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jpe JeraiD und Jems, j KattrtJ at tk? Postoffic* at N?w*ifry, 5. C.? as 2nd class matter. I E. H. AULL, EDITOR, _ i Friday, August 25, 1922. ELECTION RETURNS The Observer and The Herald and News in order the better to serve the people and to facilitate the getting out of the news promptly have decid* ' - Jf ? J : ed to comoine iorces anu issue uui> one table of election returns on the night of the election. Headquarters will be at The Observer office and the bulletin board -will be placed in front of the office and the news will be placed on the board just as lapidly as it is received. Friends of the papers and those who are managers will confer a favor and assist materially in getting returns out early if they will phone the result as soon as the count at any fcox is completed. The Observer phone is 87. Sonv- one will also be at the phone at The Herald and News office and will take returns there. The phone of The Herald and News |s 1. But we ask that all returns be sent promptly to The Observer. We will have experts to handle the figures and the tables and the type and with the cooperation of the managers and our friends in the county we will be a'ble to get out the full returns early. We will also buleltin such news from the state as we may be able to secure. The Observer, The Herald and News. We are publishing copies of the official ballots for state and county officers so that- the voter may look them over and decide on his ticket and save time when he comes to vote. The election is next Tuesday and the vote will be a large one this year, nearly twice what it has been heretofore and the count will take longer and it will necessarily take longer to get the result. The candidates got a little rowdy toward the end of the campaign and a few of them passed some ugiy words but it was a campaign remarkably free from bitterness and mudslinging. Now let the voters go to the polls and cast their ballots as to them seem right and proper for the men or the woman they think best, fitted for the position sought. The trouble with too many of us is that fitness is the last thing we consider when we come to vote in the primary election. Of course it should not be that way and let us hope it will not be that way in the election next Tuesday. The work on the three miles of road from Chappells to the Saluda river is getting along rather slowly but may be we are anxious for that stretch to be completed and it appears slow to us. The top soil has 'been put down on the little portion " n_ ?j <-Uo4 leading oui irom ^nappens anu men, will help some. Now if the traveler could just go over the portion on to the Simkins place he could avoid the greater part of the bad road and most of this has been graded. If the contractor would just top soil it and build the two or three little concrete crossings and open this much of the road i4 would avoid almost all of the really bad section and make traveling up this way much more comfortable and easy. Why not do it? . A REMINISCENCE The passing of Dr. fP. G. Ellesor calls to mind a happy past. From the then, looking to the present, it was a long, long time, but from the now, looking back to the then, it seems but yesteryear. It calls to mind the <4ovc ix-Vipn T was tpachini? in Xewber ry college, and for two years I had about twenty to twenty-five boys in one class of whom I was very proud, and whose record and life work I have watched since those days with a great deal of pleasure and pride, because you will scarcely find so .large a class of boys all of whom liave made good and useful men and most of them have made a high stand !n their chosen life work. Gray Ellesor was one of those boys, and it has always been a matter of great pleasure to me the success he has made as a physician, and even when he for so many years clerked in Pelham's drug store he was at all times a hard worker, and took great interest in serving the people who traded at this store, and he always had lots of friends. Pelham's drug store in the early days 4>* the college at Xewberry after its return from Walhalla. was a favorite Joafing place for the boys at Newber ? ??B? II ! ry college in the afternoons, ibecause J there was not much loafing time in! those days for the college boy who; expected to make his class. I don't j think Gray went to school after > those days at Newberry college to which I refer, until he went to the medical college. Of course his training in the drug store was of great assistance to him as a physician, and I have all the time felt a personal interest and felt a sort of gratification at the success he made as a physician, and his taking off in the full vigor of his manhood gives me a1 feeling of sorrow, and I sympathizewith the wife and daughter, and can : in some degree appreciate the loss they have sustained, That was a fine class of boys.' There was Frank Bynum who has made a success as a lawyer and has sat on the supreme bench of the state, and Hamp Hunt, a good law-1 yer, and also has the distinction of J being an associate justice of the su- j preme court, and both have written opinions in important cases which opinions have been highly commend-: ed for their knowledge of the law and the clear and fine diction in declaring the law. Then there is Colie Blease who has represented his county in both branches of the legislature and twice elected governor of the state, and the indications are pointing strongly to his election for a third time as governor. Roland Dickert, an especially bright mind who has made a success as a railroad l man, and Elliott Evans who went west and succeeded in railroading. There is one thing about Elliott that I always remember. In those days it was the custom to have the boys speak or declaim every Friday after -u 1-~ poon. iiilliott wouia inai\.e k wvuvtnient to be absent every Friday afternoon and when I got behind him for his absence he said he could nor make a speech, and really I think' quit before the session was out 'be cause he said he could not speak in 1 public. Somehow in that school we did not take excuses unless they j were mighty good, and all the boys; iiad to do the things we put to them j to do. Then there were the three' Martin boys, George, James and Fos-i ter. George and James died young,! and Foster is still a very useful citi- > zen of Newberry and has been in the 1 banking business and other indus-j fr?r the advancement of the city, j xClarence Hunter went to Texas manyj years ago and I am told is getting) along nicely in business. Wiiliam! J)rayton Baxter, a son of Major J.; VM. Baxter and bearing the name of; his two forbears of sacred me.nory,! William Nance and Drayton Ruther-j ford, was a very bright mind but somehow he did not like going to school. He passed away in early manhood. All the boys in this class were from the town of Newberry ex-! cept Frank Bynum who hailed fromj Mavbinton and Roland Dickert who! came from the Broad river section! TVioro mnv have been I oi tne tuuiH,v. v. _ others in this class but these are all j I can recall just now and I am writ-; ing purely from memory. Now,! don't you think I have a right to feel proud of these iboys and of their success in life. Well, if you don't I do, and I am glad to be able to say that I had a little part in their training when they were young, and I am gratified at the success they have attained. E. H. A. s> AMONG THE SCHOOLS <S v <? ^>^,1 TO err nv <;T!ir>Y FOR ELE LWlj IXJL, v/? W ? - _ MENTARY SCHOOLS The State Board of Education adopted the past summer books for the use of the public schools but in the adoption they left a good many texts optional, that is they --adopted what is termed a basal book, and then an optional book, and that means that a teacher may use the basal or the optional book. It is the desire of the county board of education for this county that ?o far as possible or practicable there be a uniform text 'book in all the schools of the county so that pupils gping from one district to another would not 1 -P?v? .*c? U'O have to change oooks. on iai could we followed the books to be used in the city schools of Newberry. The State Board in its foreword makes the following observations: '"Extensive modifications of this course are necessary in schools taught by one teacher and in shortterm schools. For details and suggestions see Manual for Elementary Schools, and Manual for High Schools. "The State Board of Education strongly recommends that no pupils be expected or required to prepare and recite more than five lessons Der day. "Note: Texts marked basal and texts marked optional afford teachn ers freedom of choice between such* texts on the same subject." To assist teachers in this freedom of choice and to assist in the making! the use of books in the schools of the county uniform the county board offers the following suggestions as to the texts to be used: First Grade Reading: Child's World Primer; and First Reader in one volume, first, term. Second term, Winston's Pri-: mer and First Reader. Manual free to teachers. Practical Writing No. I. Practical j Drawing Book I. Second Grade j Reading: Child's World Reader.' First Term. Winston's Second Readi er second term. I Spelling: Arnold's Mastery of, Words, Book I. Number: Morey: Little Folks j Number Book. Writing: Practical Writing, Man-t ual No. 2. Drawing: Practical Drawing, Book| 2- ^ , Third Grade Child's World Thira Reader, first' term. Winston's Third Reader, second term. Snellinsr: Arnold: Mastery of Words, Book I. Language: Live Language Les-i sons, Book I. Arithmetic: Smith: Modern Pri-i, mary Arithmetic, begun. Writing: Practical Writing Manual, No. 3. Drawing: Practical Drawing, j Book 3. Fourth Grade Reading: Child's World Fourth; Reader, first term. Winston Fourth! Reader second term. j Spelling: Arnold: Mastery of Words, Book One. Language: Live Language Lessons, Book One. Arithmetic: Smith: Modern Primary Arithmetic completed. Geography: Brigham and MacToviono'c Fsspntials of Geoerranhv, first book. Hygiene: Emerson and Betts:i Hygiene and Health, Book One. Writing: Practical Writing, Manual No. 4. Drawing: Practical Drawing Book 4. Fifth Grade Reading: Child's World Fifth j Reader, first term. The Winston, i Fifth Reader, second term. Snelliner: Arnold: Mastery of J Words, Book I. j Language: Live Language Les-1 sons, Book One. (In cases where the child has not completed Kinards and Withers and it was commenced in the Fourth Grade, the child is expected; to complete it and not be required to j buy a new book.) I Arithmetic: Smith: Modern Advanced Arithmetic Begun. History: Estill: Beginner's History of Our Country. Georgraphy: Brigham and Mac-j jFarlane: Essentials of Geography,' First Book. (Where the child has. flreadv begun the studv of Maurv in! 1 T * - . i , ! , the Fourth grade do not change out | use Maury.) Writing: Practical Writing Manual No, 5. Drawing: Practical Drawing Book 5. Sixth Grade Reading: -Riverside Sixth Reader. ! Spelilng: Arnold: Mastery of j Words, Book II. I Language: Kinards and Withers:! The English Language, Book II. ' A Smith: Modern Ad-! | niiuuuvviv t vanced Arithmetic. History: Simms?History of South ! Carolina, Revised Edition of 1922. Geography: Brigham and Mc-; .Farlane: Essentials of Geography,: Second Book with South Carolina! j Supplement. Hygiene: Emerson and Betts:; ! Physiology and Hygiene, Book II. r i Writing: Practical Writing Man-j ual No. 6. j Drawing: Practical Drawing Book No. 6. Seventh Grade j Reading: Riverside Seventh Read-j er. Supplementary, Studies in Read-i ing: Seventh Reader. ! Spelling: Arnold Mastery of Words, Book II. ! j Language: Kinard and Withers:! The English Language, Book II com-! pleted. i Arithmetic: Smith: Modern Advanced Arithmetic. History: Thompson: History rf J T'nitPf? States. I Geography: Brigham and McFarlane: Essentials of Geography, Second Book with South Carolina i Supplement. (If child has not completed Maury no change should be made which would require the buying of a new book.) Hygiene: Ritchie: Primer of San-; itation and Physiology, 1920 Revis-! ion. Hvgiene: Emerson and Betts:1 Physiology and Hygiene, Book II. Civics: Lapp: Our America with South Carolina Supplement. Writing: Practical Writing Man-j ual No. 7. . J i ^ . j Drawing: Practical Drawing Book " I [ The purpose in recommending thei books here mentioned is to have as near uniform system and set of i books in the rural schools as possi-i ble so as to save cost and help the j children who may move from one (lis-1 trict to another during the school j term as is often the case. The state board left a good many options and 1 xvhile the basal is recommended our board thought some of the optional basal were better adapted to the schools of this county than the basal and for that reason we have recommended some of the optional (basal. And in most cases they are the books used in the city schools of Newberry. E. H. Aull, Superintendent of Education Newberry County. The schools of the county are soon to open the fail session. In practically all the schools the teachers have been elected and accepted and yet tnere are a few schools where the trustees have not elected the teachers. This should be done at once. I desire to remind all the teachers who expect to work in Newberry county that they must have state certificates in order to get their pay end that these certificates must be record in my office. Where the I certificate has expired it will be an easy matter to have it renewed and T rii ?_i._ ? 1 : *v,^ jl vvjii lih\u pieasuiu in assisting tin; teacher in petting the renewal and will be glad to give any help or as L 8 ILaJ >*.U , z ssu ^ I C^S Uwg Ijgg '^^oS "3 jgsm,. CC tt, r '"^* ts ci 0| U*^, 9 c ifi I J >-? * <n? " =!? &nSa?* ? -O I / * > -H ?2 a S3 ^ 21 5S ? 1 si V~ I tmwawi 'y fO | I OJ "51 Wbs?* c?.2n g? 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We want all the school t forces to work together :>i harmony I ! during the coming: school year so j i that we may get the very best results . | and do the greatest good for the chil-1 dren. Every one working together I MWWWOTMMIWill'fciMUUW HIL ??Jim iger & Carpei Mwntjn k m jmmmmtmmmmm oan iods Arriving Ev< showing a wonderf V FALL DR iND HA T ery glad to have y< , Saturday and as oft ving our goods and r anger & Cai rowing Store of New isolved partnership v\ ded to open a Brand y date, in the Corner Co., opposite Carolin d Up-to-date Stock : lowest market pri< is and customers to md thereby save moi Will Be "Yours and Satisfy." ore of my opening date. Lire friend of 18 yea your midst. with the right spirit will enable us to do pood work the entire session not only for the children hut for the community. E. H. A. There would be more happy homes if people did not marry for looks in- \ stead of love. iter, Inc. 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