Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24


That's Just the trouble -
answered School Superintendent c.
M McDaniels, therefore, you
must resign
This is the now famous dialogue
which has set the thriving manu-
featuring city of Hammond, Ind,
IN an uproar, which has arrayed
members of families against each
other, which has started many So
cial feuds, and which threatens to
be made a political issue.
Superintendent McDanicls asked
Miss McGraw to resign, giving as
his reasons that she was too popu-
lar and had too many social duties
outside of school hours.
And Miss McGraw has resigned
And now the people of Hammond
have started a monster petition for
her reinstatement. 1t is signed by
every pupil in the Hammond school;
all the leading men, ministers,
bankers, physicians, society women
and public officials.
If every man, woman, and child
in Hammond signs the petition,
Will not reinstate Miss McGraw,'
says Superintendent McDaniels.
Neither will 1 file charges against
her''
And the cause of all this is de-
rnure, 19-year-old little school
rna'am, to whom the people of
Hammond have given the high
sounding title:
The Girl Who Is So Pretty
That Everybody Falls In Love-
With-Her. -
She is pretty, this Hammond,
Ind, schoolma am, Genevieve Nc
Graw, whose destinations cause the
male population of all ages to gaze
in rapture as she passes by.
Slightly below medium height,
with a perfect figure, mignonne,
oval face, and a complexion that
has set Hammond poets hunting
rhymes for ''rose1eaf, - il only needs
the young SchOolma ANS dark hair
and eyes and tiny hands and feet to
complete a picture that has reused
the interest of every male person IN
the town to an amazing pitch.
Miss McGraw is Wisconsin
girl. She went to Hammond at the
beginning of the present school year
from West Superior, in that state.
With her she took such recon-
rnendations from President I. c.
Mcneil, of the Superior Normal
school, as made School Superintend-
cnt McDanie1s gasp in pleased sur
prise. Here are some of them:
Faithful.
.Punctual.
Devoted to her work.
-fOf remarkable teaching power.
<'Of magnetic personality.
Magnetic personality, that
greatest attribute of a teacher,
unused Superintendent McDaniels
with his best pedagog ical air Real
Iy, we must engage this young
woman.
Superintendent McDanie1s has
:. now changed his mind regarding
the chief item of teachers assets.
1.-The trouble is that these mag
nctic personalities attract other
people besides the chidrcn,'' he
says.
And it must be admitted that hi.
words are true
Miss McGraw has a model rec
ord She never missed day a
school Never was late. Ncvcl
neglected a pupil
She never allowed her social du
ties to interfere with her profes
siona1 work
She was a model of propriety.
She was received in the best SO
cial circles of Hammond as favor
lite.
But
The young men of Hammond ne
elected their business. They wer
not allowed inside the school house
but they used to make long dctour
in order to walk by the building, IL
hope of catching a glimpse of Mis-
McGraw's pretty dark head at tn
window
They Wed with each other il
showering invitations and atten
tons upon the young woman; tn
pretty school teachers boardin
house looked like a hot-housc mos
of the time, so numerous were tn
floral offerings sent TO her, Will
as for candy
All the other school teachers @
- Hammond have indigestion fror
trying to help Miss McGraw dispos
of the bon bons sent to her. Mis-