Word: township
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Locust Township lies in a quiet, verdant bowl in the mountains of Columbia County, Pa. Broad farms with prosperous farmer families upon them pattern the land like a soft patchwork quilt. It is ten miles to a town or city...
...that, I live in the best corner of the best township in the best county in the best state in the best country in the world...
...inhabitants. Irish disagreement is proverbial, but to make matters worse even the English cannot agree. Some claim that the Boundary Commission, as defined by the Free State Act, was empowered only to rectify the frontier. Ex-Premier George has himself said: "Only a parish here and a township there are likely to be transferred." Others support either the North or the Free State; and so where there is disunity there is dissension...
Readers of Mr. Abel's Bulletin will probably be surprised to learn that the idea of consolidation and transportation is 80 years old. But they will hardly be surprised to learn that New England, and particularly Massachusetts, generated the idea. The town, or township, was the first unit to displace the unsatisfactory "district." In New England, where the town was the unit of local control in all departments of life, districts were abolished as early as 1840; and in 1869 the first step towards community transportation of pupils was taken...
...Those in which the town or township unit has been a considerable factor in consolidation. These include New England, Michigan, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, North Dakota...