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MAKE ROOM SALE
A Pew Prices of the Many things that we are offering to sell cheap for the next 30
Summer Dress Goods.
Corded Plaid Swiss, regular price 30c, going now going at..................... 25c
Indian Swiss, regular regular price price 16c, 30c, now going at................................. at .............................. 25c
Paris Tissnes. uow 12c
Good Organdies, regular price 18c, now going going at........................ i 5c
Better value, regular regular price price 40c, 35c, now going at.............................. at............................ 30 C
China Silk, now ,h5c
Persian Organdies, Organdies, regular regular price price 26c* now 30c, going at .......................... 20c
White Fancy Mercerized Batiste, regular price 25c, now going going at................ 2oc
French now at............ ....... 20c
Fancy Batiste, regular price Pi^c, now going at......................... 10 c
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G. W. McCORMICK & COMPANY.
Real “Old Field School’
Run by Judge Frank
Park,
Albany, Ga., July 18 .—Quite
the moat interesting thing in
south Georgia in an educational
way is Judge Frank Park’s Old
Field School at Sylvester.
It is a unique institution, and
the success which has attended
its two summer sessions is a trib¬
ute to the genius and kindness of
heart of its founder and chief di¬
rector. It is probably the only
school in Georgia where country
boys of 18 and gray-haired men
of 05 sit in the superior court
room of one of the handsomest
court houses in the state, study
the three R’s, geography and
history, now and then lining up
at the bar of justice in one spell¬
ing class, while the judge, from
the bench above, gives out jaw¬
breakers from the old blue-back
spelling book of long ago. Those
who spell well “turn down” those
^ho~do not.
It is not a play school. Teach
^erand scholars are united in a
serious purpose, and any curious
idler who might stray into the
sacred precincts of this judicial
school room, and there manifest
symptoms of amusements} would
be unceremoniously ushered into
the street below.
Judge Park has been a resident
of Worth county for many years.
He was raised a country boy, and
in his early taught school. 1
years
Then it was that he realized how
many white boys there were grow¬
ing up in Georgia to whom few
opportunities came for securing
an education. They were chiefly
boys living on the farms, and
the young'schoolmaster’s heart
went out to them in tender sym¬
pathy.
In time Judge Park read law
and was admitted to the bar. For
several years he has been judgn
of the city court of Sylvester, and
in the recent primary he defeated
Judge W. N. Spence for the su¬
per.or court judgeship of the Al¬
ban.' circuit His majority in
his own county was nearly eleven
hundred.
Early last year Judge Park pre¬
pared to put into execution a
iong-cherished plan for the in¬
auguration of an old-field school
at Sylvester. Some people
laughed at him, but nearly all
applauded. But the school held
its first session during the sum¬
mer, and now it is a fixtnre. It
convenes at the same time the
Georgia legislature meets, and is
dismissed when the legislature
adjourns.
It is old-fashoued to a degree.
It “takes in” at 8 o’clock in the
morning and “turns out” at 5
o’clock in tile afternoon, with
the usual midday recess. It is
absolutely free. There is no
Latin or Greek classes, and one
hears nothing of higher mathe¬
matics. But there are men in
that court house school whose
frosted heads are bowed for the
first time over simple readers and
spellers, and who are learning
more about the meaning of figures
than they ever dreamed of know¬
ing. They are men who were
working in the fields during the
years when they should have been
at school, and who were ashamed
to go back to primers and slates
after a realization of their dis¬
advantage came over them.
But in the old field school at
Sylvester “it’s different.” Every
scholar is in the same boat.
They are all too big to go to
school as children go, but every
one realizes that he is not too
old to learn under the kindly eye
and symphathetic guidance of
the teacher-judge. It is hard
work from morn to eve up in the
court room. The pupils are there
to learn, and the teachers are
anxious to help to the limit of
their ability. Judge Park gets
efficient help whenever he needs
it, for the people of Worth coun¬
ty now realize what a splendid
work he is accomplishing. If
last summer’s session of the
school was a success, this sum¬
mer’s is proving doubly so. Next
summer the attendeuce is expect¬
ed to break all records.
It is said that no finer picture
was ever seen in Georgia than is
presented when Judge Park calls
the spelling class. Every pupil
iu the school is a member of that
class, which reaches from one
side of the big court room to the
other. The railing which sepa¬
rates the bar from the other por¬
tion of the court room is semi¬
circular and the spelling class
follows its contour as the mem
bers stand aud face the school¬
master upon the bench. A great
painter could make a masterpiece
with that scene for his inspira¬
tion.
Notice.
List of jurors drawn to serve at
at the July Term of City Court of
Pelham, which convenes the 4 th
Monday in July, 1908 .
T O Battle A J Porter
J O McElvey W C Rigdon
J M Smith Noah Adams
T J Ott B F Watson
A L Brim E N Wilson
J W Lord R L Good son
W M Bunch A F Richter
M V Robbins G W MHler
J M Hurst W R Tinsley
American Lady Slippers
k Tan, Kid and Patent Leather. Latest Styles in Shapes and Tips.
Regular #3.50 Quality, at..... .
Regular 3.00 at - - „ . _ 2.75
Regular 2.50 “at - - 2.00
Regular 2.00 “ at - *•75
Regular 1.50 “ at - 1.25.
20,o«« TESEfiRAPB
OPERATORS NEEDED
VOl'M MEN ftETAlE YOUSSELVES
jwmmi resnoNS.
On account of the new 8-hour law
passed by congress in the interest of
telegraphers, and also on account of
so many new railroads being built
and old lines extended, an unusual
demand for operators has been
created. Conservative estimates
have placed the number of addition¬
al Operators that will be required
during the next ten months at ap¬
proximately 20,000.
YOUNG MEN NOW IS YOUR
OPPORTUNITY! Enroll in our
school NOW and in only four or six
months we will have you qualified
for splendid positions. Telegraph
Operators receive from fSO.OO up-,
wards. Our school has been estab¬
lished twenty years; its evuipment
is perfect; instruction thorough and
practical; positions positively guar¬
anteed our graduates. Board in
Newman is vejr^eAfeap; the town is
healthful and the people are cordial.
Two Main Line Railroad Wires run
into our School rooms. No other
school in the United States has such
up-to-date and practical facilities
for the benefit of its students.
Write at once for free, descriptive
literature.
Southern School of Uelegraphy,
Newman, Georgia.
A Bed of Bayonets.
A most remarkable feat was recent¬
ly performed before the rajah of Man¬
ipur by a Mussulman, one of a com¬
pany of acrobats, who reclined at full
length upon the points of seven bay¬
onets fixed In* the orthodox method in
as many muskets. Four of the per¬
former's assistants lifted him up on
to his bed of spikes, where be care¬
fully adjusted himself and distribut¬
ed his w r elgbt so that the bayonet
points did not pierce his flesh. The
back of his head rested on one point,
his shoulder blades on two others, his
elbows on two more, while the hol¬
lows behind his knees engaged the
remaining two. The acrobat declared
after ft was all over that he had felt
as comfortable as if lying on a bed.
Her Sunday Knitting.
"Years ago,” Bald an Auburn woman
eighty years young, “it was count¬
ed a sin among *the good wives of the
little Maine town where I was born to
waste a single moment of time. 1
have heard my grandmother tell the
story of one dame who much scandal¬
ized the church people on one never to
be forgotten occasion. Feople who
went early to church were surprised
oae Sabbath morning to see Aunt Bet¬
sy sitting away up in front, gray yarn
stockings in her hands and her knit¬
ting needles clicking merrily away as
she worked. The minister stopped in
surprise as he passed her on his way
to the pulpit, but the old lady was not
one whit disturbed by his disapprov¬
ing air. Smijing serenely, she said
complacently: ‘Thought I’d knit a
stitch whtle the people are gathering.
I never was one to waste a minute,
elder.’ And the good dame continued
to dick her needles, while the horrified
minister hastened to his desk. Not
till he began his sermon did Aunt Bet¬
sy lay aside her Sunday knitting
work.”—Kennebec Journal.
Apply To
ankers Loan & Abstract Co.
For Loans of from 3 to 10 years Maturity on Farm and City Property
HeiBqwrters it FARMERS BANK OF PELBAM.
C. a. LOTT, J. j. hill.
Pre». a Oca. Mfr. Attorney.
Thomasville
ill ai
Thomasville, Georgia*
This School Secures the Best Positions
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for its Graduates, Open
All The Year,
ENTER NOW!
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t ANSON W, B\LL, * President.
Hid ScbODl For Boys aid Girls!
NORMAN INSTITUTE f
Norman Park, - - - Georgia. J
Literary, Music, ;- Art and Elocution . I
Courses. f
Large and Comfortable Dormitories, Steam Heat, Electric %
Lights, Artesian Water, Sewers. ^
EQUIPMENT WORTH $82,000.00. %
Homelike Surroundings. Reasonable Christian Rates. Influences, Firm Dicipiline, %
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t * O. A. THAXTON, President. f I
Just Exactly Right.
“I have used Dr. King’s New. Life
Pills for several years, and find them
just exactly right,” says Mr. A. A.
Felton, of Harrisville, N. Y. New
Life Pills relieve without the least
discomfort. Best remedy for consti¬
pation, biliousness and malaria. 25c
at Hill & King’6 drug store.
Residence For Sale. *
Five room house: large rooms,
extra large hall clear through the
building, plenty of closets, 4 fire
places, good well of water, fine
neighborhood. Liberal Terms.
Apply to Pelham Journal, t. f.
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