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water and boil. { - ironing; it will cu | grind the grain; it wil wood. Wherever work cat stationary machinery, electricity can do it. not have to wait your neighbors' t the corn; ll he ill do the threshing, of saw the rn when | immediate neéd of 8 job was completed. S € root pulper, the cutting ~ When electric power and in every operation Electricity will milk sparator; it wi'l pump the will churn the cream, do the the siio, pulp the roots, or be done by what is termed And you do convenience, either. The work is done when you-want to have it done, irrespective # of weather. ] raining a field s one of profit--of time an lectricity has been introduced "make its users prosperous and. reaches this let it. | farm, | | help out in many other A "County Council : first meeting of the 1915 The Tn Ade County. of| 3-30 in the afterneon. The roads and Oshawa, Ontario was convened im Whit by on ys January 26. 00 ier the opening preliminaries, the | ection of the Warden took place. ly two names were proposed: Dun: 'M. Morgan, Reeve of. Uxbridge 'Township, and Tom of the Village of Can ; | Sunderland, Chairman; Messrs Foster, "| Stone; €. locality, it can bring prosperity here-- if we installing electricity as in The question labor saved. Wherever it has done much to help comfortable. When it ¥ he boy who turned the grindstone is leaving the Electricity can take his place on the crank, and ways, | The work of electing chairmen of committees occupied a good deal of time on Wednesday, the last commits tee returning its report only about Bridges committee found it difficult to decide, but finally returned Mr. Geo, Gerow as chairman, ; The Standing Committees for 1915 {are as follows: ! : Finance and Assessment--G. Con- ant, Oshawa, Chairman; Messrs. T. A. Wilson, Mason," Hoover, McKen- zie. EIT Roads and Bridges--Geo. Gerow. Esq., Port Perry, Chairmen; Messrs. Heavener, McNabb, Mowbray, Blanc: hard. és ; Education--E. B. Hoover, Esq. Atha, Chairman; Messrs. Cameron, Conant, Foster, Wills, County Property--Fred T. Rowe, Esq., Whitby, Chairman; Messrs, Downey, Dobson, Jackson, Dearborn, Printing--Sardinia Rundle, Esq. -W. Wilson, McKenzie, Legislation and Memorials -- Wm. . Jackson," Esq, Scugog, Chairman, Messrs. Gerow, Soke Dearborn, Blanchard, e---Gieorge. 'Wills, Esq. '| Beaverton, Chairman; Messrs. Mow: bray, Dobson, McNabb, St Mileage and p ane. al + POR w T PERRY BRANCH " H. G. HUTCHESON, Manager. - t Blackstock (D, P; M rN eta sina Sunday School + County Council On January 23th. at Colombus, the Ontario County Council of Sun- day School workers met for the discus- sion of business. Part of theit work is financial, and they have agreed to raise a mimmum' of $125.00 for the Provin- cial Sunday School Association. This is 'apportioned as fo!lows:--Whitby Towaship Assyciation (including Oshawa, and Whitby towns) $60.0 3 Pickering Township Association $35.- 00; Port Petty, Reach, and Scuzog Association $30,00; ask The chief work of the Coun ils to gain a comprehensive view of the Sun- day School conditions in the County, and to keep the teachers, and officers in touch withthe best methods that can be adopted, for the ultimate suc- cess of their work along the lines off, the development of Christian character. About the tast week 1 June, a con- ference of this Counzil will be' hel possibly @UPort Perry, or Myrtle, Every Township Sunday School offic. is.a member of the €ounty Council, and will be invited to this conference, which will be of a thoroughly. prac- tical character. The newly elected officers of the Council are;-- President-- Mr, Port Perry. Vice President---Mr. Samuel Farmer, H- F. Werry, Corresponding Secretary Treas- urer--Rev. Hi: W! Foley, Brooklin. Recording Secretary--Miss A. W. Clzer, Isooklin, Elementary Division--Mrs. Edward Wilson, Brougham. © Second Division--Mr. F. B. B. Pat- ten, Cshawa. 3 Adult Bible Class-- Mr. pin. Oshawa. Teacher Training--Rev. G. A. Mc- Lean, Whitby. ey Home Departmert--Mr. W.J. Tur- ner, R. R. No. 2, Claremont. Missionary Department--Rev.C. P. Muirhead, Port Pe: ry. . "Temperance Department -- Mr. S. Ja Courtice. , Representative at Provincial Con- S. F. Cha- '{vention--Mr. J. H. Michell, R R. No. 2 Claremont, Whitby Township |S. S. Association Whitby Township Sunday School | Association. held a very successful ; | Convention in the Methodist church at: Columbus on Thursday of last week. The church was crowded at both afternoon and evening sessions, Several sleighloads of enthusiastic School workers drove in from Tent Worm Eggs An interesting exhibit has been placed in the Star Office window, A fruit grower. brought in a number of tent worm 'eggs, which are stored in what appears to be small swellings on tye branches of the apple trees; and fence corner brush, Any man who | cares to go through his orchard' and fence corners now, could readily | destroy thousands upon thousands of eggs which in the summer will hatch out, and become a pest to "his fruit. It would be a good thing to clear fence ¢hrners of rubbish anyway, The New Rural School The writer is firmly of the opinion atthe regeneration of the rural school is to come through consolidation, and inno other'way. The beleif is based, noton mere judgment or opinion, but on the experience of those who have tried it. For forty years the coneoli- dated rural school has been on the way, and now it has arrived. In every State of the American Union it has I taken root. Several whole states are fully cousolidated. It is not confined to one locality, but is found thriving with equal vigor on the rugged hills of the northeast, the wide stretched plains of the middle, and the sultry slopes of the south. In all kinds of climate and physical conditions, it makes good. In Manitoba there are some sixty con- solidated rural schools, and the num- ber is rapidly increasing. There the universal testimony from inspector, trustees, teachers, officials, parénts, and children, 1s that they would not, under any conditions, think of return ing to the old plan. New Brunswick 'has some seven consolidations that are giving excellent satisfaction. THe | pioneer school in that Provinee; aftes haying been in 6peration for a few years was burned, thus affording a fine op. portunity. for a return,«but the people dicided to rebuild rather than gé back to the old system. If these schools can be successfully operated in the cli- mate of Manitoba and New Brunswick there should be little - difficulty to Ontario. Come from what source it may, there is no doubt in the minds of those best able to judge that more money, indeed a great deal more, must be provided for rural school education. It alse seems evident, as has been shown from the experience of others, that the most efféctive way in which that money can be spent is in the consolidftion of the rural schools. The objections" thas loomed large in the eyes of both advo- cates and opponents a few years ago vanishing as the plan