The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-10

Lawrence received a telegram stating
that. the Hon Luther Manship was
sick IN bed and could not be with US
Friday night 10 deliver his lecture.
| but we hope some time in the near
future 10 have him with US, as both
old and young were very anxious to
/ hear the lecture. But Prof Law
renee entertained the crowd with
some very fine music on the piano
lhy Miss Estelle Garner. which was
Ienjoyed very much.
We are proud TO say that the high
school Is fast nearing the one hun
dred mark, as new pupils are COM
| ing in daily. which speaks we'll for
Prof. Lawrence and his worthy as
sistants, Mrs. Lucy Caldwell and Miss
| Este1le Garner, and the pupils are
realizing the great need of education
land are seeking TO com bine practice
with theory, as il aims 70 unite the
book studies of the school room with
| the actual work of the farm and of
| the country home, instead of our
schools and education tending TO
drive cur boys and girls away from
the farm and our homes. The new
education qualities the young TO ap-
| ply their knowledge TO working out
the daily problems of practical life
The demand is increasing every day
that agriculture be taught in our
high schools and that science be
knR ehas
knowledge van be applied in the
home and on the farms. Hence the
growing recognition of the great truth
that the farm and the home combin-
ed with the graded rural school, as
taught by such capable men as Prof.
Lawrence, affords the very best train
ing for life that our boys and girls
can have as on the farm the boys
learn to use their hands, learn how
to do all kinds of farm work. They
understand how to treat animals and
also get next to nature. A girl gets
much the same experience on the
farm as our boys, as she knows how
to cook and sew and milk the COWS,
take care of the children and do all
kinds of house and garden work All
this is far better than the manual
training of our much talked of city
schools. With the right kind of
teaching and the cooperation of the
teacher and parents our children viii
certainly have the best teaching for
life, and we hope by the opening of
school next year that We will have
our dormitory completed and the ag-
ricultural high school established in
Caledonia, for in the rising genera
ton the farms and homes of our
beautiful Southland will tell a lot
about this new education and will
make our homes dearer to our chill
dren.
The mayor and board of aldermen |
secured the services of Mr. John |
Booth of Monroe county to grade the |
streets of Caledonia. Mr.. Booth |
spent last week with his conyicts in |
working the streets and he did some |
excellent work, and our little burg |
presents quite a handsome appear /
ance. Mr.. Booth did not get all the
work done that we hoped to have /
done, as there were several streets I
that needed opening up which would
have added a great deal TO the ap-
pearance of the place, but suppose
they will remain closed till the end
of time, as land is very precious in
the city of Caledonia.
We have before us the first num-
ber of the High School Advocate. is
sued monthly by the S. d. Lee and
r. f. Lee Literary Societies of the
Caledonia high school, and We find
1t nice, clean, eight-page paper. fun
to the brim of good, moral reading
matter. The following is the board
Of editors: Miss Birdie May Still
man, S. d. Lee, editor in chief; Miss
Mittie Stanley, r. E. Lee, assistant
editor in chief; Mr.. Sam B. Meyers,
business manager; Mr. Sharf Kidd,
assistant business manager. The
price of the paper is only fifty cents.
and we would like to see everybody
subscribe for the paper. By so doing
you viii be patroniZing a home in
iustry and also helping to build up
,ur school.
Capt. J. l. Egger and Mr.. s. B
Myers are spending few days in
aberdeen and West Point on official
business.
The cold snap of the first of last
week caused the death of a large
lumber of fat porks. Hog killing
vas the order of the day all over the
and We think that we can
.oaS+ of the laroaSt hogs of any mart