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UNION AND SUBURBS HAS jj IT W?<= ^KT "V "W ^ "W" /^\ ^ ~ "W *VtT "W "W? UNI0N AND SUBURBS HAS J ? Female Seminary, Flvo Graded 5 B H I J II 1^^ I I f b I & < I ) I / I J Fire Large Cotton Mills, Knitting I H H, I \ II I I VI hA> jsssssa: ^jy mixed streets. Population li.uuo. a ^ J J y ^ #nd Lumber Yards, Waterworks. .. ::?"&< ' /SlJl. t VOL. LV1 NO 22. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE I, 1906. $1.00 A YEAR. -N- ? THE UNIOF SUPERINTENDENT DAVIS JEFFRIES. 1 < Brief SketG*i ol Life?Bom in Union \ County?Served Twelve Years t as Superintendent. Mr. Davis Jeffries was born (y March 10th, 1868 in Wilkinsville, ? Union county. He attended j school ijj Gaffney and taught for t three years at his home. In 1 y-mm I i SITKIMNTKNDKNT I Ultll^L 1 UI XJtrrr? ...^ i?r . J By Miss Fr.-ncwa II. Whitimro, I r.i ci- ' pill Won I hfitl graded School. Bread and mealworm the basis J of our daily food, and without this staff our bodies become weak, i But bread and meat alone, become monotonous diet. Our appetites crave variety and delica- i cy. And as our mental appetites call for something besides . the bread and meat of school life, , we, as teachers, should not dole ; out to our pupils their daily ration of "Three R's" without an occasional desert, when Truth's larder is filled to overflowing with so much that is good and beautiful for the mind's assimilation. > Mother Nature keeps an unlim/r ited store-house. Her goods bear the trade-mark, "Genuine:" and of her we may obtain numberless good things. Her price is simply this: Use of the senses. By spending five or ten minutes daily, or twice as much every other day in Nature study, both teacher and pupil will derive much pleasure and benefit '*To liiin, who, in the love of nature hold? Communion with her visible forms,sin speaks A various language, for his gayer hour She has a voice of gladness and asmil And eloquence of beauty; and sh glides Into his darker musings with a mil And gentle sympathy, that steals nwa Their sharpness, ere he is a wart " The purpose of this work ma be enumerated as follows: 1. For information. 2. To quicken sense percej tion. 3. To create a desire to kno and love the things which G< has made. 4. To cultivate an eye to tl beautiful in nature. 5. As a stepping stone to tl sciences, botany, biology, geo raphy, etc. 6. As a help in language, 1 means of conversation and wr; ten work. 7. To lead up to the study Literature, by learning memo gems and reading selections a propriate to the object at har 8. To help in drawing, as t objects studied should be dra^ by the pupil. ^ The seasons, as they come a v fro, lurnish iooa ior tnougnt this line of work. Autumn brings the changi leavG3? the ripening nuts a I i GRADED .894 he was elected superintend;nt of the Union City Schools,! vhich position he has acceptably illed for twelve vears. Mr. Jeffries is not only a suc;essful school superintendent, )ut he is also a gentleman of splendid moral character. His ife will help the children brought mder his management long after le has passed from the earth. i H// iM If ! %f p i! DAVIS JEFFRIES. I( Then winter comefWiTii lucTI^.^ \ ice and snow. After the long, cold winter when plant life has been enveloped in sleep, comes? "Spring with that nameless pathos in the air Which dwells with all things fair, Spring, with her golden sun and silver rain," Bringing with her myriads of; flowers and flocks of birds. Then, \ surely we should bring a breath | of spring-time into our school; room; open our pupils hearts to new delights, teach them to see life in the hard, brown twig, and the tiny seeds mat are waiting J to grow. To imbue my pupils with the spirit of spring-time, I read to them several pretty poems, among them Timrod's "Spring," and that beautiful song of songs, a part of which we memorize: "Lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone, The flowers appear upon the earth, The time of the singing of birds is come." By studying plants, childrer ', learn to love and protect them e j They see in them a perfect life something that is born; must eat * : drink, live and grow like them selves; creations in which the; see the hand of a mighty Maker ll an ever present God, whose wor y is always harmonious, The information we obtain i y this study is the kind obtaine by observation. We must stud objects by means of the senst > needing no text books. Th teacher should be informed upo w the object of study, and shoul >d give such terms as the pupil ca understand. My second gra( ie pupils know these terms: Cora la, calyx, petals, sepals, stame ie pistil; the parts of a leaf showir g- that roots and leaves take in fo< for the plant; that plants lei ?y toward the sunshine, and oth it- interesting and useful knowled concerning plants. Concluded next week. ip- * * id. Notice. he yn The Union Cotton Growers As 1 ciation will hold their regu nd monthly meeting in the Co in ( House Saturday, June 2nd. at 1 o'clock. ing, F. M. Faiui, Prest ind T W. W. Colton , Sccty SCHOOLS :nrollment of White Chil of Colored Children 7< School Buildings; New Graduates This Year School?T eachers Work?All are tc Miss Susie Par Mary Boyd v w i* appiy ror k 26 Teacli White eoloi The closing exercises of the Jnion city schools will beheld ?riday morning at ten o'clock, i n addition to the musical num)ers, class prophecy and delivery >f certificates, Dr. R. P. Pell, resident of Converse College, ,vill deliver the address to the graduating class. This is the closing of one of he most successful years in the school's history. Many improvenents have been made during .he year in the various lines of? vork, and a large class of well rained graduate rewards the rear's labors. The attendance >as been increased, and the rolls ihow for the year 1199 white pu- i lils and about 700 negroes. The ncrease in enrollment warrimts ;he trustees in erecting another cmilding. Already there are five commodious and weljl furnished school buildings within the city's imits. They are the Central school, West End, Monarch, Excelsior, and Howard schools, the last named being the school for negroes. The trustees will build i C1/lV? /\/\l 4-V*/\ 1 xnvtnci oi/iiwi J.U1 tlic licgxuco I 5n Macheth street back of Judge! ^yte3|oTkdne(fcft1sT^! that t e building will be ready for use at the opening of the next session in September. The present value of the city school property is estimated at about $37,500. There are twenty-six graduates i CENTRAL SC t 1 to receive certificates this yea y They are: Kate Dickert, Mai , H. Meadow, M. Mabel Howe! k Sarah Louise I^ong, Belle 1 (Crawford, Evvie Inez Bailey, J n Virginia Briggs, Dudley Cu (j Beaty, Ida Rowena Palmer, Be y sie Elvan Charles, Marcus W ?s son Arthur, Imogene Hunt ie Young, Rebecca Louise Murph ,n Daisy Watson, Louisa Merrim Id Duncan, Sarah Marguerite Tow in send, Mamie Brandon Charh le Harold C. Smith, Lois Ire 1- Tinsley, Kate Elaro Smith, Sar n, Pacolette Rice, Mary Ther< Murrah, George Graham Pc >d Albert Drane Oliphant, W an Shepard Nicholson, Edward R er 1 fin Osborne. ge The Union schools are on credited list in South Caroli and certificates therefrom title graduates to admission i the freshman class in any of I State colleges. Many of i : year's graduate's will go to go. lege next year, hir The corps of teachers in Ui urt numbers twenty-six?twenty 12 whites and five negroes. Davis Jeffries is superinten< tof all the five schools; Mr. S. Rice, principal of Central set CLOSE i ????? Idren 1,199?Enrollmen )0?five Commodious Negro Building?26 from the Central Have Done Good > Return Except ker and Miss /ho Did Not e-election. lers?21 > and 5 red. J Miss Frances Whitmire, princ pal of West End; Miss Smitl principal of Monarch; Miss Sai tor, principal of Excelsior; an A. A. Sims, principal of Howarc All the teachers of this yea were re-elected for next, excef Miss Susie Parker, of Gaffne] and Miss Mary Boyd, of Spartai burg, both of whom did not aj ply. Union has been fortunal m having teachers who ha\ given suck unqualified satisfai tion; and it is a matter of gener; regret that all the teacher: without a single exception, wi not be in their usual places nej year. However, the new] elected teachers come highly re< ollimendefV,. and it is believe that they will fill their positior creditably. Ugion.ivas one of the firi ci^iSs'Jn the State to introdu< night schools. These schools ai being conducted in all the m; Villages here, and are the sour< of much i good. Mr. Jeffri< states tihat instead of detractir from tap day schools that th( build i&em up instead. Pupi get Sk. start, their interest i schools. i The closing of school is an ii portant occasion in a city's lif I Amid the show of learning ai progiess, the public mind is i freshed on matters education cfivforl fn orrpntpr pndpnvr IIOOL BUILDING. r. and new ventures in this f y In the light of what the U II,, schools have done and are do 3. let the people be proud, bu /I. them not rest on past glo lp | there are newer fields and gi is-1 er things in the matter of ed il- tion than we have yet dreame an Lost His Toes. n -s> Obediah Keenan, a negrc thirteen years old, came to a" I Thursday morning about jsa o'clock. Obediah was < >0b what he ought not to have "J* doing. He \yas attemptir u*" swing a passing train at Main street crossing. His the missed the mark and the b na? and the one next on his lef en" were crushed so that they 1 n^? be amputated. The boy our I carried up to Dr. Hamiltor L"1S fice and his toes amputated. c?l" Going assisted in the opei There is a city ordi lion against the practice of iu one J moving trains, and it sno Mr. strictly enforced. The v lent is that there are so few acc M.unf the kind that has co K SUCCESS ? PRINCIPAL SPENCER M. RICE, JR. Brief Sketch -Born in Union County. Graduate of Wofford?Principal For Three Years. I * Mr. Rice was born in Union; county in 1862. He attended | WofFord college and was graduI ated in 1883. He taught school I I ^ i | principal spk> By Henry A. Wia<\ Mrtponnrcimrm uJoncsville Graded School. >e Perhaps now, more than a1 n(j ; any other time, the attention oJ ?e_; the public is drawn to th< J schools. It is the Commence )rg' ment season, the end of th< school year, the time when w< (look for the results of our work ; To the pupils, it brings th ! ''times that try men's souls,' j examination time, when promc : tion or graduation depends upo ,the way in which they answe ! certain questions that may b put to them. It is the time whe those who have worked sha i reap the benefits thereof, an when those who have played als receive their reward. For tl one the reward is success, f< the other it is failure. It is tl time too, when trustees ar teachers are making plans f< the ensuing session. How ca the condition of our school 1 improved7 Who is the teach best fitted to fill the positioi Will a change be beneficia What can we do to bring o school to tne sianuaru wc na j in mind? There are many wa , ., i in which these questions may , answered. Many of them c uion ; pen(j Upon the conditions pecul to each school. What may s Ve*.one may not suit another. T rie?? I need cf one school is not alws reat" 1 the need of another. But th< '^ca" j seems to me to be one that is :d sential to success in all < schools, one thing that might termed the greatest need of < school today, and that is, tfc ough teaching. It is with boy doubt the crying evil of the co grief try school as a whole, and eight very many instances of the tc loing school as well. What causes been Why are not teachers thoro ig to in their teaching? Why are t t the willing to let pupils go f foot their school with a little smat ig toe ing of this, a little less of t -C?i. i 1 nf oil r?f anmAt.l L 1UUL anil IIUUllll^ ab an Vi iad to else? Many things contribut was | this state of affairs. One is i's of- mistaken idea that teachers 1 Dr. | of pleasing the parents, an< ation. the rapid advancement of t inance i pupils. They must go thr mping many books, whether they V uld be the contents of those boo) /onder | not. Like the dog running i :idents the train, what are they ? me w^en they get thro TThey know nothing of what hl_ . IHJL YEAR at Kelton, Cokesbury, Blacksburg, and Aiken institute. Was chosen principle of Central schools in 1803. He is a teacher of fine ability, and his work in the class room is of a high order. He believes in strict discipline and in thorough class-room work. He is a worthy man and citizen as well as a first class school man. ^ Ajfc , j f ]:,{ M- NICE, .in. J j L, VY ailVQ AIIO VlliiU* VI* vv . ???.WWy f but the essential thing is that i they advance in knowledge as - well as in grades. The teacher e, who makes the mistake of proe moting a pupil in order to please the parents is fading in his duty e to parents, pupils and himself, " as well as storing up trouble for >.! some other teacher, n! Another reason is the small >r salary teachers receive. The { >e trustees apparently value their n services at very little, so they 11 live up to the expectations of the d trustees. As a rule we don't io expect hundred dollar work from ie those we value at twenty-five. >r To me this is a mistaken idea on ie the part of the teacher. If you id accept a position with a twenty3r five dollar salary it is as much in your duty to fill that position 3e faithfully as tho you were paid a er hundred dollars. That is the n? only way to see if you are worth j? the latter sum. ur Perhaps in no one thing is this ve lack of thoroughness so noticeya able as in fractions. In the or- ' be dinary school you will not find le- one pupil in ten that really knows iar fractions. As every one knows, uit they are the foundation of arith'he metic. And if they are not iys thoroughly learned, arithmetic is jre always a drag. Many teachers rvnrt l'MAiir urlinf if ia fA fin/1 03 i UUUUHCI53 IVI1U w w nut iu jo vv iinu )ur pupils apparently working probe portion, interest, or averages, >ur and yet have absolutely no conior ception of a complex fraction, out You may know, too, that the un- most difficult of all things in in teaching is to teach something . iwn that has only been half learned. ; it? What a pupil knows is evidence ugh of his teacher's work. Show me hey a pupil who knows fractions and rom I will know that he has been un,ter der a good teacher, hat, We do not realize how serious ling this question. A pupil loses just ,e to as many years if his life as he lave Passes through school without j 0f thoroughly learning the subjects -* i L:? \ir^ ,heir that eacn year orings mm. ?rc o' so of the South have seen too well mow w}iat effect a little learning has Jiw had upon the negro, and this *oing sh?uld guard us against "little ugh? : learning" and "half learning" in they | our schools. ....