Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-04-04

punishment is certainly a misnomer.
it seems so to me at least. For
instance, in the titles of army
officers, corporal is among the in
significant titles when compared
with lieutenant, captain, major,
etc., therefore / think major would
be more suitable in connection with
punishment While on this subject
I may say that when the various
schools were scattered throughout
the town the superintendent made
frequent visits to all schools, and
at times made special visits, which
would be when some unruly pupil
showed fight when his woman
teacher, as he termed her, attempt
ed to correct him and failed. Then
the S. O. S. went out and the su-
perintendent came to the rescue,
and a certain element of the schoo.
was highly entertained. / remem-
Der two such entertainments in
both of which Prof. Stevenson acted
not only as superintendent, but
principals; | also distinctly remem-
Der the offenders, even their nick
names, as most boys had at that
time One was Copper Head Dick
erson and the other Brock Mitchell.
While | cannot remember the many
assistant teachers in order, I do re-
member first Miss Alexander, Mary
p. Barker. Miss Wetherel, Miss
Campbell, Miss De Yelling, Miss
Wakefield, Mary Welch, frankie
Eberlein Sprague, and l think an
other, Miss or Mrs. Keyes.
| now think my story about fin
ished, and as l have not mentioned
anything since Prof Mclaughlin S
time, there should be others who
can report the doing of our splen-
did schools and the modern meth
DDS in contrast to the crude meth
ods which / have mentioned. | now
discover that | failed to mention,
quoting Robinsons history, that the
first school directors were appointed
in 1925, and consisted OF the fol-
lowing named gentlemen: Rev. John
Hunt, DR.. Perley B. Johnson and
Francis A. Barker. The first men
toned | distinctly remember. The
citizens in 1912 organized with con-
stitution and bylaws, the McCon-
nelsville academy. For this purpose
they rented frame building on
Water street, between East and
Penn, which had been built for a
Uniyersalist church, and employed
]. d. Sears of Bucyrus, o., as teach
er, at salary of S400 per year.
/ The number of scholars was about
$50. One year finished the project.
The superintendent and principals
I following Prof. Mclaughlin | can
E, not mention in their regular order.
therefore | will mention some of
! them at random Deshler. Patter-
son, Courtwright, Harris. Richard
/ son, Johnson, Reed, Fulks, Finley,
! Young. Bowman, Warman. Carr,
and our present superintendent, Mr..
1 Turner, and Mrs. Button, besides
those | have missed.
| OF the graduation of pupils from
our high school in my day very lit
! tie is known It is said that Mar
! tin r. Andrews, who later became
an educator, was the first graduate
from our high school. would
think Rufus Kelly was among the
first, as / remember his attending
high school in 1854, and he later
received a medical education and
practiced medicine in our town.
suppose he must have graduated
from our high school. Many of you
remember DR.. Kelly, father of Mrs
Ann Shafer and Miss Lucy Kelly
| There was not much fuss and feath"
ers when graduates were turned
out; not many would know of it
except maybe themselves. There
were no large classes to graduate,
frequently enc pupil, which / under
stood to be the case when Martin
Andrews graduated
The changes that have taken
place in pronunciation Of many
words, mostly geographical names,
caused my downfall. For instance,
Himalaya, Cheviot Hill, Caribbean,
Manitoba, and later dirigible, and
now the latest is Galapagos, in
which the euphony is certainly lost,
Being continually corrected when
pronouncing such names as l had
been taught and highhatted by the
| pupils who were much younger than
III, | quit school forever, going back
to steamboating, where l did not
feel so inferior.
l now quit as abruptly as l quit
school.