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five years no was superintendent 01 tne Union Schools of Marion, Ohio, from whence he came to Wooster. Ilis success here is flattering to his abilities as a scholar of first order, a gentlemen ofculture and high moral character, a man of straight common sense, one who minds his own business and gives futt attention to it, and withjU a prudent disciphnari in, with rare executive ability. He receives the cordial respect of pupils and the personal esteem of teachers and citizens. His services, it is a pleasure to add, have been securedfor the coming year.TilK COKI’S OF TFU'IIFkSpaiuuui^m. ui mis, anu an me siugmg,was very skillfully performed by Miss Ella Xold.Is very efficient, young ladies of educational attainments and social refinement, whose abilities for the positions they occupy are questioned by none. They number twenty-four in all, as follows, several of whom, aside from their scholarly attainments, are among tho handsomest and most accomplished young ladies in Wooster society circles:Jennie A. Iloyil, Mary E. Parsons, Laura A. Semple, Sue Given Ella M Stratton, Ada (ilven,Maria E Abbott,Carrie \ Kramer. Flora Mlllrsr,Mila Barrett,Elia J. Milligan, Nettie M. Ga.sche,Etta J. Jackson,Mary E. Gordon, Emma EL Welrich, Amelia Kemmerline, Ella J. Eekenroth, Frankie Clark,Mmuie E. Harrison, LorettaS. McMonigal,Emijia Flattery,Eunice Clark,Kate L Barnes,-Ella D. ShivelyTHE n\ LA KIESOf these teachers run from S300 to $050 per annum, the aggregate sum paid tho current year, including the Superintendent, being $11,128 00. TheOT1IEK EXPENSES OF THE S( HOOLS,Such as pay of janitor, repairs to buildings, insurance, fuel, etc , were $3,607, the fuel alone costing $1,000TI!F \t Mt’.KU OF 1*1 PIIJSDuring the year just closed was twelve hundred and fifty, with an averaged uly attendance of over eleven hundred , and it is worthy of note, that the interest w is kept up during nil the month**, no falling off in attendance, the schools hi ing as full in June as in April Tins speaks well for the management of the schools, for the teachers,the parents, and for the pupils tlicra-sehes. Hereafter they will be still more eagt r to attend regularly, as m the coming tern there will he a new and plmsing branch of study introduced, that ofrtNMANMIir A NI DRAW IN*..T night by a skillful teacher employed especially to give instruction in those valuable arts These, with tho music lessons by Prof (Dover, will give a higher culture to the pupils, be a happy change and recreation when tired out withdr) study, enabling all to turn to their books again with renewed vigor, and the training b« of much practicalThe first on the programme was an oration-—“Man in Nature'1—by Mr. Fred J. Bixler It was a well written piece, and he spoke it well. Man, ho claimed, is Nature's pride, and to him she bows as monarch of all he surveys— the highest order of creation,' with capacity for knowledge and a perception of good and evil. Man's greatest aspiration should be to free his soul from earthly dross, and make it fit forHim who made him so wondcriuL — Next appeared Miss Mary A. Clem-niens, with an essay entitled, *‘AmericanAristocracy. The young lady was dressed in grey silk, very becoming. At the beginning she was slightly embarrassed and pitched her voice too high, but soon came down to self-possession and good reading. Her essay was first-rate, a sensible and practical production, opposed to the sham aristocracy of mere wealth and that fickle goddess, Fashion, to whom each knee is bent and each eye is turned *—The subject of Miss KUa J. Collier's essay was “Sign*Boards and Guide-Posts. A brown silk dress added to her graceful and sedate appearance.Her essay was a superior one, presenting some excellent thoughts in choicest sentences. She is a fine reader, clear and deliberate.—“Time! The Corrector when ourJudgments Err, was the next essay, by Miss Amanda Eekenroth. She isan excellent reader, and looked well in a bandsomo dress of white tarlatan. Her essay was very good. People’s judgments, she said, are like the time of their watches—none exactly alike, but all believe their own to be the nearest correct. We are all liable to make mistakes in judgment, but he th it judges least is he that judges best.—Chorus—“Come, Faries, Trip it— by the School. Good —Following this Miss Carrie BFisht r read an essay—“Tin* MarbleWaiteth. Although we may never carve a statute, yet we are all sculptors, m days and years rounding off the rough points of our character, chipping off a fault lien* and there, modeling after the great Author of all Good. Tho great Seulptor has given us a niche to till in the Temple of Time. Therefore, carefully carve the image of life that when the time comes it will completely fill its niche. It was a good essay. She read it well, and looked extremely well in a handsome dress of white charabric.—The next appearance was Miss Ida Fisher, with an essay entitled “Pandora's Box *' Both her matter and manner wen* excellent Her personal appearance was also fine, her dress white tarlatan She is a most splendid rnnAnr hor vnieo rpmarkablv sweet and
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The Wayne County Democrat
Wooster, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 27, 1877
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