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THE TWICE-A-V^ESC DISPATCH, FIUDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1914
PAGE THJKE2
SCHOOL NEWS.
K meeting^ of the Teachers’ As
sembly is just a ■week off. Let every
tea«.her in the country attend this
najcripg if possible.
Aiamance will send four jrirls from
Spring School—Misses Venia Lewis,
Alt* Marlett, Donna McBane and Ve-
vra McBane—to the Teachers’ Assem
bly in Charlotte next week to frivs
cooking demonstrations. These young
ladies are under the direction of Miss
Myrtle Eizeil of Graham. Miss Ezzell
together with a class from Sampson,
wili give a . cooking demonstration on
Thursday morning. A simple break
fast will be prepared. 'XTiursday af-
jerhoon they will prepare a TliankS'
^ving Dinner and serve it to some
, of the school officials of the State.
Friday morning the class will prepare
a mod-day luncheon.
1 There has been mailed to. every ru-
•ral teacher in the county a circular let
ter ^nt from the State Superintend
ent's office, "niis letter outlines a com
plete plan for rural teachers to cari’y
into effect the full program for Com-
mtinity Service Oay. One very si#r-
nificant part of this letter provides
fCr an inventory of the community’s
condition. No case can be properly
treated until a diagnosis has been
sjr.ade. The heads of families in each
community will be called upon to an
swer the following significant qaes-1
tions:
QUESTIONS F05 A Rt'SAL CUN-
SUS OR SURVEY.
Thesis questions are to be answered
‘■Yes” or “No,” by the head of oach
family in the school district. Fuli di-
'lections for working this survey or
census will be sent to members of Ic-
cal committees. On account of the
lateness of the beginning, the com-
rrittee has been unable to prepare a
. survey feature for the city communi
ties this year, but we hope to m-.ike
^uch a city survey a feature of next
jear’.s work.
1 Do ail your children between six
ai;d sixteen attend school?
38 Is your houce screened T
'39 Do you sleep with your windows
open in wnter?
40 Do you get the health bulletins ?
41 Do you get R. F. D. service?
42 Would you favor a reasonable
tax for road improvement ?
43 Is there a telephone in the
house?
44 Is your home iasurefl against
fire?
45 Do you have to carry water over
100 yards?
4C Ilavc you a washing machine?
47 Do the boys have Saturday af
ternoon.'! off for baseball or other rec-
reacitons?
49 Has the family attended a pic
nic this yt»r1
49 Is the house paints?
50 Are outbuildings wiitew'ashed?
61 Would you favor larger school
>ith more children, more , teachers,
better paid, larger and better house
and grounds?
52 Would you favor industrial, ag
ricultural and some high school sub
jects in your school ?
53 Would you favor enlarging the
territory of your school district by
consolidation with tran.sportation
where necessary and voting reason
able tax to secure these results?
COMMUNITY service: ST.^TE
WIDE, COUNTY WIDE.
DEC. 3, 4. 5.
It has been estimated that ot^er
15,000 people are actively interested
in Community Service Observ'ance,
set for Dec. 3, 4, 5. These figures in-
t;ude only those who have been ap
pointed over the State to serve on
regular committees. Every county in
the State is being completely organiz
ed w'ith about fifteen members on the
county executive committee and five
members on e-ich local committee. By
thii- !>ame plan there have already
been appointed 275 members of vari
ous committees for Alamance. This
movement is intended to eniist all the
mei.. women and children into -me
fi'ar.il army for bettering al! commun-
2 Is any body ov girl in your conditions. After a complete 5Ur-
iSy attending coIlegc?
’I Do any of your boys study the
school books oil agriculture V
^ 4 I5o your boys und study the
hoalth books?
5 Do your cliJlUrcn ra’.id any library
lit'oks?
0 Do yi)u any Ubrury In^oks
your.self ?
7 I;* there any j;fosvn or nearly-
;*:ro\v:i nu'mber of your family who
can’t read and %vi*itc but has u)ribilion
and would like to learn?
,8 Do you take a county puper?
i> Do you take a farm paper?
10 Do ^rou take a woman's paper?
11 Do you take a religious paper?
12 Do you own your farm?
Vi Do you get the Ajrricultural ‘ml-
i'.'tins?
14 Do you belong to a farmers* or *
t^&nizatiot) ?
14 DoCis your wife belong to a wo-
iz;&n*B clubV
16 Does your bpy belong to a ’*0511
c-ub?
j %vy of conditions in each community
ns will be gleand by the 50 questions
ii>ked under the head of‘‘School N^iwh’*
i.M this i«sne. The followiitg prognum
will bp carried out:
[*KO(JKAM FOR THURSDAY
Lie* ROADS, GROUNDS AND
BUILDINGS DAV.
Tht* pro}?ram for Thursday, Piibiic
iiiads. Grounds and Buildlnpfs Day,
is inlc*ndo(J to aujrgest ways and means
i.y vvliich young and old, men 'ind
women, in every community, may loin
in actual physical effort together. It
to be a c.‘enuir«e “work day” with
recreational features for noon hours
•;'.rid the afternoon or evening. Let
the local committee for this day iir-
r:»nge a schedule of community work
which will provide:
1.—For Improving Roiids (or in Town,
Streets, Sidewalks, Parks, and
Public fiuildings).
On Good Roads Days in 1913, Gov.
17 Does your girl belong to a can-1 Locke Craig led a band of road work-
uing club? jers in his home township in Buncombe.
18 Do you attend the farmers’ in-1 At Chapel Hill, Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt,
atitute? I of the Geological Survey, and Presi-
^ 19 Does yuur wife attend the wo- dent Grahamt of the University, with
men's institute? many students, side-drained and sur-
20 Are you a church member? faced with gravel an eighth of a mile
21 Do you attend regularly? jof Franklin Street, the main street of
22 Do the children attend Sunday 1 the town. In Randolph County, 2,000
School ?
23 Do you own any farm machin
ery in co-operation with your neigh
bor?
24 Do you co-operate with your
•5f:ighlor in buying fertilizers, feed-
stuffs, or other supplies?
25 Do you co-operate with your
neighbor in marketing your crops?
26 Have you pure-bred cattle ?
27 Have you pure-bred hogs?
23 Have you pure-br^d poultry?
29 Do you have a garden all the year
round?
30 Do you usually have milk and
butter all the year round?
31 Has the farm demonstration
agent helped you this ye&r?
32 Do you buy corn?
33 Do you buy meat?
34 Do you buy hay?
35 £ver make an exhibit at the
county fair?
§6 Have you «ver had your chil-
;;^^ren examined for physical defects?
37 Do you use patent medicines?
men and boys w’orked two days^ using
150 teams, grading eight miles and
graveling one and a half miles of the
road.
On account of the vital interdepend
ence between good roads and good
schools, special care should be taken
to improve the approaches to the
schoolhouses.
Remove logs, rocks, stumps and
stones from the roadway; fill holes,
preferably with good earth; cover
stretches of sand with clay or gravel;
drain wet places in the roadway;
scrape off and outwards sod margins
where they hold the water with sand
or gravel; but the gravel should not
contain any clay unless it is to be plac
ed on sand. Culverts may he repair^
ed or new culverts put in. Road drags
(of planks or split logs) should be
nmde and arrangements perfected for
using them after rains, throughout the
season on all clay or loamy soils. Do
not try to do too much. Don't Ifcart
more than you can finish. You xtan-
hot build a macadam rottd, nor very
long stretches of gravel road in one
day. Don't haul gravel on to roads
that have not been |>roperly graded
and drained. Don't grade roads that
have not been properly staked out on
coirect lines. Don*t plow long
stietchcs of road and leave them Im
passable. Don’t scrape sods on to
the traveled roadway and leave them
for passing y^icles to smooth down.
Write the Department of Education
at Raleigh for its Bulletin on Civic
Days cT«d the G»olo^cal Survey at
Chapel Hill for its publications on
good roads.
2.—For Xniproving Sehoolhouses and
Grounds. '
Let the wromen give the interior of
the bxulding a “Fall Cleaning.” Fresh
rooms, clean windows, polished stoves,
simple, well-kept furnishings, and
pietty pictures on the walls promote
neatness and a love of the beautiful in
the pupils. I^t the men put the ex
terior of the building in complete re
pair, making the house thoroughly
comfortable for the severe winter
months. Both men and women may
cWan and beautify the grounds.
If the school grounds are unsightly,
■^th fences half down, no walks, ashes
scattered around and no trees planted,
steps gone, or window glass out; if
the building needs a new mof or paint
ing, set to work to remedy these con
ditions. If only a beginning con be
made in doing the many things that
need to be done, make the beginning.
Follow it up with a petition to the
school committee and formulate a defi
nite plan for future improvement.
Such a plan in two or three years %vill
result in the complete transformation
cf grounds and buildings. Write the
Department of Education, Raleigh,
for Hr Bulletin on Plans for Public
School houses and School Grounds,
and read the articles on School in
Section VI of this pamphlet.
—0--
—For Similar Wcrk In Improving:
Churches and Burying Grouitd^.
if the country church is to bo an
L’j.'Iiftirj;? power, t)ic church buildi)\»j
must not tie n'hswed to aufft-r neglect
ai.d ofFv-r evidenLc. of dot-ay. The* ap-
penrnnce of the grounds :if'u exterior
atui the corntfort at:d attractivo!;o.«s
f the interior have much to do with
the influence upon the finer life of tho
community.
lias there been a church ’'cleap*iip'*
day this year? Have the leaves boon
r:;ked away, the w’alks graveled, the
.steps mended, the stove polished, the
bmps thoroughly cleaned? And have
vines nnd shrubs been placed in the
adjoining *‘City of the Dead’'? Dr.
S. A. Knapp used to say that many
of our Southern country burying-
grounds look as if they didn’t believe
in a resurrection.
——o-—
i—for rianting Trees, Shrubs, Vines,
and Flowers in School and Church
Grounds, Parkss, and Public Places
Alonjt' Roads and Streeiti.
While the men are improvingr the
reads and buildin|;s, let the women
and children devote their attention to
this .special work.
Through the co-operation of the wo
men of Southerr. Pines with the prin
cipal of the high i?ohoo! there, an Ar-
l)or D.iy Celebration was recently
planned and carried out with gratify
ing success. In the morning: many
shade tree.^ and ornamental shrubs
were planted over the school grounds,
markedly improving: its appearance.
The afternoon was devoted to Arbor
Day exercises in the auditorium in
which all the pupils took part.
A day or even a part of a day spent
in this way is vitally interesting to
the children, and is thoroughly enjoy-
fcd by the patrons of the school. The
grounds can be greatly improved at
little cost while the children will be
taught to appreciate the beauties of
nature around them. Other public
places can be improved in the same
way.
Under the subjects “Arbor Day” nnd
"Tree Planting” in Sevtion VI of this
bulletin, a suggested Arbor Day pro
gram, which can be modified to .suit
conditions by those Sn charge, and in
structions for planting are given.
171656 should be followed as closely
as the weather and other conditions
wilS permit. Full instructions for; |
planting can be secured by writing
the State Geologist, Chape! Hill, N.
C.i for tt copy of a bulletin entitled
“Shade Trees f?r North Carolina.”
5—For Flag Raltanc.
At some suitable time in the day>
let tl)2 Star.s and Stripes, the flag of
our Union, be raised, the entire as-
snmblage of the people standinjr and
saluting the flag.
If the local school has no flag, let
this be the occasion for securing one
and raising it formally for the first
time. Make a feature of this event.
Sing “America,” “The Star SpacgUd
Banner,” “Cplumbie,” “The Old North
State,” and other patriotic songs.
“Uncle Sam” and “Columbia” in cos
tume will add to the attractiveness of
the event. If there is a local band, let
iv lead the procession around the flag
si:id. play patriotic airs,
fr—For Singing Party, or Other Social
Features at Night.
The hour devoted to this part of the
propam may be occupied in varied
wi.ys. Games (as suggested in Sec
tion VI) may be played. Fairy tales,
Unele Bemiis and animal stories,
myths of ancient and mediaeval times
and stories illustrating the edveniures
at-.d heroism of North Carolinians and
Americans of the early days, may be
made to do good service here. The
school or public library may be diuwn
upon for the material and frequently
n little child wiU tell the story better
North Carolina history growing out
Party, the Battle of Alamance, the
of sve;)T? such as The Edenton Tea
Revolution, and the Civil V/ar, can be
made the. basis of ijeautifuJ scenes and
than sr.nif- older person. lncide:its in
tableaux. Read the articles in Sk--
tion VI on Historical Pageants. Stor
ies may be followed with glee club
songs, negro melodies' and :»ngs of
patriotism. *'Suwane« River,'* *‘01d
Black Joe,” “Annie Laurie," “The Old
Oaken Bucket,” “Home Sweet Home,”
vill (ind a response in many heartc.
PRCKJRAM FOR FRIliAY.
‘"8rhool aud Neighborhood Improve^
ment Day^ (Narth Caroliiui Day.)
Intersperse songs as desired. Have
schoolhouse decorated suitably if pon-
s^ble. If schoolhouse 15 too small,
have outdoor n**fAting or meet in soirie
larger buiUiing. Ij ’)ossiblft make it
Continued onPage 7.
RALPH’S PLACE.
* T he only cash store in town, nothing charged, ^
3 nothing delivered. 0
P When you trade at RaJph’s Place, you do not 0
>2 have to pay others peoples bad debts. %
K Full Hne fruits, candies, cakes, crackers, salted
« and roasted peanuts fresh all the time, all kinds S
If cold drinks, tobacco, cigars, snuff, canned goods. M
f coffees, oranges and apples. ^
|mISS LILLIE SHAHERLY, Mgr.i
RALPH’S PLACE, The Ladies Store. §
COLDS
An up-to-date remedy for
colds. That is what Penjrn
is. In successful use over
50 years.
Colds sre caught in ir.any
ways; IlJj- ventilated rooms;
rooms that have direct draughts;
crowded rooms: damp houses;
stuffy school rooms; ofSces illy
heated.
A dose of Peruna at the right
time, at tlie first symptom of
cold, before the bones begin to
ache, before the sore throat
manifests itseif, or tha cough, or
the discharge from the nose, just
a dose or two of Peruna before
these s>'mptoms begin is gener
ally sufficient. But after the cold
Js cnce established with the
above symptoras prominent, a
potrte of Peruna, or maybe two,
will be necessary.
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not h. ■'» iroul.lod \vlcu I'.u,
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GUILFORD CREAMERY.
We want your Cream and will pay pood prices if* checks
twice a montii. By seiiing lis \«tir b&tter fat in cream, jou
will market it much more economieHliy than by marketing
it in butttr.
F-;r p^.ticid ir? anti diref-rif-n for sisippiog cream, write or
call oa
TBE liUiLFOHB CREABEilV,
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.''aniiary Groeeiv - - Phosie 130. Main St.
i^urlington, N. C-
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TWO SPECIAL TRAINS
- -TO- -
RICHMOND, VA.
VIA.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Premier Carrier of ihs Soutii
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1914
account \NNU-\L THANKSGIVIMa FOOTBALl. GAME UNIVKIRSITIES
OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
$3.00 - ROUND TRIP - * $3.00
FROM ALL POINTS GIBSONVILLE TO OXFORD. INCLUSIVE. CHAPEL
HILL BRANCH. AND RALEIGH TO DURHAM, INCLUSIVE.
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM GIBSONVILLE AS FOLLOW:^:
Leav? GibisonviUe 9:00 P. M.
BURLINGTON- 9:17 P. M.
Hillsboro , —10:05 P. M.
Durham - 10:40 P. M.
■■ Oxford 11:50 P.M.
-\rrive Richmond 4:45 A. M. Nov. 26th
Rettiriiins. special train leave Richmond 11:45 P. M. ov. 26th
Pjisserijrers from Kateigh and intermediate poinia to Dd; .m wil! use regular
train No. 131 to Durham, connecting there with special train, fhis train wiil con
sist of coaches and pullman sJeepingr cars. Sleepman ears wiil be open at Durham
for occ.jping at 9:30 P. M. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS .AT ONCE WITH
TICKET AGENTS.
SPECIAL TRAIN FROM CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ CONSISTING OF NICE SLEEPING CARS
AND DAY COACHES.
Leave Chapel HiH. N. C 11:00 P. M.
Arrive Richmond, Va -..5:40 A. M.
Returning^ special train leave Richmond, 12:30 A. t\i-, Nov. 27th.
Note this train will not make any stops to pick up passengers.
Sleepers open for occuping 9:30 P. M.. MAKE VOUR RESERVATIONS AT
ONCE IN SLEEPING CARS BEFORE THEY ARE FILLED.
For Pullman reservations and information, ask your agent, write ^r wire,
O. F. YORK,
TRAVELING PASSENGER AGENT, RALEIGH. N. C.
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