The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-01-16
LOCALNEWS-


The Yellow Jacket placer min
Is have been sold to Texas
syndicate for $4,000.
J. G. Dougherty returned last
Thursday from an extended visit
to his old home in Philadelphia
He reports a splendid time.
The Board of County Com
missioners adjourned. Saturday.
the 18th DIR. c. p Huston was
awarded the hospital contract,
and the MESSENGER the county
printing contract
We learn that Messrs- Brad
bury. Peck and Lamme bonded
their Parker Mountain claims To
the Ohio company for $50. 600, IL
stead of $1,000, as stated last
week
j Married-At the residence Of
the brides parents. in ChalIiss on
Tuesday evening" Jan 9th, 1905,
Billy Reed TO Miss Gertrude Nc
Kendrick, Judge J. g. FiunelI
performing the marriage cere-
mony. 1t was a very quiet af-
fair. Miss Hazel Paul was the
bridesmaid and Mearl Shanafelt
groonsman. The bride Is
charming young lady. and the
youngest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs H G.. McKendrick, and has
lived in this town since a child
and has won many friends The
newly welded couple departed
the following morning for Mac
kay where they expect TO reside
The MESSENGER extends it con-
gratulatiOns and best wishes
We believe that too much and
: too difficult work is given in
most of the text books on arith-
! metic. So much appears in the
4 i books that has been manufactur-
b ed merely to keep pupils busy
b that one sometimes feels like
throwing away the book and
saving 10 the class Learn sim
: pie fractions, easy decimals. q
7 little percentage, and then take
: ND something worth while. Cus
) out the long problems that con-
fuse more than they elucidate-
9 Chop the legs OF the centipede
5 examples that take all day to
: find out nothing. Throw away
4 everything that has not good
. common sense back of it. Theft
see to it that the pupils know
how to figure simple sums such
as occur in real life. Teach them
something in such a way that
n they will afterwards know they
know il. Let them have the sat
isfaction OF knowing that they
have found out something in the
exact science of numbers Most
Il of the children are guessing
about it.
Somebody long ago invented
' the term fool examples" for
4 those requirements in arithmetic
"A which are of no use TO the learn.
4 er but which keep him from do
- ing something else in study hour
i Teachers in all grades run upor
i many examples and give then
out without really knowing the,
have done wrong. Let Us illus
10 trate.
> A bought 2734 I'd. of carpet
. ing az 1924 dollars a yard Wha
- did he pas
4 Find the cost of is II ms o
sugar at u S-5 cents a pound
What viii 1924 dozen pairs @
mittens cost at 3 375 dollars
pair
Of Putting lot of these fool e.
amples before class gives tn
- Pupils an idea that the realm {
~ arithmet is a very difficult an
- mysterious thing and that onl
II II few of the very elect can evs
- excel there. The fact that I
- man ever bought 27S4 yd. {
- carpet. Nothing ever was sol
- at 1924 dollars yard. Sug;
never had the fool price of p )
"a cents a pound put on it. !
II. pair of mittens ever cost S-S-2
although there may have bee
,eh millions of them sold at 81 cent
but even that is unlikely. Me
chants put an easy price
everything they expect 70 SCI
i, except on those things they e
IA. pect to put off upon people WI
do not know that an article 20
at 9S cents is practically sold
,a,. dollar.
A. There is far too much math
matical work done in the schoo
which is prepared exactly as
lual skilled trickster would make
.ler if he wished TO bring up cnil
lip- rem to a habit of falling and .
yer having any confidence IN the