Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and High School of Virginia. February 18, 1887. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed
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THE HATTIESBURG NEWS Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday F D LANDER t R FARRELL tclltor Business Manager Entered as secondclass matter on May 22 1907 at the postoffice at Hat tiesburg Miss under the Act of Congress of March 2 18J9 133 OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HATTIESBURG AND COUNTY OF FORREST MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 1911 TELEPHONES Editorial and Newt Rooms Wuslnesg and Job Department 35 A SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM tees of the Columbia University who are also trustees of the Pulitzer en dowment fund for the purpose of establishing and maintaining that school The establishment of a school of journalism under the terms pre scribed by the late Joseph Pulitzer is already being discussed by the trus j Five years ago Mr Pulitzer deposited 1000000 in securities with the j Columbia trustees for a school of journalism considerable sum as an endowment fund for the school The income from the 1000000 securities held by Columbia which went to Mr Pulitzer until his death will henceforth be paid to the University He provided that the plans for the newspaper school should become effective automatically with bis death In his will he set aside a I It
TOWN REPORTS mil is indebted to Miss Grace s and the K F Iillsbury Printing of town reports from which allowing extracts BROOKS nai estates23829700 ells 201 I i 21 627473 1 county tax 111110 schools 106963 _h schools 24585 t books 4030 ii school houses 8292 i of poor 52851 it expenses 41193 ug taxes 14700 i md bridges 100085 merits 2259 nice of Memorial day 3500 t 98490 568058 balance 59415 2360256 2092343 bt 267913 f debt during tlie year 145917 mking fund as per i 253189 inking fund as Feb 3338761 ii i s no bo resident157692 00 late resident 63467 95 nonresident 398094 00 3146 00 it ion022999 95 on 5410H 1300 47 i 776 04 polls 208 rate of ol2 ex pent 737 op 7 icers 66175 1363 id 1002 66 load 1062 05 33 75 bools 1719 20 320 00 124 84 poor 346 7 6203 73 22o 2o 1218 51 801 69 linber of Miliolars 32u in sum fall term IT1 winter term I common schools of high J ACKSON f highways 5702 Imuse repairs mo 08 of schools 70002 1 books 4MS5 beers 17011 ilaneous expenses loo7 port of poor 5000 ment
A Prize Essay for Peace Day Wednesday Nov 27th was observed as Peace Day in all the Massachusetts High schools All the pupils in the Som erville High school were required to writeessays on the theme the best one in each class to be read before a school of 2500 pupils Miss Charlotte B Wads worth a junior wrote the following which was selected from 300 by the spe cial committee Miss Wadsworth is the daughter of Mr Edward A Wadsworth of Belfast and is living with her grand father George W Burkett while attend ing the Somerville High school Americas Part in the War Hundreds of years from now school children all over the civilized world will be carefully memorizing the date April 6 1917 that date which to all of us means and has meant so much We need not memorize it we have lived it It was very still in the great hall of Congress on that sixth of April 1917 Every available seat was filled The galleries were crowd ed the quiet was so intense it was al most visible as President Wilson read those momentous words declaring war on Germany Every possible effort had been
w f VOL 54 NO 42 Denny elected president of state School Boards Sam Denny chairman of the Board of Trustees of School Dis trict 17H since 1953 was elected president of the Montana School Board association at the annual convention of that organization in Havre last Friday and Saturday Denny was vice president of the group the past year When he completes his current term next spring he will have a record of 15 years of service on the local School Board He says he has only missed a meeting or two of the state association since that tmei Last May he was Mon tanas delegate to the convention of the National School Board as sociation in Philadelphia The new state president has been active in many other community affairs in Big Horn county He is Jbl Sam Denny a director of the Big Horn Soil Conservation district and the Fed eral Land Banks Wyola district He is also currently a member of the Federal Home administra tion committee and is a past ASC committeeman He is also a Past Master of Sts John Lodge No 92 A F and A M Mr and Mrs Denny returned Sunday from
Say Newspaper Must Be Lawyer For The People CHICAGO UPIStuart List publisher of the Chicagos American told high school newspaper editors and advisers Friday that a newspaper must be an attorney for the peo ple A newspaper should realize that to accept evil without pro test is in reality to cooperate with it he said in a speech for delivery to the annual conven tion of the National Scholastic Press Association It is not enough to love the flowers You must also hate the weeds List said basic good taste and high standards of performance are marks of how a newspaper meets its responsibilities A newspaper must know the people of its community and love them he said Always the newspaper must ask the question do we reflect what is good for the people of the com munity not what is good for ourselves List represented the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation in presenting this years journalism awards for general excellence to five high school newspapers TVia irinnofc nrnrA Pa1_ legian Baltimore City College Baltimore Md The Hoofbeat Murrah High School Jackson Miss The Rocket John Mar shal High School Rochester Minn The Profile Proviso West High School Hillside
STATE HOUSE Governor and Council Will Meet t 10 A M Thursday Mey 7 Comr Thomas Calls Attention To Principals Meet While this annual conference Is really for principals of schools we are pleased to Include an Invitation to superintendents and school com mitteemen says Dr A O Thomas State commissioner of education in a letter being sent out to principals of high schools and academies in re regard to the annual conference of principals of secondary schools which will be held at the State House on Friday and Saturday May o and 9 The program for this conference was recently published in the Ken nebec Journal It Is also hoped that we have a good representation of academy peo ple present as some questions will be up for discussion in which they are vitally interested continues Dr Thomas Our program includes an address bv Governor Ralph O Brewster also by Trof John M Brewer director of the Bureau of Vocational Guid ance Harvard University and Dr Emery N Ferriss Professor of Ru ral Secondary Education Cornell Vnlversitq Each of these out of state speakers will give two ad dresses and will be helpful other wise in the various discussions
FARM NEWS BY PHILLIP E OLMSTEAD McCone County Extension Agent Communications School to Be Held On Feb 11 and 12 in the MeI morial building in Circle we are mg to offer a school on Com munications This is something new in educa n Wt all communicate with h other by voice hand or ex pression Many times we try to get a point n ross nJy to find that we still are not being understood This Communications school is unusual in that it locates our every day breakdown in Communica i We have room for about 30 in i twoday school which will be anted by Burl Winchester As ai Director and Art Jacobs Extension Supervisor We invite those of you who would like to learn how to Com municate with people better If interested let me know by Fcti i so we can have enough table space lined up Sawtana Good for Sawfly S wtma wheat is a newly re mmended solid stem wheat re sistant to Sawfly damage It has the following character II Sawfly resistant late matur ing with good yields under favor able conditions It medium tall in height beard th good milling and baking
Goulas Carver High host to 200 in vocational event District gathering is allday Friday More than 200 vocational trades students and their in structors were in Pascagoula Friday to attend the South western District Trades Con test at Carver High School James E Taylor Carver High instructor was host for the event attended by F O Woodard Jackson state teach er trainer with the state vo cational department Information tests were con ducted during the morning and a manipulative contest held in the afternoon Four students instructed by J M Brantley of Moss Point Magnolia High competed with 46 of their fellow students ob serving Three contestants and 32 onlooker representing 33rd Avenue High School in Gulf port where the instructor is Herschel J Smith Todd Memorial High School in Poplarville was represent ed by three contestants 36 student spectators and instruc tor Obydce Nunnery Four contestants were en tered from North Gulfport High School Also attending were six students and their teacher Jerome Nichols Instructor at Nichols High at Biloxi Fred Randall brought three students to observe Four students at Carver High competed and 39 other students attended Miss Carver High Gladis Robins addressed the visitors in welcome after
IfIf Oi SV Zi îj BANNER VV H SCANLAND Editor and Proprietor 11IITDCn4V rri CT n 1908 1 __ ______ T I DEMOCRATIC TICKET for president William J Bryan of Nebraska for vicepresident John W Kern of Indiana JOHN T mNOKFS FOURTH DISTRICT WATKINS of Webster Parish FOR DISTRICT JUDGE K C DREW of Webster Parish FOR rnSRRICT ATTORNEY JOHN X SANDLIN of Webster Parish MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARD W E CONNELL for Ward One X w SENTELL for Ward Three L C HIGGS forWard Six announcements i 1 I j I t Ilento School anoiiio fi of the school Board irom ward two Mijet I th i um of th Democratic party VO a aiiirirlzed to announce Mr J M HENDERSON liVH It imiIllal tor lwml srrd fward j sbjici to the ac tion ot the Democratic party ll h COUNTRY NEWSPAPER j hy the editor of the Banner and read by Mr fmrid iMtsidcnt of the Louisiana Press As oftun asked What is News Pap rpri jocitin I Ditrn R Kach man answers it according to his way of thinking What one thinks is news mother condems as nonsense My answer is News is Something Worth Telling nil
A Constmctive Newspaper TWENTYNINTH YEAR BELKNAP HERD FIRST IN MILK PRODUCTION BOARDING SCHOOL DAIRY HERD RANKS HIGH IN INDIAN SER VICE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIA TION COMPETING WITH 73 OTHER HERDS The herd of Holstein cows at Belknap Boarding School ranked first in the Indian Service Dairy Herd Improve ment Association for milk production last month There are 73 herds in this association located at various Indian Agencies schools and hospitals thru out the United States Belknap herd topped the list for Sep tember with an average production of 11044 pounds of milk per cow This average is based on the entire herd of 24 cows three of which were dry dur ing the month Myrtle a registered cow gave 2131 pounds of milk which is an aver age of over 71 pounds per day or nearly nine gallons Pauline another registered cow produced 1894 pounds during the month The herd has been closely enllcd the past year to eliminate the poor pro ducers By keeping accurate records of production and feed costs the un profitable cows were soon weeded out which resulted in fewer cows needed and less feed cost for the same amount of milk Many Montanans Expected To Register
COME TO MAINE GOOD WORDS FOR OOR STATE AMD OCR CITY Tlie New England Homestead is pub lishing a series of articles on home industrial opportunities and promoting New England uplift and a recent issue contained the following articles which we take pleasure in reprinting COME TO MAINE DR G M TWITCHELL AUBURN ME Naturally the home seeker wants a good climate healthy conditions a productive and retentive soil naturally adapted to a variety of crops a strong positive moral sentiment and a frater nal sympathetic atmosphere Beyond this the thinking man will look to school houses and school privileges and churches and church attendance No man wants to locate in a malarial at mosphere whether it be physical or moral All these points should enter into the account 1 am convinced there is no State which today offers the substantial at tractions to be found in the State of Maine 1 would not be loyal to my native State did I not declare this I would not be true to myself did I not give good substantial reasons for my faith in the first place a granite soil insures certain qualities of water and peculiarities of disposition not to
County Correspondence KOCKPORT The graduation exercises of the High school took place last Friday evening the program being as follows Salutatory Elsie M Andrews Pictures in the Fire Myttie A Dowe bistory Lena C Linnell The Development of Our Country Jesse T Carroll prophecy Oliver E Libby val edictory Yesterday and Tomorrow Erma L Orbeton Music was furnished by a chorus of 18 High school girls The graduates will make a trip to Washington D C during the summer SMS Sarah Haskell aud Mrs Georgia Hobbs of Camden were guests of the Mo Farland sisters June 10thMr and Mrs Eben Cobb and son Maurice are attending commencement at Kents Hill Their son Harold 1 is one of the graduating class Kev C H Bryant is attending com mencement at the E M C Seminary BucksportWin Wood has gone to Ban gor to build a house for J L BeanDr A Millett attended the Maine Medical As sociation in Bangor last weekMrs Kuth Lamb is spending the summer with her daughter Mrs Lucy A Beau Misses Lydia and Esther Farnbam of Boston have hired the Dyer cottage at Lake Quautaba cook and will spend the summer there Miss Lvdia has spent
Beauty is Only mlm Skin Deep but a beautiful skin is possible only when the liver and kidneys are active and the bovves functionate properly The secret of beauty as well as of health is to maintain perfect digestion and elimination Beechants Fills help to preserve beauty and maintain Leah h because they influence liver kidneys skin and stomach to functionate in harmony and efficiently 4 Sold by druggiiiU throughout the world In boxesJOc 2 So v l I tklORT Miss Frances Eldridge received lirst premium for best tatted yoke at Monroe Fair Miss Agnes Morrill of Portland is hav ing extensive repairs made on her old home Miss Charlotte Thompson has accepted a fine position as teacher in a school in Connecticut Miss Harriet f Moody has begun her duties as teacher in the public schools of Dover Maine Mrs Lotta Eagleston has moved into her new home which she has recently purchased on Deane street Miss Esther Ford has moved into the George A Cole house on Washington street which she has leased Miss Mae Ellingwood received first premium on ladies driving horse exhib ited by driver at the Monroe Fair Mrs C C Homer of Boston has