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PUBLIC LEDGER
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY NEWS
Conducted by
MISS MARY G. SHOTWELL
Supervisor of Rural Schools of Gran
ville County.
We want this column of the Ledger
to belong to the school children and
their narents this winter. To this
extent, we are anxious to enlist your
help, by the sending of any little item
of news in your school or community
and it will be published, in these col
umns. If you have organized a Coun
try Life Club, let us have an account
of vour meeting:, also a report of the
work of your Health Committee. Let
every school in the county have a re
porter so that the news of your .school
can be sent in regularly. All news
must be sent to Miss Mary Shotwell,
Oxford, and then it will be put here
according to the time it is received.
Penny Hill
Penny Hill school opened October
4th with 24 pupils but the number
increased to 36. We enjoyed a visit
from Miss Mary Shotwell a few weeks
ago and hope that she will come
again.
A country Life Club was organized
in our school on Oct. 23. The fol
lowing officers were elected: presi
dent, Frank Hart; vice-president,
Grace Blackwell; secretary, Sidney
Cottrell. We discussed the subject
of birds and their help to farmers
for the first meetvng.
HAROLD O'BRIEN, Reporter.
Bethel
Bethel school opened with a good
attendance this year. Miss Alma
Ragland is back for the second year
and Miss Eva Hester is assisting her.
On October 22 a Reading Circle
was organized with eight pupils join
ing it, while on last Friday afternoon
the Country Life Club was re-organized.
Miss Mary Shotwell, Messrs. J.
F. Webb, D. A. Coble and B. I. Breed
love visited our school last week.
Miss Shotwell and Mr. Webb made
interesting talks to the pupils. Mr.
Webb told us to tell our parents that
one day in school was worth $10.00
and for them to think about this
when they wanted us to stay at home
one day from school.
ESSIE BRUMMITT, Reporter.
Willow Branch
Our school opened the first "Mon
day in October with 20 pupils on roll,
but we have 31 mow, the oldest of
which is 14 years old. On the after
noon of the third day of school, we
spent it cleaning the school building
and yard.
Misses Mary Shotwell and Margar
et Hilliard visited our school on Mon
day the 18th and Miss Shotwell told
us an interesting story of why the
pine, cedar and holly stay greera. all
the winter.
Our honor roll is as follows:
First Grade Judson Adcock, Mel
vin Adcock, Bettie Dixon, Edgar Hob
good, Floyd Howard, Allen Puckett,
Martha Frazier, Jimmie Ray Nelson.
Third Grade Gladys Howard,
Eula Howard, Mai Hobgood, Rosa
Puckett, Leland Frazier.
Fifth Grade Nellie Nelson.
Sixth Grade Tyree Currin, Need
Hobgood, -Alvis Hobgood.
NEED HOBGOOD, Reporter.
Is This Teaching?
The writer has seen a history les
son in which the teacher had to read
ahead to see whether or not a child's
answer was correct. And the class
knew she was doing it. Teachers
have been seen with one finger at the
questions at the back of the book and
the other at the chapter used as the
lesson for the day, the eye travelling
from one place to the other. Can
this be called teaching?
Attention Cora Club Boys
There will be a corn judging con
test in the Courthouse Saturday, Nov
ember 20, 1915 at 12 o'clock. All
members of the club and those plan
ning to join are asked to bring ten
ears of corn and enter the cbntest.
This contest is a preliminary to se
lect two boys to go to Raleigh,
Thanksgiving to judge corn in a con
test at the State Teachers' Assembly
Seven counties of the State will enter
and of course we want Granville rep
resented. Dr. Morris has volunteer
ed to teach the two boys selected so
that they will have a better showing
with the boys from other counties.
He expects to go to the homes of
these boys and assist them all he can.
Remember that only those who are
planning to join the Corn club and
those already members are eligible
to enter this contest.
This will be a great trip for the
boys, for they will be entertained in
the best homes of the people of Ral
eigh. Let us have a large number
here next Saturday at the preliminary
contest.
The State Teachers' Assembly will
be held in Raleigh, November 24-26
and we hope that all teachers of the
county will avail themselves of this
opportunity and attend these meet
ings. The rates are reduced and are
very reasonable, if you want any fur
ther information write to Mr. E. E.
Sims, Raleigh, N. C.
Stovall High School
Honor roll of primary and inter
mediate departments for month end
ing Nov. 5th.
First Grade Louise Critcher, Sal
lie Matthews, Harvey Stovall.
Second Grade Thelma Critcher,
Lillian Dean, Betty Moore, Tazzie
Matthews, Gladney McGhee, Stanly
stovall.
Fourth Grade Abner McGhee,
Allen Kennison, Gordon Spicer.
Fifth Grade Garland Stovall,
Bert Spicer, Willie Barnes, Calvin
Frazier, Beatrice Williams.
Teachers, Misses Mangum, Lula
Daffan.
Honor Roll Tar River School
First Grade Hazel Adcock, Alton
Adcock, "Farris Bragg, Nina Duke,
Walter Gordon, Helen Moss.
Second Grade Fred Eakes, Ted
die Hughes, Lell Smith, Alliene Cur
rin, Alonzo Hughes
Third Grade Jeff Duke, Clara
Eakes, Olgie Hunt , Clifton Land,
Beulah May Moss, Irwin Smith,
Eunice Perry.
Fourth Grade Mabel Smith, Ro
bert Moss Robert Davis Smith,
Fifth Grade Julian Adcock, Bon
nie Boyd, nellie Boyd, Lena Connell,
Jeneva Hughes, Onnie Hunt, Neppie
Duke,
Sixth Grade Elvin Eakes, Hollie
Boyd, Clifford Hughes.
Seventh and Eighth Grades Grac
le Hunt, Dovie Hunt, Annie Belle
Smith.
The Slow Child
(University News-Letter)
Every school .has its slow child.
Some teachers simply look upon such
a pupil as one of earth's unfortunate
while some few go so far as to call
the pupil a dunce and lay the blame
on Providence.
Such children are unfortunate to
have untrained and unsympathetic
teachers. They are likewise unfor
tunate in another sense, but not as
the ignorant teachers thinks. Re
cent studies of backward children de
monstrate the fact that such unfor
tunates have some physical defect as
their misfortune.
Bad eyesight, adenoids, diseased
tonsils, bad teeth, enlarged glands,
anaemia, malnutrition, one or more,
may be the cause of the dullness.
Fortunately all such defects can be
eliminated if properly treated. Pro
vidence is not responsible parents
and teachers are. '
The Thinkers of the Country
Are the Tobacco Chewers
said one of
the greatest
thinkers this
country ever
produced.
WE WANT TO LET CONTRACT
to clean-up ready for plow about
seventy-five acres of cut over land,
contract to be let by the acre. Cal
tolina Farm, W. T. Calton, Mana
ger. 9-4-8t
Xow Lookout
When a cold hangs on as often hap
pens, or when you have harldly got
ten over one cold before you contract
another, lookout for you are liable to
contract some very serious disease.
This succession of colds weakens the
system and lowers the vitality so that
you are much more liable to contract
chronic catarrh, pneumonia or con
sumption. Cure vour cold whilft von
can. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
has a great reputation. It is relied
upon by thousands of people and nev
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where, adv.
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n CHEWING- TOBACCO
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the twist.
Snrl Xews Notes
(Correspondence of the Public Ledger)
. -
Mr. G. G. Moore has turnips as
large as a gallon measure.
If you walk along the west side of
your wheat field at eight o'clock in
the morning, the field laying be
tween you and the sun, you can tell
whether you have a good stand or
not.
Shucking corn has been in full
blast in this section during the past
two weeks.
Messrs. J. T. and Tom Blalock
have finished their fine dwelling , and
will move in shortly.
The writer certainly enjoys reading
the big averages of the Oxford mar
ket as contained in the warehouse
advertisements published in the
Public Ledger.
Jessie O'Briant, the seven year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Briant
died of diphtheria Nov. 7th.
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