and be ready for ~~ Spring's Work. Bring your opti- cal work to us. Re- Mr. Mitchell, Toronto, spent i i or Rehel, oronto, s; ensl] pairs while you wait i § iz 'We are pleased to report that Mrs, Jas. Medd and Mrs. Roy O'Neill, are STS om titi rem mel I. R. BENTLEY Ea Get that watchor Ro ne fo abt for hatte reading 2 I think I agree-wi I have one of the jobs which ought to hands of a strong man. I will tell I am just a young eighteen-year-old school and as most of my training at keyed to the angle of the city that of the rural I have ha you why. Normal to apply the knotledge whieh I' SALE OF HOME-MADE COOKING | 'Mr. Farmer, Port Perry Star; a || -- warm. Reserve this date--March 17 for the entertainment in con- nection with the Presbyterian Church. Further particulars PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES W. L. Atkinson, Minister. St. John's Church, Port Perry. Feb. 20--Public worship at 11 a.m. "The Christian Home and its church" 7 p.m. "Timothy"--a product of the christian home, Sunday School at 3 p.m, Y. P. Society, Monday, at 8 p.m. ment, pm. "Repentance unto life." Breadalbane Church, Utica 'Sunday School at 2 p.m. C. E. Society, Friday, at 8 p.m. spirit." : state of the American Union. IR. uu amen) Gears. AN UNTIMELY DEATH STRAYED son, daughter of Mrs, M. Stephenson, | Thos. Beare, Port Perry. of Scugog. Her death took place on J 000 Monday, at the Isolation Hospital, W.C.T.U. i Aliness. She was a bright student and | gon) toni is requested a lovable character. Her death is a SAR BA very great bereavement to the family FOR SALE See bills for partictllars. | Port Perry. / HE AURA LEE Store s, hard heads each 10c,, 15, and 2c. nice white heads, each ful white bunches, each 15 and 2c. to the problems which I have met ven. ; I have forty-five pupils: grades, ranging from the get seven hundred dol for doing: it or_one. hundred dollars per Gabe. When I say forty-five pupils all told if they and their parents are well, if terribly pressing farm chores to be done family goloshes can be found my ance is that number. i TO-NIGHT Optometrist The Star Car Dealers' Banquet and | Jeweller and Stationer tertainment will be broadcasted at eas. willbe b CFRE, oh PORT PERRY . Toronto. " RETIN Ares LETTER FROM MR, A. D. PETERS | S¢ primary The ladies of the W.C.T.U. purpose| This surely is a land of sunshine-- having a sale of home-made cooking,|on January 2lst the thermoneter Friday, Feb. 18th, from 3 to 6, in the] registered from 64 to 70 degrees. On Leonard Block. February 7th from 70 to 80 degrees. The trade winds keep the atmosphere HOCKEY MATCH AT PORT| The lay-out of the city is pleasing 3 PERRY RINK to me. The city itself is 57 square fe Friday night, of this week, | miles in area and has a population of February 18th, Uxbridge and|about 181,000. It is divided into i Port Perry will cross. sticks in| quarters by Miami Avenue running ve the fourth game of the Cup|north and south, and Flagler St. run- 4 Series. Uxbridge are leading by | ning east and west. Bach street and H . only one goal and a hard fought | avenue is named and numbered from battle is expected for the lead] these central streets, such as south- in this series. Admission 25c.|west 1st avenue, and north-east 1st Children 15c¢. Thus it is very easy to find your way EE about: At the east end of Flagler Street is the Royal Palm Park. This park is bordering Biscayne Bay and was almost ruined by the hurricane. Some fair sized vessels were washed up and several are still there, al- children brought the toddlers any time they fan-| female teacher in a one-room school where time cied. I had to put a stop to that practice except on is at a premium. Phonetics mean nothing to him be ambidexterous, argus eyed and prehensile toed to manage the seven grades without taking on a nursery class as well. The mere statement of my case may interest those who are advocating a return to the home of all our young women, be- cause my problem concerns not only myself but all of the women teachers in the five thousand odd one-roomed schools in Ontario, most if not all of which are manned by women, Premier Ferguson, our Ontario Minister of Education, in his statement to the Trustees' and Ratepayers' Asociation in 1925 when he was pro- posing to put through a bill to establish Town ship Boards of Trustees for Rural that there were over five thousand one-roomed schools in Ontario, that of these 177 had an at- tendance of five or less, that there were 891 with an attendance of ten or less; 1794 with attend-|" ance of fourteen or less; 2902 with an attendance of nineteen or less and 2081 of twenty or.more, West Has Teacherages The Premier did not say how many more were in the larger one-room sch later. though a wonderful amount of clean- 000mm ing has been done since the storm. WATERMAIN TROUBLE The Royal Palm Hotel in the park, The townspeople felt relieved when [is one of the first built in the Miami: it was learned on Monday evening | it is four stories high and has several that after being without town water | hundred rooms. There are several for nearly forty-eight hours, the|new- hotels, many stories high and water pipe which had broken was|they are chiefly built of cement fixed. It is a difficult matter to get | blocks. There are also a large num- at these pipes under the road, and |ber of apartment houses and depart. Messrs. Greaves and Raymes had a|ment stores. The Miami News tower "difficult job in digging to the trouble, | is worth notice. It is 812 feet high. It is very fortunate that mo fire oc-|I was up in it last Saturday. The curred during the period when we had | view from the tower overlooking the no water. bay, Miami Beach and the city 5 to O0 On very attractive. I regretted that did not have a glass with me, for one can see the lighthouse 15 miles out |. in the ocean. This lighthouse was built in 1874 by the U. S. A. Govern- with an attendance ools such as my own, "I am convinced that for economical management, -and efficient instruction, no room should have less than twenty pupils. Nearly six- ty per cent, of the one-room schools are therefore working' below their capacity and this province is maintaining nearly nine hundred schools of. this type with an attendance of less than 7000 pupils, at a cost of aver $1,000,000 a year, while the average cost per pupil per year in schools works outa An interesting 'ceremony has just taken place on the anniversary of the handing over to the whites of the: "Everglades" by the Seminole In- dians. Baskets of fruit are presented Prayer, Service, Thursday, at-7.80]),, tho Indians (in full Indian dress) to the white man, and speeches are made by both Indians and white men. The farmerettes, pretty young white Public Worship, at 8 p.m. girls, plant corn behind the tractors. as the land is plowed. These farm- Subject--*Expressing the Missionary erettes are dressed to represent each t something over $85.00 per Which is about the "driest statement" that Mr. Ferguson has yet made, but at that time he was advocating Township Sch : ment control as a means of improving the educa- thonal facilities for the young of the province. Mr. Ferguson is not a man with whom I feel ys agree but when he speaks as ee Louis sor the mamatcT a,it buy later on storesaid the said if Mr. Caeser Smith would only | little 'concert and secured enough funds with des a horrible example of how] Which to carry on, The improvement in several taken their] of the children was very marked and they all en- for doing it.|joved the social hour. It helps- their manners, | In my section I have to live two miles from the | too, sd although Sammy Allen's father nearly ere is no other decently 'com-| blew his stay which is closer. ool Boards not govern- it is safe to alwa nister of Education he and this was one of the school in Ontario, look into it, provi women have invaded men's sphere, We learned with great regret of to th mises of the undersigned, | Y ® pre jobs, and are outrageously overpaid the death of Miss Dorothy Stephen-{ small black and tan houhd. Apply to school because th fortable place to means that on winter morni schoolhouse shortly after eight o'clock to see that the fire in the furnace and the place warm. The bigger it later in the day but I find it is not them in the mornings. In the wild west, I . stand, that Teacherages are provided for all one-}! room schools. This was started in LI Si ve gen in these parts, bu Jeacher ; in the one-room school has Tordnto, resulting from scarlet fever, The regular monthly meeting of Dorothy was a student of Port the Women's Christian Temperance Perry High School for a number of | Union, will be held at the home of years, and was attending Normal Mrs. John McClintock, on Wednesday, School in Toronto at the time of her February 28rd, at three o'clock. A I must be in boys look ; safe to | 81 Alberta, and the sympathy of the community Cutter, in good condition; light (is extended to them in their sorrow. wagon, spring tooth cultivator and OY HL scuffier for single horse, harrow with carnival has been postponed to bar; three hens. Apply to A Taylor, i geik Po ai Lily. weather» en or long wear rubber boots to the knees for walk and the better off among my same. But sometimes even 'we teach 3} irq hen in he yalked] 1 ig Rt pte py ARSE ES SRR Soe ry to 3 etics with one e primary - es pl ASI : : 35 : ig dollars a year| which I have a poor little defective boy, Tommy MOVIN CG PICT Lat ei oi SOREL, of ay Used from s Rr ie Tiase of Adams and ve. yeniich § _At 8 p.m. on Feb. 21st in the Townhall, Port Perry, Ontario : You are Invited to Attend! TB crete 'and I am in despair as I see the inspector enter because Tommy comes next in-line. I point tof the word 'sat" on the board and hiss promptingly at him "S-8-S-A-T-T-T." He hisses and rat-rat- tats after me and-then triumphantly yells the 'word "Boy" at which the inspector frowns. He is an intense active'little man and at Tommy's next blunder when he sings out "dog" for "bat" he says, "This will never do, Miss Jones. Let me take the 'class." Well, he takes it and of course Tommy does even worse because he is excited, so he is scolded and so am I as the inspector leaves a little later. "You should not let the children bring in all this mud, Miss Jones. It is v Duco Re-Finishing Shop The undersigned is op -a Duco re finishing sho) ; fully equipped to meet any require- ment of car owners or the aie public. The shop will be open pic] on or about the 15th of March hl Orr C. Browne - ; Port Perry 7 JAdis- IL find-it-hard to explain. I feel it is probably all my fault anyhow so he goes away leaving me with a bad attack of inferiority com- plex. fd I wish heartily that the model or normal train- ing schools had taught us more about how to deal adequately with such ticklish situations. I have mentioned hot dishes for lunch. Number 7 school is situated in a prosperous enotigh farm- ing district and when I came here I though in my innocence that that meant all the children would be well fed and nourished. But I had not been here -long that first winter when I found that| = were quite a lot of the kiddies who came 2 '|'given 'in. the church basement next e Montgomery, deceased | Wednesday evening, Feb. 28rd, by 4 long distances and brought their lunches who| Pursuant to Ses 56 ot Dis 121 young people of Chalk Lake, when s es were ravenously hungry by noon. They had had| of the Revised Statu all | play " Rivers" will be : hereby given that no_proper breakfasts. = Their mothers were too | 1914, notice is hereby given that all given. - NR ric mlic hig 0 So I decided that we | a the ottate of Goorss: Mont, Burkett is under the must have a hot dish each day, Soup or cocoa ate, oe ols: and for the making of these I must have a small ave oil stove. So I went to the school board treasurer and asked, "When does the board meet?" Well, {D, 1 that's hard to say ma'am" quoth he, "If we are out of a teacher I call the other two fellows here to my store but taint usual to meet regular. What can 190 for you y. t the stove though h ee ful e was very nice about the stove though he stian seemed to think I was a little.crazy, but he gave barirs"of thas Same pg. Hei me permission to go ahead. So every day in the | ment of their accounts and the nature cold weather I made a hot-drink or nourishing|of the semurition" {if ) held soup. I spent my own money on it but later on|them, and that the rural head c because he said "Thank you" at the home , telling him to "shut his jaw and 'sass his Pa," there have been no other cas- ve tried too, to take five or ten minutes each Current Events with the older pupils but oné parent told me kindly she though I| not to take up with "new fads" and that| ht the children were a lot better without | or too much news I've 'a li 2 aged: and the only reason I goon with is that it keeps me more aliv ? g in is pu : is Fi $ th £2 J ] ; £ | with the outside world. This y. Ihave no time. On am ex-| d to play the church organ. I d I have to] te: Bimber of Jarents au thew] try lo. abe special lessons at - ic £3