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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28
AN ORDINANCE

Ordering a Special Election in the
Town of Newberry for the Pur-
pose of Refunding Opera House
Bonds of Said Town.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

Sometimes these rude little build
ings were of frame constitution, some
times of logs, sometimes of logs
covered by Notwithstanding. The
frame buildings though small were
substantially built but never COM
pletely finished up. Never saw one
finished as one would residence.
Whether it was due to changing
trustees or whether the money, time
and patience of the builders gave out
before the house was completed we
do not know. And the desks were
never uniform. There were all sorts
of desks, but for the most part plain
benches comprised the school furni-
ture. Desks with lid tops were re-
served for the larger pupils. The
little fellows sat on benches with
their books in their hands, such as
were being used for study or reclta-
ton. The others were in satchels
hanging on nails on the wall. Near
by were the hats and caps OF the
boys and the bonnets of the girls,
and the dinner buckets. What an
institution was that dinner bucket! )!
And what more despicicable thing
fhan to put a little boys hat In MS
empty bucket toward the close OF the
school day and have him go crying
home because he had lost his hat OF
cap. to have mother open the bucket
and find it there, more or less marked
with whatever was left Of the dinner
on the sides of the bucket? Fortu
nately not much because the LITTLE
fellows never needed any tonles tt
make them eat in those days. No
many baskets were used for dlnne
even where there were large fannie
of childrn. Either one large buckle
would have to answer or the chlldre1
were divided up into groups. If ther
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

How in the world did the children
of those days stand it in winter?
With the ground frozen solid outside,
the air down to almost zero and the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

Those Of you who remember you
country school days can recall now
! how you felt the first day you start
ed to school," If the teacher, in call
ing the roll, called out your name
without asking you what it was, you
wondered how he or she happened to
know it SO well. After roll call there
was responsive reading of chapter
in the New Testament, usually. Re
member those little red cloth-back
testaments? Sometimes each scholar
read a verse and sometimes some
weird rendering was had as in the
case of one Greenwood country
school boy who Informed the rest OF
the school that it twas easier for a.
camel to GO through the eye OF
needle than for a rich man to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven" In some
schools several verses or a hymn
would be sung and then the Lords
PRAYER recited in unison. The picture
of the gray-haired teacher with bow
ed head leading in this exercise Will
come vividly to many minds as well as
the droning after him of the little
boys and girls.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

Those old text books have all been
supplanted but they served many
generations we'll. Remember Corn
ellis series of biographies, Robin
sons arithmetics, Appleton's readers,
'Anthon's series of classics, Harkness
Latin and Greek grammars and class
les, or Maury's biographies, Smiths
English grammar and how one used
to struggle over ''parsing" those per-
fectly terrifying sentences? Who
will ever forget the variations of
"Peter's cap?" And such things as
Quackenbosh's Rhetoric, Bingham's
Latin series, and so on and so on.
Some years ago Greenwood county
man saw that the Government want
ed collection of old school text
books for the Department of educa-
tion and his home having become
sort Of depository for the books of
several families, made up batch of
over two hundred of these old books
and sent them to Washington. A
small sized volume of "reminiscences
ard experiences might have been
written from each book if he had :.
known all of it's experiences in the
hands of the boy or girl who used it.
Punishment was rather severe
sometimes in these country schools
and the boy who got whipping kept
mum about it for the rule, "a whip
ping at school means one at home,"
was generally lived up to and the
teacher had little interference from
parents in that matter. Girls got off
with a rap on the knuckles when
small and the larger ones were kept
in at recess. The boys got full
doses of hickory oil on occasion and
nothing more degrading could come
to boy than to have to go out and
,ut a hickory for his own punishment 4
Sometimes the teacher laid in a sup
,ly of switches and the rattan was
IN important part Of. the school equip !
nent. Very large boys were kept in i
lfter school usually when a whipping
lad to be administered for a grave
,ffense. And sometimes these whip
,ings ended in a hand to hand en-
ounter with the teacher and it took |
he better man to win out. Some
ines the teachers temper would get
he better of him and whippings were
90 frequent and too severe, but this
vas the exception. Most of them
we're deserved and the chastisement
lid good rather than harm. i
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

There was one thing in which these
teachers usually excelled and that
was in the ability to teach boys and
girls how to write. Handwriting was
much more important then than now
when the typewriter is in such gen.
eral use and the printed page so easy
of access. Our forefathers brought
this training with them, most Of them,
and insisted on their children being
taught how to 'swrite good hand"
There was once a carpenter in this
county, native of Switzerland, who
wrote almost like copper-plate en-
craving. Manual dexterity with the
pen was akin to manual skill IN
handling tools.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

After these exercises came reclta-
tions. The very little ones with
their Blue Back spoilers or their
Appleton's first readers were. usually
first called up. And when they had
been tried out they went back to their
seats and with more or less gr1my
little hands began to s"stud3 some
more" The little thumbs frequently
wore through the pages at the bottom
of the book and to Offset this damage
to the book, for book in most cases
was bought to last through more than
one child's early drilling, the thumb
naper" was used. 1t prevented so
much wear and tear Of the page and
the little fellow gripped those thumb
papers with death like grip. In
time the larger ones would get hold
of really beautiful little pictures and
would start collection OF them, Keep
ing them fresh and clean and a brisk
trade in swapping thumb papers
would start up about the middle OF
the session.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

Those who had studied their les
sons at home found time to explore
in the back of their books and for a
long time found such things as the
stories in the back Of the Blue Back
speller of thrilling interest, such as
the ones about the boy in the apple
tree, the farmer who came to see the
LAWYER, the cat covered with meal
and the suspicious mice looking on
and in their histories and geogra-
nhies there were things to interest
them at first and later their youthful
minds would turn to something else
A boy with new knife, such as q
"Roeers'' would certainly have to cut
his initials on his desk, furtively
while the teacher was absorbed in
,recitation, something like the ad
ivanced arithmetic or Latin lesson
These side-line occupations changed
with the season. In summer there
all sorts of things to keep busy ove'
either fixing a crooked pin for tht
benefit of some boy when he returned
to his seat from a recitation, tick
ling the neck of the boy just ahead
hiding books, making balls Of chewe'
un PAPER to decorate the ceiling
working up a wad of chewing gun
| and stretch berries, showing treas
ures kept in the pocket and all sort
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28

The country school was the same
everywhere almost in this great Am
erican country, that is in the Atlantic
Coast States. Whittier's little sketch
of the New England country schoo
is recognized down here:i
Still sits the school house by the road
A ragged beggar summing;
Around it still the sumachs grow
And blackberries are running.
Within the masters desk is seen
Deep-scarred by raps official;
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack-nife's carved initial.
The charcoal, frescoes on it's wall,
Its doors worn sill, betraying
The feet that creeping slow to school,
Went storming out to playing.
That's a perfect picture of the old
place, isn't it? z
Ian MacLauren says, in "a Lad o.
PARTS" Of the country schools Of
Scotland that somebody with the love
of God in his heart located these
schools. The beautiful setting of
trees, the clearing where the ssbairns"
played at rece q all came in memory
as he wrote of them. And for the
most part ours were so located. Usu-
ally near church bur country
schools showed the close kinship be-
tween these two institutions. Some
times the church had grown out Of
the rude little log school house. And
it goes without saying that there was
spring near by. What great thing
it was to ego for water" And on
hot days, Teacher, may / get some
water was steady song, so that
the bucket had to be replenished
every little while to the real joy of,
those who were allowed to go for
water. Perhaps by skillful diplomacy
one might get out of a lesson by the
trip for water.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-10-28
was only one large bucket it some

was only one large bucket it some
times took more than moral per-
suasion to have one child take the
dinner, though some extra compensa-
ton might be claimed at "big recess. :"
The dinner bucket was rarely opened
at the :little recess" in the morning
by the larger children. The little
fellows would take smack" save
the main part of dinner and leave
something, if not too hungry" for
the ''little recess in the afternoon.
Somewhere in this country in a
Hall of Fame there ought to be a
great symbolical statue in honor of
the Country School Teacher. The
skill and patience of these men and
women have meant more to the
nation than mere words can tell.
Their lives were lived in service. The
pay was a mere pittance. Apprecia-
tion was rarely expressed. And while
there were sometimes men and wo-
men in the work who ought to have
been at something else, yet for the
most part they were some of the
finest spirits of their time. And
boys and girls were made better men
and women for having come under
their influence whether they learned
much out of the books or not.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
LATEST STYLE IN HAIR CUTS
New York Tonsoriai Artist Advertises
to Trim the Bean "Physioo-
nomicaIiy."

"Hair cut physiognomically" is the
impressive sign on the window Of a
'tonsorial artist" insthe downtown Sec
ton of New York.
whats the sign mean?" asked a
customer who drifted into the shop as
a barber started to wait on him.
Il don't know" was the reply. ''Some
new-fangled idea of the boss"
When appealed to the proprietor Of
the place swelled with pride and in
his weightiest tones explained his
brain child in this manner:
''That means that when you get into
the chair we study your face and then
proceed to cut your hair in such a
manner that the trimming will con-
form to your general physiognomy,
meaning your face. Sometimes a man
Is q victim of his barber in regard to
his appearance-you know there are
some men in the barber business here
who ought to be shoemakers and can
not see any further than the hand
that holds the expected tip. We bury
defects in the face by the manner of
hair cutting and enhance the good
points. Women don't overlook this in
putting up their hair and there is no
reason why men should"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
MANY MILLIONS CANNOT READ
one-Tenth Of Population Of the United
States over Ten Years Are
ilIiterate. hc.

According to the best estimates"
says a writer in Everybody's for July,
'about 1O,O00,OOO. or more than one
tenth of our population over ten years
old, cannot read or write English-a
number greater than the whole popu-
lation of Canada: greater than the
whole population of the South in the
Civil war; greater than the combined
populations of Is of our states. And
Of this number, fully half can neither
read, write nor speak English. In
some cities, such as Passaic. n. j., or
Fab River, Mass, these strangers num-
Der sixth or more of the population.
IF this enormous population. alien
in speech or literature or custom, were
merely d population, merely living
among US, that would be one thing to
think about But all of this 10000,
coo are also working among us, trying
to build some kind of life for them
selves. And in so doing, they have
brought themselves into closer re-
lationshiD with us than we are often
willing to admit, even if We are aware
of it. More than So per cent of the
people who make our steel and iron,
more than y per cent of those who
make our clothes, more than So per
cent of those who refine our sugar,
are fOreign-bOrn. And nearly all of
them cannot read or write English,
and at least quarter of them cannot
read Or write their own language. Six
hundred and twenty thousand Of the
million who mine oyr coal are foreign
born, and 465,0OO Of these come from
non English-speaking races with but
the slightest ability, if any, to read the
English language"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Last Sunday night Mayor Moe made
an interesting point in his address
when he stated the total sum of mon
ey contributed for all benevolent pur-
poses Of the war by Barnes county.
This included the contributions made
to the Red Cross, and all Of the well
fare organizations embraced in the
United War Work Drive. The sum
was $142, 100000. Counting the popu-
lation Of Barnes county at 10000 this
would make something over seven dol
lars per capita. The amount called
for in the project Of the Barnes
County Memorial Building is the
equivelant Of only ten dollars per
person, or $2O0, 200. In the light of
what we accomplished during theswar,
it is not impossible to think Of our
raising a greater sum as memorial
to all the boys of Barnes County who
had part in the great war. Mayor
Moe stated that active preparations
were being made for the canvass, He
has already had splendid response
from men living outside Of Valley
City.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
WANTS TO DEBATE
WITH FRAZIER

At Rock Lake tonight, Attorney j..
J. Kehoe of Cando, Towner county,.
North Dakota, had the following
challange presented to Governor
Frazier.
ITO Governor Frazier: You or any
Of Mr.. Observation-Disclosures are hereby
challenge presented to Governor
Towner county on or before Monday
vening, November Gath at any or all
Of the following places: Hansboro,
Rock Lake, Egeland, Perth, Bisbee and
Cando.
In these debates two towns can be
covered each day. Friday, Nov. 21st,
Saturday, Nov. %, Monday, Nov. "a.
Question for debate: Resolved
that the present system Of taxation is
detrimental to the best interests of the
farm land owners Of Towner county"
Mr.. Kehoe will pay for all halls and
advertisinb Of the meetings. Each
side will appoint one Judge and they.
the third. Debate to be conducted
under Roberts Parliamentary rules.
Mr.. Kehoe to take the affirmative.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
WHERE TOWNLEY STANDS

| No Yank legionaire need be longer
in doubt as to where Townley stands
The morning after the murder of four
ex-service men by I. w. WIS in Cen
tralia, WASH, the Courier News
Townley's, mouthpiece, defended this
outrage as "a sign of the times" and
covertly renewed it's charge that the
legion is a tool of Big Business
charge, by the way, which was forced
down Bill Lemke's throat by one
North Dakota Yank.
A day or two later the Courier
News insults the American legion by
casting suspicion upon the integrity
of Franklin D'Olier, the new COM
mander of the legion, referred to as
first of all an office, next an officer
in the quartermaster's corp, and, fin
ally, a Philadelphia wool merchants,
and, as such, one of thee most consci-
enceless profiteers in the United
States
On the same page, and printed in a
most prominent position, and this be-
fore the bodies of their victims in
Centralia had cooled, was commun-
ication from Charles J. Ros of Fargo,
who gloried in the fact that he is a
member of the l. w. w., and who
says: "Just let the plutes try the in
junction racket on William D. Hay
wood or Eugene v Debs! they will
find that these men are class conscious
men and not A. F. of L. jelly fish. l
am member of the l. W. w. and aft
err seeing what the brotherhoods and
the A. F. Of L. are standing for it
makes me prouder than ever to be-
long to them, for know what we
lack in membership we make up IN
nerve"
This is very mild sample, Mr..
Yank, of the sort of poison with
which the columns of the Townley
press were filled while you were over
seas fighting to preserve the liberties
which Mr.. Townley and his fellow
socialists abuse. Do you wonder, MIR.
Service Man, that almost everyone OF
the league principals, from Mr.. Town
ley down, was indicted at one time or
another during the war as an enemy
of his country? Do you wonder that
men of this type should rally to the
support of Kate Richards O'Hare,
woman who likened your own mother
to brood sows? Do you wonder now
that these men are openly express
ing sympathies fir the murderers Of
your comrades and that they see in it
only "a sign of the times ?"-Bis-
marck Tribune.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
Rent Proftteers In Manila.

and business buildings in Manila,
are taking advantage Of the paucity
OF homes and commercial structures
10 raise rents abnormally. Workers
for salaries or wages. and firms and
companies in mercantile pursuits. com
plain bitterly of the demands of the
owners or lessons OF houses and stores,
factories and bodegas. Most of the
victims have to yield to the increased
rents because they have no recourse.
One man who paid $40 a month for
his small, uncomfortable home, has
been informed that he must pay $50
Manila Times.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
Foolish Question.

j An official who was making up an
assessment roll because of some re-
cent street Improvement called at each
house on the improved streets to learn
the names of the property owners. AT
one house he climbed out of his car
went to the door and knocked.
"Who owns this property? he asked
"Why, I do" the woman answered
The official got her name and put il
down in his book. Then he took a
SQuint at the size of the lot.
How many feet?" he asked. 1.-TWO
of COURSE" The woman snapped, won.
dering whether he thought she was
a centipede.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
Knows About Birds.

What Representative Weaver OF
North Carolina doesn't know about
birds is not worth knowing. He under
stands their habits, can initiate their
calls, is on speaking terms with their
eggs. and everything.
When the house Is not in session
Weaver wanders around through the
capitol grounds holding converse with
the jay birds, sparrow hawks, crow
bIackbirls and such other birds as are
found around Washington. And the
town is full of birds.
Weaver got the bird habit through
wandering about the North Carolina
hills. .s<$ 49,.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
1918 Cotton Worth $2,os7 900, 900.

The 1918 cotton crop lint and seed.
was worth S2,O67, OOO,OOO to the pro-
ulcers. This is, about three times the
value Of the cotton crop of 1914 and
IS twice the value of the crop Of 1913
which had the highest value Of rec
ord. The computation has Just beer
made. at the close of the cotton year
nv the United States department Of ag
ricuIfure, bureau of crop estimates
based on average monthly prices re
ceived by growers and on MONTH,
marketings Agricultural Department
News Letter.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27
GETCHELL PRAIRIE ITEMS

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Styles were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Bond al
)sdinner Tuesday. ~~E
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Martin enter
tanned at dinner Thursday, Mr.. Long
fellow, Mrs. W. w. Harper and Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Bond.
Last Friday at-the home Of Mr.. ]
H. Whitcher 4 hogs were butchered
one belonged to Chas. Whitcher, one
to Fred Getchell, one to Mr.. Stull and
one to Mr.. Whitcher, wives and chill
dren of the various ones were there
to enjoy turkey dinner served by
Mrs. J. H. Whitcher. Mrs. S. E.. Har-
per and Mr.. Longfellow also Joined
the party for dinner.
Mrs. Lloyd Sampson and children
and Mrs. Chas. Whitcher and daugh.
ter, Harriet, spent Saturday at the
home Of Mrs. Jay Rogers.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. White entertain
ed at dinner Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs Ed
Harper
On account of the weather the Lad
les Aid was postponed until Thanks
giving afternoon at the church after
the annual neighborhood dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clande Farrell and
daughter and Mrs. Ayres, spent Sun
day evening with Mr.. and Mrs. J. H
White and family. 49,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronzheimer and their
daughter, Florence, returned from Ro-
chester, Mimi, where Mrs. Ronzheim-
er receied treatments, and Florence
was examined and found her trouble
to be caused from her tonsils, and will
have them removed by DR.. Pray, in
Valley City, the last Of the week.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

The state law library, austere and
sedate, reeking with the atmosphere
of legal lore and phraseology has been
invaded. Yesterday copy Of the cap
peal to Reason" was picked up in the
law library. Plainly inscribed in one
corner was the publishers address la
bel to Joseph Coghlan, Bismarck, N.
D." Coghlan is the law librarian and
one of the faithful of the Townley
clan.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Architect A. Fraser, OF Minot, N.
D., was a Valley City visitor last
night and this morning left on No. g
for Jamestown to attend the conven-
ton of architects being held in that
city.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Do not forget that the Fireman's
Ball and Party is to be given tonor-
row, Wednesday evening, at the X. p.
hall. Some folks have the idea that
it is to be Thursday evening, SO if
you have that idea please correct the
same +lt II sd
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Representative j. N. Kunkel, of
Wells county, was here last night and
was guest at the Kindred Hotel
leaving for Bismarck this morning to
attend the special session. Mr.. Kun
KEEL was one of the league members
last winter but they say that he is
seeing things little different, now.
There are others who are seeing
things besides Mr.. Kunkel. 4.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Bud Ormsby and his Ragtime. Kids
from LaMoure made big hit with The
people Of Valley City at Clark's Hall
last Saturday evening. Over 100 cou-
Piles danced to their music and every
one declared it was the best dance mu-
sic heard in this city for some time.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Tomorrow afternoon the Ladies' Aid
of the Scandinavian N. E. church will
meet in the church and in the eve
ming the choir will also meet. Thanks
giving praise meeting viii be. held in
the church at, 8 p. M. Friday night
the Epworth League literary and so
cial program will be given.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Eighteen candidates were put
through the Elks lodge last night
which is an evidence that this popular
lodge is gathering in a bunch of mem
bers this winter, also.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

Olaf. B. Skonnord, who has been in
Northern Minnesota for the past ten
days hunting big game, returned
home this morning on No. 8. He says
he had a good time and show that he
had some success he brought back
with him the carcass of a big buck
deer. G. ~. r.:g3