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the high school* under the charge o f Miss Emma S . L igg ett; music* which became a part of the course in all the grades in 1906. M iss Bertha A . Bartley presiding; manual training and penmanship, introduced in 1913* under the direction o f Frank Titman. Having given the lot for the Y . M . C A . extension in 1894* M r C . R . Woodin desired to do something fo r the girls o f Berwick also. H e therefore offered to bear h alf the ex pense of the course i f cooking w as introduced in the schools as a regular part of the work of the girls. T his offer w as accepted and in Septemt^r* 1894* the course w as started. But at the end o f three years the sentiment of the people w as so antagonistic to the course that I t was abandoned. M rs. Fred Richardson was the instructor at this time. In 1 9 13 a rc*ersion o f feeling brought the cooking course into favo r again* and it was reintroduced in connection with sewing, under the charge o f M iss Robertson. Mr. Woodin* however, did not renew his offer* so the course is not as complete or a s thorough as at the first intro duction of the work. M iss Emma S* Liggett* the form er instruc tor of the commercial course in the high school* is now with her sister, Isabella, in the Ching H ua College* Pekin* Qiina* having accepted a second term o f five years, the first term be ing fo r three years. Previous to the B o xer uprising in China the government lu d sent many boys to Am eri can c o l l i e s to gain a knowledge o f occidental manners and language. A fte r the suppression of the rebellion the property of the principal B o x e r chief was confiscated and on the site a college w as erected fo r adult scholars* the money coming from America* which had re turned the indemnity given by China fo r the damages (o American missions and citizens. A s a measure o f gratitude fo r this fairness the Chinese government selected all of the eighteen teachers from Am erica, M iss Emrua S . Liggett and M iss Isabella Liggett being two of the number. Most of the scholars arc married men and form the leading class o f reform ers o f modem China. T he old Chinese school calendar has just been superseded by the Western one in 19 13 . Letters from the school come by way o f Siberia and Europe and take twenty-seven days fo r (he trip. The school directors o f Berwick a r c : Henry F . Traugh* B . II. Bower* L . E . Hess, J . B. F u lm e r X . G . Baker, Jam es E . Smith* W . S. Johnson.
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The Ferris Heights school w as buUt in 1908* and the W est Berwick high school in 1913* on the same h ill P ro f. Harlan R . Snyder is principal of the high and grammar schools, the Ferris Heights school being on the same lot with the high school, and under the prin cipal of the latter. WiUiam C. Delong is prin cipal of the Fairview school. The school directors o f W est Berw ick bor ough a rc : Frank Wenncr, H arry Fahringer, W alter Hughes, Thom as Hutchings* N . D. Peters, William Fairchilds, E . M . Ritter. R E L tC tO U S
The church growth o f Berwick has been man'clous, and no city in this section of the State possesses more active ministers or more loyal congregations. Thirteen denominations arc represented, there are eighteen resident ministers* and twenty churches, including three missions. T h e religious growth has kept pace with the growth o f population. Ministers o f B e r wick foresaw the expansion into outlying d is tricts, and in many instances lots were p u r chased before a house was built where now the church building is the center o f a built-up community. Since B cnvick’s last boom there have been eleven new con gr^ation s organized* ten o f which have erected churches* and fo u r parsonages. There liave also been three new churches erected by congregations which out grew old quarters, and one church built by a congregation which had been fo r some time organized, but not strong enough to under take the const ruction o f a home. That Berw ick is a church-going community is shown by the size of the congregations and the expansion of the pastorates. R evival serv ices have also reaped laige results* an exam ple being the Stough campaign o f 19 13, in which the Bow er Memorial Evangelicals gained 12 3 converts: (he Methodists* 2 1 0; and the W est Berwick Evangelical Church, too also. Q uakers T he first to erect a house o f worship in B e r wick was the Society o f Friends* who pur chased on Oct. 2 1, the ground on which in 1801 they built a small brick meetinghouse. On Nov. 1 1, iSoo. a request was laid before the Catawissa monthly meeting fo r permission to hold 5er>'ices in Berwick on the first d ay o f each week, signed by Aquilla Starr. On A pril
