Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . beral donations in money,about $2,000 in all, were made. Besides this, Mr. and Swaney, or, as they are afifectionately known to the chil-dren whose lives they have enriched, Uncle John and AuntSade, gave outright twenty-four acres of beautiful woodedland for a campus. Growing on this campus are three hun-dred noble trees, and through it winds a stream with all theopportunity for study and pleasure that water afifords. CONSOLIDATED COUN
Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . beral donations in money,about $2,000 in all, were made. Besides this, Mr. and Swaney, or, as they are afifectionately known to the chil-dren whose lives they have enriched, Uncle John and AuntSade, gave outright twenty-four acres of beautiful woodedland for a campus. Growing on this campus are three hun-dred noble trees, and through it winds a stream with all theopportunity for study and pleasure that water afifords. CONSOLIDATED COUNTRY SCHOOLS 155 Crowning the campus, here in the heart and quiet of allthis natural beauty, stands the building. It was originallyplanned at a cost of $12,000 but with the equipment installedthis sum soon reached approximately $15,000. It is a brickstructure containing four good schoolrooms, two laboratories,a library, offices, a shop for manual training, a kitchen fordomestic science, a basement playroom, a furnace room, cloak-rooms, indoor toilets, and a large assembly room. It has itsown water system and is supplied with light by gasoline gas. Girls Chorus, John Swaney School generated from a reservoir buried in the ground outside the-building. One of the things such a school system as this in the coun-try necessitates is the conveyance of children. The highwaysof the Clear Creek community are common earth roads, andtransportation, it was declared, could never be managed. Butthe horses, wagons, and boys of Putnam County have provedthe contrary. Two wagons are used. They are especially man-ufactured for the purpose and are provided with long sideseats and curtains. In winter, heaters and warm robes are 156 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL provided. Contracts for driving are made for the year at$40 per month. The greatest distance any child has to rideis about four and one-half miles. The wagons start about7 40 or 8 oclock. They have been running since September3, 1906, wit
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