THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY.
•Friday, May P, 1913.
HUNTLEY-STOCKTON HILL ELOiN COLLEGE-CO-EDUCATIONAL
COMPANY.
FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING
CASH OR CREDIT. GREENSBORO, N. C.
ANNOUNCEMENT
THE GREENSBORO PRIVATE INFIRMARY
121 SOUTH ELM STREET, GREENSBORO, N. C.
Under the Direct Supervision of
Drs. Charles E. Moore, F. C. Hyatt and Paeran Jarbob
A Small, Up-to-Date Institution for the Diagnosis and Treat
ment of Mild Medical, Surgical and Genito-urmary Diseases.
Rates: $10.00 to $15.00 per week. Registered nurses in attend
ance at all hours. Long distance 571.
Miss Mary Barrett, R. N., Superintendent
\'V F Tin Genuine French Dry Cleaning and Sample Dyeing
^ as well as high grade laundry work. We will ap
preciate your patronage. Wrile tor price list and terms to agents.
We charge only 5 cents for short and 10 cts. for cleaning long
White Kid Gloves.
COLUMBIA LAUNDRY CO.
1221/2, 114, 116 Fayetteville St., Greensboro, N. C.
W. B. Fuller, Elon College liepresenlative
Situated in the delightful hill couiiiry of North Carolina. With all of the ad
vantages and none of the disadvantages of city life.
Diploma from Elon admits witlioui examination to the Graduate Departmenta
ill ir^ading universities. In addition 10 tne REGULAR COLLEGE COURSES,
the following Departments are maintanied:
PREPARATORY DEPARTMKNT—Prepares young men and young w'onieB
for the Freshman class at Elon, or eise where.
MUSIC DEPART.ilENT—Piano, Voiire, Pipe Organ, Violin, Brass Instru
ments.
EXPRESSION DEPARTMENT—Elocution and Physical culture.
ART DEPARTMENT—Oil Painting, Water Colors, Pa.stwl, Crayon, China
Painting, Public School Drawing, Mechanical Drawing, Etc.
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT—An ideal Business Course, combining educa
tion culture, and special training.
NORMAL DEPARTMENT—A three years briefer course leading to the L. L
degree. Also special term each year, April and May.
Good equipment and modern conveniences. Building heated by steam, lighted
by electricity, furnished with water and baths. Expenses moderate, from $1.32 to
•$187 per session of ten months. Write for catalogue showing terms and work in
detail.
PRESIDENT W. A. HARPER, ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
People’s House Furnishing Company,
HIGH POINT. N. C.
Wliolnoale and Retail House Fnmishers and Jobbers.
MANTTTIS
GRATES,
TILE.
A SPECIALTV
WHITING & HORTON
10 EAST MARTIN ST., RALEIGH, N. C.
CLOTHIEHS AND MEN’S FVUNISHEJiS,
You are invited to make our store your Headquarters when in Raleigh.
^ ”b. a. SELLARS & SONS.
HIGH CLASS DRY GOODS
AND GENTS’ CLOTHIERS AND TAILORING MERCHANTS.
MAIN STREET - - ' BURLINGTON, N. C.
EDUCATION NOTES.
Three-fourths of the teachers in Alaba
ma are holding tbeir first position. On
ly seven jier cent, of the teachers now
employed have taught more than two
years.
The foreign interest in American
physical education movements is shown
by the fact that a recent German period
ical devoted its leading article to “The
Camp Fire Girls of America. ”
The English Government is planning
to provide scholarships and other aids
which will make possible a university
education for every boy and girl wh.i
makes a certain standard.
The Governor of Georgia sets aside one
day in the year as “Public Health Day,”
to be observed in every school in the
State, according to information received
at the United States Bureau of Educa
tion.
All the States in the Union except Ne
vada and Arkansas have definitely organ
ized State committees for the Fourth
International /.'ongress on School Hy
giene, to be held in Butfalo, August 25-
30.
Eighty-five American teachers recently
sailed for the Philippines to take posi
tions in the Philippine schools. The
average age of the new teachers is twenty-
five years. All bat 24 of them are ex.
perienced teachers.
DR. J.H. BROOKS,
DENTAL .SURGEON
Office Over Foster’s Shoe Store
HUKLINGTON, N. 0-
FREEMAN DRUG COMPANY.
Burlirgtcrt, North Carclina
\re the leaders in Drugs, Chem cals and Toilet Articles.
CAREFTn. ATTENTION TO MAIL ORDERS
THI-:- IMPF.RIAL TAILOR,
“PATRONIZE THE MASTEB OF ALL TAILOES.”
The man who makes every ititeh of his work in your home town. Hats ju*t
received a fine line of spring samples, ineluding Imported Serges and Aluminum
Grey Novelties. We have also received the latest models of the latest English euta.
Samples are open for your inspection. Kindly paj^us a call.
H. GOLDSTEIN. PROPRIETOR,
BURLINGTON, N. C.
Tb promote moral education in the
schools of France independently of re
ligious doctrine is the object of the
‘■French League of Moral Education.”
The league offers a first prize of $1,000
and other prixes amounting to $2,000 for
contributions to a bulletin which it pub
lishes.
The Government of Belgium has in
vited the United States and the separate
States to be represented at the First In
ternational Congress of Cities to be held
in Ghent in July. The congress will be
devoted to the two main topics of City
Building and the Organization of Mu
nicipal Life.
How illiteracy is about to be banished
from a Kentucky county through the
“inoijnlight schools” is interestingly
told in a statement by Mrs. Cora Wilson
Stewart, superintendent of Rowan Coun
ty, addressed to the United States Com
missioner of Education. Ijie school
workers have on record the name, loca
tion, and history of every illiterate in
the mountain county, and are able to
make a special study of each individual
Flowers for All. Occasions
FRESH AND SWEET, ROSES, CARNATIONS, AND VIOLETS OUR SPEC
IALTY.
J. L. O’QVINN, PIIONB 149, BALEIGH, N. C.
H. E. Atkinson, College Representative.
SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL BUREAU,
RALEIGH, N. C.
Established 1891. Opera'es throughout the Southwest. Teachers located in thir
ty-two States. If open to engagement or i)romotion write at once for Booklet
and Special Membership Ojjtion.
CHAS J. PARKER. MANAGER.
case. One by one the illiterates are
interested in the work of such schools as
the “Moonlight School on Old House
Creek;” in the past two years the thous
and and more illiterates have been re
duced to a few hundred; and it is be
lieved that the last vestiges of illiteracy
will be ^viped out by the close of the
present year.
Come, happy, joyful summer days.
Full of light, love and jo..
Spreading flowers over all the ways,
And blessings to every girl and boy.
C. B. R.
hibition, bad 26S murders. Last year,
with the saloon in operation again, there
were 306 in one year, or 38 more than the
two years combined.
—Belgium is proposing to send thous
ands of its children out of the country
as part of a strike for manhood suflErage.
Our lords in government and ecclesias
tical hierarchies die hard.
—Miassachusetts has a law that forbids
aviators to fly over ships within its
jurisdiction at less than 100 feet higher
than the top of the highest mast, over a
city at less than 3,000 feet, over persons
driving horses at less than 300 feet, an4
-Alabama in two years, under pro- over farm animals at less than 200 feet.