The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-08-09
Upton NOTES


The revival meeting closed last Fri
day night with nine additions to the
church and 19 confessions.
Miss Willie Mai Cole returned to
her home in the Phelan neighborhood
after several days. visit in this vicin-
ity, being the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. j. Sullivan.
Mrs. Tom Sullivan, of Memphis,
spent last Sunday with Mr.. M. J. Sui
Ivan and family.
The most of the farmers are about
done laying by their crops but are
still busy planting late gardens and
the second crop of Irish potatoes.
They are also getting their turnip
patches ready to SOW.
The corn crop still looks fine. One
more rain at the right time will make
a good yield. The cotton crop has
improved wonderfully in growth of
weed, but does not seem to be fruiting
very well.
The Bethel school opened this week
under the supervision of Mr.. Clarence
Bryant as principal and Miss Virginia
Pollard as assistant. Mr.. Bryant is
new to the school and the school is
new to him, and to get the best results
from his services it is necessary for
the patrons to give him their full and
hearty cooperation at all times. If
this is done, you will see both school
and teachers crowned with success.
Don't be like so many school patrons
and church members when they get
new teacher or pastor, ready to find
fault. When a teacher takes charge
of a school at new place to him, all
eyes are turned on him, watching for
faults or mistakes he might make.
Shut your eyes to the faults and
watch the merit side of the question
and you will soon find that the merits
will send the dement's into oblivion.
Don't give heed to idle school tale
your children may bring from school.
To such, turn deaf ear. A. teacher
without the cooperation of his pa
irons would be like farmers putting
q hog in the pen in the fall of the
year and pouring tx bushels of corn
into the pen and saying to the hog,
Eat and grow fat; / will come around
at killing time. He has not helped
the hog to dry, warm place to sleep
nor place where it can keep out of
the mud and water. 1t is not neces-
sary to say when killing time comes
he will not have much hog. If patrons
of schools say: "Well, have provid-
ed my children with food, raiment and
books and sent them to school, and
now, Mr.. Teacher, the proposition is
up to you, it would be better to leave
a part of that off, i. e., the send
ing of them to school. They will not
accomplish enough to pay for the ex-
ira wearing apparel and the books
they will tear to pieces. At the end of
the scholastic year, you are ready to
say, ooh, that last teacher we had was
not much teacher, but such an asser-
ton would not be an actual fact; but
the teacher could truthfully say his
patrons were nothing to boast of. As
said above, give your teachers your
full and hearty cooperation and your
school will be success. Train your
children at home to respect the law
and order Of the home and it will be
an easy matter for the teacher to
train them to respect the law and
order of the school. Then they will
naturally respect the law and order of
their state and nation. This is discip-
line, which is the principal foundation
to build up good morals, good society,
good schools and good churches; but
without discipline all of the above are
disastrous failures.
THREE EIGHTHS.