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Oitwtisonian ' ' THAT, WHICH IS MORALLY WEONQ.CANNOT BE POLITICALLY SIGHT. VOLUME 2. THOMASVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1911. NUMBER 12 Eighty-Four Gallons a Being Drawn From Orphanage Well Now. City Watartank Nearly Don. Leaks ki System Being Plugged. Sewer System Happy on tilt Way Eighty four gallons per minute since last Saturday is the perform ance of the Orphanage well to date. The sudden rise in the flow from 50 to 84 gallons is due to the addition of a nozzle at the lower end, and an entire le-arrangement of the pipes. Even yet, according tj Mr. Free man the pumps are running at only two-thirds of their capacity; when the permanent reservoir is corn Dieted and the regular connections made he counts on well over 100 gallons a minute. The principal anxiety of the authorities, and the public as well, has been the fear that the flow from the well would prove insufficient; but the pumps have been drawing 84 gallons a minute for nearly a week now with out lowering the water an inch, so there is no reason to believe that the flow may not reach 125 or 150 gallons, as this paper prophesied two weeks ago. The announce ment was received with ill-concealed skepticism then, but even the most cynical are beginning to waver now. The recently installed centrifugal pump snatches the wa ter out and throws it into the sys tem at a marvellous rate; if some machine could be designed to put the water into the reservoir as fast as that little fellow takes it out, the fortune of the inventor would be as sured. It is impossible in laying such an amount of piping as has recently been put down here, to avoid some bad places. As the water was pumped into the system these are beginning to evidence their presence and by the gradual seepage of the water, which turns the dirt above it into mud of a jelly-like consist ency, are making the streets very treacherous. Mr. Freeman and bis hands are moving heaven and earth to remedy these places, but as they do not all show up at once only the worst ones appear immediately it will probably be some time before the system can be made perfectly water-tight. Had Thomasville had the tank and pumping-plant done before the pipes were laid, they might have been tested before they were covered up; but under the cir cumstances it was manifestly im possible to leave our ditches open in the street until the pumping1 plant was completed. Mr. Homer Cogburn, who is in charge of the steelworkers erecting the city water tank says that he -expects to be done some time next week. A double gang is at work now riveting the plates for all they are worth. By this time next wek they will probably be filling'' the tank, and there will be prvtBhr enough on the hydrants to (brow, a two-inch stream over any building: in town. i'i j "Old Betsy" has finished her trip .Up Salem Street, the sewer has been) laid and covered and the street is beginning to assume a civilised ap pearance. . If Mr. Hodnett and his gang continue to cover ground at the same rate at which they came up Salem street the McCrarys bid fair to make' good their threat tu have the entire system completed by the last of October. With the tank about completed; wlth'Vthe water in; with part of the' ee Were already laid and the rest-rapidly going down; and with a deep well with a young river in the bottom of of it, we think Thomasville may fairly be said to be "out of the woods." - aternlaa Party. A charming morning party was given by Mrs. B. L. Ivey on Wed nesday, in honor of her guests the Misses ' Sandifer and Ivey. . For over an hour the guests plied stit ches and chatted happily, and later a dainty luncheon "was served . con sisting of sandwiiches, tea and sherbet. Little Miss Susie Myers esieted the hostess and her fair house-guests in serving, t Those who enjoyed' Mrs. Ivey" a hospitality were Meedamea Cramer, Julian, Martin, Boggs, Jennings, Morton, Myers, Johnson, - Murphy, Harris, and Misses ' Bertha and Mary Ivey, Daisy, Martha, Mary Gray and Tatsie Sandifer, Margaret Cates, Mary and Kate Johnson, , Idamale Yow, Jennings, Mamie Harris and Leah Rogers. Text Books Adopted. Following are the text books ad opted for the next five years by the state commission: Spelling: Reed's Primary Speller and Reed's Word Lessons, byChaa. K. Merrill and Co. And "A spell ing Book' by Foust & Griffin (re ad opted), Alfred Williams and Co., Raleigh. Defining: Webster's Dictionaries, by American Book Co; re-adopted. Reading: The Howell Primer, by Howell & Co.; The HalibUrton Pri mer, D. C. Heath & Co. ; The How ell first Reader, by Howell & Co. ; Graded Classics 1, 2 and 3 re-adopted, B. F. Johnson Company, Richmond; the Baker-Carpenter Language Readers 4 and 5. McMil lan Company. Writing: The Old North State Copybook, By North State publish ing Company (re adopted); The Berry Writing Books, B. D. Berry & Co., Chicago. (Only the Vertical system of writing was adopted. ) Drawing: Progressive Lessons in Art Education, The Prang Educa tional Company. Arithmetic: Milne's Geographies: Dodge's Primary Geography and Dodge's Compara tive Geography, Rand, McXally & Co. Language and Grammar: Hyde's Lessons in English, Book 1, I). C. Heath & Co. (readoption) Gram mar and Composition Book 2, by Robbing & Row, published by Row. Peterson Company, Modern Gram mar by Buehler and published by Newson & Co, (readopted for use in grades above the Seventh Grade in the public schools.) History of North Carolina: Hill's Young People's History of North Carolina, D. H. Hill, publisher (re adoption.)Connor,s Makers of North Carolina History, recommended for supplementary work in primary grades Thompson Publishing Co., of Raleigh. History of the United States. No adoption. Referred to a committee for report and recommendation on or before Jan. 1, 1012. Histories on list to be used until that time. Physiology and Hygiene: Ritchie -Caldwell Primer of Hygiene, Kitch ie'a Primer of Sanitation. World Book Company with Thompson Publishing Company of Kaleigh, as State Agents. Culler's Physiology. Book 3, for use in grades above the seventh grade. Lippincott & Co., (Readopted.) Civil Government: Peel's Civil Government of North Carolina and the United States. B. F. Johnson Publishing Company (readoption.) Agriculture: Agriculture for Be ginners, by Burkett, Stevens and Hill, Ginn & Co., publishers (re-ad option.) Supplementary List recommended The story of cotton, by E. C. Brooks; Rand, McNally & Co. Jackson & Davie' Industrial His tory of the .Negro Race (for negro schools); Negro Educational Aeso elation," Richmond. ' ' t' The Heart; of Oak Books, 1 to J by C.tl& NortonVD. C. Heath & Go. wi .. Southern . Prose and Poetry,, by Minis and Payne; Charles Scrib- ners Sons. ,. With Pen and Pencil language lessons for primary schools) by Sa rah' Louise' Arnold; Ginn & Co. 'Language Through Nature Liter ttture and Art, by- Perdu & Gris weld; Rand. McNally Co. Catawba County News. . J:;.- - Cooipsalea Piece Far the SUteerWalacMiat 1 Last week at Statesville, . during the itriat of Reuben Combs, and while the court bouse was crowded with people, a man , deliberately took the top off the water cooler and spit in the vessel, i Whether ,e thoaght the .vessel was a cuspidor or was so , absorbed In the court proceedings that he forgot himself, is not known. This calls to mind an incident of similar kind that happened in Le noir several years ago. A promi nent member of the Lenoir bar was intently arguing the admission- of certain testimony being given by a witness, and was standing near the witness stand. The cap of the wit ness was lying on the floor by the side pf his chair, and the attorney, either thinking the cap a cuspidore or being-so absorbed ia his argu ment fhet he forgot himself, ,. delib erately squirted a mouthful of Bin beer into the upturned cap. The incident created much merriment and disconcerted the attorney very much. Lenoir tfen-a. i The New Teachers. Tenth Grade Added. Graded School Faculty Complete With One Ex caption. Priuripal J. N. Hauss announces that all the vacancies, with one ex ception, in the teaching force of the Thomasville Graded School are now filled. No teacher has been secured for the upper section oi the fifth and lower section of the sixth grade, but with that exception the faculty is complete. Several changes are to be made in the system this year; each . teacher, except the one in charge of the lower first grade, will have a part of two grades, each grade being divided into an upper and a lower section; the upper sec tion of one grade will be put with the lower section of the next higher one and a teacher set over the com bination: A tenth grade has been added; this will be under the di rect supervision of Mr. Hauss, al though the work will be more or less divided up, Miss Green taking probably one subject, and Miss Crowell another, while Mr. Hauss may possibly teach one or two sub jects to the ninth grade. Never theless the tenth will be officially known as Mr. Hauss' grade. The list of teachers up to date stands as follows. "Upper" and "lower" refer to the sections of each grade. Lower first, Miss Lala Mundy, of Denver, N. C. Upper first, Miss Lillian Yow, of Thomasville. Lower second, Miss Willard Powers, of Rutherfordton. Upper second and lower third, Miss Adelaide Morrow, of Mebane. Upper third and lower fourth, Miss Zora Hannah, of Waynesville. Upper fourth and lower fifth, Miss Ruth Ivey, of Raleigh. Upper fifth and lower sixth, to be supplied. m Upper sixth and entire seventh, Miss Lettie Green, of Thomasville. Eighth and ninth, Miss Elizabeth Crowell, of Charlotte. Tenth, Mr. J. N. Hauss. Automobiles in the Bible. The word "automobile" does not appear in the Bible, yet the prophet Nahum says: "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against the other in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like thelightenings." Jeremiah refers to the "round tires, like the moon." To those who have trouble with the magneto the words of Job are appropriate, "The spark of his fire shall not shine," and again, "for the spark faileth and flieth away and lo, it is not." "Be hold," says Isaiah, "they shall come with speed swiftly," and with "the noise of the rattling of the wheels and of the jumpingchariots." These references to the motor car are fltlysurplemented bytherealie tie description of the chaffeu in Second Kings: "His driving is like the driving1 Jehu, the son of Nimehi, for he drivath furiously;" and the chauffeur seems to be singled out in Acts. "We let her drive." . Turning to Shakespeare, the many elded, myriad-minded, we find that bis .vision was no less striking than that of the prophets of old. For ex. ample, ia speaking of the mania for fast driving, so common now, the poet; is cnttst explicit. Philip in "King Johty' after an arduous en durance ran, thus cries out, "O, I am ecalded.with my violent motion aadepleenj speed." Another char acter exclaims, "it shall be speeded tfe.U:'' while still another,' bent on having a; "joy ride," says gleefully, fthu we set on, the swifter speed thstbetter," only to say later: "For that which he did arrest me with an officer," good evidence that he ex ceeded the speed limit In connec tion with "joy rides," the Dromio of Syracuse seems to have been pur veyor of supplies for such festal oc casions, as in one instance he re ported that he bad "bought the oil and the aquavitae." In "Henry the Fourth" Tra vera, describing an ef fort to break a recbed, says of the man at the wheel:' "In starting he seemed to devour the way," an ex pression equivalent, in modern elang, to ''burnina; up the road." , This suggests one of Lord Clif ford's contemptous criticism of a new machine: ,'f 'Thy .ar nevet had acorched the earth." A recent emendation of a well known clause In "Kingjohn" reads Warning! ' jThe Water Works Commission re quests us to call attention to the hples in the road along the ditches where the pipes, have been laid. ey wish all drivers of wagons, d automobiles, and horseback ers to be very careful and watch t for the soft wet places. The ks are now being fixed with a great rush and all will soon be in dood shape. Wallburg Mews. Now is the busy time. Everything if being put in ieadiness for the opening which is the 22nd. The wincipal stated on yesterday that if application a for rooms came in as rapidly for the next four days as tiey had in the past few he would bfc compelled to call a meeting of tfie Executive Committee to formu late plans to provide more dormi tary room. The demand for rooms has been twice as large this year as ever before. Miss Helen GraveB of I iasburg, the Lady Principal, will t rive Monday. Mr. R. L. Wall has gone to Mocks, v He and other points in Davie coun ty ; in interest of the school. iss Klhel Teague and Mr. Lee ine of Washington, D. C. have urned home after a short visit to ilatives in the town and vicinity. iThe improvement of the water Stem adds greatly to the conveni ence and safety of the town. The well has been enlarged and other desirable improvements made in We, py stem. JMr. T. S. Wall has returned from Richmond where he has been at tending the Jewelers' Association. Miss Berta Noell of Roxboro who lfae1 been the attractive guest of Miss 5.tVtha Wall has gone to Lexington ifere she will visit friends for sev iiiirae3n..,. Mr. G. T. Cochrane of Thomas ville was among the business visi tors in town last week. Prof. J. M. Cheek, the Assistant Principal, is spending a few days at his home in Durham, N. C. Mr. J. F. Motsingerhas returned from a several weeks visit in Vir ginia. Among the former students here last week were Messrs. Willard Dyer of High Point and Stewart Stone of Thomasville. Miss Maude Wall has returned from a visit to friends in Charlotte arid Salisbury. Dr. J. M. Stallings is a pleasant visitor in town. He preached both at the morning and evening services in the Baptist Church of which he was formerly pastor. Messrs. G. W. and C. M. Wail are business visitors to Lexington to day. Messrs.. Rowan Smith of Wihston Salecn and Y. F. Cecil of High Point were pleasant visitors of the school. Both were here to look over the school and engaged rooms for their sons. Mrs. O. A. Keller and children have returned from Tayloraville where they have been spending sev. eral weeks with Mrs. Keller's moth, er. thus: "My lord, they say five cars were ' seen tonight, Four stalled, the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous mo tion." This new and interesting version is by a chauffeur of some eminence who has made a careful study of what the Man of Avon wrote. It throwa a -flood of light upon an ob scure .passage- which has caused heated discussion among some of the famous commentators. I There are some,- mostly "knock Henry's ere,", who. say. that Prince grim question, "How many hast thou killed today?" refers directly to the antomobile.-rc0anie. i Panaars la SsaalM. i The Farmers' Institute was call- ad to, order at 10:30 Thursday morn ing under the big arbor at the. ,Qr phanage. A large crowd was in at tendance and the meeting bade fair to be an enthusiastic one. Unfort unately The DAVinaoNiAN went to press too early to get a full account Of the proceedings. You Can Quit Cranking When the New Telephones Are Installed. Thomaivllle Telephone Co., to Reconstruct Their Entire System. Cnntral Energy Station and Crankiest Telephones to be Put In. The Thomasville Telephone Co is preparing to make a sweeping change in its system in this town; almost their entire equipment as it now stands is to go on the scrap heap to give place to the most mod ern up-to-date mechanism known to the telephone world. Work at the central office has already begun; the present switchboard, although it has been installed a comparative ly short time, is to be thrown out, and a highly compli cated thoroughly modern one will replace it. Instead of the old-style drops the new board will have row on row of tiny electric lamps, and when a subscriber takes down his receiver the light connected with his phone on the board begins to burn and continues to glow until the call is answered. Under this system it will be impossible for a call to es cape Central's notice, until the irate subscriber has almost twisted the handle off his phone in his frantic efforts to call attention. The new board will be here about the first of next month, aed the company ex pects to begin to make the transfers as soon as it arrives. The installation of the new board necessitates radical changes outside the central office As the phones are transferred from the old board to the new a "condenser" will be attached to each one; later on all the old phones will be removed to give place to entirely new ones; these new phones are little beau ties; they are about eight or ten inches square, and without the crank and unsightly battery, box. They will occupy about a third us much room as the old phones and will be much better looking. The outside lines also are to be entirely rebuilt. The present ugly tangle of wires will be removed and cables substituted, after the fashion of the present line on Randolph street, which will add immeasura bly to the appearance of the thouroughfares. This however is to be done gradually and it will likely be some months before the system is entirely complete. When the new apparatus Is in place Thomasville will be the small est town in the state with such equipment. Winston-Salem in-' stalled it only year before last. The new mechanism will cost the Com pany about $2000, the switchboard alone calling for $080. When the cost of labor ia added to this it will total much higber. We congratulate the Company and the subscribers on this evidence of the progressive spirit of the offi cials. Mrs, J. & Boone Dead. ' Just as we go to press we learn that Rev. M. L. Kesler has received a telegram containing the sad news of the death of Mrs Sadie Maddrey Boone, widow of the late Rev. J. B. Boone, for ten year the General Manager of the Thomasville Bap-1 tist Orphanage. Mrs. Boone will be buried Friday afternoon at Hen dersonville. Crutchfield Hardware Co. Robbed Burglara entered : through the back door of the Crutchfield Hard ware ; Company' e store Tuesday night, and secured two ' double- barrelled shotguns, worth $48 a harp, and $8 in cash,, The worse damage however was done to the big cash- register which the robbers battered up pretty badly. . -, The safe waa in tact The company offers $10 for the conviction . of tbe parties to whose identity they bave.no cine, Watar-Werae Cvas a Hamty. ' Fire early Monday morning des troyed the i excelsior, b tore-room of tbe Queen Chair Co., and for a short time threatened the dry-kiln, w How ever the officials at the Orphanage were stirred up by Mr. B. F. W. Bryant, who rushed down! there in bia auto, and ; the . pumps started, furnishing pressure enough to throw a good-sized stream over the men aced building. The damage waa small. 4,078 Inhabitants Says Mr. Hauss. School Authorities Census. Complete Gain over School Census of 1910 Is 251 Over United States Census of 1910, 201 And Don't Forget the People Who Left After the Two Great Fires. The population of theGarden Spot has passed the four thousand mark, according to figures collected by Mr. J. N. Hauss, Siiperintende-1 of the Thomasville Graded School. Mr. Hauss' report, turned in the first of this week shows a total pop ulation, while and colored, of four thousand and seventy-eight souls. The whites number three thousand three hundred and fifty; the colored seven hundred and twenty-eight. When Mi. Hauss took the census last year he found three thousand one hundred and fifty-one whites and six hundred and seventy-six negroes a total of three thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. The United States Census, taken in April, showed three thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, fifty more than Mr. Hauss found in mid summer of the same year. In 1910 there were seven hundred and fortj'-two white children of school age between six and twenty -one-in Thomaaville. Now there are eight hundred and nineteen. A ago there were two hundred and seventy-five negro school children; now there are two hundred and eighty-three. There are one thou sand and two school children, white and black in town. No wo. Jer the school-board are scratching their heads in perplexity and cutting off slices of the auditorium to make ad ditional class-rooms. There is one drawback to trusting too much to these statistics, how ever, and that is the time that they are collected. The school- census is always taken in midsummer, as that is the only epare time Mr. Hauss has, and therefore it is al ways a little below the high-water mark; this year, in particular, it ia probably lower than usual owingto the destruction by fire of the plants of the Cramer and Lambeth furni ture companies. We have nodoubt i but that had it been possible to i put off the count until the middle 'of October that th; figure would have been at least 4,200. We believe also that, barring- another visit of the fire fiend or other unusual ac cident, the figure next year will be 5A and if everybody would pull ogether it would come dangerous ly close to 5,000. Don't you? Seventy-two Hundred People Treated For Hookworm Disease in Twenty Days in Four Counties. In the counties of Sampson, Robe son, Columbus, and Halifax 7200 victims of hookworm disease have been treated at the State and County dispensaries. Nearly double this number have been examined. Dur ing the first five days tbe dispen saries were open only 615 cases were treated, whereas during the last five days 2808 were treated. Daring the twenty days there were treated in Sampson 1682 cases; in Robeson 1352; in Columbus 3017: and in Halifax in 12 days 1109 cases. Tbe County Boards of Education, to show their spirit of cooperation, are having sanitary privies in stalled at all the school houses be ing used as dispensaries. After about two weeka the dispen sary work will move into new coun ties. Cumberland, Onslow, Wayne and Northampton Counties have made the necessary provision to have the- 'dispensaries next . ' The Commissioners and people gen erally are highly . pleased with the work of the dispensaries. OM Mwa' Orphans Net tha 21th ' A singing class conaiating. of 'd docen children a music teacher and a manager; from : the .Odd Fellows Orphanage at Goldsboro will give a ' concert in the Main St, M. K. church Friday' night August '23th; There1 is no admission and everybody. ! a ' cordially invited; this class is not expected to helpi support the Or. phanage, but simply to advertise 1 and show what kind of work.; tha Orphanage ia doing. We .bespeak for them a large and attentive audi, ence in Thomaaville. ' 1 A 'Vt-tMIAttJ'M
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