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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST 4DF THE PEOPLE OF. McDOWELL COUNXY.
ESTABLISHED 1896.
MARION, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1914.
VOL. XVIII NO. 29
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COMMENDS SCHOOL WORK
Mr. Brogden Writes Interestingly
of His Visit to McDowell and
of Work Done Here.
benefit of his services and leader
ship the year round, instead of for
six or seven months each year. If
they succeed in carrying out this
plan, as I believe, they will, this
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EDUCATIONAL COLUMN
Maud Barnard. Editor.
J .of 9 square miles to an average of STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK
izu or zo square nines; mo oru iuv
I t I 0 ft II Am AnAntnnr tTuAnl rst I
ing or a sen 00 1 sue 01 o or o acres, ncui uuutcumit licui wi m
giving space for playground and terest and Importance Through
demonstration farm: the building out ne State.
nf thrpp.rnnm Krhool hnildincT-
with auditorium and modern equip- Mr- H- B- Varner, editor of tho
Look not mournfully into the past; it
comes not back a train: wisely improve
1 j.1 C . 1 ! 1 ai l t. 2 .u: n -Vi "
, ... will UO lUO urSb rural UUlUllJUUltv tuo prooeuk. xw 10 kuiuo. vu m
Haleigh News and Observer. -Aro. . TJ . . f Ov,o ff tlmnt. fAar
D-nWni. T. O RrmrrUn Cf0fft 1U IU8 OWW, SO I8r as roaVO UtiU - " J nuu ouuiw. uui auu uiuuuu yir
Professor L. U, Brogden, tate : . . I and with a manly heart. -LonKfeUow. monr.' ,MCf turnft t,anuAMI w:tu Lexington Dispatch, has practical
Cnfl;cnr nf Rural TClArrtftnterV piuiooaivc . I, j : J:j...
Sr,V. i IsfX 7 and much needed step. Q . , Mn, V male priocioal. and a perraacent aaDOUDCCO SCMU,"W
Schools, recently spent the greater ttUU uueu School Notes. k . " to oddoso R. N. Pigts for Con-
firt t WPJ in Mr-nAll teachers take special course. lf ' . , home for principal anc assistants; w PPe n. x-.g lor
portion of a weefc in McDowell , Tist week's storm having done .ui grcss.
i. i jnow mat manv or tne rural . 7 . . iwu 01 uiku icuwi -
county iu uo wcaicrupait ui tuo , qttq , , so much damage to the roof or tne
State, vising the rural schools in schls of thKe c.ou have closed, was
. Anita a nnmhA nf tna taathoic a iA
that county. Mr. Brogden in- - neCessary to ctose the school
spected a number of the schools of SCUrS6 ast Friday.
the county, and was highly pleased " " . ' . '
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given; the organization of boys' ona .noucj aiorencaa, 01 voar
and girls' corn and canning clubs, lotto, is being mentioned as tho
singing classes, farm life clubs, probable Republican congressional
and the encouragement of debat- candidate for the ninth district to
with the worK that is now oemg iL .Ulnwl wNru cnnfnl school at Juu maL. - ri-r tv, a,.Mm.n f
I thftrft "He, renorLs more 1-urai oupervisor ana wuu me - -- ,mua "u u v uu ivvu.
done mere. n e en hearty cooperation of principal and Curfew, has returned to her home rural community life. Mr. Drog- culture has prepared an interest
progress a ong ye ine,o emon" teachers in this State High School, in Burke county. den is constantly traveling over ing bulletin on "Leguminous Crops
stration schools than nasoeen these student teachers are review- East Marion School closed last the State, advocating his tynical in North Carolina" and would be
found in a lg on J Q ing the grammar and high schoor Friday afternoon and Misses Stacy school in educational meetings, coo- glad to furnish, free, farmers with
counties o e a , an oesno subjects amj receiving instruction and Lonon left Saturday for their ferring with county superintend- this valuable information. If in-
hesitate to commend the work of b the most moderQ primary meth. homes. cnts, and helping in the actual terested, they are requested to
the people to Oiner sec nnu u:.. Aa.Af.,nn tt-4. tt i t wnrlr nf mcnrini7 distances, de- write to the department at Raleicrh.
North Carolina. . J-"0 woiciunj lyiiss ivaio oa.yuea, pnutiBi ui j j;. I ... "
. . , . , . planned and made thoroughly Greenlee School, passed thru Ma- ciuiog ou buw auu piuiu un
practical demonstration work is Dfc,ca, The SUDervisor is us;De piftn oatnrriftv ftnronta to her home tricts.
rapidly gaining a foremost position f , a . . . , the spread ok consoudation.
in t.hA so.hool an vancAment and . : . . . . I
in the school advancement and
progress now so noticeable in near
ing to show her class how to make Miss Annie Glass has returned
progress now so noticeable in near- he , one.room school attrac. Morganton
ly all of the counties, and the peov . rWnrUhlft ftnfi more home. 10 her nome In MorgaDtoD-
pie of McDowell have taken a long
step forward in the work that they
are doing. They have recently
employed a rural school supervisor,
who gives her whole time to sup
plementing the work of the county
superintendent, and th people be
lieve that ttt&y have a good invest
ment in adding to their county of
6cials; McDowell county is pri
marily an agricultural county, as
is truft of manv of the counties in
While the idea has been agitated
in the Stato only a few years, it is
spreading with cumulative rapid
ity, and Mr. Brogden declares that
"the movement is growing more
before in th hisUirv of public
eduCHtion in th Suiiv' Tho most
tive, comfortable and more home
like in appearance; she is showing ' Close of Belfont School.
them how to use the course of I tir. cu 1 : n.UrA nrtir
studvfor the elementary schools Lmu; ioef va ,, rapidlr and more systematically
tocetthebest results: she takes L ..,am.,i fln.;nm0nt an('nior(5 intelligently than ever
' " a ICl 3UVAUOIUI bUbVivaiuiuLUM
her class in to sec the experienced pricjay was k4Kally Day" .and the
I teachers in this school conduct llHnnift turned out well to hear the
recitations in the different subjects educational addresses which were
tauerht in the elementary schools,
and this observation work is lol- uosbe to attend but every one en- pnKnmwPouc.u.,
fni- in which each student- u. u the Teachers' Assembly, which.
is true of many of the counties m ig tioned on the most w served though very incomplete .rc .till
that part of North Carolina and things in the recita. community. suRRestive. "; .
orroat. PmnhflfilQ ls at this timft rflacea . . C.A tkat cVtuizr that Hnnmr thi
upon the importance of practical w. . . teacher trainini? L:u .u. .,.u tutt year past, in the counties rctwrt-
" U I 1 1 w ailUWCU UlUU "via vu vww t ill . ,
course carried on through the t of ber and puoils. idr 83 schools have dcd abandon-
agency of tbis State High -School The large crowd present expressed 49 C0DuS,.1'dljed. SchS
j o i t o.-.nA.r;c.A ;e . ... . .. i i nave been established in tneif
bum w-ww. - r- - - I its auurcUlawlUU U V bliu uiuiuucu
The Executive Committer of
the North Carolina Press Associa
tion in special 'session at lUlcigh
last week decided to call the annual
convention of the association to
meet at Wrighttville Beach on
June 21 25, and recommend to the
association that the mid-winter
meeting be held in KtleigK.
W. A. Hardstine, 70 years old,
who lied neir Swannanoi, Bun-
c me county, was found dead. in
recent tigun s M.n)l. are those j hU jjj Sucday at noon. He bad
Uken from Uie reports of the year's i fllcn in lhft fjrc and WCAk
demonstration.
Mr. Brogden writes interesting
ly of his visit to McDowell county,
and tells of the work being done
there. His statement follows:
"McDowell county is one of the
few counties of the State to take
the advanced step of employing a'
rural school supervisor to supple
ment the work of the county su
perintendent.
meeting a practical and vital need
of the rural teachers of the coun
ty."
Another Mill for Marion.
i it & r o . l. .
i u- u ..ij places, maw wncreyoicatncra cro
applause which greeted each num- F . , . u i v i j
. i r i - 92 are now teaching in the con-
The people of Belfont are very "
. . 4r .x 4, . t u solidatcd schools, that whereas
enthusiastic in their praise of the -.1.1 a-
1 -i u .u;e kv 1,739 pupils liad been attending
work done there this year by ' . . . . .
m1:.lC.u .m. r j in j the schools abandoned L',5I have
ine vjuncnueiu jiauuitwiunuK iuisses orowo auu uiaw nuu uoo .
. ii.l.li. attended the consolidaUnl schools
Company, of Marion, N. C. have requested that both teachers return r" "77 , . . . ,
mieuutsui,. t: i n ,;ik n nonlU esiaousnca in wieir 5h:u. xuu.
"Instead of scattering her efforts 1 " , B " i u 1 where 83 schools had been handling
T t. n of $500,000.00 to build a?large cot- Situated in a fine agricultural , " OA lo t .
over the entire county, this super v . 0 . , only 1,739 pupils, 49 consolidateo
. j t. . u k ton m l at or near Marion, N. C, section, and in a community of UU'J . ji 1 o mQ nm
visor is devoting the most of her . i j 1 k. raQC schoo s have handled 2,518, or an
increased attendance of over 44
per cent. These figures were taken
before Ihe compulsory attendance
visor is aevoung xne most 01 uer .1 , , .
r . . " . this being the company recently good people, there is no reason
time during any one year to not . . J r. . . fe , ' . , . .
7 1 u 1 cu promoted by D. D. Little, of Spar- why Belfont can't be one of the
mora than tan rural schools, one . ....
, . . . . . , f 4 tanbury, S. C, Uarroll Baldwin or eadmg schools in the county,
is undertaking to make these tenl , n. T.,..
schools 'demonstration schools, m , v T' pPnf 1 . P.. RrnHen's Camoain in law began to run, so that increase
showing what jthe rural elemen- Giles, A. Blanton North Carolina. pI""1 only by the improved
taviiiiivof . m.-ww-
being
physically he was pnible to ex
tricate himself and waj burned to
death. Mr. HardstinrTa German,
lived alone and bad no family.
At Mars Hill College, Madison
county, William Barksdale, a IS-year-old
student, was in the room
of a fellow student after the hour
the collego regulations permit
visiting. Hearing a teacher com
ing Barksdalc got out on the win
dow edge to hide and fell 15 feet
to the ground, receiving serious
injuries.
It is estimated that the State of
North Carolina will ret $100,000
Inheritance tax from the Vander-
bilt estate. Prior to the revenue
act of 1913, now in force, there
would nave oecn no mnenianco
tax on the part of the estate that
goes to the widow. JJnder the
present act tho widow's portion,
as well as that of the other heirs,
is taxed as an inheritance.
The season is drawing to a close
L. C. Brogden, State Supervisor . f ' . rnnKnlifUtd schools. 1 during which Boya' Cora Clubs
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of Rural Elementary bchools, rs
spending the greater part of his
Bertie county made the best repoVt
in the State, abandoning 13 schools
for 5 consolidated schools, with an
attendance increased from 260 to
290 in the schools considered.
'EXAMPLES OF CONSOUDATION.
State Supervisor Brogden men
tions as one of the best types of
U 1 .. fnanhi t"l Ct
and supervision, can be made m n ol
. . r . ,r;i It is the purpose of This company
meeting the needs of country chil- v j ...
1 , 1- t. i.L- to build a cotton mill at or near
aren. unaer me airecuon 01 mc . T n . , :ttf K . . .
. . Marion. N. C. with an equipment f;m nrl Anorar ramnftUTninir for
supervisor, witn tne neany suppon . , , . , , 7 Zr
. . ... of 25.600 spindles and 600 looms Ua or1rt nn thrnnahoot North
ot the teachers in tnese aemon- r (1 . ... . . . . . ,
stration Re.hnnl,' annroximatelv whlch wl11 lY employment to Carohoa of a plan for a type of
two hundred Ws have been study- abut,25fi F,60 , . tpd efficient rural school which he has
. . j No definite site has been selected nt n eonRiderable detail.
ing agriculture in a practical anu . . , . 1 - r -
. ..1 , but several locations are hayingl qj Uc rnncnlidation as its
systematic way, wnue aooui one . . m. T 1? . . .
hundred girls in these schools have .cuuu "A u" central feature, with the teature COQSolidation in lhe State the school
been doing definite and practical Sittme, of Greenville, b. U, who of transp0rtation where conditions uivcrdale, in Craven county.
1 . . mi is the architect and engineer in
n Arm it, Mr. Brocrden has bcome I m, 1 i
wors in sewing. J.ne yeopie ui - 1 , , .
, . , 1 charsre. on onnritv on thpse features bv
Asmord, a progressive rurai com- - , ' , " ; . -
munity in which on'e of the .dem- contract? ,have a,s y Personal investigation of conditions
. ... , , . , v ; i 1 let for material nor lumber but : u:e Qfota nrl nTtencive. first.
onstration schools is locaiea, nave i , :n un u0Ari ,7; ,
rftP.ent.W tM.A thft Board of matters of this kind will be handed hand study of consolidation and
" . . . A as soon as location is decided on. f-QArttinn in nil Rer.tions of
county commissioners 10 raise - . . . . ,
their local school tax from 20 to 30 Mr- Llttle 1h""1 n tlre,esft. m Virginia. Combining tho ' results
Vnc pffnrtc to land this proposition unr. ;nnAfmut;nnc a ctuHv
cents, in order to add another room " . j f luiua acres.
and another teacher to their two- for Marion and Mciioweii coumv o au- available literature on the r
Another typica
teacher school, thereby making it and it means the bringing in of subjectj he issued in 1911, as a p k8 Cros
'm . . . . v .i considerable outside money ana uintin r.f tn Stnin Denartment
an emcient tnree-teacner scnooiu . . , , . i wl..Vw.
better suited to the needs of their eivmg a large numoer of Education, , a discussion wnicn hayo unitcd ercclioj: an
countrv children. The oeoole in m the county and adjoining tern- has been characterized as the last ftttrRrt;vK and comfortable building
this enmmnnitv r ftlsoiQenssinir torry work and prosperity. word on consolidation and-trans-
..-.4-; UafAa . - ... t 1 it . J oortation."
ijuoowuu ui uuuuiug, wwvis (jeorge W esunghouse, ine io-i , . mruu ua iwu, muaiw w,-
the begmnmg of the next session, Ventor of the air brake that bears His plan contemplates as a min- and an auditorium. Thoschoolbas
L.Li tA!.:i j; Vcuior mLj. ' 'vrm I imnTTi imnrovement the increasing three teachers, a malo principal
yoiuiaueuu uuuie lur imju niS name, aieu Aounsuay au now r . . , . . ' Tk .rA on
. , . t .1 . T. ' . , Ltf conl nrft fmm an averflfro and a music teacher. TheroareJ
V. kuv vuww. M.w -- ; "
Three one-teacher schools have
been consolidated to one of three
rooms and two teachers. The school
board has bought three new school
wagons and transport 70 children
with great success. The school site
has been increased from 1 to IT
1 consolidation is
Cross Uoads, Johnson
countv. where two two-teacher
can bo formed for the coming sea
son, and announcement is mido
that to date there are 3,032 such
clnbs scattered throughout tho
State, practically all the counties
having one or more. Wake coun
ty is well in the lead with 22J
clubs and Richmond is second with
157. Buncombe has 143, Colum
bus 122, Johnston 122, Ko boson
106. Mecklenburg 107. McDowell
has an enrollment of CO.
attractive' and comfortable building
costing from $1,100 to $1,500, with
th ren class rooms, a music room
principal, in order to have the I York.j
in the music cla and the com
munity has bought a piano. Tho
people are delighted with the school
and the worK is mucn more cuiacuk
than ever before. They are plan
ning to give courses in cooking for
the girls and in practical agricul
ture for tho bo vs. And this is a
cross roads school in atypical coun
try community, in the center or an
area of between 25 and 27 square
miles. Assligbtly more cxtensire
edition of this school is what Super
visor Brogden is. campaigning for
in the State, and is what must como
if tho rural education of the Suto
is to be made most effective
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