Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-01
: GENERAL NEWS NOTES y

New Instructor in Art Chosen for
/ Hardin.
Bliss Elizabeth Parker OF Caldwell,
Idaho, has been chosen to succeed
Mrs. Smith as head of the Art de-
partrient at Hardin college. She com
es very highly recommended and is
said to be an artist OF ability.
G. A. T%orreyson, who calls l.addo-
mia his home says the Herald, and
travels for a St. Louis grocery firm,
was giving In some Of his school days
experience the other day. When lie
was a student Of Mrs. Champ Clark.
Charlie was one of Peck's bad boys
when he went TO school in the seven
ties.
He says himself he was hard to
handle. Il went TO school in Martins
burg in 49," Miss Bennett, Of Cal
laway county, now the wife of Speak
er Champ Clark was my teacher, and
she knew her business. She was as
sistant teacher in the school and had
charge Of about fifteen pupils. There
we're about fifteen pupils. There were
four tough boys in Miss Benefits
room. Yes, I'll tell you who they
were. Charlie Clark. Tom Roach,
WIN Powell of New Florence, and my
self. and what n one of
us coundn't think of. another could. =
In the spelling class we were Away
foot, but | remember on one occas-
ion we spelled every word that came
to us, and when the lesson was over
We stood one, two, three, four at the
head. Bill Ficklin told Miss Bennett
We had looked on the book. The fun
commenced when school was out and
we give Ficklin a licking.
Next day we were brought before
the court. | told Miss Bennett we
whipped him because he told a story
on us, but to just give me the licking
and let the other boys go. It was all
the same to me as / got a licking ev-
cry day, anyway. The other boys putt
up a good talk, except Bill Powell
who wouldn't say a word. She turn
ed the rest of us loose and gave 1t to
him in good fashion. The tears camel
in my eyes and said, Goodbye Bill
your gone.
The directors had a meeting and
wanted to expell him, but Miss Ben
nett objected, She said she wanted
to make a good boy out of him, and
she did. saw Bill at New Florence
the other day and he said he believed
that if it hadn't been for Miss Ben
nett he would be in the ~penitentiary.
told him he ought to be, anyway"
Mr.. Torreyson says that at that
time the best schools in the country
outside OF Mexico were in Martins
burg school and the Wilder school
south of Laddonia. Prof. Gass, late
State Superintendent OF schools
taught at Martinsburg the following
year.
The county court, Thursday after
noon, accepted the plans drawn by II.
l.. Phillips chief engineer of the Fruin-
Bambrick Construction Company for
Audrain's new SIS, 900 county infirm-
airy. The court went to the county
farm Thursday afternoon to decide
upon the exact location of the build
ing. The bonds for the building pur-
poses we're sold to a st. Louis firm
last Saturday.
The plans as accepted are substan-
TALLY as follows:
The building is in the shape Of a
"Y," The front, or stem of the
"Y."is a feet across From its
rear is an extension to the right 46
IT. long and 80 feet wide; a similar
extension is on the left. The left wi
be for women and the right for men.
The basement will really be the first
floor as 1t is not underground but lev
el with the surface. In the right base
ment will be the laundry, and heating
plant with a cell room for county pris-
oners who have been taken to the
farm to work. In the left basement
will be the kitchen, dining room and
store room.
The second floor wings will be bot
arranged alike. In the extreme end
will be a dormitory with wash room
and closet attached. A corridor will
extend through t%he>center to the front
with smaller rooms on each side.
There will be a room also prepared
for use as a hospital ward.
In the front, which is three stories
high will be the superintendent of
flee, a receiving room and on the
third story bed and living rooms for
himself and family. The structure
will be as near fire proof and as san
itary as possible. Accommodation
for 80 can be easily had and with a
little crowding AZ can be housed.
The Hardin college faculty for 1911
IL has been chosen. Mrs. Dea Carr
Smith will not return next fall but
goes to Oklahoma where she will open
an art studio in Oklahoma City. Miss
Jack, at the head of the department
of Expression, has accepted a posi-
ton in a school In the north. The
teachers are:
John w. Million, President.
Mrs. II. M. Richardson. Lady Prin-
cipaI.
Mrs. J. w, Million, Greek, Latin.
Mr.. j. w. Barley, English.
Mr.. G. C. Motley, History, Ethics.
Miss Luella Kiekhoefer. French,
German, Art History.
Miss Maude Williamson, Mathemat-
les, Science.
Miss Agnes Carr Vaughn Assist
ant in Greek and Latin.
Miss Blanche Hildebrand, Assist
ant in English.
Miss Lutte Vaughn, Preparatory De
partment.
Mr.. A. L. Guehne, Director of Mus
ic Department.
Mr.. II. Gjerdrum. Piano
Miss Elizabeth Lawson, Piano.
Mrs. Adam Voice,