now
stand. A man with earnest desire to
get the best for the children of Della
ware with what he has available, who
is thinking for the future as well as
the present welfare of public school
education, in that position will help
to put the school laws into working
shape with the least possible friction.
In the selection of this man all poll
tics will have to be forgotten, or the
schools will suffer as a result. The
four men composing the State Board
of Education are men capable of set
ting down and reaching a decision on
the basis of welfare of the education
Of all the children, without regard to
the politics Of the person who is to
serve the educational system of Del
aware wisely and well. With a broad
minded man who is capable of direct
ing and advising the policies of the !
educational department of Delaware
in the position of Commissioner of
Education, the New State Board of
Education will have half of it's work
done for them at the start. The men
named by the Governor as the State
Board of Education are well known
and come from all parts of the State:
Ellwood Souder, the member from
is a former member of
the Board of Education of Wilmington |
and just has been elected one of the
seven commissioners who will COM
pose the new city board. He is a
prominent local business man and be-
ieves heartily in up-to-date educa-
ional facilities for the children of the {
districts.
Eugene H. Shallcross, of Middle
own, who will represent rural New
Jastle county on the board, is one of n
he foremost scientific farmers in the
State. He stands high in the regard
# all who know him, and is son of
ames T. Shallcross, deceased, who in
lis day was a prominent Democratic
lolitician in New Castle county and
erved as a member of the Legisla-
ure and as Recorder of Deeds of this c
ounty.
DR.. Thomas R. Brown, of Wyoming,
7ho will represent Kent county, is
on-in-law of former Governor John A,
Iunn. He is a bacteriologist with Off ii
es in Wilmington. Several years ago O.
e was State bacteriologist. His name Is
ppears on the membership roll of the W "
Rotary Club. For long a
me DR.. Brown has been one of Kent Il
ounty's foremost and most effective p,
dvocates of educational progress in ~ ~
ur State He had much to do with Il
ringing about a consolidation of the
ehools of Wyoming and Camden and Ia
ring into being the Caesar Rodney nj
,hool there which is recognized as ~ ~
eing one Of the model schools down fl,
10 State. W
Minos E. Culver, the Sussex county p'
ember, resides in Laurel. He occu- fo7
es an enviable place in the lower
.rt of the State as a farmer and bus "
ess man. At present he is presi-
Mt of the Laurel Board of Education -
ID a director of one of the banks in III
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