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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-01

Har eastern state, MheRe the .royster-
ing and drinking wene worse than
anything they ever joined in Dakota
Territary.
An aid lady over ninety years Of
aye when we laid her away in her
last long sleep on the hillside, used
to say of these boys and her .own,
''Ke can correct them when they are
at your knee, but you cannot when
they reach Your shoulder"
The Good Ola Book says Visiting
the ini4uity of the fathers upon the
children unto the 3rd and -Ath gen
CREATIONS of them thai" -note also,
God be thanked. of the other help,
too, Showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love Me and keep My
commandments"
No compulsory clause in .our state
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-01

Ward county, tho l think the frs'
school In the county Was set up IL
Burlington, where they built, theil
first town, and first county seat.
The men of St. Mary's district
were the first new county officers 81
| Ward county.
Now, don't despise those short
terms wholly, for If you do, you must
set aside the education gained In con.
ventions and farmers Institutes.
A little more of St. Mary's, II
miles up the Mouse river from Mi.
not, where l taught in 81 for sake
of the fun Of living beside the trees
a while. was weary of the bare
hills of the coteaux, the Mouse, and
the Missouri, and I wanted another
fresh experience before l should
wend my way across the ocean again.
Those eager scholars won my
heart. Shall l ever forget Barney
taking a licking rather than stay
away from school, and his father
complaining to me as to what I did
with those boys, that he would not
obey his own parent, and stay away
from school, when his father wanted
to go to town.
Girls, l made friends with the par
ents by making "the first call" We
had a teacher in Towner who had the
gift of tongues and she said when
she got an invitation in Towner she'd
frame it,"
Well, she stayed eight years with
us, and when she was married last
heart and her home to her, and gave
a beautiful wedding to a girl who was
IN orphan, with sisters all scattered,
and that one big happy memory will
last thru all years.
Foreign born parents in st. Mary's
IN those early days?
Yes, was invited to stay to sup
per with one of the directors, and his
wife could not talk to me, but her
children interpreted. She smiled
you can smile in many languages
and her waffles were delicious.
Next year, down ia Burlington, the
original county seat, we set up Soc
ial center, with q debating society
that met every Saturday evening
from home to home, and more than
one lawyer whetted his steel among
US, while mothers laid the babies on
the bed and helped get the feast we
all enjoyed when we broke bread to-
gether.
We had singing school that be-
gan by somebody failing to get the
Tenor at our Sunday evening song
service in the school house, and ask
ing leave to come in Wednesday ev-
ening and practice when he came he
brought Baritone to sing Bass, and
the girls staying with me completed
the Quartette. Thereafter we held
q singing school four evenings week
but We called it a Night School and
one stalwart fellow complained to
me that he only came for the fun of
seeing the girls home, and made
him work.
But next spring, when he and all
the other boys had gone afield, the
girls attended the county examina-
tions and all took out good second
grade certificates, and were compli-
mented by the county superintendent.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-01

law then, WAS there1 And even whel
| we got such: clause a good many o!
our county: Superintende had to b,
educated up to its enforcement.
Are they wholly e1n2ncipaked from
| the naed of votes yeti
But let me turn from these shad
/ oxS.
What of athe Schools? There wer,
eight schools in session in Ware
county in 1889; Minot hada one room
building, wide and roomy, with win
dows facing each other east and west
| That year she added a room Ion thu
east, and made the building like a big
Capital T.; .the addison having win.
dows North and South, and blinds
regulated the light admirably.
But the available income in "a new.
ly organized district was taxes or
personal property; the school tuition
fund was, by law, used to pay the
| teacher only and it barely covered a
short term. No minimum of $45 in
those days! Thirty dollars was a
good average and many a young girl
Began on as, and gained her exp pc
fence as she grew.
So the peSple used an empty log
house left by a bachelor, sometimes
a sod shack, which was good, cool
in the summer and warm in the win
ter.
Often the people, when they pre-
sented IL names Of children in a
new corner to the county superin-
tendent, also offered the use of a
claim shanty.
o yes, some n5ce new buildings
were built where the people housed
the school, as well as their own new
homes, but sometimes that was a
shell wherein the studding was bare
inside. One school remember well,
where the directors kept the cost
down below 500 80 that they did
vat need to call special meeting for
q vote.
The third director, the only man in
M,e district whose personal property
covered the exemptions of the home
steaders, asserted stoutly, in the dis
triet court, that the messenger who
called him TO the board meeting, was
announcing Lutheran church ser
vice, and he wasted more money over
the 3 years fight and the lawyers
than would have built the school and
plastered it, too; he ended it by Sc
curing 2 petition among his neigh
bors who held claims all round him
in his 80 section ranch, so that his
land was separated from the one dis
5trict and tagged on to another, where
an old shack served as school, but
q fine woman taught in it for years
and the children rise up to call her
blessed.
The school fought over is trying
hard to be first class one room Ru-
raj today.
The short school term Of twenty
years ago had some compensations.
Never shall forget the eagerness Of
many boys and girls, in those days,
for school, even with it's short terms,
not long enough for them to get
tired.
u Some had only two months in the
spring and fall. Others had the nee
sessary four months in block, % had
st. Mary's. the first settlement In
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-05-01
JEAN M'NAUGHTON STEVENS
READS VALUABLE PAPER BE-
FORE EDUCATIONAL CON-
VENTION-WAS ONE OF THE
STATES EARLY EDUCATORS.
(By Jean McNaughton Stevens.)
THEN AND NOW.

Northwestern Educational Associa-
ton, Minot, N. D., April 10, 1918.
My Young Friends:
When our brilliant young Presi-
dent, Supt. Louis Linn of Kenmare,
asked me to talk to the young folks,
at the April meeting, he left the
subject to my choice. The crisp,
clear, sentence of his letter called up
q vision, to me, Of room in the Vel
Va High School, crammed full of stu
dents, with eager faces, old and
young, old, for was there, and SO
was the witty old Irish Schoolmaster
who beamed, while the instruc-
tors set forth the Geography of
North Dakota, in its resources, pos
sibilities and opportunities in fash
ion that compelled attention and en-
enthusiasm.
Then l said to myself, "What can
l tell to the Northwestern, that will
be helpful and inspiring?"
And l thot, that, as you are all
younger Dakotans than / am, if I
could give you a vision of some
things that inspired me, more than
twenty years ago, with a great love
for the new State that has been
growing with the years since you,
too, might enjoy looking at the pic
ture, thru the eyes of an educated
Tenderfoot.
Bear in mind, that I came out of
an educational setting, that had been
established for 800 years, and is still
full Of 'vigor and growing; that, per-
sonally, had taught II years in the
same school, head mistress of the
Primary classes, First and Second
grades of both sexes; of the girls
thru all the grades, standards they
called them then, and of the High
School Dept, in a city of 10000 in
habitants. The school was on the
West side of the famous river NTH,
of song and story, and was in . beau
tiful suburb, the West End, Of Mer-
chants Homes, and it rejoices in the
name of Laurie Knowe, j. e., Hill of
the Lauries. It is on the famous
Maywelltown Braes that are bonnie
where early falls hte dew and many
q bonnie lassie gives there her prom
Use true.
y I came to North Dakota to
rest and ! renewed my youth.
l found myself in a family living
seven miles from . neighbor, and in
tending to come no nearer, for the
sake Of their flocks and herds, like
Abraham and his nephew Lot.
The FIVE children had never been in
school.
They were taught by father and
mother.
When the eldest was 16, they en-
tered school, and held their own in
the proper grades, as they have done
in life ever since.
One of them presides over a happy
home in this town of Minot, and holds
her own among the most active ma
irons Of the Magic City.
Three families / found like that,
and only one of those six parents
had been teacher.
How many similar families were
there among the scattered households
lining the streams and rivers Of
North Dakota in the SOS and '9Os :?
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A.A. Robinson Elevator Co.

We have q carload Of MARQUIS WHEAT ship
ped direct from Saskatchewan Canada, ooh
termination at 32.25 per bushel. This Is the
wheat that took $1,000 prize for best wheat il
America; baking test 1000. This wheat has
yielded as high as 76 bushels per acre and IS
ten days earlier than any other wheat.
We have . choices lot 81 BRONZE GRASS $50
termination, and free from Quack Grass.
NORTHWESTERN DENT SEED CORN North
Dakota grown, 94% termination and RED COB
FODDER CORN SIBERIAN and GERMAN MIL
LET, GLOVER, ALFALFA, CANADIAN FIELD
PEAS and TIMOTHY. In fact all kinds Of field
and grass seeds. s
All our seeds have been tested at the Agricul-s
tural College for PURITY and TERMINATION.
and are the best that money can buy.
Special prices made IN large lots and . Clubs,
except on wheat. Also special prices made 70
Dealers.
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Special NOtiCG9

Practically all
carefully
do advertise and all we the
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hundred and fifty patterns today These
These
the ladies
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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05

Fee, Rogers and Fairchild, and their successors,
than teachers. They reformers,
evangeliss advocates Of temperance, friends Of human
y, and they gave progressive spirit to the institu-
ton which made it pioneer in educational matters, in
dusria education, and work for the upbuding Of the
public schools
From the beginning the Berea teachers took deep
interest in the people of the great mountain region OF
the South. In fact they the first to discover the
extent the needs and the great worth and promise OF
this region and to adapt their methods to the meeting
OF these special needs. President Farchid some.
what hampered by the burdens OF reconstruction times,
but with the coming OF President Frost, 1892, the In.
sttution again turned its chief attention to these noun
tain problems These problems met by the "Ex-
tension Work." the Industrial Courses, the Nor
NAL Department etc, and they bring the Collegiate
Department very great interest in such studies geo.
ogy sociology and history.
Berea has had from its very beginning most dis
tinguished support Roswell Smith, DIR. ID. h. Pear
sons, Andrew Carnegie and Mr.. and Mrs John Stewart
Kennedy among its benetactors, and President
Woodrow Wilson, EX.Presdents Roosevelt and TAFT.
Dr. Eliot OF Harvard and President Hadley OF Yale,
lend hearty endorsement.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
YES, IT'S A SHAME

Under the caption. Amt 1t A
shame?", the Hazard Herald. last
week. noted that the lumber going
into two houses being built in Hazard
was shipped from Georgia, the freight
on the shipment alone costing $3.50
this. In face of the fact that Hazard
r. in the center OF the timber sec
don of the world.
The only further comment made by
the Herald was that there is
screw loose somewhere" to which we
wish to add in reply to the question
Expressed in the Herald's heading,
Yes, It is a shame" And we wish
the Herald would undertake to dis
cover whore tho Screw Is loose or what
screw 1t is that Is loose. And we ven
ture to suggest that a thorough in
restigation Of the subject might lead
one back to the nature of the so call
ed development OF that region which
in recent editorials The Citizen has
dared to question, fit were real devel-
opment and not mad rush on the
part Of millionaire exploiters for more
millions, Eastern Kentucky would
POSSIBLY not ship as large quantities
OF lumber as she is now doing to
various parts OF the world but she
would supply abundantly the homs
market and at least have a modicum
for the foreign demand.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
Extracts from the Statutes
~. The Prudential Committee.

The Prudential Committee consisting of the President and
Treasurer College, exoco and Others elected at each
meeting exercise delegated power for the Trustees
carrying their policies meeting emergencies and attend
ing to fiscal details during year With the of
the the College shall establish Acts Regua
tions not in conflict Constitution and
subject of the Trustees for the conduct of fiscal
affairs provided for in the Statutes
ne. General Faculty Potgeys.
The General Faculty immediate charge of school
agement but take action involving expenditure
except the appropriated by the Trustees
or Prudential Committee With the of the Presi
dent of the College the Faculty shall establish
or Rules conflict with the Constitution Statutes and
subject the Trustees for the conduct Of school
affairs provided in the Statutes but the General Faculty
rule applying to single department without the
concurrence Faculty and Dean of that department
H4 The Cabinet Schedule Committee.
The Cabinet Schedule Committee shall consist of the
President of Women Registrar and Dean or Assigning
Officer departments and shall for the Gen
er Faculty in granting permissons affecting than
parmen assigning cass-rooms and hours and appointing
such duties do not fall within the department to
which they beong also in admonishng furnishing students
for ofenses not dealt with by the several Deans
The Cabinet Schedue Committee) enact no Standing
except for its proceedings and the routine work OF
Registrar Deans and must report its chief actions to the
General Faculty the meeting of the same in order that
the Faculty give such instructions directions desires
Any action discipline be reported to the Faculty
cerned and Faculty shall be for
puson.
Faculty shall by suitable regulations prevent students
from attending societies, using ntoxcants tobacco,
CARRYING weapons engaging OF
property violation of civil laws laws of com
mon morality. Young and young women shall not meet
to visit any private place Students sports shall be provided
for and regulated in the Trustee Resolutions of I9o
H. II. Student Labor
Every shall be made to have all the work OF the nsti
tuition performed and commissioned foremen and
provide for the benefit of those who need oPpor
une sesupport Students shall be paid what the COM
Chap
which
the original Articles Incorporation Is SO Tar " aPPop
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05

"You may give without loving, but
you cannot love without giving"
And | emile to think Gods great
ness
Flows around our incompleteness,
Round our restlessness His rest.
e. d. Browning.
All right use Of life,
And the one secret OF life,
Is to pave ways for the firmer foot
ing
OF those who succeed us.-George
Meredith.
The only way to prevent what Is
past is to put stop to it before 1T
happens.-Kipling.
"a good workman gains skill by
his mistakes"
There Is more rejoicing over the
yone Moose that returns TO the Re-
publican fold than over the SO stand
patters that went astray.
1t begins to lcok as II one of the
great mistakes of the lobbyists in
the past was in allowing the Depart
ment of Commerce to be created.
1t is the boy who swaps his sled
In May for a pair of roller skates
that grows up to be financer.
All that the balkan nations ask OF
Turkey &c tho price Of its whipping
Is 100000 900. This is even big
,ger fine than Judge Lands put on
Mr.. Rockcfellers oil business.
California and the Pacific Coast ad-
NIT that there is some Importance
to be attached TO a tariff, but moth
ing in comparison with alien land
Bills.
Even Kings and Kaisers forget
their little differences while a royal
wedding is being pulled off.
Like everything else that is rock
cd in the cradle of the deep the
japanese war scare has gone 20
sleep.
Mr.. Biyan announces that the war
spirit is dying; but perhaps he will
after awhile get around TO the
foreign mail.
The first rush of Pacific waters
into the canal makes the marriage
Of Venice TO the sea look like an
Atlantic City filtration.
However. the tariff is not likely
to affect the price of watermelons or
strawberries either one way or the
ether and that is something 10 an
Choir 70 II chaos comes.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
Berea Invites All Those Who Believe in It's
Principles.

All who contemplate attending Berea, or sending
their children here, should thoroughly understand the
character and aims of the Institution. Many are seek
ing school OF exactly this kind, while others prefer
something different and should go elsewhere.
Some chief aims of Berea, as shown in preceding
pages, the following:
Its first endeavor is bring its students under the
power of the Christian relgonthe truths held by all
Christians, apart from sectaran teachngs,-and ex.
poets all to attend daily worship and regular instruction
in the Bible
1t was founded with the express purpose OF making
the best education possible for those OF smallest means
Believing that simplicity and economy important
things in education, it insists upon them in all the ar.
rangements Of school life 1t also believes that some
manual labor is proper part Of education well as
help in self support. Some wealthy parents wish to
send their children to Berea but such be admitted
only when they desire to share in manual labor and to
live in the sensible and frugal fashion as students
from less luxurious homes
Berea places great emphasis upon high scholarship,
elevatng recreatons and the Of bodily health Ii
provides the best instruction, very facilities in the
way Of library, laboratories, etc. gymnasium, outdoor
sports, and the of and physician Ii alb
solutey prohibits the of ntoxicants and tobacco,
and in general provides for awelregulaed rather than
a sen 1ugent school life. See Regulations, page "a.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
ARTICLE III
Christian Character.

Coeg shall be under and shall labor exert, in
fuence distinctly Christian, shall forever opposed
unjust determinations, inempence, and institution and
practice known to be wrong.
of members of the Board of Trustees the
employment of teachers sectaran test shall be applied
only that the candidate be the most competent
person available fill the Office and have Christian expert
en- with a righteous practice
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
BIG FACTS
About Berea College
Its Departments and 700 Students. Some
thing Good for Every Conner"
Articles of Incorporation
PREAMBLE

In promote Of Christ and to continue the
Institution Of learning begun 1885, organized with the sub
of this Constitution by John g. Fee John A. r. Rogers
others in 1885, and first Incorporated in 1867
retaining all the rights properties and mmunites of the
amending accordance with the laws of Kentucky the for
mer incorporation that perfectly carry
great purpose the undersigned voluntarily unite in
oria
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
ARTICLE "
Board Of Trustees.

Institution shall be governed by Board of Trustees,
President of the College shall be and the Others
for definite fixed by the Statutes OF its Trustees
elected Trustee shall signify his in the
aims of the Institution by signing the Constitution
This Board shall hold annual meeting and other meetings
provided Statutes and the annual meeting shall fill
body and elect for the Pres
dent president and Secretary of the Board and Treas
the College and shall transact other lawful and
sary business.
shall Statutes for the governing OF its
proceedings for the Institution in general 1t shall have
power of the Institution and other officers
and INSTRUCTION., fixing their duties, support
of office prescribe of study confer de-
gree dbue make and enforce contracts,
audit accounts appoint all other lawful
Judgment expedent for the objects of the
Institution.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05

mera value of their services nearly that he aceraned
But skilled labor shall command city prices in Berea
proporoned the low Of living here Students who
have acquired their skill expense be paid less than
the commercial rat
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
Constitution

This shall be called Berea College, and in that
shall power hold property, and I've ued and
exercise all the legal rights belonging to incorporated
learning necessary for the prosecution of its
varied forms education shall have its chief offices Berea,
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
ARTICLE II
Object.

The object of Beea College shall he to promote the aim set
forth preamble primarily by contributing to the spiritual
welfare of the mountain region Of the South afford
young people of character and promise horo Christian
elementary industrial secondary normal and col
legate with manual labor assistance in
self support.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05

% % expectation
obtaining support
done students and the College
that families the village prodb provide them
Berea stands between the mountains, home OF the
famous mountain people" whose loyalty forms
romantic episode in the Civil War. and the noted
"Blue Grass Region on the ust east is West
Pinnacle from which Daniel Boone first viewed the
fertile plains Of kentucky the scenery is remarkably
attractive the climate is mild and healthu, the eeva
ton above level 1910 feet and mountain
sions invite to heathul exercise.
The Fay Forest Reserve belonging to the College
includes East and West Pinnacles, Bear Knob, Cow
bell Hollow, the Rock House, and the famed "ndian
Fort"
GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS
The grounds, embracing some seventy acres at
tractve from abundance OF native forest trees Mountain
Spring Water supplied through the generosity of DR..
Pearsons, OF Chicago from ten mountain springs,
afordng a abundance for drinking and domestic pur-
poses. 1t comes with pressure sufficient to throw
large streams of water over any OF our buildings
The following the chief public buildings
Secretary
chasing Library The Registrars
Is Lincoln Hall
several thousand people
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
ARTICLE V


Neither this Institution of its departments shall be
operated for private gain in
plan of banking or insurance
private property of Trustees shall not be subject to the
payment corporate such debts shall be
tracted in of fifty thousand dollars.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05

miles Southeast OF Louis
vile and one hundred and
thirty-one South OF Cincin-
natl. The town bears the
same name, Berea, and is
a healthful village. delight.
fully situated among the
foothills OF the Cumber-
land Mountains.
The citizens. as a rule,
sympathize with the edu-
cational and moral aims OF
the Institution. The viii
lage shows many marks OF
enterprise and improve.
ment. Its law prohibiting
the sale OF intoxicants is
vigorously inforced.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-06-05
General Information
LOCATION AND SURROUNDINGS

The College is located in Madison County on the
Louisville & Nashville r. r., one hundred and thirty