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OCTOBER, 1900.

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Umportance of ibigber Education to tbe JHormal
School (Brabuate.
H E importance of higher education, is, it is feared, too
frequently disregarded by the graduates of our State Nor­
mals. They have grown to look upon their graduation
in the Elementary course as the summum rerum, their emancipation
from the grind of necessary study, and upon graduation they settle
down into habits of mental idleness forgetting that he who does
not forge ahead falls behind, for education and educational methods
are ever advancing. He who thus looks upon graduation makes
a mistake fatal to his career as a teacher— signs his own pro­
fessional death warrant.
In the year 1899 there were graduated from the thirteen Nor­
mal Schools of the State, 1450 Students. A computation based
upon the class preceding them shows that an average of 86^ per
cent, of the students graduated teach the year following gradu­
ation. The percentage varies from far up in the nineties at
Slippery Rock and Bloomsburg, to low in the seventies at Stroudsburg, Clarion, and Millersville, but averages as has been stated.
This means that in the fall of 1899, 1250 new teachers came into
the ranks of Pennsylvania s teaching force— 1250 men and women
came into positions that had been filled the year before by other
teachers. Now, what became of the 1250 whose places the 1899
graduates took ? You may say, some new schools were opened,
some teachers left the profession to take advanced courses of
study, some of the lady teachers probably left the school-room
for the domestic sphere, yet one must admit that this will not
nearly make up the number, and we are stared in the face by the
alarming fact that from 800 to 1000 teachers in the fall of the

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year 1899 were crowded out of the profession. And this, it must be
remembered, occurs year after year. As each new class comes on,
room must be made, some must go to the wall. A thousand a
year, a thousand a year, is the remorseless fact— crowded out by
the fresh, enthusiastic material.
This is a fact that is of vital importance to the Alumni of the
Shippensburg State Normal School, and well deserves their serious
thought. You who read this may scoff at the idea of being forced
from the profession. You may think you will never belong to
the unfortunate class, but as the years pass, and your professional
ardor grows dull, you may suddenly wake up to find yourself
with the undesired thousand. But there is one way by which you
can keep yourself in the profession and constantly sure of a posi­
tion, and it is to the consideration of that one way, that your at­
tention is now directed. In a word, it is higher education. A l­
most the entire number of graduates who teach, find employment
their first year after graduation in the ungraded country schools.
So the crowding bears more directly upon that class of teachers
not fitted for graded work. I f the alumnus reading this is feel­
ing this pressure, is noticing its growth year by year, let him
recognize the fact that he must either fit himself for a higher grade
of work or leave the profession, “ But®’ he will say, “ is not the
competition in graded work just as sharp as that in the ungraded?
Is it not even sharper? ’ ’ Yes, it must be admitted, it is. But
here is something for his consideration. Suppose there are 100
positions in ungraded work open to his effort at present. Sup­
pose that he goes off to school and fits himself for higher work,
thereby opening up 100 positions in graded schools for which he
may have some chance. How has he influenced his condition ?
One sees at once that he has the same or a better chance for the
original ungraded positions, and in addition to that, an equal
chance in the graded work. He has improved his chances 100
per cent. Suppose he goes on and fits himself for principalship
or high-school work and so opens up a new set of positions. He
has increased another 100 per cent. Should an unfortunate com­
bination of circumstances come upon him,— adverse political in­
fluence or personal spite— making him lose the hold on the ad­
vanced grade of work which he has achieved, he has always the
lower grades to fall back on. This, in a measure, does away with
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let him stand still in the position he finds at graduation and sooner
or later, he joins the thousand and must step to one side while
the procession files past.
We must be up-to-date in our methods, full of enthusiasm
and professional zeal, and if a teacher finds himself growing
lukewarm, losing his vim and drive, let him Recognize it as a sure
sign that he must do something or join the unfortunate thousand.
The question naturally arises, granting that the Normal
School graduate must go on into higher branches of study in order
to preserve his professional life, where will he be able to find the
training best suited to his needs. The reply is obvious— right in
his own alma mater. I f you examine the catalogue of any Nor­
mal School you will find four courses offered to students. The
first-Sthe one usually taken— is the Elementary. One year in
addition to the elementary work gives the Regular Normal Course ;
another extra year, the Scientific Course, while a third additional
year gives the Advanced Normal Course.
Now why should
the founders of the system and those who arranged the
courses for the Normal Schools, have called the second course
the Regular Normal Course if they did not mean it to be the
real course of the system ? Yet very few students of the
Normal Schools return for this work. A careful examination
of the studies embraced in these courses will reveal the fact that
they furnish the very best preparation for graded and high school
work. Purely academic schools lack the pedagogical element
which enters so largely into all our Normal training. This, with
the critic work in the Model School, would make the Normal
course preferable to a course taking up the same academic studies
in any other kind of school. The statement may be urged that
these advanced courses do not receive the same attention from the
Faculty as the Elementary Course. This is not true but if it
were, I would say, create the same demand in the advanced work
that there is in the elementary and just as effective instruction
will be provided. It lies entirely in the hands of the students.
We trust every Shippensburg graduate will see the necessity
for training higher than that given in the Elementary Course and
will early recognize the fact that the only way to succeed in the
profession is by continuous advancement.
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H TErue ifnctoent.
H E was a garrulous old lady, and'I could not help pitying
the young man who evidently was a trifle bored by her con­
tinuous chatter. The car was crowded. He was not her
son, only a civil young stranger, who seeing the old lady enter
the car with her shawl-strap in one hand and a blue-glass bottle
full of old fashioned red geraniums and verbenas in the other,
had offered her half of his seat. She settled herself in it com­
placently and looked around for something whereby to start a
conversation. The flowers were her excuse. “ I guess I ’ll get
some water for these posies.’
“ I ’ll get you the water.’’
“ Oh, no, don’t bother, I can get it myself. Well, then, thank
you kindly, but you shouldn’t have bothered. You see, I says
to Sarah Jane— she’s my daughter, you know, that married George
Smith. Oh, let me see, yes— five years ago this cornin’ October.
They moved to Harrisburg last April and this is the first time
I ’ve seed her sense then— Well, I says to Sara Jane, ‘Sara, I
guess I ’ll take some of those verbenyas ’long with me. They’s
so purty and you know how little Em ’ly— -that’s my little grand­
daughter at home— how she’ll be all tickled to pieces over them.’
So nothin’ would suit Sara Jane but up she gits and fixes me a
big bookay of posies. And they ain’t a withern’ much, after all,
(holding them up for his inspection). I t’s awful hot to-day. How
soon does the train start ? ”
We had been standing in the large station at Harrisburg wait­
ing for the last of our baggage to be put on. The din and clatter
of coming and going trains, the rattle of the trucks as they were
hurried here and there with their towering loads of trunks and
valises, made a confusion which I thought would be very be­
wildering to an old lady not used to travel. But she smiled com­
placently on the busy scene, evidently not worried in the least.
“ What? five minutes yit ? why I thought it left at 11.20.’ ’
“ No, madam, at 11.30.“
“ O, well mebby I misunderstook.”
She readjusted her bundle and the flowers, and the man, by
way of something to say, remarked, “ Don’t you find some diffi­
culty in traveling alone ? ’ ’
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ductors and brakesmen are so careful to see that I gits along all
right. .Why, just as I was a gittin’ on my train nothin’ would do
but one of ’em must ask me where I ’m goin’ and see that this’s
the right train. But Law me ! they needn’t be so keerful with
me. I can git along all right myself. Why, I never got on a
wrong train in my life. Oh, of course, I haint traveled much
but I wouldn’t be affeered to go to San Francisci by myself. It
comes sort ’o nateeral with me— Now would you look at that ?
I thought sure we’d start afore that train, but thar it goes out
ahead of Us— Ah, now we’re movin’®’
She busied herself with the flowers once more and did not
speak until we were through the streets and out on the bridge ;
then she started again.
“ Sara Jane was afeered I ’d take the wrong train and felt real
bad cause she couldn’t come through the gates to see me off, but
Law me! I waren’t a bit sceered I ’m a real good hand at travelin’ .
Now, there’s Amanda Shorb at home. She’ll never go.anywhere
by herself. She’s that afeered to go alone that she just won’t go
anywhere by herself, ’thout her old man’s along. W hy one day
last summer, our Sunday School was a havin’ a pica-nick and we
went over to Pine Grove and she was that worked u p ! you’d
have just thought the nice velvet cushion was clean full of pins
an’ needles by the way she was a-yammerin’ aroun’ . But Law
me ! I just laughed at her and said,''Says I, ‘W hat’s the matter,
Amanda ! Do you feel sick ?“’■ and she just sort ’o looked black
at me and never said a word. Oh ! here comes the conductor, I
must get out my ticket.”
She fished it out of her hand bag which was hanging by a rib­
bon around her wrist and handed it to.him hastily. He looked
at it and then said:
“ Why madam, you’re on the wrong train. Y o u ’ll have to
get off at the next station, Bridgeport, and go back to Harris­
burg. You should have taken the train on the other side of us. ”
“ Why, I don’t see how that is. That brakesman told me
that this was all right.”
“ Well, you see, you are going to Cumberland, Maryland, and
this is the Cumberland Valley train.”
“ Well, that’s what he said. A n ’ do you think I don’t know
that to go to Cumberland you’d take the train for the Cumberland
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“ Here we are. I ’m sorry, Madam, but you’ll have to get off
here and take the next train back. Let me help you with that
bundle.’ ’
The poor old lady in a bewildered way gave him the shawlstrap and grasping her bottle of flowers followed him put of the
car and down the steps.
“ Here George, put this lady on No. 8 and send her back to
Harrisburg. She!s going to Cumberland, Md. A ll aboard,’ ’
and we moved off.
And I wondered what Amanda would think if she could stand
with me on the rear platform of the car and could see as I did the
talkative old lady, standing where the conductor had left her, her
shawl-strap at her feet and her blue-glass bottle full of ‘ ‘verbs ny as
and geraniums ’ ’ grasped tightly in her hand. I suppose she would
say, “ Law me ! ’ ’ '

Jes' 2UTHras’ lin.
There’s a scratch and scrape of gravel,
Puffing, grunting, such a noise
That I hasten to my window,
Look, and find it is rfly boys.
“ Onct an’ onct, now fer th’ rubber!
•^‘What’s a-doing, boys ? ” I call.
Grunt and gasp and then a duel,
:“ J,es’ a-wraslin’ , pap, that’s all.”
“ Jes’ a-wraslin’ f l S ’tis life’s summing,
Life’s epitome of trial,
And when asked for our accounting
In the fateful afterwhile,
We must even then acknowledge
We’re but struggling boys grown tall
And must answer to the Master,
“ Jes’ a-wraslin’ , that is all.’S.'.-ji

—LippincotP's.

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EDITORS.
G e o r g e H . E c k e l s , ’ 91
M . E . D r u m , ’96:
A d a V. H o r t o n , ’88, Personal Editor.
C h a s . E . B a r t o n , ’91, Business Manager.

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OCTOBER, 1900.

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Editorial.
IT H this number the H erald enters upon its fifth year.

Prof. Lehman will be missed this year from the Board
of Editors, but otherwise the paper will be under the
same management, and it is hoped that it will continue to ful­
fill its purpose, that of keeping the Alumni and other friends of
Shippensburg in touch with the school.
A special effort has been made to get information concerning
the doings of our graduates for this issue of the H erald . We
have heard from nearly all of the members of 1900 and would
like to complete our account of them in the January number.
Any information or corrections will be gladly received and used.
The school has done well this year in increasing its attendance
of boarding students, When, as is well known, most of the Nor­
mal Schools have experienced great trouble in equaling their last
year’s record. The prospects for the remaining two terms are
also bright. W ill not the members of the Alumni take an in­
terest in looking up prospective students ? Always send in the
names of any persons who are contemplating a Normal course,
so that proper efforts may be made to secure them for Shippens­
burg. We know of instances in which students have gone to
other schools when they could have been secured for Shippens­
burg, if our graduates in the neighborhood had informed our
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school. This should not be while the school’s reputation is as
high as it is at present. Remember that your Alma Mater s
prosperity is your prosperity.

©bituar^.
$. Mill ftabel, ’98. DieO September 29,1900.
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K adel passed away on the day mentioned above at the
home of his parents in Chambersburg. He had not been
in good health for some time, and for the last seven weeks
of his illness was confined to bed. He had been re-elected to his
position as a teacher in the schools of Chambersburg but was
unable to begin the term. Before his death Mr. Kadel made all
the plans for his funeral, even to the .minutest details. His age
was 31.
A t Normal Mr. Kadel was a bright student and a man of fine
Christian character. He was prominent in all affairs of the school
and was president of the Y . M. C. A . in his Senior year. His
early death will be deeply regretted by all the Shippensburg
students and teachers who knew him.
H e is survived by his parents, four sisters, and three brothers.
To these the H e r a l d , on behalf of the school and its Alumni,
extends the sincerest sympathy.

Blumni personals.
ISS M A R G AR ET DEARDORFF, ’95, is teaching the
Primary School at Goldsboro, Pa.
Mr. J. Walter Singmaster, ’99, is a student at Gettysburg
College. He is taking the Scientific Course.
Miss Bertha Herring, ’91, has been elected instructor in
Declamation in the Harrisburg High School at a salary of $75
per month.
Miss Nan Martin, ’91, enjoyed a trip to Paris and other foreign
points during the summer. She has resigned her position as
teacher in Southampton Township, Cumberland county. Miss
Alice Hays, ’98, succeeds her.

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Miss Mary E- Wolf, ’99, is teacher of the Secondary School
at 19th and Derry streets, Harrisburg.
Mr. John Parrett, ’98, is now a passenger brakeman on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad.
Mr. A . P. Watson, ’99, has entered Bucknell University. We
understand that Mr. Watson is a candidate for the foot-ball team.
Mr. J. H. McLaughlin, ’00, expects to attend the Kastman
Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y ., at the close of his term
of teaching.
A very good picture of Mr. Chas. W. Hykes, ’88, appeared in
one of the issues of the Philadelphia Record during the summer
Mr. Hykes is Superintendent of Native Bible Work in China, in
the employ of the American Bible Society, with headquarters at
Shanghai.
Miss Jean McCreary, ’99,. is taking a course at the Teachers’
College of the City of New York.
Miss Alice Fenstermacher;>’96, has resigned her position in
the Pennsylvania Telephone Exchange at Shippensburg and is
teaching at Essington, Delaware county.
Mr, W . H. Klepper, ’94, has been, elected Professor of English
in the schools of Curwensville, Clearfield county.
Mr. Geo. W. Gulden, ’96,' is Superintendent of Schools at
Cochranton, Crawford county.
Miss Mary E. Arnold,W93, had a trip abroad during the sum­
mer.
Miss Bessie Kerch, ’99, has charge of the Peck school, Lon­
donderry township, Dauphin county.
Grant W. Smeltzer, ’92, Mr. John H. Handshaw, ’93, and
Mr. J. O. Brown, ’97, teach in the schools of Enhaut, Dauphin
county.
Mr. H. E. Freed, ’97, has moved from Arendtsville, Adams
county, to NefFsville, Lancaster county, where he will teach.
Mr. W . W. Eisenhart, ’97, is teaching at Terre Hill, Lancas­
ter county.
Miss Ada Rexroth, .’92, is one of the teachers of Churchville,
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Mr. C. E. Plasterer, ’93, resigned His position as teacher of
the SHippensburg Township school, to accept a place in the
schools of DuBois, Pa. Mr. James Means, ’98, succeeds Mr.
Plasterer in the Township.
Mr. W . G. Weigle, ’90, has been elected Ward Principal at
Steelton. He has charge oi eight schools.
Mr. G. M. Wertz, ’91, paid a visit to the school at the open­
ing of the term. Mr. Wertz has left the profession of teaching,
and is engaged in farming near New Kingston, Cumberland
county.
Capt. Geo. A . Zinn.^77, is in command of Company E, Bat­
talion of Engineers, now in China.
Prof. A . J. Beitzel, ’77, has resigned the Principalship of the
schools of Mechanicsburg, to accept a position with the Lippincott Publishing Co., Philadelphia.
Mr. Lloyd Burkholder, ’98, has completed his course of study
with Fleming & Fleming, druggists of Shippensburg, and is at­
tending the School of Pharmacy at Philadelphia.
Prof. C. J. Walter, ’87, formerly Principal of schools at New­
town, Pa., has been elected Principal of the 35th ward schools of
Philadelphia.
Miss May Donnelly, ’00, paid a visit during the summer to
her brother, Mr. A . C. Donnelly, ’93. now located at Kokomo,
Indiana.
Miss Maggie Reichert, ’76, has been appointed teacher of the
Grammar school at North Wales, Pa.
Mr. Lenus A . Carl, ’99,. is in charge of the Grammar school
at Lebo, Perry county.
Mr. G. Preston Eckels, ’90, is Principal of schools at Ashburne, Pa. He had for several years held a similar position at
Glenolden.
Mr. J. E. Klepper, ’99, is teaching the Anderson school in
Silver Spring township, Cumberland county.
Mr. D. M. Niple, ’00, along with his teaching is also editing
a newspaper, The Juniata Star, of Mifflintown, Pa. A co-editor
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Mr. J. O. Senseman, ’99, teaches the Grammar school at
Shiremanstown, Cumberland county.
Miss Hattie Wolfe, ’97, and Miss Ella Foglesanger, ’96, are
teaching near Newburg, in Cumberland county.
Mr. J. O. Johnson, ’00, is just recovering from a severe attack
of typhoid fever, but expects to take charge of his school at Red
Lion, Pa., early in October.
Mr. H. W. Fitting, ’98, has been re-elected Principal at
Elizabethville, Pa., and the term has been lengthened from seven
months to nine. A year has also been added to the course, and
several new branches are to be taught.
Mr. W. N. Decker, ’95, leaves Macungie to become Principal
at Coplay, Pa., at a salary of $65 per month, with a term of nine
months. Mr. Geo. Bollinger, ’95, succeeds Mr. Decker at Ma­
cungie.
•The issue of the Philadelphia Press of August 19th contained
an illustrated article concerning the marvelous feats of Mr. A. B.
Myers, ’86, of Hanover, Pa., who has only stumps of arms and
yet can write, run a stationary engine, shoot a rifle, ride horses,
box, and harvest crops as well as men who have the usual equip­
ment in the way of hands. Mr. Myers’ history is an interesting
one. His hands were lost in an explosion in a stone quarry
when he was eighteen years of age. Notwithstanding this im­
pediment he secured a position as engineer in an iron mine near
his home, and earned enough money to pay his way through the
Normal. Since that time he has taught each year in the schools
of York and Lancaster counties.
Three of the five teachers in the public schools of Ridley Park,
Pa., are graduates of our school. Miss Emma Stamy, ’90, has
charge of the third and fourth grades, Miss Rachel Scott, ’93, of
the fifth and sixth grades, Miss Jessie Hann, ’92, of the Gram­
mar school, which comprises the seventh and eighth year’s work.
Miss Rosa Scott, ’94, has been teaching for the School Board
of Bensalem, Pa., every term since her graduation.
Mr. S. S. Rupp, ’81, is one of the Republican candidates for

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the legislature in Cumberland county. Mr. Robert L. Myers,
’85, as noted in the July H e r a l d * is a candidate for the same
office on the Democratic ticket, having already served one term.
Miss Lucy S. Bowers, ’91, has the Principalship of one of the
school buildings in Great Falls, Montana. She has charge of
eight rooms, and gets a salary of $90 per month. Miss Sara
Stephens, ’91, w ho has been teaching for the past three years near
Philadelphia, has been elected to the position formerly held by
Miss Bowers, and receives a salary of $80 per month.
In another column is noted the marriage of Professor Ezra
Lehman, ’89, for some time a member of our Faculty, to Miss
Louise Lane, recently a teacher in the Huntingdon High School.
Because of Prof. Lehman’s wide acquaintance and great popular­
ity among the Alumni and friends of the School we believe that
a further account of the wedding will be of general interest. The
following account is taken from the Democratic News of Chambersburg:
“ On Tuesday, September 18th, at Huntingdon, Pa*, Mr.
Ezra Lehman, of Chambersburg, was united in marriage to Miss
Louise Lane, daughter of Gen. F. H. Lane, a prominent citizen
of Huntingdon. The ceremony took place at the home of the
bride, 1007 Mifflin street, and was performed by Rev. Dr. A . C.
Applegarth, of the Sixth Street Baptist Church, in the presence
of a half hundred invited guests. The bride was attended by her
cousin, Miss Mary Smucker, as maid of honor, and was given
away by her father. Mr. Geo. H. Eckels, of the Normal School
at Shippensburg, acted as best man. The bride wore a traveling
dress and the maid of honor a dress of white. Both carried
roses. The men of the party were dressed in the conventional
fashion. The simple but impressive ceremony was performed at
11 o ’clock, and the newly wedded couple left soon after for a
short wedding trip to Washington and other points. Miss Lane
was for a number of years a teacher in the High School at Hunt­
ingdon, of which Prof. Lehman was at one time Principal for
four terms. Both have always enjoyed the highest respect of the
people of that town. Mr. Lehman has in recent years been con­
nected with the Normal School at Shippensburg as Professor of
English Literature, but will in October take up post graduate
study in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, in which
city the young couple will make their home for the present.”
The wedding of Mr. Frank Lehman, ’98, brother of Prof.
Lehman, to Miss Flo Fickes, ’97, is also noted elsewhere, Mr.Leh-

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man is spending his third year at the Hahneman Medical College
at Philadelphia. Both couples will reside at 4127 Woodland
avenue. The H erald extends congratulations and best wishes.
Mr. H. B. Reed, ’99, is agent for the Prudential Life Insur­
ance Co., and has an office on Market Square, Harrisburg.
Beside others mentioned elsewhere the following are attending
higher institutions of learning: Mr. C. E. Yost, ;99, Bucknell;
Mr. James Hippie, ’99, Gettysburg ; Mr. W. B. Kell, ’99, Dick -1
inson ; Mr. C. H. Hanlin, ’95, Princeton ; Mr. C. M. Means, ’96,
Lafayette; Mr. M. J. Cook, ’94, P rin ceton ! Mr. Isaac S.
Hershey, ’98, Franklin and Marshall.
Miss Mary Bomberger, ’98, is teaching her first term at
Lansdowne, Delaware county.
Miss Helen Dykeman, ’98, is getting her first experience as
a teacher near Morrisdale Mines, Clearfield county.
Mr. C. C. Shaefferl’94, is Principal of Schools at Newville,
Pa A and Mr. J. I. Martin, ’96, has charge of the Grammar School
at the same place.
Mr. F. S. Chronister, ’96, is in the employ of the United Gas
Improvement Co., working at the Harrisburg office.
Miss Margaret Martin, ’94, is teaching at Mainsville, near
Shippensburg.
Miss Pauline Wisotzki, ’96, has a position as trainer under
Mrs. H. E. Monroe, entertainer.
Two vacancies occurred in the Shippensburg schools this year
through the resignations of Miss Mary Wagner, ’92, and Miss
Zora Anderson, ’89. These were filled by the election of Miss
Grace Wolfe, ’96, and Miss Sue Walters, ’91.
Mr. Ira Long, ’94, is one of the High School teachers at
Myersdale, Pa.
Mr. L- L. Bomberger, ’94, has entered a law office at Ham­
mond, Ind.
Miss Gertrude McCreary, ’84, is a member of the High School
faculty at Bethlehem, Pa.
Dr. Theo. B. Noss, ’74, principal of the California Normal
School, has prepared a Chapel Hymnal for use in schools. The
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Miss Nelle Walker, ’99, is teaching at Burning Bush, Bedford
county.
Miss Bertha Gramm, ’99, has a school at Mattie, Bedford
county.
Mr. B. N. Palmer, ’96, is again teaching at Needmore, Fulton
county.
Mr. E. M. Gress, .’96, succeeds his brother, H. E. Gress, ’95,
as Principal of the Schools at McConnellsburg, Pa.
Mr. W . H. Ranck, ’98, is clerking at Hopewell, Bedford
county.
Miss Mary A . Darlington, ’97, is teaching a sixth grade school
at Victor, Colorado.
A very able article entitled “ Transmission of Tuberculosis
through the Meat and Milk Supply” appeared in the Philadelphia
Medical Journal, of August n th . The author is Dr. John J.
Repp, '88, Veterinarian of the Iowa State College.
Mr. C. M. Best, ’94, is coaching the Drake University football
team at DesMoines, Iowa. He is also taking a Raw course at
the Iowa College of Raw.

/[Carriages.
EHman— F ickes .— A t Newport, Pa., September 12, 1900,

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Mr. Frank Lehman, ’98, to Miss Flo Fickes, ’97.

W alhey — F rank — A t Carlisle, Pa, September 13, Rev. H . E .
Walhey, '95, pastor of the Methodist church at Wenks, Pa., to
Miss Gertrude Frank.
R ehman -=-Ra n e .— A t Huntingdon, Pa., September 18th,
Professor Ezra Lehman, ’89, to Miss Rouise Rane.
G eyer — Baker .— At Penbrook Reformed parsonage, on Oct.
3rd, Professor John R. Geyer, principal of the Royal ton schools,
and Miss Ella Baker, ’98, of Ringlestown.
Blocher— H artman .— October 17, at Mummasburgj P a.(
Mr. Paul Blocher to Miss Eva G. Hartman, '94..
R oberts— T rostes .— A t York Springs, October 17, Mr. R,
C. Roberts, of Ambler Pa., to Miss Zula E . Trostle, ’91.

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L eopold— Reid .— A t Orbisonia, Pa., Mr. George Leopold,'98,
to Miss Gertrude Reid.
C l a r e — R o t h .— A t Fayetteville, Pa., October u ,Rev. H . E.
Clare, to Miss Sara Roth, '94.

Hbout tbe School.
H E Fall Term opened September 3rd. The students, old
and new, arrived promptly and the work of the school was
soon moving along smoothly. The attendance of board­
ing students is quite a little better than last year’s. The Senior
class numbers 78. The ladies have a decided majority of the
class.

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. The Model School has increased its attendance materially.
There are now almost a hundred boys and "girls under the care of
Miss McBride and Miss Burns. The greater part of this increase
is from Shippensburg Township.
Mr. R. D. Eppley, formerly a student at Shippensburg, is
cashier for W. H. & J. W. Bradley, Bankers, Tomahawk, Wiscon­
sin. He is also president of the Board of Education of that town.
Mr. E. D. Soper, State Secretary of the College Y . M. C. A .,
visited our association at the beginning of the term.
Prof. Lehman is not with us this year. He is taking a post­
graduate course in literature and history at the University of
Pennsylvania. A notice of his recent marriage appears else­
where. Prof. Wm. Rife, recently principal of the schools of
Narberth, Pa., takes Prof. Lehman’s place. Mr. Rife graduated
at Shippensburg in ’91 and later at Ursinus College. He has also
done considerable work in the Pedagogical Courses of the Uni­
versity of Pennsylvania. Prof. Rife is a scholarly man and will
give general satisfaction.
Other new members of the faculty are Miss Katherine Weaver,
of Bradford, Pa., and Miss Edith Baldwin, of Harrisburg. Miss
Weaver takes Miss Barnum’s place in the music department.
Miss Baldwin succeeds Miss Lenher as teacher of drawing. Miss
Weaver has had excellent training in both vocal and instrumental
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floors, is in prospect. This bridge will be of ornamental design.
It is rumored that the Cumberland Valley railroad will soon build
a covered platform at the Normal station. The grading of the
lower part of the campus is also being completed.
The Y . M. C. A. officers for the year are as follows: President,
Geo. A. Shank; vice-President, W . M. Gray; Treasurer, James
Mills; Secretary, M. A . Hoff. The Y . W . C. A . officers are:
President* Miss Susan Fickes; vice-President, Miss Elizabeth
Branyan; Recording Secretary, Miss Lydia Detweiler; Corre­
sponding Secretary, Miss Mary Garland; Treasurer, Miss
Virginia McQuiston. The Associations .will hold a joint meeting
the third Sunday of each month, the leader to be chosen alter­
nately from the two Societies. The Y . W . C. A . will issue topic
cards this year and will hold a missionary meeting once a month.
The Athletic Association organized for the year by electing
Mr. M. A . Hoff, president; Mr. E. H. Hager, vice-president, and
Prof. Drum, secretary and treasurer. The prospects for a foot­
ball team are not good, as we lose the entire ’99 team by gradua­
tion and the men in the school are unusually light and inex­
perienced. The Seniors and Juniors have organized class teams
and will play at least one game, possibly more, early in October.
I f a satisfactory showing is made in these class games, a school
team will be organized and a short schedule of games arranged.
Mr. Hager is captain of the Senior team and Mr. Bollinger of the
Junior eleven.

Cbe Class of 1900.
Members of the class of 1900 are teaching as iollows :
P. T . Hoffheins, Biglerville, Adams Co.
J. O. Johnson, Red Lion, York Co.
Maude Clever, Southampton Township, Cumb. Co.
Ida Stoner, Hellam Township, York Co.
J. A . Davis, Jacksonville, Cumberland Co.
Geo. Miller, Roxbury, Franklin Co.
T . C. Senseman, New Kingston, Cumberland Co.
Herbert Creamer, Hopewell Township, Cumberland Co.
H. E. Walker, Millerstown, Perry Co.

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Edward Sheetz, Carsonville, Dauphin Co. '
J. H. McLaughlin, Carsonville, Dauphin Co.
D. N. Benedict, Brook, Franklin Co.
Iva Baer, Newburg, Cumberland Co.
May Donnelly, Spruce Creek, Huntingdon Co.
Frank Wible, Three Springs, Huntingdon Co.
C. E- Hollinger, Dickinson Township, Cumberland Co.
W . P. Davis, Hopewell Township, Cumberland Co.
Anna Yohe, Southampton Township, Cumberland Co.
Mary Cunningham, Fairfield Primary, Adams Co.
Jessie Flora, Substitute, Chambersburg, Pa.
Mina Kremer, Liverpool Primary, Perry Co.
May McClellan, Steelton, Dauphin Co.
J. C. Tressler, near Newport, Perry Co.
W. D. Rhea, Principal New Germantown, Perry Co.
J. E. McCullough, Fairfield, Adams Co.
D. M. Niple, Mifflintown Grammar, Juniata Co.
Geo. Markle, Franklintown, York Co.
Margaret Stuart, Dickinson Township, Cumberland Co.
Amy Smith, Lykens Primary, Dauphin Co.
Velma Orndorff, Wiconisco Primary, Dauphin Co.
Ida Kleckner, Madison Township, Perry Co.
Rebecca Klepper, Newton Township, Cumberland Co.
C. F. Noll, Tyrone Township, Perry Co.
Jane Hater, Southampton Township, Cumberland Co.
Gertrude Hassler, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin Co.
H. B. Raffensperger, New Bloomfield, Perry Co.
Nelle Nipple, Newton Hamilton, Huntingdon Co.
Emily Newton, Plano, Illinois.
Isabelle J. Nickum, Lower Duncannon Grammar, Perry Co.
Harriett K . Rinker, Herndon Primary, Northumberland Co.
C. W. Gross, Big Dam, York Co.
Ellen Blessley, Silver Spring Township, Cumberland Co.
Edith Brandt, Newport Grammar, Perry Co.
Myrtle Burke, near Middle Spring, Cumberland Co.
Gertrude Hoke, Akersville, Fulton Co.
J. W. Baish, Clear Spring, York Co.
C. Ida Weber, Riddlesburg, Bedford Co.
Mazie Fulton, near Carlisle, Cumberland Co.
Dessie M. Hollinger, Washington Township, Franklin Co*

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W . M. Mitchell, Juniata Township, Perry Co.
May E. Wolff, Adams Co.
Mabel C. Morrow, Fountaindale, Adams Co.
S. E. Myers, Farmers, York Co.
Blanche Griest, Wellsville, York Co.
Laura J. Spangler, Reading Township, Adams Co.
W. W. Walmer, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin Co.
Ora Beegle, Everett High School, Bedford Co.
H. J. Stambaugh, Big Mount, York Co.
C. E. Lingle, Fort Hunter, Dauphin Co'
Ida M. Newcomer, Waynesboro, Franklin Co.
Robert J. Watson, Saltillo, Huntingdon Co.
C. W. Herr, Dickinson Township, Cumberland Co.
Nora Crilly, Imler, Bedford Co.
Elsie First, Hampton, Adams Co.
C. B. Yohe, Reading Township, Adams Co.
M. A . Keasey, Latimore Township, Adams Co.
J. R. Piper, Newton Township, Cumberland Co.
Miss Elizabeth Hayes is taking a teacher’s course in drawing
at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N Y .; Mr. Jere Zullinger has
entered State College; Mr. H. M. Fogelsanger is clerking in a
grocery store in Shippensburg; Miss Cora Clever is taking post
graduate work at the Norm al; Mr. Paul G. Smith is doing special
work in Greek and Latin at the Harrisburg High School and is a
member of the football team ; Mr. J. Arthur Knupp is at present
in his father’s employ but expects shortly to go to college ; Miss
Carrie Kitzmiller, Miss Marietta Menear, Miss Jessica Evans,
Miss Blanche Johnson, Miss Ida M. Crist and Miss Anna Forney
are spending the year at their homes ; Mr. Lloyd Gray will enter
the employ of the Westinghouse Electrical Co., at Pittsburg;
Mr. S. E. L- Fogelsanger, after an extensive trip through
the New England states, is again at his home in Shippens­
burg; Mr. James Kendall, Mr. J. K. Gish, and Miss Katie Boyer
are also spending the year at their respective homes.
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An ocean steamer of the first class, going at full speed cannot
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H E story is told of Horace Mann, that one evening as he
sat in his study an insane man rushed into the room and
challenged him to a fight. Mr. Mann replied: “ My dear
fellow, it would give me a great pleasure to accommodate, but I
can’t do it, the odds are so unfair. I am a Mann by name and a
man by nature, two against one ! It would never do to fight.”
The insane man answered : “ Come ahead, I am a man and a man
beside myself, let us four have a fight.” — Current Literature.

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£■
Gbe TSabicligig of fEime.
A lucky fellow was Rip Van Winkle;
Undisturbed he was let to stay
Eor twenty years on the Catskill Mountains,
And never a dollar he had to pay.
Now things have changed with the generations,
Whenever that glorious spot we seek,
With only moderate accommodations,
It costs us fifty dollars a week.

fttabn’t Seen it.
A certain colonel on the staff of one of Grarit’s generals was much
given to novel reading and went about with his saddle-bags stuffed
full of thrilling romances. For weeks he had been devouring an
English translation of “ Ees Miserables.” One day while pass­
ing through a Confederate town he saw a young woman seated
on a porch, and stopping his horse, bowed to her with all the
grace of a Chesterfield and endeavored to engage her in conver­
sation. Before he had gone far he took occasion to remark :
“ Have you seen ‘Lees Miserables’ ? ” anglicizing the pronunci­
ation. Her black eyes snapped with indignation as she tartly re­
plied : “ Don’t you talk to me that way; they’re a good deal
better than Grant’s miserables, anyhow ! ” — Chicago News.

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“ W hat’ll I do with it then ? ” asked the workman sullenly.
“ Do with i t ! ” echoed Patrick. “ Dig a hole in the road, to
be sure, man, and bury i t ! ”
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