Apple Orchard Propels Two Daughters Toward College
In a rural scene, father offers the worn orchard to fund Mabel and Gladys college dreams. The sisters learn pruning from neighbor Jeff Pearson and race to aid their father, with Gladys delivering help to a doctor during a dangerous night ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Mr. Sanders
Mabel
Gladys
Agricultural College
Pearson's
Mollie
Lou Dillon
Mr. Pearson
Jeff
Night Ride to Brighton Mercy Ends in Snowfall Crash
Gladys and Mollie race through a snowy night to reach Brighton for a doctor six miles away. Mollie powers on with steady strides as the starry road glints under the north sky, until a rock causes a sudden crash and Gladys tumbles into the snow roadside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollie
Gladys
Good Doctors
Kkensett
Greys
Mr. Grey
Mabel
Mommie
Brighton
Gladys Proudly Saves Father in Lone Night Ride
Gladys undertakes a perilous night ride to fetch a doctor for her injured father, while Mrs. Sanders and Mariel wait anxiously. The doctor praises Gladys as brave, and the family reconciles as father recovers, with Harold Du Val arriving and stirring questions about his future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys
Mabel
Harold du Val
Harold
Mr. Gray
Mollie
Rural Grange Leaders Urge Cross-Group Cooperation Across Counties
Ypsilanti Michigan Grange under Lecturer Ennis R Twist has made quarterly open programs inviting outside experts and other organizations to discuss topics from dairying and roads to temperance and schools. A November meeting with Wash Tenaw County teachers drew gleaner arbors and farmers clubs for shared aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ypsilanti Grange of
Michigan
Ennis R. Twist
Grange
Washtenaw County Schoolteachers’ Association
Gleaner Arbors
Farmers’ Clubs
State Board of Health
Graham
Pomona Orange
L. E. Buell
French
The
Agricultural College
Jennie Buell
State Grange
Ideal Rural Schools in Amherst Essay by Prof Hart
Massachusetts professor Hart outlines an eight ten point plan for ideal rural schools. He advocates multiroom buildings a ten acre school lot year round term permanent teachers with homes and strong home school collaboration to create a community oriented center of practical knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Amherst
Mass
Hart
New Jersey Grange Seeks Tax Reform and Parcel Post
At the state Grange session farmers condemned county tax boards and planned to memorialize the legislature. They criticized boards of health for excess powers over farm products and milk inspection red tape. Bank stock should be taxed at full value. parcels post supported. Pennsylvania Grange to meet in Butler next December. Since last meeting sixteen new subordinate granges organized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Boards of Health
Grange
Pennsylvania
Butler
Religious Thought Reflections on Faith and Life
A collection of sermons and reflections by pastors from various denominations. The passages discuss new heart and life, music as divine speech, personality and knowledge, humility as social virtue, progress in Christian living, faith as God’s work yet man’s deed, and prayer as a channel to the divine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles D. Trexler
Lutheran Brooklyn
St. Clair Hester
Episcopalian
Brooklyn
George B. Foster
Unitarian
Chicago
Lewis T. Reed
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clifford V
Gregory
Chapter
Jet
Mrs. Sanders
the Grange
J. W. Darrow
Chatham, N. Y
New York State
Ypsilanti
Ideal Rural Schools
New Jersey Grange
J. E. McConnell
Congregationalist
Providence
R. I
G. A. Jamieson
Presbyterian
Tottenville, N. Y
W. A. Cameron
Baptist
London
Canada
Rev. W. Walsh
New York
Christ
God
F. B. Short
Methodist
Salt Lake City
Charles Bayard Mitchell
Methodist Episcopal
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