The Holly chieftain., 1905-10-20
Public School Column.

Quotation for week: Write it ::on
your heart that everv dav is the best
day in the year Emerson,
Miss BillinRslea's frat grade pupils
write very neatly and plainly.
Some of the drawings OF birds and
animals in room No. are very cred
liable.
The 10th grade rhetoric class is do
ing some good work in original compo-
sitions.
The Teachers Reading Circle met
with Miss Billingslea Monday evening
and discussed the first two chapters ~
''Schonl Sanitation and Decoration.
Room No. . under the direction of
Miss Dickinson spent part Of the
afternoon last Friday in cleaning the
school ward OF stones and scraps Of
paper. The yard now presents quite
4 neat appearance.
Everitt Holder and Frank Leather
man have recently joined the high
school, the former In the 10th and the
latter In the. llth Grade. Frank
comes from the La Fayctte. Indiana.
high school.
The Holly high school base ball
team went to Granada last Saturday
! to play the high school team Of that
town. after 4 closely cor tested game
j the score stood to ? in favor Of Gra-
j iiada. The Granada team will come
| TO Roily to play a-retprn game.
The modern school huiidin. is quite
different from the one our parents
used to attend. Besides the school
rooms the best modern school build
ing contains principals Office, teach
ers' retiring rooms, recitation rooms,
an assembly hall. store rooms, lunch
rooms, bicycle rooms, rooms for man
ual training, laboratory rooms, and a
library room
One OF the best things about the
public school system il that IL teaches
children to work together as parts Of
whole. The same principle applies
In every game, requiring united effort
such as base ball or foot ball. where
''team work" demands that every
player Shall subordinate his individul-
| ity for the, good Of all, 1t is also met
wi h In society, where the citizen
must work in harmony with his fell
lows to secure certain results. The
man wlro has allowed his indiyidual-
ity to run wild. so that he cannot
jnin with others in attaining the
ends for which society is organized
Is indeed unfortunate. and the teach
er or the parent who does not train
the child to give up part of himself,
when the good Of his fellows require.
it. is failing in his duty.
One of the saddest occurrences in
the historyeof education in this coui :
try is the recent downfall of Superb :
tendent Daugherty, OF Peora, Illinoi.
For thirty years he was superintei d.
ent Of schools OF that city and t. e
school board had such implicit conf
dencc in him that practically the
whole administration OF school affairs
! was turned over to him. even to the
hiring OF teachers and the mann :
ment OF the school funds. He was
successful as Il business man and was
president or the First National Bank
Of Peoria at the time OF his downfall.
He is said to have padded the pay
rolls carrying ticticuous names an the
list of teachers and pOcketing the
money thus drawn. 1t il estimat.
ed that one fourth OF the money ap.
propriated for the salaries of teach
ers for several years past went to his
pocket. In buying school furniture
and supplies It. WAS his custom to oi :
tain orders for amounts more than
the bills amounted to, cash them, and
give his checks for the real amounts
OF the bills. The difference he appro-
priated.
Septo Suppositor,es sure cure
for ladies'. Holly Pharmacy.