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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-12
STEEL HATS AT TEN CENTS.

Wheeling, w. Va, April 12.-Dur- ing the recent World DWar a dough- hvo who lost his trench helmet was docked SS.50 from his pay. Today the helmets are on sale in a local .'hye-and-ten" for ten cents Young sters are rhe principal wearers-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-12
Rubber Stamps.
Real Estate Wanted.

IF IT IS REAL ESTATE business | opportunities you want to buy or sell. 1
 Inquire David Apstein, S7S Stillman St. l Tel. Bar. TOSS. U17all* BUSINESS EXCHANGE-I All kinds of insurance. We can sell |
 your business. If your house is for |
 sale rent see us. Clients waiting 305 Liberty Bldg. Bar. 1889 12Sall~
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-12
Auto Radiators.

STAR AUTO MACHINE co. CURBAN RADIATORS for Fords Will not boil; undamaged by freezing For sale here. 673 Housatonic Ave Bar mum 2559. G15aI~
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-12
Musical Instruments.

MURRAY AND PAYERS
 VEGA WHITE LADYE BANJOS, Tenor Banjos and Banjo Mandolins. Cundy- Bettoney Saxophones Martin Mando- lins and Ukeleles Schirmer & Fischer Library Music, 6 Post Office Arcade. Tel. Noble 1772. G16IIl"
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LAND SALE

By virtue of the authority vested in
me as trustee in a trust deed executed
by Mrs. Nettie J. Broome and E. G.
Broon1e, December 1st, 1919 in which
H. P. Scott is the beneficiary, which
trust deed is recorded in book rs,
page ITO of the record of trust deeds
in the Chancery Clerks Office of La
fayette County, Mississippi default
having been made in the payment of
the indebtedness therein secured, and
having been requested so to do by the
said H. p. Scott, will on Monday the
18th day of November, 1922 within
legal hours at the south door Of the
county court house in the city of Ok
ford, Lafayette County, Mississippi
offer for sale and sell to the highest
bidder for cash the land described in
said trust deed to-wit:
The North East quarter of section
Eighteen; The North half of section
seventeen; and all that part of the
South East Quarter Of section Seven
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Supervisors. of Lafayette
County. Mississippi, will award con-
tracts at public cutlery, in the county
court house, beginning at 1870 o'clock
P. M. on Tuesday, November 7th, 1922,
for the building Of the following
bridges, towit: One 90 #, bridge
across Puscuss creek at Kilgore old
mill in Beat q; one 132 # bridge
across Ward creek near John Rus
SELLS in Beat 2; and one 100 fit.
bridge on Yocona river levee at
Fondren crossing in Beat A.
All said bridges to be built accord
ing to plans and specifications now on
file in the Chaneery Clerks office. The
Board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids. - -
! This October 9Th, 1922.
w. M. WOODWARD, Clerk.
Oct. ~, 10, 26.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
NOTICE.

The undersigned, Clerk Of the Board
OF Supervisors. Of Lafayette County,
MISSISSIPPI, Will receive sealed bids up
until ~ o'clock ] Nooh, Tuesday,
November 7th,, 1922 for furnishing Of
oYiesseconnd hand. six tom tractor g for
TIE road districts of Reats4. The
Board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
This October 5th, 1922.
M w. M WOODWARD; Clerk. .
akA Z q 3 4f,x ~, sgs $3.50 sssAss IS
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19


suit in said court of J. E. Burke, to
which you are Defendant.
This October 10Th, 1922.
w. nj. WOODWARD, Clerk.
VIM. F. Hamilton, Sol.
Oct. 10, 26. Nov. 2, 8.
NOTICE.
No. 1901.
IS. R. Written, Jr., Admr.
VS..
Estate of Noah Graves Burt, Decd.
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF
LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MISS.
Mrs. Mary Burt Paddison, whose Post
Office Address is No. 1491 Monroe
Street, Memphis, Tennessee.
Mrs. Loutie Burt Womack, whose
Post Office Address is Murphrees-
boro, Tennessee.
Mrs. Jamie Duncan Marsh, whose Post
Office Address is No. 140 West 57th
I Street, New York City, N. Y.
Mrs. Louise Cloud, whose Post Office
Address is Oliver Street, Memphis,
+ Tennessee.
Ernest P. Cloud, Jr., Minor, child Of
Ernest r. Cloud, deceased, residing
with his Mother, Mrs. Louise Cloud,
and whose Post Office Address is
Oliver Street. Memphis. Tennessee.
Sarah Cloud, q Minor, child Of Ernest
P.Cloud, deceased, residing with her
r Mother, Mrs. Louise Cloud, and
whose Post Office Address is Oliver
Street, Memphis, Tennessee. :
Mrs. Louise CLOUD, Mother of the
! Minor Child, Ernest P. Cloud, Jr.,
whose Post Office Address is Oliver
Street, Memphis, Tennessee, for and
! on behalf of said Minor, Ernest z.
Cloud, Jr.
Mrs. Louise Cloud, Mother, of the
| Minor Child, Sarah Cloud, and for
and on behalf of said Minor, and
| whose Post Office Address is Oliver
/ Street, Memphis, Tennessee.
You and each Of you are commanded
to appear before the Chancery Court
of Lafayette County, Mississippi, at
Oxford, Mississippi, on the First Day
Of the Regular ! November Term,
which is the Attn Monday Of Novem-
Der, 1922 and is. the 9th day Of No
vember, 1922, and show cause, if any
you. can, why the First Annual and
Final Account of. S. R. Written, Jr.,
Administrator Of the Estate gof Noah
Graves Buft, Deceased; Should not be
aIlsxsa and AgRfsYsa;l , ea sssna sa 81
Fl sEiaa| o ,Assouat n9Y being o. alf i
IS Given under pay hapd and seal Ct
Oxford, Mis-, on this September n
w. NJ. WOODWARD,
Ghancery Clerk of Lafayette County
sivley 's Ra5aeg, Atty fol sAdmr.
Sept. SOD "a, 81 5 1915 3
NoTEcE.
The undersigned, Clerk Of the Boare
OF Supervisors. Of Lafayette County
Mississippi, Will receive. sealed bids ul
l1ntil' ~ o'clock aNoof, Tuesday
November nth, 1922 for furnishing q
49, 1 Il. n = =
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION.

Whereas petition has been pre-
sented to the Board praying that this
Board appoint and employ q Home
Demonstration Agent and County
Demonstration Agent, which petition
this Board finds is signed by Is per
cent of the qualified electors of La
fayette county, Mississippi, and that
the matters prayed for therein touches
the entire county and this Board has
jurisdiction over, and. whereas the
Board finds that an election should
be held to determine whether or not
these agents should be employed; 1t
is, therefore, ordered by the Board
that an election be held ON the 9TH
day of November, A. D., 1922, at the
various precincts in said county, and
at this election the proposition of
whether or not the Board shall en-
ploy the above said agents shall be
submitted to the qualified electors of
said county, and it is further ordered
that 80 days notice be given Of said
election, and that the notice shall con-
tain a statement of the proposition
to be voted on at said election, and it
is further ordered that the tickets
used in said election shall have a
substantial synopsis of the proposition
petitioned for, printed thereon.
I This Sept. 9th, 1922.
! s D. T. MITCHELL.
A. M. HALL.
J. M. JOHNSON.
Election Com.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
NOTICE.

The Public School transportation
routes not heretofore contracted for
will be let TO the lowest or best bid
ders, at the County Court House in
Oxford at two O'Clock Saturday, Oc-
tober 81 This notice applies to any
route in Lafayette County which has
been established and not heretofore
let out. Fl. T. SMITH,
County Superintendent Education.
Oct. SGT. {a1
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
The State of Mississippi.

To A. B. Cullen, nonresident of the
State of Mississippi, and whose post
I Office address is Tulsa, Oklahoma,
An attachment at the suit of I. HI.
Yates against your estate. for $381.03,
returnable before the circuit court of
Lafayette county, at Oxford, Mis-
-sissippi, has been executed, and is now
pending in said court; and unless you
appear before said court on theisecand
Monday of November, A. D., 1922,
and plead to said action, Judgment
will be entered, and the estate at
tached will be sold.
: This October 5, 1922.
S. S. WEBSTER, Clerk.
H. M. Bryan, Atty. for Pltff.
Oct. sat.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
ACT QUICKLY

Do the right thing at the right time.
Act quickly in time of danger.
In tin1e of kidney danger, Doan's
Kidney Pills are most effective.
Plenty of Oxford evidence of their
worth.
J.. D. Cook, farmer, Pontotock St.,
Oxford, says: 81 have taken Doan's
Kidney Pills and found them to be
a reliable medicine. Whenever my
kidneys don't act properly or my back
gets to hurting, get box of Doanss
Kidney Pills at Chiffon & Co.'s Drug
Store, and they soon have me all right
again. r--Doan's always prevent any
serious developments. q
Coo, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y. Advertise
ment. i
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
teen East of Matthews or Camp
Ground Creek (about 12O acres) ex-

Ground Creek (about 12O acres) ex-
cept 2 LIZ acres owned by Pleasant
Grove church, and also all that part
of the North West euartey of section
Eighteen which hes South of the old
Yocona River bed, containing about
100 acres; all in township ten, range
four West, in Lafayette County, Mis-
sissippi and aggregating by estima-
/ ton 727 1-2 acres. Said land will be
sold according to the terms of said
trust deed and as the law directs for
the purpose of paying the indebted
ness secured thereby. The title to
said laind is believed to be good, but
/ sell and convey as trustee only.
Witness my signature this 4th day
of October, 1922.
-s9e. J. w. MAULDIN, Trustee.
Oct. 5-12-19-26-Nov. 2.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
N Office TO NONRESIDENT.
No. 5d09.

The State of Mississippi.
To w. Nj, Byard, whose post office
address is 118 Wyoming Street, st.
Louis, Mo-: ~
You are commanded to appear be-
fore the Chancery Court of Lafayette
County, Mississippi, on the 4th Non
day of November, 1922, to defend the
suit in said Court of Mrs. Lydia
BYard. TO which you are defendant.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19

October 18th, 1922, at 10 o'clock AN,
for the purpose of raising the assess
ment on. Automobiles for the year
1922, to comply with the instructions
of the State Tax Commission and the
Laws of Mississippi.
This October. S, 1922.
W.. M. WOODWARD, Clerk.
Oct. sit. So
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to thank our many friends
for the kindness shown during the
illness and death of our aunt, Miss
Sinclair, and for the beautiful flowers
which are indeed Gods messengers
to men.
J. H. LAWSHEE, WIFE AND Chill
DREN.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19

No. 5413.
E Mississippi.

The State of Mississippi.
To Sarah Burke, whose Post Office
address is Clovis, Mexico:
You are commanded to appear be-
fore the Chancery Court of Lafayette
County, Mississippi, on the 4th Mon
day of November, 1922, to defend the
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT.

No. 540S.
The State Of Mississippi.
Rufus Lawshee, Comp't.
VS..
Elenor Lawshee, Def't.
To Elenor Lawshee, whose post office
address is Grand Junction, Tennes-
see:
You are commanded to appear be-
fore the Chancery Court of Lafayette
County, Mississippi, on the 4th Mon
day OF November, 1922, to defend the
suit in said court Of Rufus -Lawshee,
to which you are defendant.
This October 14th, 1922.
e w. M. WOODWARD, Clerk.
L. c. Hutton, Sol.
Oct. 10, 26. Nov. 20.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-10-19
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Supervisors of. Lafayette
County, Mississippi, will meet at the
County Court House in Oxford, on
Newark post., 1922-04-12

ers. Teaching is no longer something
that anyone with a fair amount of
knowledge can undertake There is
no longer any guess work about it. 1t
has been reduced to science. Do you
think the children that you have just
observed, will remember" DR.. Bam-
berger queried, "the causes that led
to the discovery of America? They
will never forget them for the reason
that the information has been pre-
sented in an organized way, and not
in illogical, unrelated topics" The
speaker paused to test out her audi
ence, asking them to repeat num-
Der of letters which she called out.
From the audience there were only
few responses. She repeated the ex-
pertinent, arranging the letters to
form a word, when everyone in the
audience found it easy to repeat them.
"This is what l mean," DR.. Bam-
berger said, "by organizing ones
facts. The teacher must relate them
to things that the child knows about,
and associate them with the knowl-
edge which is already his, if he is to
remember them. 1t is absolute waste
of time to learn isolated facts, unre-
tied and unorganized. The lesson
that you have just witnessed, illus
trated facts organized into bodies of
thought. Each new fact came in to
help the child to discover something
that he was in search of. He was
interested in his topic; he had a mo-
tive for studying. Under the old plan
of teaching, the child had no motive
for remembing. He was not interested
in the thing which was set before him.
"A book, used as an instrument of
thought, is wonderful thing, and
this is the way in which these children
tonight have been using their books.
They used them to verify their opin-
ions, but not to do their thinking for
them. A book should be used to gain
your information, for you cannot
think until you have your facts. Did
you notice." DR.. Bamberger continued,
chow rapidly those children read
pages in search of information? We
are not born with the gift of getting
sense out of book by skimming our
eye over the pages. This is some
Newark post., 1922-04-12

thing we acquire, and it is most easily
acquired when we are young. If you
notice that those children were not
more than two or three minutes in
reading two pages, and that they
read with comprehension?
"Again, one of the principles Of
modern education is to keep the at
mosphere of the school room as much
as is possible like the atmosphere Of
a fine home. That atmosphere was
present in the class we witnessed to-
night. Did you notice the tone of the
teachers voice, and the well modulat-
ed children's voices? But all of these
things you may say, ARE being ac-
quired at sacrifice of the so-called
three RS of the past generation. Are
you teaching the children to spell?'
you may ask u.s." DR.. Bamberger
cited illustrations of spelling tests
made in 1916 at Springfield, Mass,
which had been discovered. These
same words were tried out on Balti-
more children in 1905, with a gain of
II per cent, and again in 1921, with
a gain of 21 per cent. DR.. Bamberger
described modern educational methods
as applied to spelling. "There is no
longer anything haphazard in our
teaching of this subject" she said.
zone hundred years after the old
blue-backed speller was issued, we
have published new scientific speller.
Instead of the 10000 words that Mr..
Webster said in 1902, everyone should
know how to spell, the new scientific
speller says there are just 5000 that
the average person needs to bother
about; and this conclusion was reach
ed by scientific methods. The pub
Usher of the new speller took $4,000
business letters, written, not by tech
nical and professional men, but by the
rank and file of the people, men and
women on the farms, who write their
orders into mail houses-the ordin-
ary business letters OF the ordinary
people. From careful examination
of these is was discovered that 1000
words in the English language prob
ably comprise so per cent of all our
correspondence. Those 1000 words,
in the new speller, have been dstrib-
uted among the lessons in the lower
grades, where the greater number of
pupils will be sure to learn them
Every word, the teacher can guran-
tee, the child will need later in life.
Everyone of these 1000 words, the
child must be able to spell before he
leaves the Sixth grade, with 100 per
cent accuracy. For where, before, he
Continued on Page Seven.)
Newark post., 1922-04-12

"BETTER SCHOOLS FOR NEWARK" "
A GET.TOGETHER DEPARTMENT CONDUCTED BY
THE NEWARK PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION

The value of trained teachers in the
school room was strikingly demon
strated in the "Open Glasses" held in
the Newark School last Thursday.
About thirty parents visited the
grades during the afternoon and OBJ
served regular school room work. The
days program was rounded out at
the evening meeting, when the prin-
ciples underlying the teaching demon
strated in the afternoon, were pre-
sented by DR.. Florence Bamberger Of
Johns Hopkins University. Although
there was full attendance of teach
ers and girls from the Teacher Train
ing Department of the College, the
group of parents and citizens present
was discouragingly small. Where, oh
where, were those among us who are
eternally lamenting the "good old
days" that have passed in the school
room? How we wished for them on
Thursday evening!
From 7.30 to 500, the audience was
permitted to 'look on" while Miss
Agnes Snyder taught a Sixth Grade
history lesson. They saw children,
surrounded by visitors, transferred to
strange surroundings, at the end of a
long day, going as calmly about their
work as though they were alone with
their regular teacher in their own
morning class room. How many
adults in the community would work
at their normal efficiency, we wonder,
under these same conditions. Follow
ing the lesson, DR.. Bamberger dis
cussed a number of it's features. She
said: "You have just witnessed one
of the finest exhibitions of teaching /
have ever seen. Did you not think it
marvellous the way those children fol-
lowed the line of thought, using their
books as tools? Did you notice their
well modulated voices, the rapidity
with which they read, silently, in
search of information? All of these
things are the marks of skillful teach
ing to which they have been subject
ed. There is one thing that the
citizens of every community must
recognize before they can have good
schools, and that is, that good schools
demand good teachers, and good sal
aries must be provided for good teach
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-16
LETTERS 10 THE EDITOR
The Condition or Hamilton Ave.

MT. Editor: What is. the matter with the street department of Norwich?
 A large part of the streets are without repair. Drive from Preston bridge to- wards Preston city to the Preston line and you will find a street that would be a dfSgrace to any civilized city. Hamil- ton avenue is like a river bed. The same holes, humps and hollows that were there a year ago exist today only in a worse condition. This road, a mile long and used extensively, has been repaired dur ing the past year only with one load of cinders, dumped in a heap near the Preston line, levelled by the traffic and did more harm than. good.
 Why are the streets neglected? Is it politics, graft, incapacity, or a lack of money? It is not lack of money. Twenty-Five dollars used judiciously once in a few months would smooth this street and make it very passable. It cannot be political creokedness. Any child would know better than to employ such methods. We do not believe it is graft even if it does look a little "streaked'' when we see that the streets that have been rebuilt lead to some Special inter- ests" and are very little benefit to the public. Whatever else, the underlying cause must be incapicity.
 The eitizers of Norwich to pay the tax they are compelled to pay and re- cefye so little benefit and still hold their peace must be long suffering people.
 o. B. Preston, Nov. 14, 1922.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-16
IN THE DAYS, NEWS
DURANGO.

Durango state, scene of Mexico's most recent revolution, and Tepe- huantes, where the rebel leader, Mur- gia, was executed, form the subject of the following bulletin from the Wash ington, p. C., headquarters of the Ma
 ional Geographic Society:
 Attention was focused upon Durango in 1916 by the march into that state of General Pershing's ex- peditionary force. Then, and to this day, the finding of worn and weather
 beaten carretas, or clumsy carts, with their solid wooden wheels, and built
 without nails or spikes, recalls the very early communication between Durango City and New York. In those days it took year to transport freight
 between those points.
 "The state of Durango has an area about equal to that of Virginia, and a population estimated at about that of New Hampshire. In normal mining times more than 4,000 mining pro-
 perties were operated in Durango, a
 number exceeded only in Chichuahua,
 to the north, and in Sonora, to the
 northeast across a strip of Chihuahua
 and Sinaloa. Most of the Durango
 mines were closed in 1915.
 ''The name of the little settlement, 1cpcA1d1lLSS, ICGtllS OIl6 OI Ufl6 odTil-
 est events in Durango's. recorded his tory. It was the tribe which gave the ] name to the village which, with the Tarahumaras, arose against the Span i ish settlers four years before Ply mouth Colony was founded. In that year some 25,000 Indians of these two l tribes marched on Durango City. They killed missionaries and burned down churches as they moved. Not mere than 600 white people withstSod this siege and even allowing for an ex- aggeratiop in their estimate of 15,0O0 ] of their enemy killed, the white mans victory was a terrible lesson to their assailants.
 Remnants of these two tribes now l sprinkle the edges of the Sierra Madre | range which cuts across the north west corner of Durango.
 "A recent theory that chaperones make for greater liberty among the l young, on the same principle that l policemen give citizens the freedom of city streets by night, finds interest ing complication among these tribes l They are monagamous and jealous of l the virtue of their girls.
 l Tt is expressly forbidden for a I woman to talk to any man, other than members of her family. outside he1 l own home. At the tribal dances a maid who speaks to a swain incurs a l penalty of two days in prison, as does I her admirer.
 i "Infldelity is punished publicly, by
 placing the offending couple in stocks
Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-16

and having an 'executioner' adminis- ter a certain number of lashes daily for two or three weeks. Each of the victims had to watch the other pun ishment, and shortly before the time for it's administering couriers were sent through the village to summon the inhabitants that they might pro- fit by the object lesson.
 "Mescal, pulque and aguardiente are Mexican drinks of wide reputa- ton but these tribes had a beverage, tesvino, peculiar to them. Tesyino is a beer, of milk and water hue, tastes like kumyss, made from maish cora and grass seed.
 These Indians retain symbols in- troduced. by early missionaries but little of Christianity. When they wor- ship pagan gods before a Christian cross they pour out hbations of tesvi- no. They feed it to infants along with their mothers milk to ward off sick ness. They use it as a liniment, and take it internally, for every ill. They employ it at orgies with no thought of debauchery, for such orgies are part of. their worship.
 Three phenomena make the state of Durango distinctive. One is the WltO CO1Acc hutCh 6fOHS OIl A1ic uiAi slopes, producing a small berry with a delicious flavor. From these un- cultivated bushes the natives gather their entire coffee supply.
 Near Durango City is an iron mountain-a mass of metal nearly 90 per cent pure-nearly a mile long about as tall as the Times Building
 in New York, and more than a thou sand feet wide. Mining operations here. were checked by the revolution. Durango City, with it's reinforced