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ROW ARE VOLK SCHOOL AD
VANTAGES-72, 80 OR 96
PER ( ENT NORMAL
What sort of school advantages do
your children have, and the children
of your community? The three main
questions to consider are these.
1. Are the provisions for teaching
elementary grades efficient and up-to
date.?
2. Then after passing through the
elementary grades can your boys and
girls get modern high school instruc
tion without having to leave home and
go to the expense of "boarding" some¬
where?
And does this high school provide
proper instruction in vocation agricul¬
ture and home economics?
The three questions just given, as
have said, broadly determine
( i not your children have modern
school advantages; but the subject is
so important that all of us should real¬
ly go into it much more fully. About
(his vital matter of proper training for
our boys and girls —one of the most
important problems that ever confronts
a father or mother—we ought to know
i,i; jseiy where we stand. And just as
Prof. Massey’s article last week gave
twenty tests for a good farmer, so we
ro w wish to present twenty-five tests
that will show whether or not the
advantages offered your children are
6<i. 72, SO, 88 or 96. etc., per cent of
what they should be. Read over the
following list of twenty-five questions,
credit yourself with four points for
each question you can answer affirma¬
tively, and see how your school advant¬
ages score:
1. Have you a progressive school
board.?
2. Have you a special local tax to
supplement general support?
3. Have you an eight or nine months
school term?
4. Have you vocational agricultural
department and teacher for high school
grades?
.7. Hve you a home economics teach¬
er for your high school girls?
6. Have yau a community auditor¬
ium?
7. Have you a school farm or garden,
laboratory, and workshop?
8 . Have you a school band or orches¬
tra?
9. Have you an up-to-date school
library?
10. Have you literary or debating so¬
cieties for the boys and girls?
11. Have you a school fair and judg¬
ing teams?
12. Have you a nature study depart¬
ment?
13. Have you a well equipped play¬
ground—for baseball, basketball, tennis,
and minor sports?
14. Do you provide transportation
for distant children?
15. Do you have community singing
and community plays in connection
with your school.
16. Are there reproductions of beau¬
tiful pictures on the schoolhouse walls?
17. Do you have a public commence¬
ment each spring?
IS. Is there medical inspection of the
pupils once a year?
19. Is your school building well
planned for comfort, fire protection,
and care of the eyes; and if built of
wood, is it regularly painted?
20. Do you have inter-school debates,
sports, oratorical contests, etc.?
21. Do you have a large enrollment
of boys and girls in clubs—corn, cotton
garden, poultry, pig calf, etc.?
22. Do you have year-round projects
in the home and farms of children?
23. Have your school grounds been
beautified by proper planting of flowers
trees, shrubs, and vines?
24. Have you a teacherage or teach¬
er's home, modernly built and equipped
at your high school?
25. Are the sanitary conditions
buildings, water supplies, and
such as to preserve the health of
It might be an interesting thing to
iead out these twenty-five questions to
each member of your family, ask each
listener to mark the numbers -which
he or she thinks should be answered in
the affirmative, and then see how near¬
ly you all agree on the proper score for
the school advantages offered jour
children.—The Progressive Farmer.
ATALKWITH A COVINGTON MAN
Mr. S. A. Brown, Prop. Warehouse,
of 400 Emory St., Tells His
Experience,
There is a thing like a talk with
cne of cur owa citizens for giving
hope and encouragement to the anx¬
ious sufferer from the dread kidney
disease We, therefore, give here aD
interview with a Coviagton man:
“When I l-"d trouble with my kid¬
neys, my back was lame,” says Mr
Btov.ii “A catch seize! me in my
back and when I sat down in a chair
and tried to get up, the pains were
troublesome This bothered me at
night, as well as during the day and
I didn't rest comfortably. I had to
get up qui' frequently on account of
the weak and too free action of my
.idneys. The secretions were unnat¬
ural and contained a reddish sedi
ert. I bcg„n using Doan’s Kidney
Pills and one box relieved me of the
trouble.”
60e, at all dealers. Foster-Milbum
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
TWO FOUND DEAD IN
UNDERTAKING ROOM
Kansas City. Mo. .July 26—The bod¬
ies of William McClure, 54, prominent
Kansas City undertaker, and Mrs. Eula
Thompson, 33, his bookkeeper, lay to¬
day in the silent dusk of the undertak¬
ing rooms in which they met death last
night. Inquiry continued by the po¬
lice failed to reconstruct acceptably
from meagre details the circumstances
which led to the dual tradegy.
McClure was married and had two
daughters. Mrs. Thompson, a widow,
long had been employed by this firm.
Fred Webb, negro porter found Mc¬
Clure bending over Mrs. Thompson's
body at the bottom of an elevator shaft
last night and was ordered by McClure
to call a physician. When two physi
cians arrived to examine the body, Mc¬
Clure left the room. A search for him a
short time afterwards revealed his
body lying upon an undertaker’s slab
in the morgue, a knife used in post
mortem examination, protuding from
his breast. McClu’-e's eyeglasses had
not been removed. There was nothing
to indicate violence in his death.
Besides McClure and Mrs. Thompson
no other persons had been known to
have been in the undertaking rooms
when Mi’s. Thompson died. A door
open in the elevator shaft and blood on
the floor of the elevator’ at the bottom
of the shaft indicated that she had fal¬
len from a room in which coffins were
stored, two stories from the floor of
the elevator. Dr. H. E. Moss, deputy
coroner, expressed the belief that Mrs.
Thompson fell into the unguarded pit
when she went to the storeroom.
Dr. Moss asserted that an extremely
nervous temperament attributed to the
undertaker might have caused McClure
to take his own life in the belief that
discovery with Mrs. Thompson's body
would bring a court ordeal which he
dreaded to face.
Precisely what happened just prior
to discovery of the tragedy has not
been revealed.
Friends of McClure asserted he had
become nervous by long vigils at the
bedside of his wife, an invalid.
Possibility that McClure was swept
to his death by suicidal tendency was
suggested in the memory of the suicides
of his two brothers, Dave and Emerson
McClure.
WE ARE ALL INTERESTED
Arthur Brisbane says editorially—
“The condition of the cotton crop is
the best for this time of the year of any
crop within three years.” That's good
news for the South, also the North. It
shares in southern presperity.
“The North should not grudge a fair
price for cotton, but pay it willingly.
Too low a price will mean emigration
and loss of southern labor, then a crop
cut down and much higher prices.”
In these two paragraphs, Mr.
bane sums up the reason for every sec¬
tion of the country to support reason¬
able policies which encourage indus¬
trial development in other sections.
part of this land is sufficient unto
self.
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COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
FIRE PREVENTION
The National Fire Protection Asso¬
ciation at its annual convention in
Chicago recommends ways to reduce
fire losses which appeal to the com¬
mon sense of all of us.
On the question of damages for loss
resulting to innocent persons from pre¬
ventable fires it endorses a more gen¬
eral legal recognition of the common
law principle of personal liability for
damage resulting from fires due to I
carelessness or neglect, and the enact-!
ment of laws or ordinances fixing the i
cost of extinguishing preventable fires
upon citizens disregarding fire preven¬
tion orders.
This is strictly in accord with the law
which allows damages to an injured
party resulting from another’s care¬
lessness in operating an automobile,
elevator, railroad train, street car,
amusement park, mechanical equip¬
ment, etc. Then why not some redress
against the person who is careless with
fire?
The association also urged munici¬
palities to adopt the standard build¬
ing code in order that fire-resistive
construction may be encouraged.
Also that states adopt building and
fire protection requirements for pub¬
lic and private hospitals, schools, asyl¬
ums and the like, and that an official
investigation into the causes of all
fires be required.
Perhaps the wisest recommendation
of all is that pleading for the educa¬
tion of the children and the public gen¬
erally in careful habits regarding the
use of fire.
THREE COMMON ERRORS
We had a discussion about the three
most common mistakes in English of
fairly well educated persons. We
could not agree. W T hat would you sug¬
gest?
One common mistake is that of us¬
ing “carry” as a synonym for “lead,”
“take,” or “accompany,” -when there
is no thought of bearing the actual
physical burden, as “carry” indicates.
One takes a friend to town, leads the
cow to water, but to carry a friend or
cow is a physical impossibility.
“Like” as a synonym for “as" is fre¬
quently used. For instance one some¬
times hears,“It looks like it had been
mended,” instead of “It looks as though
it had been mended.”
When it comes to choosing the third
error the choice might be between us¬
ing the objective pronoun instead of
the nominative after the verb “to be”
“It was him” or it’s me" instead of
“it was he,’ or “It’s I,” or the following
The verb “was’ with a plural subject
as “was they going?”—The Progres¬
sive Farmer.
: WEATHER
TEETHING AND HOT
are very hard on the little ones.
Summer disorders of Stomach and
bowels, weakening diarrhoea, cholera
infantum, quickly controlled by
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COLIC and DIARRHOEA
REMEDY
Helps children and older persons too.
We Houses
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any guarantee you may ask when we submit a bid on—
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“Saw and hatchet men” may put up a building in some
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We cannot do all the work, so we do the best.
We deal in all kinds of Building Materials—including
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NEGLECTED HER OPPORTUNITIES I
My greatest mistake nas been in- ,
difference to opportunities afforded me
by institute workers and home dem- 1
our
onstration agents. When 1 awoke and
found that they had something worth
my time and trouble I went and dis- !
covered they had the very information
I needed as a farmer’s wife.
One of the most useful things our j
home demonstration agent has done for
me is to teach me how to grade and
pack my products and how to put them
before the people in a tempting way at
a price that will mean a good profit to
me. I want to urge every farm woman
to talk with and get advice from our
to tlk with and get advice from our
demonstration agents, and to heed that
advice. Mrs. M S., in The Progressive
Farmer.
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Sponsoring and initiating the Ford
for-president movement is the Rev. Wil¬
liam Daw. He’s president of the Dear¬
born Ford-for-president club.
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Those who are in a “run down” condi¬
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them much more than when they are in
good health. This fact proves that while
Catarrh is a local disease, it is greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE is a
Tonic and Blood Purifier, and acts through
the blood upon the mucous surfaces oi
the body, thus reducing the inflammation
and restoring normal conditions.
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