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VOL 2. NO 32.
VIENNA. GA. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER t.1902.
TWICE-A WEEK $1.00 PER YEAR
Arab! News.
Rev. J. J. Hyman, pastor of
First Baptist church, preached two
interesting sermons Saturday and
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Sunday.
Mrs. Lawson E. Brown, accom-
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panied by her daughter Mattie, at-
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tended the singing convention at
Pineview Saturday und Sunday^
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returning Monday.
Some Needs of
15he Rural Schools.
By jr. C. OLIVER.
Seeing that < so many of our good
country people are leaving the country
and flocking to the town* and villages
to educate their children properly and,
furthermore, that so many seem to be
altogether unconcerned about giving
their children any education at all, it
behooves iih as teachers and patrons of
country schools to And out the objeC-
tionnl and needy points and improve
and strengthen them.
Tn this psper it is my purpose to point
' out n few things, that if they were
granted, I can see no reason why our
country schools should not be able to
cope with any of the town schools.
What the country school needs most
.< fall is an intelligent management that
v ill forbear vnin dreaming and learn by
diligent study and patient observation
1n each case the real situation, being
content with whatever progress may
reward this intelligent management.
The southern stntes are at this time
on the eve of a great educational revi
val. Men from the north and south are
giving their time and money in studying
the needs of our country schools and
are willing and anxious to lend aid to
those communities which need it .and
will make a way for it. But it matters
not how great waves of enthusiasm may
sweep oyer our beautiful section and
how great stores of money may be
forthcoming, yet if wise leadership and
. intelligent, administration are not
developed in the teachers and patrons
.rl e results will be meager. A certain
kind of conservative, practical field
work sort of pushing ahead is needed
an ong our country people. -
Sonic of the ways in which we can do
this sort of pushing along as concerns
ike needs of our rural schools are:
1. The rural schools needs better su
pervision. I do not mean by this that
11 ose who are now employed as super
visors are not the right ones in the
i ight places, but I do mean to say that
if the Hoard of Education would appro
priate enough money to pay competent
men, as supervisors, enough to support
themselves without having to do outside
work and then require these men
actually to supervise, and stop the one-
hour-for-each-school-per-year business
—if the number of schools were dimin
ished by making one good one out of
several small ones, and would require
the supervisors to instruct their teach
ers in the latest and best methods in
institutes of reasonable length, and
have some degree of seriousness and
compulsion as to work and attendance,
the additional expense would be incon
siderable as compared with the results.
2. The rural schools need a somewhat
different class of teachers. The five-
months’ male teacher and the sister or
cousin of the school trustee must go.
By thq five-months’ male teacher I
mean those who teach for five montha
and for the rest of the year can get
nothing to do. We need men in our
schools, but we need vigorous men,
leading men, men who know the times
and try to keep pace with them.
The teachers of our rural schools are
too easily satisfied with themselvesand
their positions. Many of. them are
merely teaching to gut enough money
to enable them to speud a pleasant
vacation with some friend. They seem
never to. think of better preparation for
r their work next term. Why are such
^teachers allowed* to teach? My answer
'is because not enough is demanded of
them. The country people, many of
them, are too easily satisfied. Just so
they have a school and the child goes
two or three days daring a week is
about all some of them care for.
, f I say ,we need a different class of
ftjacherp in the country. Teachers who
Pre n of afraid to take hold of the wheel
of education and roll the country
chools right up tho front with the city
chools. Never was our opportunity
greater. Ail the leading educators
eked by moneyed men from the north
d east have their eyes and purses
greeted toward the country child and
lie rural school. If other people are
willing, to help us should we not be
willing to help ourselves?
8. Rural school systems need to be
stronger and more potent than they are
now. Every rural school should be Just
as thoroughly graded as any town or
city school. This plan is being success
fully carried out In some of the counties
of this state and other states.
All the rural schools are graded to
about the eighth grade. When the
pupil has finished the eighth grade lie
is given a certificate or diploma as you
may term it, which will admit him to a
high school. This high school is located
at some central point and so arranged
as to fit its students for any of our best
colleges, or for a successful farmer or
merchant without the college course.
Then again the plan of the Southern
Educational Board, and a band of
nobler, more consecrated men were
never brought together, is this:
Havo the county cut up into districts
not less than ten miles square with one
school building in or near the center,
with not less than ten acres of land
belonging to it. Have four teams for
each school to haul the children to and
from school and then do the grading
and arrange for the high schools as
mentioned above.
Some one is right now ready to say
that such is impossible. Yes, it may
be impossible right now but if we move
this need along With the others it will
not be long before it is a reality.
4. The rural school needs a broader
curriculum and a course of study more
thoroughly prescribed.
The old spelling book and arithmetic
stage is moving out/slowly, but we.
should bestir ourselves to get something
that is better, to take their places. If
a rural school can send oat boys and
girls who coil read, write, spell, and
cipher well, much, very much, has been
accomplished. The greatest pedagog
ical sin among teachers is that they
value these homely but substantial
accomplishments too little. Yet these
four essentials are not allthgt should
be pursued in bur rural schools. View
ing the matter practically, I should say
that ail courses pertaining to any occu
pation should be pursued to a greater
or less degree, I mean by this state-
meht that manual training—that is,
shop work, knife work, basketry, and
other handicrafts; nature study—that
is, the study of the adaptibillty of dif
ferent kinds of soil upon different
plants, the study of fertilisers for
different plants, and all that pertains
to plants in farming and gardening;
domestic science—that is, house clean
ing, cooking, and sewing. I say these
os well os the regular courses in the
books should be carried on. When the
boy or girl enters the sixth or seventh
grade it is time for them to begin to
decide or try to find out what they are
best suited for. How can they make a
correct decision wjten they have not
the most practical parts of an education
before them. This is why so many of
our boys are leaving the country and
going to the towns as clerks and thelike.
It is true it will require more time
and more and better teachers, yet such
is needed and is by no means an im
possibility. Then why can Dooly people
not have it?
6. The rural school term should be
longer and better salaries paid to their
teachers. These two “needs’* will be
readily accepted by most of our country
people but the question that confronts
them is where will the money come
from? Yes, it is true that money is
needed to bring our rural schools to the
place where they should be, and to my
mind the way of getting it is clear.
Yet I know there are many of the
country' people who will oppose my
view. But let me reason with you a
bit and perhaps simplify matters a little
My idea is local taxation. Without
It we, as country people, can never
expect to equal the towns where they
have this local system. We have a law
that will permit our grand Jury to issue
a tax for this purpose, but this law is
not liberal enough, it is not what we
Mrs. R. Whitehead Dead.
One of the saddest deaths that
has occurred in this county In a
long time was that of Mrs. R.
Whitehead, at her home near Pine
hurst, last Friday’ night about
i o’clock. She was taken slpk on
the Sunday previous and rapidly
grew worse until her death. She
was loved by all who knew her
and her Christian influence was felt
in that community. She had been
a member of the Pinehurst Baptist
church for a number of years.
She leaves a husband, one son
nud two daughters and a brother,
Dr. L. W. Mobley, of Bryonville,
besides a large number of oth
er relatives to mourn her death.
The funeral services were con
ducted by her pastor.' Rev, E, S. 1
Atkimon at the church, after
which the furierol procession,
which was one of the largest ever
seen there >n a long time, .marched
to the cemetery where her remains
were carefully placed in their last
resting place.
The bereaved family have the
sympathy of their manyfriends in
tltair bereavement.
need. It seems to me that after we
get our counties divided into distriots
the best plan would be to get our leg-
siature to amend the constitution in
such a way os. to allow just one grand
jury to recommend the issuing of a
county tax instead of haying to pass
two juries. And let this amendment
be so arranged as to allow each school
district, if they so desire, to issue a tax
to be collected and paid fco.tha ordinary
or some other person for the use of that
district. •
This plan is in operation in other
states and Is being, advocated by the
leading educators. The Southern Edu
cational Board held up this plan to the
county school commissioners last week
at Athens and told them that unless
something was done to our school sys
tem they would have to leave Oeorgia
without lending us aid financially. We
are not beggars but lam sure that not
one of the southern stntes needs money
for their schools any more than does
Georgia. Then if other states have con
formed to the requirements of this
Board and have received financial aid
can not Georgia do the same? Right
here then is a groat work for some leg
islator—that of introducing an amend
ment to the constitution as mentioned
above and getting it before the people
for ratification. Why can it not be done
by one of Dooly’s new legislators?
If this one need is granted all the
others mentioned and a great many
more will come to be realities and that
soon. ..
Let us hear from our commissioner
and other educators upon the needs of
our country schools through the col
umns of the paper. Let us try to arouse
our country people to action. If we
once start the ball to rolling I am sure
they will join in with us and help us
to roll it on to victory. '
The Woodford Stock Oo., appeared at
Heard’s opera house Thursday. Friday
and Saturday nights of last week with
a matinee Saturday afternoon. The
inclement weather caused the attend
ance to be rather small. The perfor-
mcnces ore said to have been fairly
good. A largo number of our people
enjoy a good show, and it is to bo hoped
that manager Hester will meet with
success in bringing some ’ up-to-date
theatrice troupes to our city.
A Boy’s wild tide lor Ulo
With family around expecting him to
die, and a ion riding for life 18 miles to
get Dr Kings New Discovery for con
sumption, coughs and colds, W II Brown
of Lecsville, ind. endured deaths agonies
from asthma, but this wonderful medicine
gave instant relief and soon cured him.
lie writes: “I now sleep soundly every
night.” Like msrvelous cures of con-
sumption, pneumonia, btonceitis, coughs
colds and gripp prove its matchless merit
forBlI thmat and lung troubles. Guran-
tced. Bottles 50c and $1. Trial bottles
free. Eorbcs & Coxe, druggists.
SOME ADDITIONAL
LATE LOCAL NEWS
Interesting News of Town and Connty too
Short for Heads, and Those Who
Come and Go Daily.
Col. J. T. Hill of Cordele, was in the,
city yesterday.
See J P Heard & Sons for a handsome
Tailor Suit
H. B. Forehand of near Pinehurst,
was in the city yesterday.
See our Jackets, cloaks and reefers.
All the latest, J P Heard ft Sons
W. I. Butler and son of near Fuqua,
were in the city yesterday.
Pretty line of black taffeta skirts,
Just received at J P Heard ft Sons
Dr. R. H. Pate of. Riohwood, was in
tho oity on business yesterday.
Who are the candy people?
Walton Bros,
A. F. Forehand and J. N. Harvard
ofNelllevlllei were here yesterday.,
J. P. McKenzie of Raines, was in the
city yesterday and subscribed for the
News, Thanks.
J P Heard ft Sons have the prettiest
line of hambergs over received in Vien
na.
Capt. T. E. Gary and wife of Rich-
wood, were inthe oity shopping Mon
day afternoon.
Eli Woodruff of Nellieville was here
yesterday, and renewed his subscription
to the News a year.
Ladies, don’t forget our ready to
wear skirts, suits and jackets
J P Heard & SonB.
Thos, Bntler of Mt. yernon, was in
town yesterday and subscribed for the
News a year. Thanks.
Have your walks fixed and laid with
Portland Cement. For sale by D. B.
Thompson.
J. P. Smith and Mrs. L. Davies and
daughter, Miss Nina, spent yesterday
in Macon shopping.
J. W. Eason and little son of near
Cordele, called at the News office yes
terday and renewed his subscripts to
the Nows.
Mr. J R Dixon, a prominent farmer
of Kichwood, has just treated himself
to one of those "High Grade’’ buggies
of J P Heard ft Sons.
R. E. Shirah of Drayton, accompanied
Misses May Butler and Luclle Sandlin
to Vienna Friday, where they are visit
ing relatives.
Mr. A M Turner of Pinehurst, will
from now on take his best girl to ride
in one of J P Heard ftSons High Gradfe
Buggies.
Cols. W. V. Harvard, G. W, Wooten,
M. P. Hall, J. M. Busbce and Watts
Powell visited Cordele Saturday on
legal businoss.
Dr. Arthur Fort of Lumpkin, stopped
over in the city Saturday and spent
Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. B F Forbes.
He left Monday for Atlanta, to resume
his studies in the medical collego.
Mr. W H Adkins, a prosperous farmer
of Tippettville, has just purchased
another "Old Hickory’’ wagon from J
P Heard ft Sons, the Buggy and Wagon
People. He has used tiiese wagons
before.
Tho Pulaski Primitive Baptist as
sociation will convene at Mt. Beazer
church five miles above the city Friday
and continue three days. About 100
delegates will be present and preachers
from several states.
The following from boro attended
the funeral of Mrs. R. Whitehead at
Pinehurst Sunday morning: J. B.
Whitehead and family, J. P. Heard and
family, J. M. Whitehead nnd family, O.
M. Henrd and wife and J P. Heard, Jr.,
and wife, and Messrs. B. M. Wood and
S. F. Summers, and Dr. and Mrs. H. A
Mobley.
W Early Risers
The famous little pUls.
Mr. Hatcher, of Arlington, vis
ited his lister at the Dormitory
Sunday. _ . .
Prof* Wells, of Bunea Vista*
visited the school Thursday while
en route to Adel where he goes to
take charge of his school,
Otba Tippett and Sonnie Pierce
were called home Sunday by a
telegram to attend the funeral of a
relative.
J. Walker Denriard Esq., spent
Saturday and Snnday with his
parents at Pineview.
Ed. Wilson White took in the
sing at Bay Springs Sunday. He
reprots “a big lime and a square
meal.”
Misa Dora Dennard, of Pine-
view, who has been sick for the
past two weeks, returned Monday
to resume her studies m the Hous->
ton High School.
Rev. Dixon preached to a large
audience at the Baptist church Sun
day night,
Mr. and Mrs. Jno. H. Bedgood
attended the ting at Bay Springs
Sunday,
Our merchants and cotton buy-*.
ersTtre kept quite busy these days
handling the fleecy, staple and the
American eagle. ’
Several new pupils arrived Sun
day to enter school. The school
is doing a fine work and continues
to grow daily.
Miss Mary Brewton, who bus
been elecied assistant teacher, came
Thursday to take charge of her
work.
Dr. Sam McArthur. Dead.
A message was received in Cor
dele Monday stating that Dr. Sam
McArthur, of Gordon, a brother ot
Dr. A. L. McArthur of this city
died at his home in Gordon Sunday
night. Dr. McArthur had a severe
attack of typhoid fever which
proved fatal.
The grief stricken relatives huvo
the sympathy of the News and the
entire people of Cordele—News.
lie is also n father of Dr. T. J.
McArthur and Messrs. L. R. and
J. F. McArthur of Unadilia.
PLAIN NOTICE .
I am quitting the Shelf Goods*
It does uot pay me at ail. They
are going at the rate of about one
hundred dollars per day, which is
too slow, I will put on another
man by the name of Push Mon
day, and by Dec. 15th, Push will
have closed out my old stand and
stock at and below cost. If you
want any part of it, you had best
to come quick. This is no Fake
Gale. Respectfully,
D. B. Thompson.
A Sad Disappointment.
Ineffective liver medicine is disappoint
ment but you don’t want to purge strain
and break the glands of the stomach and
bowels DeWitts Little Early Risers nevvr
dlrappoint. They cleans the stomach ol
all poison and putrid matter and do it mi
gently that one enjoys the effects. They*
are a tonic to the liver. Cure billiousnes*
torpid liver and prevents (ever.
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