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VOL I. NO 99.
VIENNA. GA., SATURDAY,.MAY 10. 1902.
TWICE"A*WEEK $1.00 PER YEAR
The Patrons and The School.
L AST WEEK I attempted to
show In some sort of a Way some
of the duties of teachers. . In this
it shall be my purpose to set forth, in
connection with the many duties of
teachers, * few duties involved upon
parents as patrons of our country
schools.
In order to get the connecting link
let us first review hastily the duties of
the teacher. We say:
(1) That the teacher should not
under-estimate the value of his .work.
(2) That he should strive to become
thoroughly acquainted with hls'patrons.
(8) That he should be willing, and
not only willing but anxious, to explain
his plans and methods of teaching to
the pa:eM..
(4) That lie should, in order to get
the patrons familiar with his work,
encourage them to visit the school.
(6) That he should truthfully repre
sent the children to their parents.
(8) That he should give his whole
time to the school work.
(7) That lie should be careful and
conscientious in performing every
known duty.
(8) That he should not be satisfied
with wlint he is, but should' avail him
self of every opportunity to elevate his
profession by elevating himself.
Now, in order that the teacher may
be successful in performing these and
various other duties, it is necessary for
the good Of the school and all concerned
that the following duties o. the patrons
nrd carefully and conscientiously per
formed :
(1) Patrons do not, as a rule, suffici
ently recognise the importance of their
schools. They nro too easily satisfied
when the teacher Is hired, and likewise
too liOsty inbccoining dissatisfied when
things do not go well. They should be
more careful at the beginning in order
to reap the best results at the end. It
is necessary to have an up-to-date
teacher backed by up-to-date patrons
in order to have an up-to-date school.
We often hear people say, “My children
are not leumlng a thing unless it be
more meanness/’ Is this altogether
the teacher’s fault? If it is, you na
patrons, should not be so willing to
employ those of us who are resting at
ease as to what we are now. You are
about to hire a teacher who has been
spending about all he has made to
better fit himself for hit work, Just
before the contract is modo here comes
a teacher who has not fitted himself at
all and oilers to toke the school “for
what the county will pay.’* Without
one time'stopping to ask yourself what
sort of material you are about to pur-,
chase, you at once conclude to employ
the ohaper teacher since, as you say,
“Our children ore all small and this
fellow will do as well as any we can
get.’’ You forget that the youngest
should receive the most careful. atten
tion. Do yon think that, after you have
been so hasty and unobserving in pro
curing cheap property, you should be
so quick to find fault? Is that the best
way to recognize the importance of
your school?
(2) Patrons should not over-estimate
their children’s knowledge. When
“Jamie,” a boy about ten or twelve
years of age, brings his new arithmetic
home, say for Instance it is Bacon’s
Four Year’s in Number, his father
opens it and looks at thefint few pages
and gives it bock to the boy saying, “I
don’t see any use in making you fool
away your time studying that easy
thing, you ought to have known what
is in there two years ago. I don't see
any sense in it no how.” Do you know
that you then planted seed that may
never be uprooted? The child should
be encouraged to go up by: degrees
understanding thoroughly, ores nearly
as possible, every step as he goes.
Going through a course does not neces
sarily mean understanding a course.
(8) Patrons should reciprocate the
efforts of the teacher to become ac
quainted both with the teacher himself
and bis plans and methods of teaching.
It is true that, if our country schools
ever amount to much more than they
gre now, teachers will have to “wske-
lv Mip,” and it is Just as true with the
patrons. Of ten a month or two has
passed before the teacher gets a chance
to meet all of his patrons face to face.
During this time many of them formed
their opinion of their "new teacher,”
and have expressed it freely before
their children whether it be good or
bad. . Would it not be better to go a
few steps out of your way to see and
know for yourself just how and what
pour teacher is doing, and what manner
of man he is before you express too
freely your thoughts?
(4) Patrons should possess a forgiving
spirit. When the teacher has, as you
think, made a mistake do not be too
quick too fly off the handle, but try
first to see his motive—his purpose.
(6) Patrons, or parents, should see
that their children are in school every
da:y. When a child is too ill to go to
sohool he ahonld bo treated as such and
not be allowed to run about from place
to place. Or perhaps sometimes the
father is going to town, or, better still
for this time of the year, he is going a
fishing, and according to a promise
mode two or three months before,
“Jamie” says he must go, sohool or no
school. Then perhaps the next day his
father says it is necessary to keep
“Jamie” at home to help moke up for
lost time, then you say, “Well, the
week is nearly gone and you wouldn’t
learn much before Monday so you can
wait’till then to go back.” So on
And Says “Uncle George" Is the Right
Han, and That He is as Clever After
an
To the Editor of the jSTews :
As I am a citizen of Dooly coun
ty, I but naturally take a deep in
terest in her politics. I am sur
prised that any mun should come
out tor office in this county and
promise to improve in the manage
ment of the public affairs ot the
county especially in the case of the
Sheriff, If Dooly county has one
man, more than another that it
should be proud of, it is our present
Sheriff— G. W. Sheppard, famil
iarly and lovingly 'called “Uncle
George.” He is a man with a
heart as big as a barrel; a handshake
that is as good as the etrains of
Dixie to the ears of n confederate
soldier. Dooly county needs just
such a man—kind hearted, good
and sincere, earnest and painstak
ing, loved by all good citizens and
COMMUNICATION.
through the tbrm it goes. If the real I respected and feared by criminals,
cause was known why many of the' rj ■. t u
children are not any further advanced e 1 e
it would be found to center in and
around irregularity of attendance.
(6) Lastly, patrons should give the
teacher their sympathy always. Page
says, “Let the parents;give their sym
pathy and co-operation to the teachers
of their children, .and the profession
would soon be filled with devotedand
talented men who would be willing to
live and die in their work; and when
from the last pillow, they would cast
backs lingering look to the scene of
their labors, the roses would amply
conceal the thorns.”
This and what was said last week has
been done in and through love for the
dear children of our county. Can we,
aa teachers and patrons, afford to sit
idly by and'see so many boys and girls
eome up uneducated—unprepared to
enter into the business affairs of life?
Should we not preas forward both
working oa one for the good of all?
Tuons.
ZION HILL CORRESPONDENCE.
The following is what the Zion
Hill correspondence to the Cordele
Sentinel has to say about those
questions ask the editor of the
Progress by “Voter” last week
which were answe^d incorrectly
"Did you see those questions Mr
Editor, fn the Vienna Progress, in
tending to reflect on "Uncle
George” Sheppnrd? Do you sup
pose that they originated in the
mind of that "great paper” because
the Sheriff saw proper to change
the legal advertisement to the
Vienna News? The answers look
that way, but the effect oi this un
due advantage to injure a candidate
is helping Sheppard out here. The
account of that language ■ in the
Progress at that time was quite
different from the editor’s answers
to these questions now. We see
no reason for this unless the first
account wos “before taking” and
those answers were “after taking”
the legal ads to the News for a
season. ”
I CAN GET YOU ONE THOUS
AND DOLLARS or more to build you
a home or business bouse t» be ptid back
in zoo months at $5.50 per month and no
more. See me, investigate our plan.
Agents wanted everywhere.
, .D, A. R. CRUM,
Vienna, Go.
same good and clever
man between elections as he is just
before them, He does not have
one kind of a handshake then und
and another when electioneering.
Mr, Editor: Mr. Sheppard’s
name is as becoming io him as any
thing could possibly -be for lie has
been a good shepherd to our county
—tried and found true.
Say Bud 1 when a man has a
good home, it he is wise he don’t
need to trade he . had better lfuve
“well enough—when it is as good
as it can be—alone,” and. I predict
that when the primary is over and
the votes ure counted that he will
have a clean sweep, and will con-
tinue to keep watch over the sheep
that go astray for the next two
years. I know for he hus had op
position before and they were all
good men too. Hurrah for "Uncle
George!” Hurrah!!
Observer.
Foley's Honey and Tar
cures colds, prevents pneumonic.
A BIRTHDAY DINNER.
Mr. O. M. Heard tendered
large number of his friends abirth-
d&y dinner in honor of his 29th.
year, af the opera house Wednes
day afternoon at a '.30. This has
been a custom of Mr. Heard tor the
past few years and those who were
so fortunate us to have been present
on former occasions knew what
was in store for them. . When the
hour bad arrived the audience con
sisted of old and young und there
were possibly 75 or too present.
The refreshments consisted of
ice cold beer, ginger ate, crackers,
boiled ham, beef? chips and pickles,
which were passed around through
the crowd with pol.’e and atten
tive waiters. Everything passed
off nicely and everybody present
bad a nice time.
Mr. -Heard is one of Vienna’s
most prominent and enterprising
business men and has many fr.eods
who wish to see him live to cele
brate many more happy birthdays.
Pinehurst, Go., May 6,1902.
Editor News : In the issue of your
valuable paper the 30th, ult., there
appeared a long winded communication
from Mr. O. B. Perry with a "P. B.”
attached which reads thus: “My
friend Pinehurst accuses Mr. Terrell of
putting tax on fertilizers for us poor
farmers to pay. I deny the charge, and
you can’t prove It. Mr. Terrell didn’t
have anythlng'to do with that, audit
is not my business to enlighten you. I
am a farmer and not a tramp, stove or
coffee pot patcher. This ends my con
troversy with you.”
Mr. Editor, as the gentleman has
declared off, we must of necessity
trouble you with this communication.
We regret somewhat to be compelled
to refute some of this “enlighten”
article with its P. S.
In the first place, Mr. O. B. P. seems
to have a peculiar neck of getting cross
wise in his valuable (?) artioles. As a
matter of fact, the Pinehurst scribe
that this apostle desires to assign as a
tramp, stove and coffee pot patcher did
not communicate the article referred
to, and while he has done us the injus
tice to declare the controversy at an
end, we don’t feel quite disposed to lot
it pass unnoticed. While his article
was not of much value as for instruction
in that connection, he has placed the
“tramp, stove and coffee pot patcher”
in a position that needs mentioning,
From the tenor of the flow ot hlB lan
guage no one, not even a tramp or stove
patcher would ever supposed him to
have been, as he styles himself, nothing
but a farmer. While we can bear a
great deal of newspaper slash, yet when
it is 8 foot, which will be shown, that
the communicant of said Terrell guano
act was truly a farmer, it becomes oar
duty to handle that part of his article
that treats on us.
As for the “corkscrew element” that
appeared In the Sentinel a few issues
ago the Pinehurst scribe is responsible,
and as doubtless he (Mr. O. B. P;) ob
tained his information from some of the
“smart set” he doubtless drew on his
imagination os usual, and after being
informed ot our occupation, naturally
ascribed the Terrell guano net to us—
desiring to do us one and then end the
controversy.
Had Mr. 1’orry posed ns nothing but
a farmer a few years ago, possibly the
Experimental farm which would have
proven to have been to him a valuable
sugar-coated political piam, might have
fallen on him, and such lamentations
as we hear now that, “Pm nothing but
a, farmer,” would have been but echoes
of the past. But lo I this honest tiller
of the soil now poses as a political
beacon light, possibly similar, but not
so effectual to that which illuminated
the pathway of the great men of the
east, (not east of Vienna) and by dili
gent search and careful guidanco di
rected them to tho true light of the
world.
But this conflagration, however, after
an extended tour to Atlanta and other
suburbs came and hovered over Cordole
and found a terrible, one-eyed, blind
tiger influence and then, after casting
his political radience, equaled only by
the great aurora borealis found a tramp,
stove and coffee pot patcher at Pime-
hurst. “The time la short,” he says,
and he will call a halt and end the con
troversy with us, and will endeavor to
devote the remaining few days before
the nomination to illuminating those
that have made op their minds. Pos
sibly he may induce even Mr. Terrell
to support Mr. Guerry, if so, success to
Mr. 0. B. P.
Pardon me for requesting a little
space in your valued columns, but ne
cessity seems to bave demanded, which
we deplore. ' “Stoyb Patohbb.”
Buggies! Galore-
Car Load Celebrated Anchor
Buggies just received.
Prices right—quality best.
J. P. Hfeard & Sons,
it savsd Hif Leg
P A Danlorth, of Lagrange, Ga., atif-
fere for six months with a (rlghilul run
ning sore on hts leg; but writes that
Bucklen’s Arnaca Salve wolly cured U in
five days. For ulcers, wounds, piles, u’a
the best salve in the world. 'Cure guar
anteed. Vienna Dans Co.
BATCH OF NEWS
FROM UNADILLA
The Dooly Count; Nodical Association
Unndilla, Ga., May g,< 1902.
The Dooly County Medical asso
ciation convened here last Tuesday
and were tendered a banquet at the
Duncan hotel by Dr’s. McArthur
and Wooten. Th&se meetings arc
increasing in interest and the dis
cussions of subjects pertaining to
the science of medicine and surgery
will prove beneficial to the mem
bers. The next meeting will be
held at Arabi on the first 'Tuesday *
in July, when the physicians at
that place will tender the members
a banquet.
Mrs. W. B. Nichols left Tueeduy
for Americus, where she will spend
several weeks the guest of Mrs. C.
W. Lamar.
A. E. Graves visited Cordele
Thursday.
Miss Mary Teter went up to Elko
Thursday where she joined the
Elko people in their annual picnic
at Beech Haven,
Miss Nellie Thorp spent Thurs
day night out in the country with
Mrs. D. W. Harvard,
W. J. Oliver was elected by the’
Methodist Sunday school as a del
egate to the State Sunday School
association at Dublin, and he left
Wednesday to attend.
Our good Christian ladies are still
keeping up their Tuesday afternoon
prayer meetings.
Mrs. L. A. Morgan of Atrericus
is the guest of her father S. L.
Speight this week.
Miss Laura Kate Pute has re
turned home from Vienna where
she has been the guest of Misses
Emmie'and Carolyn Roberts.
Mrs/W. L. Hooks has been on
the sic k list this week. Glad to
learn that she is improving.
Mrs./. Y. Nethcrton is able to
be up again. ,
Miss Smithy Carroll is quite sick
this week, Hope she will soon be
out again.
S. D. Thompson of near Pine
hurst, spent a few hours here with
his friends Frida f morning.
Mrs. Jas. F. McArthur visited
Macon this week shopping.
Judge D L Henderson of Vienna
passed through here Friday morn
ing enroute to Henderson, with two
of his children to spend some time
with their grind-parents Mr. and
Mrs. B. C. Kendrick. '
Misses Minnie and Evelyn Pea-,
cock of Emericb, were in town
Friday.
Don’t give up and say there it no spec
tacles which yon can see through just
because you bn/e failed to get fitted Re
member 1 am fining those kind every
d«T. H. A. Youmans,
Jeweler and Optician.
Attention Candidates
You are hereby notified to send hi (r
turn over to me the amount assessed you
by the Executive committee on or betorc
Kay the 20th. Very Resp’t.
• L, NOBLES,
Vienna, GaMay 8th, 19c s.
Don’t forget we have a nice liner 01
mens and boys Straw Kata. See them
before buying elsewhere.
J. P, Heard & Sons’.