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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-27


manual training has completed it's
10th year in the Rock Island public
schools.
The beginning was very small and
the equipment one large bench, still
in use, and few tools pur-
chased at the earnest solicitation Of
c. W. Kent, both as an experiment
and also to test the demand for such
a course in the high school.
At a meeting of the board of edu-
cation held April IS. 1902. it was
moved and carried that manual train
ing be substituted for chemistry in
the high school course of study for
the ensuing school year" ]. F. Oar
by, principal of the high school, was
requested to prepare plans for bids
on manual training equipment
To provide for proper instruction
in the new course, Mr.. Kent was ap-
pointed supervisor of manual training
and was allowed 500 to cover ex-
penses incurred attending the 1902
summer school at the University of
Illinois. The first contract for in
stalling equipment, was awarded to
Frank Ill, Aug. 10, 1902. Sept. 9, 1902,
Mr.. Darby was allowed the sum of
1000 for the purchase of more equip
ment and supplies.
The first years work consisted of
knife work, chip carving and elemen-
tary bench work and was SO popular
that the increased enrolment for the
fall term of 1903 necessitated addi-
tional help. ]. C. Miller was employ
ed as assistant in the high school
shop, devoting all his time to elemen-
tary wood work. The knife work was
then put into the seventh and eighth
grades for the boys who spent 30
minutes each week in drawing and
sloyd work. So great an interest was
manifest among the teachers of the
first and second grades at this time
that they organized a class in indus
trial art work to meet after school
The next year this work, consisting OF
weaving, string work, etc, was intro
duced in the lower grades. under the
direct supervision of Miss Abigail
Dean, who had taught the art work
for some years.
At the same time also Miss Dean
introduced a sewing course into the
| seventh and eighth grades that the
girls might have the training they
so much needed.
Mr.. Kent resigned at the end of
the school year and c. W. Gibson was
appointed supervisor Aug. 20, 1905.
During the years 1905-06 and 19O6-07
wood turning lathes were added TO
the high school shop equipment, me-
chanical drawing and machine design
to the high school course with the
proper equipments, and cardboard
work was introduced into the fifth
and sixth grades.
At three of the eighth grade school
buildings wood shop centers were
opened and partially equipped. To
/ these centers boys from the other
seventh and eighth grade schools
came for 80 minutes each week TO
receive instruction in sloyd and eIe-
mentary wood work.
Mr.. Miller resigned Feb. s. 1907.
10 accept a position in the ST. Louis
: pub ic schools. and was succeeded by
&C. c. CrUber. who remained bat a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-27

a few years ago was known as "the
woods" or pasture" but which now
is being rapidly filed with most beau
tiful and desirable homes.
Only three of the four rooms have
been opened this fall, giving school
accommodation to about 80 children.
The teachers in charge are Miss Jane
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
KEEP In PERFECT EEALTR.

You owe it to yourself, your family and
your work to keep in the best possible con-
dition. If you have strong, ready muscles
rich, healthy blood and clear brain, you
can do more and better work and really
live, and enjoy living and be blessing to
those you love.
Much of the eternal crouch and many
of the aches and pains you see every day
are caused directly by lazy, torpid, over
worked liver, and all of that may be abso-
lutely cured by +. L. T. Richardson's
Laxative Tonic). One ifty-cent or dollar
bottle of this magnificent tonic will prove
to you that it is the finest laxative and the
quickest strength building tonic ever of.
fered sick, suffering humanity. Get bot.
tie from your druggist today, and keep it
always in the family medicine chest ready
to put the Liver right in one night or cure
malaria, constipation, or bilious fevers in
the shortest possible time. If not on sale
in your town, write r. L. T. Co., Ander.
son, S. O.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Ten Things Do This Month.

1. Get ready for winter; see that
everything is snug about the house,
the barns and poultry houses.
9. Get the crops in; put the cot
ton out of the weather; see that the
Toughage is under shelter or we'll
stacked.
s. Keep the plows going, break
ing deep and thoroughly, and keep
on sowing rye.
4. Look we'll to the young stock;
feed them literally, give them dry
stables and see that they go into
the winter free of lice.
5. Get after the stumps with dy-
namite ora stump puller; get rid
of useless bitches and banks; clean
out the patches of bushes and briers
that mar the fields.
6. Give the fattening hogs spe-
cial attention; gradually increase
the grain ration; get them ready to
kill early in the winter.
Z. Clean up the garden after the
first frost; put all dead vines, etc.,
into the compost heap; seed unoc-
cupied land to rye or other hardy
crops.
8. Set out fruit trees, shade trees,
grape vines, berries, etc; make a
lawn if you have not good one
already.
9. If you are not following ro-
tation of crops, get to work and lay
out one suited to your farm and cir
cumstances, and get down to busi-
ness farming.
10. Arrange for a supply of read
ing matter for yourself, your wife
and the children-we will be glad
to help you make out list if you
wish; see that good lights are pro-
vided.-Progressive Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Get Rid of Cotton Anthrac
nose by Selecting Seed in
the Field.

A number of articles have been
written from time to time on seed
selection as an important factor in
controlling anthracnose. There
seems to have been some misun-
derstanding about the kind of
bolls from which it is safe to select
seed.
When the investigation was first
undertaken here we secured results
which indicated that it was safe to
pick healthy looking bolls for seed
from diseased stocks. Experiments
conducted for the past three years
prove that this is not safe. Last
season our worst diseased cotton
was where we had planted seed from
healthy looking bolls taken from
stalks which contained diseased
bolls. The same thing is true this
season. We are confident now,
therefore, that it is necessary that
seed be selected only from healthy
stalks. We have been able to get
rid of anthracnose in one season by
carefully selecting seed from stalks
which show no sign of disease and
which are not near diseased stalks.
No seed should be selected from a
stalk which has a single diseased
boil. After such cotton has been
selected for seed it should be GIN
ned on gin that has not been used
to gin diseased cotton or on gin
which has been thoroughly cleaned.
IF this is done and then the disease
free seed are planted on land which
has not been in cotton for one year,
anthracnose will be eliminated.
H. W. Barre.
P..,hologist, S. G. Exp. Sta.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Round Trip Excursion Rates
Via Southern Railway Pre-
mier Carrier of the South
to Edgefield S. c.

Washington, D. c.. and return
$3.50. Account United Daush-
tiers of the Confederacy, Nov.
l2-l6, 1919. Tickets sold Nov.
s-l4, 1912, inclusive with final
limit returning Dec. l, 1912.
Atlanta, Ca, and return s6.35. Ac-
count National Commercial AS
sociation. Tickets sold Nov. 80
to Dec. l, 1912 inclusive with fl
nal limit returning Dec. 10, 1912.
New Orleans, La. and return S2o.35
Account Farmers National Con-
gress of the United States. Tick
= cts sold Nov. IS, ;6 and q. 1912,
with final limit returning Nov.
IA, 1912. Extension until Dec.
Is on application and payment
fee of one dollar.
Jacksonville, Fla, and return
sl3.l5. Account Southern Med
ical Association Nov. l2-l4,
sls.15, 1912. Tickets sold Nov.
9, 10 and IL, 1912, with final
,imitreturning Nov. Is, 1912.
Extension until Dec. Is, on ap-
plication and fee of one dollar
before Dec. Is.
Atlanta, Ga. and Return" ss.35.
Account Southern Appalachian
Good Roads Association Nov.
2o-2l, 1912. Tickets sold Nov.
Is and l9 1912 with final limit
returning Nov. %, 1912.
louisville, Ky. and return s4.45.
Account Southern Educational
Association, Nov. $3.50, 1912.
Tickets sold Nov. 1921, 1912
with final limit returning Dec. 8,
1912.
augusta, Ga, and return sl.55. Ac-
count Second Annual Corn Fes-
tival, December 81, 1912. Tick
cts sold December 9 to 6, 1912
inclusive.
Southern Railway dining car Ser
vice and Pullman Steering car ser
vice on through trains. Conve-
nient local service. For detailed
information, sleeping car reserva-
tions etc., call on ticket agents, or,
A. H. Acker, TPA., Augusta, Ga,
w. E. McGee, APA., Columbia,
S. c., H. F. Cary, APA. Washing
ington, D. c., S. H. Hardwick,
PTA., Washington, D. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Bees dnd a.
Form Notes

Asparagus will grow in any good
well-drained farm land.
Onion sets should be set out just
as early as ground can be worked.
Almost all our common garden veg
etables require somewhat algaline
soil.
Selling all the hay and grain raised
on the farm is sure method Of selling
the farm.
Young cabbage plants require thor
ough protection in the hotbed anc
cold frame.
1t is seldom that the very early va
rieties of potatoes yield so we'll as
those little later.
Long, straight rows will make
easier work with the horse cultivatoT
or wheel hoe later on.
For sandy land the mammoth red
clover has proved superior to alsike or
the medium red varieties.
Heroic pruning measures are needed
to bring many old trees into bearing.
but it need not all be done the first
year.
There Is no danger of an overrich
soil for asparagus. In fact this cron
can only be grown proftably on very
rich land.
Did you ever think how much ground
a good ear Of corn will plant? 1t Is
just that much ground wasted If you
plant poor ear.
1t is as idle and useless to expect
good crops from inferior seed as it
would be to endeavor to breed thor
oughbred cattle from scrub stock.
Asparagus roots, properly planted,
fertilized and given good culture, will
continue to produce large spears for
fifteen to twenty years in succession.
Alsike clover fs perennial and can
be grown on ground that Ia too low
and moist for the medium red or
mammoth; 1t Is grown equally well on
high ground.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Masters, Sale.

State of South Carolina-County
of Edgefeld-Court Of Common
Pleas.
Mrs. S. B. Burton-Plaintiff-
Against-S. z. Seigler and the Far
mers Bank-Defendants.
Pursuant to the decree in this
cause I will offer for sale at public
out-cry to the highest bidder, be-
fore the Court House, Town of
Edgefeld and State of South Caro-
lima on sales day in December 1912,
the same being the End day of said
month, between the legal hours of
sale the following described realty
to-wit:
All that tract of land situate in
Moss Township, in the County of
Edgefeld aud State aforesaid, con-
tanning One Hundred acres, more or
less, and bounded on the North by
lands of Nick Grifis; on the East
by lands of Nick or T. J. Grifis,
on the West by lands of T. F. Nor
gan and Martintown road, and on
the South by r. A. Turner aud
Samuel Cheatham.
Terms of Sale. One half of the
purchase money cash; balance on a
credit of one year, with interest
from dat of sale or all cash at pur-
chasers option, if any there be, to
be secured by the bond of the pur-
chaser and mortgage OF the prem
ises, said bond and mortgage pro-
viding for the payment of ten per
cent attorneys fee If it should be
necessary to collect same by law.
If the purchaser fails to comply
with the terms of the sale, the Mas
ter will within one hour, resell
same on the same day at the risk Of
the former purchaser, unless sat-
isfactory arrangement can be made
with the Master.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
S. NJ. Smith,
Master E. G. S. @.
Nov. 7, 1912.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
BEES ARE QUITE PROFIT
AS Adjunct to Farm Nothing Ps
Well When Properly Cared Fc
Work for Women.

By MRS. L. TAYLOR, Qhk
AS an adjunct to farming / X
nothing, when properly cared TO
pays so well, considering the
spent and the money invested, a
Last year, two colonies pr.
80 pounds per colony Of surplr
ey, which sold for $40. The be-
SIS, so there Is q gain Of SIS, or :
cent. No other stock or crop J
as we'll.
A bee-keeper not far from b
eraged 112 pounds Of honey fl
colonies. He sold 1t for Is q
pound. This seems like a very
yield, but with improved meth
expect to do even better. One :
in this community manages
$100 each year from his bee
keeps from twelve to fifteen {
and his farm does not suff,
neglect in the least.
If the men have not time II;
to the bees, the women can 10 .
them. They are generally al
premises and have q better
tunity for watching them.
For gentleness in handling
to gather honey and to keep +: N
moth, I prefer the Italians A
hive will answer the purpt
should be chaff lined all throl
for wintering out Of doors
cushion should be placed over
to absorb moisture.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Large Acreage in Oats.

The Advertiser is greatly pleased
at the prospect for a very large
acreage in oats throughout the
county. Hon. w. R. Parks told us
a few days ago that farmers around
Parksville are moving forward in
the nj; ter of sowing grain. A good
citizen from Plum Branch made
pract;- ally the same report. Mr.. NJ.
3. Hamilton, as level-headed far
mer as there is in the county, said
Sa: 1rday that he has already sown
IS bushels of oats and will
it 100 before he stops. Mr..
Nichalson, one of the real
.essiye among the young far
ot the county, told the writer
S- ,2y that he has put rs bush
els oats in the ground and that
h will SOW about 100 bushels.
A. ne best part Of it is, Mr..
N son said he prepared the land
b.. his year than he has ever
d. fore. Say what you please,
I'll Ders of this county are wax
j, M many of them have al
rs ked up-and will be inde,
p of the western eoyn far
me
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
TO MAKE FOUNDATION
Gasoline Machine viii Not
Work Unless Placed on Goo
stantlal Base.

It is unreasonable to eXpec
line engine to do good work
Is mounted on q solid TO
There Is nothing better than
for this and when placing
position, fastenings should !
the concrete as shown In tt
panying illustration, says tn
Farmer. These fastenings cal
by any blacksmith or in n
farm work shop. They are ::
the concrete when it is poi
should, of course, be placed
engage with the holes In th'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06

Messrs. Rives Bros. as usual have
been having q big coat suit sale for
ladies the first of September and
this year they had such a success
with the large line that their for
mer big assorted sales brought the
trade this year without the aid Of
printers ink and they have now a
second lot that will be in and will
let you hear from tn em.-Adv
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
startIna Plants IN Houses.

A good way to use tin cans or cigar
boxes is to plant cabbage, lettuce,
parsley, pepper, radish and tomato
seeds in them, about the middle of
this month. Place the cans or boxes
in the kitchen windows.
Caulflower, celery and egg plant
may also be started in the house.
Bore holes in the sides Of these
boxes, an inch FROM the bottom, IN
order to give ventilation. Start Gu
cumber and squash seeds in straw
berry boxes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06

ne charming wife of French
dil on.at had never thoroughly
IT, .ered the English language. She
vgs urging an American naval Off
ceI attend a dinner, the invitation
to Eich he had already declined.
lf ady insisted that he must go,
b. &c Young officer said he could
= >ossibly do so, as he had burn
ed bridges behind him.
ady misunderstood the word.
" at will be all right" she e1-
icl. 81; Il will lend you pair Of
my husbands" ."-Ladies' Home
sJoa-., Il.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Snreadinu Manure.

Get into the habit Of hauling ma
nure to the field every day as it is
taken from the barn. The sooner ma
nure is spread in the field the smaller
the loss Of fertility incurred, and the
smaller the amount Of labor required
to handle It.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06

all permanent success. The great
and increasing demand for carriages
was built upon it. Genuine merit
in design, material, workmanship
and finish make our carriages merit
your approval.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Mems lnhumsn;ty to Man.

Some men, when they are arrested
on serious charge, are sent to jail
Others, ike one in New York. fare
muci, worse. The magistrate told MS
yife to take him hore and tell him
what she thought OF him. Rochester
Democrat and Chcoutc!e.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Town Owns Herring Brook.

Brewster, Mass, owns herring.
brook, and at the town meeting every
year, following an old custom, COM
mittee is elected by ballot, to catch the
fish and dispose Of them. The pro-
ceeds are turned into the town treas
ury
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-11-06
Solid Engine Foundation.

tn, engine. Care should be used not
to injure the threads on the ends Of
the rod, and to this end it is best to
keep the nuts on same. :i:.5....
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-06
Honor Where 1t Is Due.

Young men of the South, you who art
living in the golden age of our civiliza-
ton, do not forget for a moment that
such a state of material prosperity as
you see today was made possible by
the foresight, the brains, the self-sacri-
fcing devotion of the men of the six
ties-those men of the vision With
never tagging zeal and untirlng energy
they gave their very lives to redeem the
South from poverty to prosperity.
Theirs was an uphill fight, the odds
were against them. The world at large
did not believe that they could re- es-
tablish stable government, rebuild the
South and save this section to Anglo
Saxon civilization"
they made possible an Industrial and
commercial development for the sec
ton whose history reads like fairy
tale Her rivers have been spanned
with steel bridges: her mountain passes
threaded with railroads; her streams
harnessed TO catch the unlimited en-
ergy which before had ioitered listless-
Iy to the sea and now is lighting hun
dred cities.
Living in the sunshine of today 3
prosperity" says recent writer, the
people of the South may well pause
to consider the achievements of the
leaders in state government reorgani-
zation, in industrial development. in
railroad building, in diversified agricul-
ture, who for a third of a century ago,
in every part of the South did a work
which has never been surpassed. if ever
eduaied. Some Of the Old Industrial
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-06

which We have reached today in the
South is under deep obligation to those
men of the great faith and the heroic
vision, for it was to their heroism and
unparalleled courage and self sacrifice
that the Greater South exists today.
The material upbuilding of the South,
which by reason of the terrible disas
ters of war. made but little progress up
to 1880, was largely led by the same
men who had been active factors in
that great struggle. They were men
of heroic mold. men of dauntless cour-
age. men who knew not how to yield
to defeat; in fact, they never recog-
nized defeat From one end of the
South to the other they beat their
swords into plowshares and preached
and practiced the gospel of industrial
development as the only salvation Of
the South"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-06
"
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choral societies now in existence can
be taken as a criterion, interest in the
production of choral works is wide
spread. In all parts of the country
choruses. large and small are busily
engaged in presenting compositions for
chorus and solo voices, with and with
out orchestral accompaniment. This
spread of interest in choral music is
development of great value to music
generally. for more educative and
important phase of musical activity
than that of the cultivation of chorus
singing can not be found
The Converse College Choral society
is almost pioneer in this field. When
it began its series of concerts in 1894
there were comparatively few such or
CARNATIONS active; its eighteen years
of life have seen great advances made
in the giving of choral music During
these years it has maintained its high
ideals, and has given the patrons Of
the festival better programs each year.
1t feels a pardonable pride in the rec
ord it has made, and proposes to con-
tinue advancing to better things eacI
succeeding year.
The steady growth of the festival
during the years 1905, 1906 and 1907
made it necessary TO enlarge the audit
forum to a seating capacity of $500.
In 1908 this enlarged auditorium was
used for the first time and was filed
to its capacity. The comfortable seat
ing. the perfect acoustics and the con-
venience Of the foyer, cloak and re-
firing rooms at once appealed to the
patrons of the festival In 1909 the
audience again filled the auditorium.
In discussing the selection of a SYM
phony for the coming festival Mr..
Damrosch recently told the director OF
the festival that he could make greater
effects with an orchestra of so men in
the Converse college auditorium than
he could with Is or 80 in Carnegie hall.
New York city. He has pronounced it
TO be one OF the most satisfying con-
cert halls in the entire country, and
every artist who has sung in it has
emphasized this statement Patrons Of
tHe IeSllNal are Fortunate III having 50
perfect a combination of comfort ana
musical qualities in the room devoted
to the festivals
Officers of the Festival
Following is a list Of the officers Of
the festival
A H Twichell. president Warren
DuPre, vice president; DR. H. A. LEON.
secretary treasurer: Arthur L. Man
chester, director Executive commit
tee: A. H Twiehel. DR.. II. A. Lyon.
J. G. Evins. John A. Law. Warren Du-
Pre- Horace Bomar. w E. Burnett. r
II. f. Chapman and Arthur L. Man
chester
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-06

plants which had survived the ruin of
war were revived; some new ones were
built and gradually there came quick
ening, Iife-giving realization that what
the South had lost of wealth by the
war could be more than regained
through the fullest utilization of the
natural resources with which a kind
Providence had with lavish hand en-
dowed this region. These men took up
the work which had 80 ruthlessly been
destroyed by war. They sought to re-
vive the industrial spirit of the South
rather than to create a new spirit, for
there was inherent in Southern life a
great latent power for engineering and
industrial operations