The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1909-05-14

superintendent VandlVer, at any
hour you please, and talk as
long as you please to my boys.
and girls"
I wrote editorials in the morn
ing and went just before noon
and those bright boys and girls!
Well, I cannot tel! just how no.
bly, and generously they did
treat me. [ talked to them on
believing you can." and told
the story of the little engine
with the long train of freight
cars, that said before it climbed
the grade over the hill said: II
thought I could; [ thought |
could"
THEY FOLLOWED THEIR
CHILDREN.
The school marched in a body
through town, and the merchants
closed their doors that afternoon
and followed their children to
the court house to hear talk on
1.-The Real Meaning of Education
and Community improvements.
And after l had sought to i'm
press the fact that school houses
are not built to enhance the val
ue of property nor education
sought and acquired and used
simply for making money or win
ming fame. but to enable it's pos
SCISSOR to do more real good in
the world, then I struck "Civic
Improvement" and the fun I
did have with that crowd will go
with me to dying day.
| didn't mean bit of harm by
it don't now, but for the bene
fit of some good folks who had
opposed bonds for electric lights
and water works, [ told the story
of a Georgia school teacher "a
fact!,) who wanted the hotel boy
to bring her a match to light
the electric bulb, saying; YOU'D
better come back here and bring
me a match-I might want to
light that thing when you amt
around"
Then when the crowd was
through laughing, | got myself
into a sort Of monkey shape,
marched across the court bar,
bent over and said: Ladies and
gentlemen, from all accounts, l
think that young lady must have
hailed from the town of Acker-
man, Miss, where she never
saw such thing as an electric
light"
And then the house exploded
[ mean the electric light advo-
Gates, while the others took the
good humored "dry grins,' and
and seemed just about ready to
vote bonds,
That night at my platform lee
ture | went out of the way and
told my audience the story of the
man who had asafoeida IN his
pocket, and of whom his little
boy said: 'Pa's dead and don't
know it,"
Next morning a petition for an
issue of 800, 900 in bonds to put
in electric lights and water works
was being circulated mighty
soon after breakfast.
About everybody signed it, and
my friends are generous enough
to say that the Georgia man
must come back when they
"strike a match" to turn on the
electric light. Ha! hal! hall!
CASE OF THREE TWINS.
The picture on this page is a
clear case of three twins. The
big fat man in the middle is
Charlie Torbert, who is nearly
as big as hogshead EFF "Demo-
rara" sugar and is just about as
sweet. He loves Ackerman SD
well that he would take the
whole town up if he could and
trot it on his knee. AS he could
MT quite do that he took my 10y.
al friend, J. r. Mutt, and the
editor of The Golden Age on
each knee, and held US close to
his big heart-a heart bigger by
the way. than his superb and i'm
posing avoidupois. In all my
way over this big old world |
have met few such combinations
as the body and heart OF Charles
A. Torbert, of -Ackerman. Miss.
Next time I'll tell about other
fine towns, but now / can only
.holleru: "Hurrah for Ackerman
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