People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — The New School Idea. [ARTICLE]

The New School Idea.

The Indianapolis Journal endorses the new school idea in the following editorial: “The Chicago Record recently gave an account of a new school system which has been adopted in many of the rural townships in the Western Reserve of Ohio. One township in which there were seven school districts is taken as an example. The seven little school houses have been abandoned and in their stead 'a fine two story brick school house has been built in the center of the township, where the pupils of the township assemble and are divided into grades as in the public schools iu larger places. To insure this result, free transportation has been provided by the township. Bids are called for each year to furnish transportation in large covered wagons which carry twentyfive pupils. The wagons drive through the township, the driver sounding a horn as he approaches the homes of pupils that they may be ready. # If the pupil is not ready the wagon passes on and a tardy mark is made. As a rule, the tardiness is small, indeed. It has been found that the system costs a third less than that of the old district schools. The wagons cost $6.05 a day.” The new method is worth considering by scores of townships in Indiana. When a cold is contracted, cure it at once. One Minute Cough Cure will set you on the road to recovery in a minute. It will cure pneumonia, bronchitis, croup and all forms of lung aijd throat troubles. A F. Long, druggist.