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f J. A. MENZIES, Editor and Publisher. "Here the Press the People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence and Unbribed by Gain." For All That Is Right In The Republican Party Vol. XXXIX, No. 18. 40th Year. ' YALE, St. Clair County, Mich., THURSDAY, February 23. 1922 $2.00 Per Year in Advance c JuUmMlLlJ uullUUiiu WE RE-PUBLISH AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THIS IMPORTANT MATTER WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD READ (Article by V. S. Fogarty, Sup erintendent of Preble County Schools, Eaton, Ohio.) "One of the three counties in th'j United Slates having the best rural schools," is the high com pliment paid the schools of Preble County, Ohio, by a specialist irom the United States Bureau of Education. Six years ago the rural schools of this county were of that type found most frequent ly throughout the United States, bix years ago, as we went over this county and saw forlorn di ....ca one-room school build ings with ill-kept grounds, while just across the road were beauti lul houses with all modern con veniences and fine barns for the .siock, we knew that the rural people of this agricultural coun try needed to be "stirred up." I had been accused of "going over me county stirring up things," by a very angry farmer when we i went into his township to consol idate schools. The dismal one room "box-car" type of school Luiiuing, witn the old, unsightly stove in the center, with white washed walls discolored by smoke wnn cross-lights and window ventilation, with dreary grounds and unsanitary condition in gen eral, presented a sight which made me heart-sick for the boys tind girls who were so greatly robbed by such an enviro... Consolidation is the key-point of rural schoo' . improvement. Six years ago Preble County had 1)4 one-room schools. Since then we have displaced 71 of these with 12 modern consolidated schools. A large number of the remaining one-room schools are now in process of elimination by our County Board of Educa tion, which has been broad- minded and consistently progres sive in all its acts. Tiie Progressive Policy Won ttitter opposition was met from Hie selfish man without children, from the reactionaries who resist all change, from the cheap-school crowd who are satisfied with any school, and from those sentimen talists who were unwilling to give up the "little school house." The campaigns showed that the "lit tle school" with its little tax, lit tle children, little attendance and little interest had many little tupporters. However, nearly all the campaigns were successful, for a good majority of our farm ers recognize that the welfare of our youth is of supreme value, and that the farmer can and should have as good schools as the citizens of the city. More over, they knowthat it is best for their boys and girls to get their high school education at home and spend the night under the parental roof. In less than nine months, or from November 3, 1914, to July 17, 1915, consolidation projects affecting more than one-half the county were carried. Other pro jects have followed, until almost the entire county is consolidated. The buildings are well lighted, ventilated and heated. Each has an auditorium, a gymnasium, the usual class-rooms, good labora tories, a library and an office. Improvement of School Grounds Remembering the dreary one room school grounds, which were without flowers and shrubbery and often without trees and gras3, it was resolved that these new school grounds should be land scaped and made beautiful. Prof. R. B. Cruickshank, of Ohio State University, has come to Preble County several times and has landscaped the grounds of our new consolidated schools. He drew blue-prints showing what to plant and where to plant it, indicating walks, drives and spac es for base ball, volley ball, ten nis, etc. These drawings have been invaluable to boards and superintendents in developing beautiful school grounds. Lanier Township Centralized School has a most beautiful lawn ? ith sunken garden effect. The Board of Education bought $150 worth of trees and shrubbery. The harmony of color and varied shades seen at different seasons is a constant delight to the eye. The lawn is enclosed with a low ornamental hedge. Flowers are planted along the walks and a round the flagpole. These are not placed "just any place," but it is purposed as far as pos sible to plant the right flower in the right place. The grounds have been pronounced by compe tent state authority to be "the most beautiful rural school grounds in Ohio." There are now notable instan ces of Parent-Teacher associa tions helping in this work. In Jefferson Township there stands a large modern consolidated school building on a 10-acre plot, The grounds are bare except for the school house and a barn for vans. The Parent-teacher Asso ciation of the community saw the need of terracing, planting and plotting playgrounds. A campaign of education was carried out. In November, an extra mill tax was voted to improve the school grounds. This ill tax has provid ed a fund of about $3,000, and work to make these grounds a model of beauty will be started this spring. Another instance of good com munity improvement work is in Lanier township, where parents, Board and teachers spent a day in graveling a part of the school grounds for parking automobiles. Men with 40 teams hauled gravel and 30 others shoveled. The wo men used the home economics de partment for preparing dinner. There were 137 persons present, with a fine community spirit and a real pride in making their school grounds beautiful and at the same time serviceable. Good Returns on the Investment Though the population of this rural county is practically sta tionary, since 1914 the high school attendance has increased from 523 to 82G, or nearly 80 per cent. The bringing of secondary education to 303 more youths In Preble County alone has been worth all the cost of the new movement. After consolidation the high school enrollment in Lanier townhip doubled, in Jack son township it doubled, in Mon roe township it increased 137 per cent. At present more than 20 per cent of our total enrollment is in high school, a record unex celled by any other county in the state. To deprive bright. farmer boys and girls of a high school education in these times is to lim it their success and happiness for life. These schools are revolution izing our rural community life. In the auditoriums of these buildings meet Parent-Teacher Associations, Boys' and Girls' Clubs and other organizations of young people, Granges, Farm Bu reaus, and other various-named orouns. The auditoriums, gym nasiums, dining-room and kitchen of the home economics depart ment offer fine facilities for var ious entertainments, socials, inter-school literary and music con tests, inter-school athletic con tests, class plays, commencement exercises, lyceum courses, school exhibits, moving picture shows, and various other community meetings. In Monroe Township the attendance at community meetings in the consolidated school in the open country from Sept. 1st, 1919, to May 15, 1920, was 10.280. and $1,502 was re ceived from meetings chargii,? admission. During the same per iod Jefferson township school counted 8300 persons in attend ance. In the county for this per- inrl tVio attendance totaled 53.010. which'is about twice the popula tion of the entire county. During the war these buildings were in valuable in furnishing places for large gatherings of tho people (Continued cn pnge 4) MUSIC STUDY CLUB Will Hold a Musical Tea Members of the Yale Music Study club are looking forward to Tuesday, February 28th, when they are anticipating a genuine treat in the musical line. The meeting will open at 3:00 in the afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. F. Fead, and it is hoped that all members will be able to be present. If one has a guest in her home the guest will be wel come. The musical program for the afternoon will be in the hands of ,Miss Marjorie Drown, pianist, and Miss Florence Fish, soloist, both of Port Huron. The speaker is to be Mrs. Meeker, of Detroit, who is instructor of Music Ap preciation in the Detroit schools. Several of Yale members have met and heard Mrs. Meeker, and they speak of her as having a de lightful personality. Mrs. Young, chairman of the Program committee wishes to im press upon each one the absolute necessity of being on hand and seated at the time aabove men tioned. "YANKEE" IS GREAT COMEDY SPECTACLE The William Fox special pro duction of Mark Twain's "A Con necticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," which opens a three-day engagement next Wednesday eve ning at the New Princess, deser ves to rank with the best pictur- izations of famous literary clas sics which Mr. Fox has given . to the public. '': : ; . ;. U v ft PAULINE STAR, Ms A CONNECTICUT VAN K, EE VClLUAM POX 9-0DueTlC "A Connecticut Yankee" is a purely American classic. It has been translated faithfully to the screen, and all the rollicking hu mor of the book is heightened by the visual appeal. Mark Twain was not a humorist alone; in each of his books, even the funniest, he pleaded a cause. In "A Connecticut Yankee" he argues for the modern way of do ing things, and proves that we are lucky to be living today and not in the days of old when knights were bold. Martin Cavendish, the Yankee, young, shrewd, up-to-date, finds himself suddenly back in the Middle Ages, among King Ar thur's Knights of the Round Ta ble. His adventures there are made to play a part in Martin's own modern love romance. There is hardly a moment with out a laugh. Thanks to Emmett J. Flynn, the director, the set tings are superb notably the scene of the tournament, wherein Martin, dressed as a cowboy and armed with a revolver and lariat, routs all of King v Arthur's knights. Registration Notice Notice is hereby given that the Board of Registration of the City of Yale will be in session SATUR DAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 1922 be ginning at 9:00 o'clock in the forenoon and continuing until 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the Council Chamber, Jones street. All persons not now registered will have to register their names to entitle them to vote at the Pri mary Election to be held on Wed nesday, March 1st, 1922. Mary Beadle, City Clerk . .-, ... .. THUMB TALES TERSELY TOLD Items Taken From Newspapers of Neighboring Towns and Villages The Brown City Banner has a brand new head. It looks fine. Interest in the Music Memory Contest is beginning to lag in Croswell. The Grand Trunk shops in Port Huron are closed again, affecting nearly 500 men. The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company will open one of a chain of stores in Richmond. The Holmes Foundry at Romeo was damaged to the extent of $1,000 by fire last week. A new jack-knife drawbridge over Black river at Port Hdron will be built by the Pere Mar quette." An ungrateful horse bit off a part of James McCrimmen's nose at Bad Axe last week as the man was giving the horse a pail of wat er to drink. There are over 270 students in Bad Axe who cannot be accommo dated in the present public school building. A new and larger school is needed much. Arnold Greenwood, of Rose burg lost his barns by tire last week. All the horses were saved but fifty chickens were burned. Los3 covered by insurance. The three-weeks-old child of Mr. and Mrs. George Gorsline, of near Brown City, was found dead in bed one morning last week. It is supposed that it was smoth ered. Marlctte's younger class of bus iness men and farmers have or ganized, for the purpose of creat ing a better feeling of fellowship between farmers and town busi ness men. Port Huron Automobile Deal ers Association is putting on the first Automobile show for Port Huron. It will be held March 15 to 18 in the new Parfet building on Military street. John Leach, o Richmond, car ries a cane which he made him self and which contains over 4,000 pieces of wood of various kinds. He also constructed a w rk box for his wife out of 10, 000 different pieces. The Star Oil Company has pur chased two corner lots in Mem phis and will build a central sta tion, to supply several towns nearby. The buildings on the lots are wooden landmarks and will be removed by the owners. Fishermen who went to Lake ville this week visited the Salva tion Army camp there, and state that engineers are planning a bathing beach at the east landing. Teams are drawing hundreds of loads of gravel and piling it on the ice so that it will settle into the water when the ice melts. Anthony Scully, aged 40, an in mate of an insane asylum at var ious times, but recently living with his father, aged 80 years, and a sister in Port Huron, sud denly became violent last week and killed his father with a ham mer and knife, and seriously wounded his sister. He is now in a padded cell at the county jail. The new Imlay City Chamber of Commerce was instituted last Tuesday evening at the meeting held at the city hall and the fol lowing officers were elected to preside during the year: T. . F. Holden, president; Brice Kempf, secretary; Elmer Cleveland, treas urer. The new organization is the outgrowth of the Community club. While drawing logs Wednesday George Stanlake, 24 years old, Almont, met with an accident in which his leg was fractured and ankle bones crushed. Stanlake was working on the farm of Fred Stannard, and while ho was bunching the logs one of them caught on a, tree and his leg be came wedged between the log and tree. He was removed to the hos pital following the accident. A FINE PLAY HOUSE The Expositor is always ready and willing to say a good word for any creditable institution that tomes to town, or for any citizen who is progressive enough tj see the needs of our people, and is willing to spend money to give them the best there is in the line of business they are following. For the past few weeks Prin cess Theatre has been closed while undergoing extensive im provements and repairs, and with its completion Yale has one of the most up-to-date little movie picture houses in this part of the state. We have described these improvements in other issues of the Expositor, and are now pleas ed to state that the opening date has been finally decided upon, and the attraction for this occasion is one of the best yet put on in our city. Mark Twain's humorous story, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," will be screened three nights beginning Wednes day March 1st. This play has just recently been put on in Port Huron and some of our citizens saw it there. They all claim it is the best thing in the movie line they ever attended. Here's wishing the New Prin cess the greatest success, and in the language of old Rip, "Long may it live and prosper." FOR CITY TREASURER To my Friends and Voters of Yale: I have decided to become a can didate for City Treasurer at the Primary Eection to be held on Wednesday, March 1st. Should I be nominated and elected will give this office ray very best attention. As it will be impossibe to make a personal canvass, I solicit your support through this announce ment. Thanking the citizens for past favors, I am, Yours respectfully, George Mclrtyre Primary Election Notice Notice is hereby given to the Electors of the City of Yale State of Michigan, that a Primary Elec tion will be held on Wednesday, March 1st, 1922 in the City of Yale, at the Coun cil Chamber, Jones street, for the purpose of placing in nomination One Mayor; one Clerk; one Treas urer; one Supervisor; one Justice of the Peace; Aldermen and Con tables in each ward. Polls will be open at 7:30 A. M., and will remain open until 5:00 o'clock P. M., Stan4ard Time on said day of election. Mary Beadle, City Clerk Grand Dancing Party A grand dancing party will be giyen in the Auditorium, Yale, Tuesday evening, Feb. 28th. Ev erybody invited. A good time as sured you. Music by Zimmer man's . G-piece orchestra. Come and dance to some of the best in the state. Bill, $1.50, war tax included. S. E. BARR, Manager Found Driving mitt. Owner may have same by calling on John Henry. D Deaf, Dumb PATRIOTIC GIVEN IN SACRED HEART CHURCH DINING ROOM FEBRUARY 22nd WAS AN UNUSUAL SUCCESS Those who were not on hand at seven sharp or before, found themselves fated to wait for sec ond tables, the crowd was so great on the occasion of the ban quet served by the Catholic peo ple on Wednesday evening. We do not know the exact num ber present, but give it at three hundred anyway. The menu was a splendidly substantial and appetizing one, starting" with an oyster cocktail, followed by fried chicken and all accessories, and tipped off with brick ice cream, all to the music of the Yale Orchestra and in a room gaily festooned with the National colors of red, white and blue, with the picture of the Father of Our Country, George Washington, looking out from above the platform draped with bunting and palms and ferns in the windows and on the tables, which were also brightened with candles and carnations. Make All "A" Grades Two St. Clair county boys, Maxwell Fead of Yale, and Har old Scott, of Marine City, receiv ed all "A" grades at the Univer sity of the Michigan for the last semester, according to the list is sued by tho deans of the colleges yesterday. Both Fead and Scott are "lit" students. The literary college awarded all "A" to 31 stu dents and 24 made this grade in the engineering college. Port Huron Times-Herald, Feb. 21. Max was a graduate from Yale high school last June and enter ed the U. of M. in the fall . V, are proud to note his success. The honor which comes from the getting of "A's" does not all belong to Max. It's distributed in the family. His sister, Paul ine, whose second year this is at the U. of M., received three "A's" and two "B's" the first semester, which is the highest standing in the Sorority. An Old Miller's Advice "My son, don't bo a lazy mutt, Give ear to this advice: The Lord will freeze the water, But you must cut the ice. "Now son, you'd better think a bit If you would like to eat; The Lord gives rain and sunshine, But you have to sow the wheat. 'A. "And son, if up life's stream you'd go, Don't think that you can float; The Lord will send the breezes, ' But you've got to steer the boat. "So, son, don't be a lazy mutt, If you'd learn my miller's art; The Lord's a good provider, but You have to do your part." N. W. Christian Advocate Laugh while you learn. Learn while you laugh. Princess Thea tre Mar. 1, 2 and 3. attA DHtid BAN n m H ii 1 The company then felt happily satisiied and ready for the after program which followed. The toastmaster, Father Hac xctt was introduced by Mayor Jacobs, and he proved a "jewel." His introductions and brief speeches were witty and to the point, and his statements as to our soldier boys bearing the brunt of everything is a fact not to be lightly passed over. Father Dunnigan, of l-j.;'.;. loved of all his people, who has just recently been honored by be ing appointed a member of the Board of Visitors of the United' States Naval Academy, gave a masterful talk along the lines cf "Sportsmanship." We regret our limited time forbids us giving even a brief resume of his speech, or the one following by Father McQueen, both claiming the clos est interest and attention. The evening was finished by all rising to sing "Star Spangled Banner." SYNOPSIS Below we publish a snyopsis of the play "A Dream of Queen Es ther," which will be given at tho Auditorium tomorrow ( Friday) evening, under auspices of Yale Chapter O. E. S.: Act I The house top of Mor decai in the city of Shushan in Persia. Mordecai laments the fall of Jeruselam. A message from the King. Esther command ed to enter the contest for Queen of the realm. Mordecai ponders on the message. The little Jew ish children sing and make merry on the housetop. Mordecai con ducts their evening devotions. Esther appears and Mordecai de livers the King's message. Es ther tells her nurse Meesha of her adventure outside the city gates. Esther dreams and eight heroines of Jewish history ap pear before her, Witch 'of Endor, Rebecca, Deborah, Miriam, Ada, Ruth, Martha and Electa. Scarf tableaux. Act II In the palace of the King. The King is weary of the maidens who have appeared be fore him and tells Hegai of the beautiful maid he rescued with out the city gates .Kazma sings the Rose Song with drill by eight Rose Maidens. Several maidens air their charms to. the delight of Koosh, a funny little Ethiopian slave , girl. Each is rejected by the King. Esther is chosen Queen. Act III Nine years later. Tho Queen is sad at the neglect of the King. Mordecai appears and tells the Queen that all the Jews are to be slain at the order of the King. He tells her to intercede for her people. Meesha explains that to do this without the King's invitation would be almost cer tain death. Esther accepts the sacrifice. "If I perish, I perish 1" Esther appears before the King, who receives her, "The fairest among millions, altogether love ly." The King promises to save her people and the Feast of Pur im is established. MAYOR ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY To the Voters of the City of Yale. I am a candidate for nomination and clccticn to the office of Mayor and solicit your aid and support in getting it. During tho past year I have given my tine and tried to do my best in administering the affaiis of the city and trust my efforts have been appreciated. I ask all my friends and supporters to get out and vote at the com ing "primary, Wednesday, March 1st. I will be perfectly satisfied with the result if all the citizens cast their vote on primary elec tion day. Sincerely yours, Charles W. Jacobs Get your ice cream at the Res taurant. 50c per quart.