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Our
Public School
System is
one the best in the state. The Graded School
Building built in 1870,
has twelve rooms and is capable of accommodating over 700 pupils: and
the Broadway school building originally built for the Old Shelby
Seminary — a select school — is capable of accommodating
about 200 more. The total enrollment 1890-91 was 845. The following are
the teachers and salaries paid for nine months school:
F. D. Jordan, Principal .......$1200 Miss Sara Burns, High School....600 Miss Flo Staples No. 12....450 Miss Alpha Chafee No. 11....405 Miss Mary O’Connor No. 10....405 Miss Myra Oliver No. 9......405 Miss Alta Speilman No. 8......360 Miss Lou Thomas No. 7......360 Mrs. Addie Price No. 6......360 Miss Bertha Reiss No. 5......360 Miss Lyda Clark No. 4......360 Miss Lolo Keeler No. 3......360 Mrs. M. J. Snyder No. 2......360 Miss Jennie Worley No. 1......360 Miss Emma Steidley Primary....405 What
To Teach Your Boys
Teach them how to
earn money.Teach them to be strictly truthful. Teach them economy in all their affairs. Teach them to be polite in their manners. Teach them history and political economy. Teach them arithmetic in all its branches. Teach them the care of horses, wagons and tools. Teach them habits of cleanliness and good order. Teach them careful and correct business habits. Drawing Teacher: “Now this is a symmetrical figure. Can any one tell me what symmetry is? Ah! There is a little boy with his hand up. What is symmetry, little boy?” Jimmy Scanlan: “Plaze, sor, it do be a place where they buries dead paple.” |
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Representatives.
Every one who knows Col. Laughlin respects him as a kind hearted
gentleman, sober in his walk and upright in his dealings. To his
credit, be it said, that during his candidacy for the legislature Col.
Laughlin was one of the few men of his party in this district who
positively refused to patronize saloons and tempt men to drink for the
sake of votes — and to the honor of a majority he was elected with that
clean record.
F.
M. Perryman
F.
M. Perryman was born in the southern part of Shelby county, April 26,
1836. Was raised on a farm and received what education the country
schools of that day afforded. Mr. Perryman has been twice married. The
first time he led to the hymeneal altar Miss Louisa Radcliff, who left
these earthly scenes two years later. In 1860 he was again married,
this Emily Hulsey begin the bride of his choice. They soon moved to
Oconee township where in 1863 Mr. Perryman was elected Justice of the
Peace, and has held the office with a year or two intermission, ever
since. Mr. P. was always a Democrat of the Jacksonian stripe, until the
Farmer’s Mutual Benefit Association was organized, when after reading
and studying his eyes became opened to the great need of reform in our
government and laws, and he has been working enthusiastically for the
benefit of all people and the protection of the home. He has made
many speeches in Shelby county in the line of reform, and composes
reform songs which are being sung all over the county and which add to
the interest of his meetings. The above is a genial and accommodating editor of the Stewardson Clipper. Wm. H. Fagen was born on a farm close to Lithia Springs, April 24, 1861. Attended school for a number of years in Shelbyville. In 1878 he began working as “printer’s devil” in the Democrat office under Dr. Waggoner and his steadiness and application earned for him promotion to the foremanship of the office. The “Democrat” was sold and Mr. Fagen was out of a job. In 1887, in connection with Z. P. Wilson the Stewardson Clipper was established. In the following year Mr. Fagen bought out his partner's interest and now owns the entire office — building and all, and is publishing one of the most successful local papers in Shelby County. A Threat. — In cleaning out his well the other day, a farmer had occasion to lower an Irishman about forty feet into the bowels of the earth. When about half way down, the Celt became frightened, and shouted, “Let me up, or I’ll cut the rope!” There is a rising boy in Springfield, Ill. His father said, “Now, Georgie, you may take your choice, — go with me to visit grandpa, or have a new velocipede.” The urchin scratched his head, and answered: “I’ll go see grandpa and make him buy the velocipede.” |
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Discontent.
A man in his
carriage was riding along,
His gaily-dressed wife by his side; In satin and laces she looked like a queen, And he like a king in his pride. A wood-sawyer stood on the street as they passed: The carriage and couple he eyed, And said as he worked with his saw on a log; “I wish I was rich and could ride.” The man in the carriage remarked to his wife: “One thing I would give if I could — I would give all my wealth for the strength and health Of the man who is sawing the wood.” |
for some years has
been a working Prohibitionist. He is a most consistent Christian
believer, and trustworthy gentleman |
Col.
James Laughlin
James
Laughlin was born in 1821 and was raised on a farm in Guersey county,
O. He went to school three months of each year in a schoolhouse built
of logs covered with clapboards, the floor laid with puncheons or split
slabs, and slabs for seats and greased paper for windows. The writing
desks split from large logs ran the entire length of the room and the
fire place for heating was seven or eight feet wide and would receive
logs large enough to burn several days. Such were the surroundings
under which James Laughlin grew to manhood and was married. During the
gold excitement in California he paid a visit to that remarkable
country going via Nicaraugua and returning via Panama. On his return he
resumed farming until the beginning of the war when he raised a company
of cavalry and entered the service as captain. His regiment, 1st O.,
was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland
 and was familiar
with the
battles fought through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. At the
close of the war he returned to his farm as a Colonel and soon sold out
and came to Illinois, settling in Shelby County. He says that there are
many places in Illinois that are beautiful and good, yet there are
none, taking climate, soil, fruit and general productiveness better
than Old Shelby. He has improved one o f the best farms in northern
Shelby and made it a home of comfort and beauty. During the last
session Col. Laughlin has represented this 33d district in the Illinois
House of
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 Thomas C.
Eiler was a native of Ohio born at Ringold, Pickaway Co., in
1831. He
worked at farming until the age of 19 when he entered Westfield
(Ill.)
College to prepare himself for the profession
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of teaching. He taught school for ten years being principal of the Tower Hill, Vermillion and Assumption schools each for a number of years. Mr. Eiler was in 1871 married to Miss Zana, daughter of Robert Pugh of this county, and their home has been brightened with five children, four living. Believing the surroundings of country to be better for the proper bringing up of his family he gave up teaching and in 1890 moved to a farm near Tower Hill where he has since lived and his efforts at farming and stock raising have a been crowned with good success. he is one of the trustees of his alma mater and has always taken active interest in church and Sunday school work having been president of the County S. S. Association for several terms. He also votes as he prays — | |||