been doing business at the old stand since September 1, "and feels as well as ever." He will be in the institute field again in 1907 and ready to take up the work he had to resign the past summer. The high school has reached an enrollment of 450 and he and Principal Smith are gratified. Five new teachers, R. W. Beckard, Edgar H. White, A. W. Whetstone, Helen Guise, and Glenn McClelland have been added to the high school corps, which now numbers twelve-five men and seven women. Chillicothe has two new teachers in the high school, W. A. Baldwin and A. D. Engert, both graduates of Delaware. All the seventyfive teachers are doing the work of the Reading Circle this year and life is "one glad sweet song" in that bailiwick. - D. C. Heath & Co., Chicago, have published "The Elements of Physics," by S. E. Coleman of the Oakland, Cal., high school, which impresses one most favorably. Throughout the book Energy is the central thought, and prominence is given throughout to the philosophy of common things. - Supt. J. H. Cory, of Lafayette, has purchased an outfit of Physical apparatus, has organized a literary society, has begun systematic work in Reading Circle with the teachers of the township, doing hard work in the high school, and watching the progress of their new building every day, hoping it may be ready for 1907. -C. A. Hodges, a graduate of Oberlin, is in charge of the Fort School, Marietta, taking the work of Prin. J. M. Starling, who goes to Colorado for a year in the interests of his wife's health. REST. If all the skies were sunshine, Our faces would be fain The cooling plash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long Our soul would seek relief -Henry VanDyke. -Prin. E. L. Rickert, of the Brier Hill school, Youngstown, is greatly pleased with his year's experience with the school savings bank. The bank opened Dec. 21, 1905, and on Oct. 1, 1906, the total deposits had reached $533.03 and the number of depostors 210. The system has now been extended to all the schools in the city. Supt. L. B. Demorest, of Marysville, began the year with an unusually large attendance. There were 141 in the high school at the opening and 36 of these in the senior class. Supt. A. H. Vernon, of Shawnee, rejoices in the fact that the high school has been raised to first. grade. School matters are in most excellent shape and the people are in hearty accord with the teachers. Miss Kate Stoyle is principal of the high school and Miss Ora C. Lively assistant. -Miss Anna Gates, of Newport, Ky., has accepted a position as sixth grade teacher in the Putnam school, Marietta. -Not a little added interest attaches to the meeting of the Eastern which is twenty-five more than at the same time last year. The local press speaks in the highest terms of Mr. Eldridge's first year as superintendent and he begins his second year with the confidence of teachers and the people of that thriving city. The new teachers in the Lorain High school are Miss Elizabeth N. Beebe, a graduate of Wooster University and last year principal of the Prospect Street school, Oberlin Miss Delia Richards, a graduate of Hiram College, and for the past three years a teacher in the Barberton high school; Miss Cora Welday, also of Wooster University, and for the past two years a teacher in the Cadiz high school; and J. O. Welday, who was last year principal of the Garden Ave building. In addition to his high school work Mr. Welday will have the principalship of the Thirteenth Ave school, where a first year high school room is maintained to relieve the crowded condition at the Central building. This was a promotion well deserved. - Lorain County Institute was held in Elyria the last week in August. The attendance reached four hundred. It was beyond doubt the most successful institute in the history of the county. The instructors were Dr. R. G. Boone, of Yonkers, N. Y.; Prin. J. E. McGilvrey, of Cleveland; Prin. F. E. Ostrander, of Warren; and Miss Anna E. Logan, of Oxford. |