tute work this year in Huron, Morrow, Medina, and Paulding counties and for seven commencement addresses. He has steadily become a larger and larger factor in educational affairs of Ohio until now he takes high rank. The moral is obvious. He has done his work well wherever he has been and has always had the true professional spirit. His great ambition has ever been to surpass himself rather than others and this ambition has incited him to the greatest degree of industry. He is genial but is always in dead earnest. He is ever alert to the good things about him and weaves them into the web of his own work. He is a clean, wholesome, sane, safe man, and the schools of Martin's Ferry will at once feel the inspiriting influence of his presence and work.

-Supt. W. R. Butcher of St. Clairsville has been elected to the superintendency at Barnesville and will prove a worthy successor to

Supt. York. His great success as

leader of the O. T. R. C. forces in Belmont County has shown him to be a real leader in whom the teachers have great confidence. He can think out good things to do and then work them out to a happy conclusion. The people of Barnesville have great cause for congratulation that their schools are to be directed by such a man as Supt. Butcher.

- Supt. E. T. Osborn of Summit Station has been re-elected, his salary increased, another teacher added to the high school, and the new building to be ready by September. This is really Gospel measure.

Miss Mabel Kutz has given excellent satisfaction in her high school work at East Palestine as her reelection at an increased salary abundantly proves.

The Wood County hosts met at Bowling Green, April 27, and had an excellent meeting. The speakers were Supt. W. S. Idle, Supt. H. E. Hall, Supt. T. J. Williams, Miss Marie Lee Warner, Supt. E. H. Brown, Supt. M. R. Hammond and Supt. S. H. Layton of Fostoria who gave two addresses.

Prin. H. G. Coffman of the Ottawa high school will discontinue school work at the end of the present year to assume the position of Manager of Agents in the Dayton district of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of which Dr. W. O. Thompson is President.

For three years no commencement exercises have been held in connection with the public schools of Ada but in the meantime a high school with a four years' course has been developed, the last year's work being done by the Ohio Normal University. Judging from the exercises of the commencement held April 25, the large class of twenty-five, the first to graduate under the revised. course of study, are all worthy of the diplomas presented to them. Supt. Vogenitz, his assistant teachers, the Board of Education, the pupils and patrons of the school are all to be congratulated on the extension of the course of study and the character of the work done. Now, if the school year can be lengthened at least another month, Ada can take her rightful place in the educational system of the state.

-Supt. Denig. Prin. Reighley and assistant Miss Lizzie Lang of Manchester are all greatly elated over the success of the recent school exhibit. There were 461 visitors to the schools and the event was well and fully written up in the local papers. It pays to keep doing things.

F. Gillum Cromer, President of the Miami Valley Chautauqua, has achieved remarkable success in this important work. For twenty years he was superintendent of schools at Union City, Greenville, and Franklin and is thoroughly conversant with educational movements and the needs of teachers and patrons. This knowledge is valuable to him in his present work and the courses at the annual sessions of the Chautauqua show great breadth and variety. In five

many of the best to be found anywhere and the program will be one of great excellence. It is pleasant to note what a success one of our school men has made and is making in this work. He is the brains and the soul of this great activity and his power is felt in every feature. But in all this he is quiet and unobtrusive and all the more effective on that account. With almost a mile of river frontage the location is ideal and all the natural advantages are utilized to the

utmost. Every feature of the program shows that it was inspired by a man who has high ideals and who believes that education, at its best,, can be made attractive and, also, that the highest form of enjoyment is that which contributes to developing the mind and soul.

The high schools of Chillicothe, Circleville, Washington C. H., Lancaster and New Lexington held an oratorical contest at Logan, May 3. The judges were Supt. F. S. Coultrap, Athens; Supt. Wm. McK. Vance, Delaware, and Supt. J. D. Simkins, Newark, who awarded first place to Circleville. The prize was a Webster's International DictionEvan ary and the recipient was Reichelderfer. The beautiful loving cup now becomes the property of the Circleville high school since this this school has won it the second time. Prin. T. O. Williams and the teachers of Circleville are bearing their honors with becoming fortitude.

was a great day for Middletown and for the schools.

-The following elections at New Holland occurred April 24: Supt. G. A. Bricker, $900; Prin. Miss Carrie Beach, $540; Grammar department, Miss Ethel Welch, $450; Mrs. Mary G. Allen, $450; Primary department, Miss Mento Harmount, $450; Miss Bertha Beach, $450.

Supt. E. E. Smock of Dresden, Supt. A. B. Jones of Waldo, and Supt. Wm. McK. Vance of Delaware gave the Marion County teachexcellent addresses April 13. There was good music interspersed which the unusually large audience greatly enjoyed.

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Supt. John S. Alan of Mt. Vernon has been re-elected for a term of three years at an annual salary of $2,000. There is no occasion to repeat what has already been said in the MONTHLY, relative to Supt. Alan as a school man, but it is pleasant to see our judgment of him so abundantly confirmed by the Board of Education.

The subject of Agriculture is an integral part of the course of study in the following schools: Woodstock, Grove City, Pataskala, West Manchester, Sidney, and Wharton. In township high schools, also, in the following counties: Ashtabula 2, Geauga 2, Portage 1, Clark 2, Greene 4, Putnam 4, Cuyahoga 1, Henry 1, Summit 2, Darke 1, Lake 2, Trumbull 2, Fairfield 2, Lucas 1, Wayne 1, Fayette 1, Montgomery 1, Wood 1, Franklin 4, Perry 1, Union 1, Fulton 1, Pickaway 1.

-Supt. E. W. Patterson of Greenfield has had a very successful year which is shown by the fact that he has been re-elected for a term of two years.