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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-23
GILES AWAITS WORD
FROM STATE BOARD

Superintendent Giles Of the city
schools 10 awaiting . communication
from DR.. w. F. Book. deputy state su-
perintendent OF public instruction who
has charge Of the department Of vocar
tional education. naming the date when
DR.. Book with come to Richmond to be-
gin the Industrial or Occupation sur
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-23
INSTALL OFFICERS.

Installation Of new officers elected
by the Hermania lodge, No. 25, D. OF
R., was set for January l. The Off.
GERS are: Noble grand, Mrs. Estella
Thompson; vice grand. Mrs. Ella
Stout; secretary, Mrs. Nellie Shinn;
treasurer, Mrs. Alice Culbertson.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-23
ESTATE TAXED S67

The Inheritance tax adjudged by the
court on the estate OF James Colvin
Fulghum, who died March 16, 1916,
was paid to the county treasurer this
morning. 1t amounts to $6776. The
estate was valued by the court at $16,.
361.54. A daughter. Florence Woot-
ers, and two sons, Emmett and George
Fulghum, are the only beneficiaries.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-23

Plans for the state centennial viii
be discussed In Indianapolis by the
county chairmen on December and
I. B. F. Wissler Of Cambridge City,
will represent Wayne county.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-11-23
RECEIVES PENSION OF $12.

Mary A. Selby Of Richmond, has
been granted pension of $12 month
by the pension department..
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

about 1900 and it is so arranged that
boys and girls can be taught in sep
arate classes especially in work per
tanning TO the industrial arts.
The building will be large enough
for a few years, to house both the
junior and senior high schools. As the
senior high school grows the junior
department Will be transferred to an
other building. or rather to two
buildings situated in the north and
south sides Of town respectively.
College and Normal Departments.
The administration plans to add two
years of college work, and a normal
department also, as soon as other quar-
ters can be provided for the students
Of the junior high school
One of the unique features OF the
school will be the stadium. with a seat
ing capacity OF 10000. and ample space
for baseball. football. and track ath-
letics. This stadium will have immense
possibilities for the people of FL Paso
in the form OF conventions, paEeants.
and athletic events of all kinds
An Ideal Location.
Adjoining the high school Grounds on
the north, the city has also purchased
two blocks of land, including Scenic
Point" for a city park, and the 7ro-
posed scenic drive viii skirt the mesa
and the edge OF this park.
The building was designed by frost
and frost, Of FL Paso.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

two locker rooms. toilets. and teachers
room.
The fourth floor contains laboratories
for physics, chemistry, biology.
geology, electricity. and one large and
two smaller lecture rooms. The science
department viii occupy the whole
of the south wing on this floor The
east wing win be taken up with the
commercial department, Including five
rooms. a large music room. two class
rooms, and a photography laboratory
The central part Of this floor will be
used for mechanical drawing and art
work.
OF F'ireprOOf Construction.
The building is to be of fireproof
construction throughout, veneered on
the outside with high grade dressed
brick All corridors are to have com
tile. All corridors are to have com
wainscOtin~. All toilet rooms are to
be Of tile and vitrolite, and the plumb
ing is to be the best that modern
science can devise.
The building is to be heated in win
ter and cooled in summer with the
same system providing at all times
fresh air Of the right temperature, and
cleaned with a water spray For
the building a vacuum system
will be employed, and an automatic
clock system for programs will be In
stalled.
VIII Accommodate 1900.
The capacity Of this school will be
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

TUST 20 years ago Mrs. W. w NILS
gathered around her small band
of women for the study of the ques-
tions OF the day, and for mutual i'm
provement We called ourselves the
Current Topics club had a zealously
guarded, restricted membership and
delightfully."- intimate meetings.
Out of this modest beginning grew
the Womens club. with its 275 mem
bers. today the strongest woman's or
ganization in the city, as regards influ-
ence, as well as membership.
object of the Club
The avoWed object of the club, aside
from the pursuit of culture by its mem
bers. is to form an organization center
for the betterment of physical. intel
lectual and moral conditions in the COM
munity.
How have we lived up to this plat
form? No one who has attended our
meetings doubts that the more selfish
part of. our program, the culture of our
members, is being carried out. In the
department of current events and lit
erature, art and music. earnest and sys-
tematiC study has set higher standard
for our members as we'll as for the en-
tire community.
Has Brought Many Celebrities.
Not content with bringing forward
and developing native talent, the club
has induced eminent musicians and lee
turers to come to Ell PasO, among 9TH
ers. Ottokss Malek, LenOra Jackson, FL
len Beach Yaw, Teresa CarrenO. David
Starr Jordan, Jerome X. Jerome, Chas
Battene LOOMS and Ben Lindsey.
Local Talent Fostered.
In order to discover and foster talent
not only among it's members, but
throughout the city, the club has insti-
tUted wide open competitions in litera-
ture, art and music. Who knows what
hidden genius may be revealed in this
way2
Works With and for Schools.
Unflagging zeal has been shown in
our work with and for the schools.
From the time, almost 90 years ago.
when the women prominent in the club
induced the school board to make the
now flOurishing kindergarten an in
tegral part of our public school sys-
tenn, the club has promoted and popu-
larized every progressive movement in
education.
The small seed sown in 1902, by the
Introduction of a teacher of physical
culture, whose salary the club paid for
a year, is blOssoming and bearing fruit
in the establishment of school play
grounds under trained supervisors
Manual and domestic science training
have been championed and school rooms
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

have been beautiIleu Dy pictures anu
statues
Ala Chamber Of Commerce.
At all times the club has been de-
lighted to cooperate with the chamber
Of commerce and with special commit
tees in the entertainment of the city
guests and has contributed not little
to the social success of various conven-
tions held here. Some 10 years ago,
when the committee in charge Of the
Miners convention was confronted with
a large deficit, the Woman's club came
to the rescue.
Aims and Hopes for 1918.
What Of our aims and hopes for the
new year? Close to every club WOman's
heart lies the desire for a home of our
own. so that our everlasting peregri-
nations may be ended. Last year we
enjoyed the hospitality of the chamber
of commerce. This year the High school
has graciOusly placed its assembly hall
at our service, thus giving wider use
to the school plant, which will eventu-
ally make it the social center we all
are striving for.
May soon Have Home.
We own valuable property decided TO
the club by Miss ThirZa l. WestcOtt,
and within the last four years we have
succeeded IN paying off an old indebted
ness of almost $4,000. On this plot We
plan to erect a club home, which will be
great factor in widening our useful
ness.
AumuMAA0Ey EM4EhAA04 EANOEEua
AS a part of the Texas Federation OF
Women's clubs, the Ell Paso club pur-
sues the same aims that the larger body
seeks to attain. Foremost among these
is compulsory education for the state
in conjunction with a wise child labor
law. EeXas is one of the six states in
the union which has no school attend
anCe laws, a deficiency which should
be speedily remedied to lift our state
out of illiteracy.
Helping Educate Poor.
Jointly with the wOmans Charity as
ISOLATION, with whom the idea origin
ated' we are trying to work out a plan
by which the young Mexicans of both
sexes may be trained to greater eff
fiCiency. Committees are endeavoring to
interest the school board in this work
and propose to equip a modest apart
ment on modern lines in the southern
portion of the city where the girls will
be taken in small groups to learn
housekeeping in all its branches, while
the boys will receive useful training in
constructing the furniture for the place
and taking care of the grounds.
True Way to Happiness.
We earnestly desire to make service
the keynote of our work, believing with
Goethe, that not self culture but serv-
ice to humanity is the true way to hap
piness.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
Fob Those WHO SEEK SOCIAL
GAYETF Ell PA51 OFFERS MUCH
With Two Country Clubs Many Social Organizations and
Innumerable Card Clubs the Social Life of the City
Is Filled With Activity and Gayety; Has
Active Woman's Club
By RUTH NJ. AUGUR.

, nual banquet is the climax Of elaborate
decoration and festivity.
The horse show is an annual institu-
ton and socially prominent women par
ticipate in most of the events, while the
other members of society thrOng the
boxes and grandstand-
Bridge Clubs Numerous.
Ell PasO sOciety's women are as In
terested in bridge as other women Of
this day, and there are innumerable
womens bridge clubs filling almost
every day in the week.
The social side is very strongly. en-
phasized in most of the churches, and
while the WOmen's societies are Of
decidedly different caliber than the
purely frivolous organizations, the so
cial intercourse is very stimulating and
soon makes any stranger coming to the
city feel at home and among friends.
The social side of the Young WOmen's
Christian association is being featured
more strongly this year than ever be-
fore, to fill the need for social relax
alton in the busy business life of the
average self supporting young woman.
For the more serious minded women
there is great opportunity for combin-
ing work and the pleasure of socially
mixing with cOngenially minded people
in the WOman's club. with its three de-
partments, art. music and literary: in
the Womans Charity association, the
Sunshine society and other similar or
CARNATIONS
Charity Balls Notable Events.
The charity ball given to finance the
work of the Charity association each
year, opens the winters social season.
It is given the night before Thanks
giving day and is always a most bril-
liant function.
The annual charity ball Of the
Womans Catholic Benevolent society,
given in the spring. is also an import
liant social function.
Another annual event looked for
ward to by many of the Ell PasO people.
is the ball given by the FL Mazda shrine,
which is rendered picturesque by the
ceremonial costumes Of the patrol mem
bers. The cosmopolitan nature Of FL
Paso's citizenship adds interest to the
social life Of the city as nothing else
could, for here are gathered people from
every quarter of the country and from :
many foreign countries.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

The extreme outside length Of the
structure is 500 feet and the width at
each end is SO feet six inches. 1t covers
an area of $4,000 square feet, and the
cubical contents measure 1850, 006
cubic feet
First Floor Arrangement.
There are to be four floors and
sub-basement for heating, ventilating
and automobile shop. On the first floor
Will be located the manual arts de-
Dartment, which will include shops for
woodworking, metal working, maChin-
cry, plumbing, foundry and forge work;
the domestic arts department, Compris-
ing five room fiat a cooking room
and rooms for sewing and millinery;
two large gymnasiums for boys and
girls each opening on to the stadium
through n tunnel; a large lunch room
with kitchen connecting, and an
armory. There will also be locker
rooms for boys and girls and the
offices for art departments.
To Have COmmOiiOus Auditorium.
On the second floor. at the verteX of
the angle, win be located the audi
forum, which is to seat about 1900.
This room will be fan shaped, so that
every part of the stage viii be visible
from the farthest corner of the main
floor or balcony. The main hall at the
entrance to the auditorium viii have a
width of % feet inches. This floor
will have 16 classrooms, four of which
are large so as to provide for class
and society NEE tings. The offices are
to be at the main entrance.
On the Third Floor.
The third floor will contain, besides
the balcony to the auditorium. a large
reading room and library, stock rooms,
two large study halls, - class rooms,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

printing for the schools has been done
by the students. An exhibit OF some of
this work, together with other pieces
done in the manual arts department,
was shown at the Made in Ell PasO
exhibit"
Spanish Is Taught.
Spanish is being taught daily in all
of the American schools from the
fifth through the twelfth grades. In
the elementary classes all students
take the work but when the high
school is entered Spanish becomes
elective. This work was begun only
last year but students are already
making good progress and in two more
years, when a student graduates from
the elementary grades, he should have
a good command OF this language.
which is of so much Importance in the
business and every day relations here
on the border.
High School Work Revised.
Last year the course of study in the
high school was entirely revised, pro-
viding for more electives than hereto
fore. At present there are nine courses
from which to choose: English, mathe-
MATES, history, Latin, science, modern
languages, commercial, manual train
ing and domestic arts. In each of the
above courses the subject mentioned
predOminates, but other subjects, max
ing in all Is credits for graduation,
must be taken.
Based on Students Capabnity.
These courses are planned to meet
the long side" of each students cap
abilities as well as the requirements
for entrance into colleges of liberal
arts, professional schools, industrial
schools and into to industries and
commercial life
With the erection of the new high
school, it is the plan of the admins
tration to still further extend the OPP
Continued on page ., column - p.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

NOCIALLY, FL Paso offers every at
traction to those fond of the gay
ETY. of the social life. There are
numberless organizations and clubs in
the city and adjacent to it that provide
for the entertainment and amusement
Of Ell Pasoans and their guests, and the
continual presence at Fort Bliss and in
the city camps Of the large body of
military men with their families gives
to FL Paso the added attraction of the
military social life, with the army
gymkhanas. the polo games, and the
semi-mOnthly hops at the post.
Two Country Clubs.
There are two country clubs for FL
Pasoans. The one near Fort Bliss pro-
vides entertainment for a large num-
Der every Saturday night with the
weekly hop, and during the summer,
concert dances are also given in the
middle of the week AND concerts on
Sunday afternoons. Besides these, the
clubs are the center Of a continual
round of afternoon teas. bridge par
ties. and luncheOns and dinners.
The golf links and tennis courts af-
ford recreation for the club members.
During the past months two very at
tracttve features were given. one on
Halloween and the other at Christmas
time, when the club was gayly and Law
ishly decorated appropriately for the
holiday, and there were special cOtii-
lion favOrs and many novel and pleas
ing features.
At the other country club, the West
Nsleta Country club, located down the
valley. at West Ysleta, is a charmingly
coy little building in the Spanish mis-
sion style, with tennis courts and an at
tractive ball room and dining room.
Here motor parties stop for rest,
luncheon or dinner, or dancing, on
pleasure trips down the valley, and
many informal parties are given by the
club members, who use the club build
ing in preference to having the parties
at their homes.
The Social club is one Of the most
exclusive and Oldest of the social or
CARNATIONS and its winter series of
dances are the most brilliant events of
the season. The New Years eve an
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

much greater improvement in English
than under the old plan.
Great Improvement Noted.
Of course, since much more time Is
being given TO manual, domestic arts
and drawing this work has advanced
greatly beyond our expectations. The
same may be said of the work in
music, physical training and play
ground work
In addition to the Improvement
along intellectual lines Aoy school ac-
commodities 200 more pupils under the
Gary plan and no more teachers are
required than under the old plan.
Extension of system Justified.
The experiment has therefore
proved, I think, that FL Paso would be
justified in extending this system to
other schools Of the city. Especially is
for the school population. A plan
which increases the capacity Of the
plant and improves the quality of the
work done is well worth extension in
any business
Domestic Science and Manual Training.
At the present time sewing is begun
mi the fifth grade Cthird or fourth in
Mexican schools) and carried through
two years in the high school Cooking
is begun in the eighth grade and runs
through the second year Of high school.
Manual training begins as low as third
BIdue ana IS carried through Two years
Of high school work. Printing is be-
gun in the seventh year and is carried
into the high school. This work which
was begun this year, is our first real
attempt, outside of the commercial
work in the high school. to prepare
students for vocational pursuits
Many Learn Printing.
At present there are 80 students at
work in the print shop and all seem
very enthusiastic. Since the instala-
ton of the printing plant most Of the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
DESCRIPTION Of
NEW BUILDING
City Superintendent Details
Plans Of the New High
School Structure.
BY r. J. TJGHE.
Superintendent City SchOOls.)

"HE new high school to be erected
in FL Paso during the coming
year, is to be one of the most
complete institutions of its kind in this
country. The first contract for the
shell of the building has just been let
for S105,000, but when the building is
completed and equipped and the
stadium built, the cost win not be less
than $500 600.
Site Occupies Four City Blocks.
The building site comprises four city
blocks, centrally located for the mass
of high school population. The grounds
when graded will cost $4,000. and the
stadium and athletic field approx
mately $4,000 more.
The building, which is of classic de
sign, and in the form of a right angle,
faces the stadium and the southeast.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
Ell PA5I'S W0HiH' SGLJBHA
275MEHBE35 AND IS GROWING
Grows in 20 Years From a Small Band Of Women Who
Were Gathered Together by Mrs W. W. Mills to
Discuss General Topics Literary and Musical
Departments Are Very Important.
RY MRs. oLGA KOHLBERG.

rave been beautified by pictures and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

NoCIALLY. 81 PasO offers every at I
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

At present there are 80 students at
work in the print shop and all seem
very enthusiastic Since the instala-
ton of the printing plant most of the
The Washington times., 1915-09-05
Evening Services in tbe Churches

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The Washington times., 1915-09-05
LAUREL.

"A tournament was held in Liberty
Grove, at Rurtonsville yesterday for
the first time In almost fifteen years.
Among the knights who rode were
J.. y. Love. Knight of Maryland: J. r.
Love, knight of Prince George; r.
Langley. knight OF Anheuser Busch (:
NJ. l.. Harron. knight OF Washington
Boy: ]. Blandford. Knight of District
Of Columbia: l.. Seaball. Knight Of
Mt. st. Joseph; G. Beall. knight Of
Baltimore Roy n. Hi~at Kninht Of
Langley: Jack Turner. Knight OF Der
xyn: Samuel s. Aitcheson. knight Of
Of Limberlost, and NJ. J. Aitcheson.
Knight of NJ. y. g.
Dancing was participated in until
late Prof. Strohms orchestra. of
Laurel. furnishing the music.
The Farmers cooperative Club, OF
the Laurel district. will give an all
day picnic in Brashear's Grove to-
morrow.
The Laurel baseball team will go to
Dorsey this afternoon and play the
team of that place q doubleheader
Beall and Duvall will probably do
mound duty for Laurel.
Tomorrow ia baseball lay at Laurel
'rhc home team will compete with
two other teams. Brookeville and
Savage. for large cash prize
Brook Eeville ami Laurel have played
two gaT"s this season, each team
winning one game. This will be the
deciding game and Harry Warner
will be called on to pitch for Laurel
The Trinity NJ. F.. Church will hold
a picnic IN the grove near the base
ball diamond on this day.
Yesterday was Guilford Day. Nearly
n nrl
the grand tournament and horse
races. There were two baby shows
Savage and ELkridge played game
of ball In the morning.
The Laurel High School will oper
for the lH15-16 term on Monday, Sep
tembcr 49,
Edward Phelps Is the Democrati
candidate for the house of dele
gates from this district. He served
seven consecutive terms as mayor u
Iaurel.