Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1912 Page: 5 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Supt. Bralley Explains
and Defends Texas New
*
Rural High School Law
ti
PREPARING FOR A HEAVY
COTION BUSINESS THIS FALL
Jacksboro Gin Men Busy Overhaul- j
ing Machinery anil Getting Ready
For an Immense Business.
Austin, Aug 8.—The rural ; high
school law has been generally dis-
cussed this year throughout Texas;
and has been severely criticised, ac-
cording to State Superintendent Bral
ley, by some good people who do
wi l give them improved and enlarg-
ed educational opportunities allong
such definite lines as have been
vested and proved successful and
satisfactory by evperience in Lou-
isiana, Georgia, Tenessee, North
no: undeastand i s provisions, Mr. J Caiollna andother Southern States,
Bralley today gave out the follow*- as well as in the states of the
ing statement, in which he says, North and the East.
“t’s a good laiw, because: I “8. One provision of the new
“1. It authorizes the county board teachers’ certificate law has been
of education, after conferring with confused with the rural high school
the district school trustees and the law. This provision of the teach-
county superintendent, to classify
the public schoo’s of the rural dis-
tricts. To classify a school is to-
carefully consider the education-
al needs of the children of the dis-
trict and then to prescribe .a classi-
fciation that will conserve and pro-
mote those interests. Under no
circumstances can a child of scho-
lastic age be deprived of its right
to attend a public free school; and
in the cKs^ificatlon of a school if
the county board of education
should limit the number of grades
of work below that of the classifi-
cation of some individual child then
it becomes the imperative duty of
ths county board of education to
provide for that advanced child to
attend a school of proper classifi-
cation in a convenient or adjacent
school district, then th© county
board of education must classify the
schooll of the district in which the
advanced child lives so that said
child can attend the school of the
way no child of scholastic age or
school swill suffer in the least, but
every child of scholastic age and
every country school in Texas will
be benefited by this classification.
“2. It authorises the consolida-
tion of two or more small districts
where practicable into one larger
district in which may be maintained
with business economy one or more
schools, one of which should offer
high school instruction. This con-
e>lidation, however, can not be
made without the consent of a ma-
of the trustees of each dis-
affected; and the district trus-
tees may be relied, upon to represent
fc sentiment and the public wel-
in this matter.
j It authorizes the county board
lucation to prescribe a course
of study for use in all the coun-
try public schools of the county, and
thus establish inter-relation and
systjmatic co-operation among all
the country schools, and enables
parents and trustees to judge more
accurately the work of the' children.
In this Iway steady and sure prog-
ress is made from year to year; and
the old time policy of going over
and over again the same work each
year by the children in the country
schools is abolished.
“4. It encourages district school
trustees to discontinue the suici-
dal^ foolish policy of demanding one
teacher to give daily instruction to
from six y to eighty-five children
in from forty to fifty different class-
es of from three and one-half to
ten minutes each in length, and en-
courages district school trustees to
employ a sufficient number of teach-
ers for each school to enable the
school to he organized on a pro-
gram that will guarantee efficient
instruction to the children and per-
sonal a.tention to their needs. This
may require the levying of a local
school ma ntenance tax; but who
will deny it is worth while?
“6. It encourages the building up
of high schools in the country dis-
tricts in which may be effectively
taught industrial as well as other
subjects, and it thus makes unnec-
sary and inadvisable for parents re-
siding on the farm to either send
their children away to the city high
school or to move from the farm
home to the city for high school op-
portunities. In this way the tend-
ency to deplete the rural sections
of our state of its best citizenship
and to increase . the number of
city dwellers who daily feed out of
tin cans and paper sacks and de-
pend upon daily jobs will be check-
ed and a sturdy, self-reliant, edu-
cated country citizenship prill be
promoted.
”6. The law does not, as has been
alleged by uninformed persons, pro-
hibit the teaching of the eighth
grade in the country public schools.
In fact, it encourages the teaching
of all o the high schfool grades, inr
eluding the eighth, ninth, tenth and
eleventh, in the country schools
under conditions most favorable to
the children who reside on the
farm.
"7. There are more than 600,000
farmer boys and girls in Texas, and
a wise administration of this law
ers’ certificate law prohibits a
teacher who holds only a second
grade certificate from teaching sub-
jects in advance of the seventh
grade, or year, of wbrk, for the sim-
ple reason that the requirements
of the course of study Up to and
Including the seventh grade com
pri3e substanialtly the requirements
for a teacher’s second grade certifi-
cate. A teacher holding only a
second grade certificate who at-
tempts to instruct children in ad-
vance of the seventh grade is at-
tempting to teach* subjects with
which he is not familiar and chil-
dren (who know as much more than
the teacher himself knows. It is
therefore, but reasonable and just
that district, county' and state au-
thorities co-operates in furnishing
well prepared teachers for the chil-
d.en of the country schools.”
METHODIST CHURCH TO HOLD
EVANGELISTIC SERVICES
A Gazette representative in inter-
viewing the Jacksboro gin men dur-
ing the past week learned that they
are now making preparations for a
big co ton business. Machinery and
everything connected with their bus-
iness is being put in preparation
for the opening of the season. They
all report ih§ outlook good for one
of the best cotton crops that has
be n in the Jacksboro country for a
number of years. Jacksboro has
two splendid gins and one of the
finest oil mill plants in North Tex-
as, all o.f these being under the
management of experienced and suc-
cessful gin and oil mill men, which
gives assurance that the people
will be Ireated all right in the gin-
ning business. •
READY-TO-WEAR HATS ON SALE
We Can Show You Some of the Smartest and
Prettiest New Styles in Headwear. Call and
See Them. A Pleasure to Show Goods
ALLIE CALVERT, West Side Square
NEW PRECEDENT IN POLITICS.
Democratic National Committee
Asks Banks to Receive
Funds.
New York, Aug. 18.—Banks and
trust companies throughout the
country are to be asked by the
Democratic national committee to
receive and transmit to their prop-
er source subscriptions to the cam-
paign funds, no: only of the Demo-
cratic but of ihe Republican and
Progress ve parties.
The plan is in pursuance of the
committee’s popular subscription
idea. Aoting Chairman McAdoo
made it known today by giving oat
a statement embodying a letter
whi:h he announced he had sent to
WILSON GIVES
WOMENWELCOME
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR
PRESIDENT BELIEVES THEIR
COUNSEL IS NEEDED.
AVOIDS SUFFRAFE ISSUE
Beginning Fourth Sunday in Au-
gust. The Pastor Urges
operation .of All Christians.
Co-
To All Christian People of Jacks-
boro:—
Evangelistic services will be held
at the Methodist Church in Jacks-
boro, beginning Aug. 25th, 11 a. m.
All who love our Lord and the
interests of his kingdom, are earn-
estly and cordially invited and urg-
ed to join in this work. The Re-
ligious condition of
'such as to excite
among Christian people. These con-
ditions can be changed only by de-
termined and persistent effort on
the city. Many of our , prominent
the part of the religious element of
citizens seem indifferent to the j
rightful claims of Christ upon them, i
The Holy Sabbath is openly and
fligrantly desecrated.
Make it a day of recreation rath-
er than a day of religious rest and
worship as the Almighty ordained
it to be. Our streets are well fill-
ed with our fathers and sons while
our churches are empty.
In Commissioners’ Court.
(Continued from last week.)
The returns of special election*!
held in common school districts Nos.
36 and 15 to daterrallne whether or
not the special tax in common
school district No. 15 should be in-
creased from ten Cents to twenty
cinis on the "one hundred dollars
valuation, which carried in special
election ty a vote of 9 to 7 in fa-
vor of increase of taxes; and in No.
36, to determine whether or not
there should be a special tax of
twenty qgnts on the one hundred
dol ars valuation which carried by
a vote of 10 to 9 in favor of special
tax. The court declared the taxs3
levied and authorized the collection
for 1912.
The special school tax levied in
common school district No. 49 in
the February court was revoked
and five cents on ihe one hundred
do lars valuation was levied instead
of nit on oen s, which the county, fl „ „„„ declared that the
superintendent and trustees certified j.^______
was sufficient for the year 'of 1912.
The court granted a petition for
a second class road forty feet wide
to G. W. Mansfield and many oth-, „, . , __
... . ... . .. j sponsible agencies for the receipt
ers, beginning at a poiht where the , ,
Burton Springs and Bowie road
In Addressing Feminine Supporters,
Jersey man Refrains From Advo-
ca ing Ballot For Fair Sex.
Seagirt, N. J., A»g. 17.—Gavern-
Wcodrow Wilson; at the New
every bank and trust company in the Jersey celebration, today welcomed
United S.aces requesting then to tka women of the
of living are questions which wom-
en ought to comprehend.
“And so when the women come
into politics they come in to show
us all those little contacts between
liie and politics on account of which
I for myself rejoice that they have
come to our assistance; they will
be ks indispensable as they are de-
lightful.”
agree to receive and Transmit sub-
! 3cript.ions to ea h of the three na-
j tional par ies. He accompanied his
| liter to the banks with ’ a letter
(from Governor Woodrow Wilson,
who declared that “to bring about
the election of a President through
a campaign financed by popular
subscriptions would be a distinct
and gratifying triumph.” In his
letter Mir. McAdoo expressed the
idea that the popular subscriptions
movement was directly in the
women of the* nation Into the
“field of politics.” Not a word did
the governor say about woman suf-,
frage, but as’ he stood before hun- ■has grown
Southern Methodist University.
Under date of August, 1912, the
Southern Methodist University Bul-
letin has been issued. This is the
first of the issues since Southern
Methodist University took complete
control of the medical and pharma-
ceutical departments. This issue
concerns those departments. The
quarterly tells of the building and
tells of the building and its equip-
ment and of the work of previous
years. The building*, was erected
about nine years, ago by the Meth-
odist conferences. Its fiiFSt alumni
graduated in 1904. Under Dr. John"
O McReynolds as dean and a corps*
of medi.al men. The institution
steadily and it is an-
dreds of women who gathereed to
organize the Woman’s Wilson and
Marshall League of New - Jersey,
the governor pointed out that the
entry of women in:o politics would
make the country’s politics “the
same pattern with our life,” a thing
“devou.ly to be wished.” ' ,
I It was a brief impromptu speech,
hne de ivered a: the close of the New
nuuncsd that Bursar Reedy of .the
university has on file now more
ihaa 300 applications for admission
in the new term.
j Dr. R. S. Hyer, president of the
university, said that more than $5,-
000 will be expended in the vaca-
i Lion period in the repair and reno-
of freeing presidential campaigns JerSjy day celebratioili which at_
“from the suspicion of sinister in-
vation of the building and. the en-
1 iaves the Newport and Crafion
road at ihe northwest corner of
the Kib'u ‘place, thence north about
one and one-half miles to Montague
County line. The following named
Jacksboro ia4men w«re appointed as a jury of
great concern
tracted thousands of
from all parts of the states and i
many from o?her spates who are vis-
iting the seashore.
The governor in his main speech
at noon apropos of the celebration,
discussed the reform laws of the
of subscriptions and asked the banks g ate, but digressed once into a ref-
and trust companies to perform erence lo -he third
j Democratic party favored the "fi-
nancing of presidential) campaigns
1 by the people themselves.” He urg-
ed the need of convenient and re—
largement of its scope. The larg-
er part of the sum was expended in
Democrats the putting of more new equip-
1 ment and apparatus. Affiliation is
announced with the St. Paul’s San-
itarium, the Texas and Pacific Hos-
pital at Marshall and City Hospital
at Dallas. *
‘ the same patriotic service” that
the newspapers already had under-
taken.
“Will you agree to receive and
transmit subscriptions to the Dem-
ocratic national committee, the Re-
«ew to as«M such damage a, ma, ^ ^ pro ive( naiional
ix,.occasioned to land adjoinln* the tetusr continued.
road: Sam Borden, Bud Estridge, j
W. L. Pigg, Gus Jolly and John
Corner.
The petition of J. R. Moore and
many other Jermyn citizens for a j
second class road thirty feet wide
was granted by the court, beginning
on the Young County line at the in- \
teresetion of Young County and T. i
E. & L. Co.’s surveys 2737 and 2736
thence east between T. E. & L. Co.’s
surveys 2740 and 2741, thence north
on line between T. E. &. L, Co.’s f
surveys Nos. 2741 and 2742 thence
“Speaking for the Democratic na-
tional commitvee, I would not ask
you to act unless for all. There
must be a patriotic service to the
pub ic and not to any one party.
Each day the banks agreeing to act
will te given to the press.
party, which
he elabo.a:ed in a statement Issued
tonight. What the governor said
in his speech was :
"I suppose you know the fofee
that is behind the new party that
recently has been formed, the Bo-
cal .ed Progressive party. It is a
force of discontent with the regular
parties of the United States. It is
the fee ing that men have gone into'
blind alleys and come out often
enough, and that they propose to
find an open road for themselves.”
Select Your Cotton Seed Now.
Henry Exall, president of Texas
Industrial Congress advises Texas
farmers as follows, in regard to the
selection of cotton seed:
The average farmer picks his cot-
i ton as it opens, gins it, sells lint
and seed, and then about the last
of the season, hauls home seed
enough for next year’s planting. In
this way, as a rule, he saves the
latest and the poorest seed.
If, when the cotton begins to
_ . , , open, the farmer, .with as much in-
m his statement explaining that ^^ hel ag the size of the
“in order that you may know the ™, f g°7rDOr 8*id tonight crop will warrant, would go through
In order that you may kno* th that the iniependent and progress- the fleld and the early big
attitude of Governor Wilson in re
gard to popular subscriptions, I in-
cl.se a copy of a letter from him
on the subject just rreceived.” '
Governor Wi’son’s Views.
i e foices of the country had utter
ly failed to get control of the Re
publican party, but
, bo Is that are grown on short-joint-
ed, vigorous, well-formed stalks, un-
ad absolutely yj be bag enough to furnish
P oved their ascendancy and their M for next year-s planting, and
Perhaps one half of our children l® northeast direction across the A. |
entire control within the Democrat-
ic party; that the people had
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ The letter from Governor Wilson, _______ ________
and young people are in our Sunday I McCullough and thence in some di- I dated at Ssaglrt, N. J., Aug. 17, and f”und that they could make use of’j. wU1 nQt heat it ig
rection across the Win. Blffle, and addressed to Mr. McAdoo, reads: tnq^l eniocratic party as a proper
J. G. Willett survey to intersect “To bring about the election of a medium for their purposes,
the west First Street at Jermyn, on (President through a campaign fi- Of particular significance in the
condition that the land ov®©rs agree nan ed by popular subscriptions .governors - first speech was his
to give right of way and there be- ' wojld be a distinct and gratifying warnings to the people that the
achcolg and Young People's Socie-
ties. Not one half of the member-
ship of the different churches are
habitual attendants upon the public
worship of God’s house.
Spiritual lethargy is paralyzing
the moral life of our little city.
ing no expense to county except j triumph. It would strikingly evi- same bosses overthrown two years
6150.00 for culverts and jury of !d?nc3 the renewed supremacy of the a^o were planning to restore “the
a thor-! view. people and would mean the perma- old order of things in New Jersey”
These l A second class roaid
There must be a change
ough and radical change. These t ^ second class roaid thirty feet
wrongs must be set right, these ' wld® was granted W. J. Cannon and
evils must be corrected. If not, jother8 upon follows: Be-
who -will forecast the moral charac- glnnln8 a* the northwest corner of
ter of the coming generation. In
the light of Bible precepts and com-
mands what is to be the spiritual
des.iny of our children.
We urge all God’s people to a
united effort in his name and
s.rength to build his kingdom in
our midst.
A cordial invitation Is extended
to every one in the community to
at>nd these services and help on
this work.
J. F. Alderson,
Pastor Methodist Chuch.
Elm Grove Baptist Revival Meeting.
Dr. Younger’s farm on the Jacks-
boro and Post Oak road, thence
east about 400 yards between Dr.
Younger’s land and LLe Cannon,
thence north about one half mile
between Lite Cannon and W. J.
Cannon, thence in an easterly di-
rection to intersect the public road
running west from Truce, this be-
ing very iit.le expense to the coun-
ty.
The court made a change in the
Post Oak Common School District
and Antioch Common School District
so as to throw C. C. Stark’s and J.
W. Reynold’s land wholly In Anti-
och Common District.
The court ordered $1000.00 trans-
ferred from the public building
nent emancipation of our govern,men
from Those selfith influences which
have too long b:en relied upon co
fuinLh the campaign funds in re-
turn for favors to be bestowed. I
am in hearty sympathy with every
effort that may contribute to such
a result. The idea back of the
proposed contributors' movement is
immediately upon his exit from of-
fice.
To the women, In his second
speech, the governor recommended
participation in politics because he
said they were in contact with the
high cost of living and the pocket-
book.”
“When the last word is said about
thoroughly commendable and I hope politics,” sa d Governor Wilson, “it
that you and your associates will
push it and make it an effective
instrument for the attainment, of so
praiseworthy an object. Very sin-
cerely, Woodrow Wilson.”
Texas Industrial Notes.
The revival meeting at Elm Grove
wa* a splendid meeting as results' fund ^ the Jury {un<J
show. The pastor, Rev. John B.
Evans waa assisted by Rev. J. W.
Newsom of Olney. There were
nineteen conversions, twenty ad-
ditions to the church, fourteen be-
ing by baptism.
Rev. J. W. Newsom will attend
the Baptist Association at Oakdale
and from there he goes ;o Archer
County where he wll> ho’ii fr.other
n-of ling.
T.ie present pastor of the Elm
Grov.-e Ilapt st Chu Rev. John B.
Evans was un inimou.-lj* c td for
another yearr. *
Dental Notice.
I will be out of my office from
Saturday noon, August 24, to Sep-
tember 1st. All those wanting
work done immediately please call
before Saturday noon.
Dr. C. E. Putnam.
Davidson Privat School.
it about $35,000 will be expend- • September> They will use the same is a matter
in the improvements. text as those adopted by the position of
Subscribe for the Gazette.
Mart—Local capital will be used
in constructing a modern sewer sys-
tem for this city. It Is expected
that
ed
Waco—In order to relieve the j
lack of hotel facilities existing here
the Young Men’s Business League
has offered a bonus of $20,000 to | Ballinger A
the individual or corporation that
will erect a modern hotel of not
is merely the life of all of us from
the point of view of what can be
the administration of public office.
I think it Is artificial to divide life
into sections; it is all at one piece,
though you can’t attend eo all piec-
es of it at once. And so when the
women who are in so many respects
at the heart of life begin to take
an interest in politics, then you
know that all the lines of sympathy
and intelligence and comprehension
are going to be interlaced so that
our politics will be of the same pat-
tern with our life. This, it seems
to me, is devoutly to be wished.
“When we come down to the bot-
tom, the fundamental thing we are
Mrs. Davidson and Miss Effie Da- interested in is the way we are go-
vldson wish to announce that their (ing to live. It is not a merq mat-
school will open first Monday in,ter of satisfying our stomachs; it
of attaining a certain
position of respectability among our
would have this seed ginned to it-
self, and carefully store it where
safe to say
that ihe next season’s crop would
ripen ten or fifteen days earlier
than the average of' this year’s
crop, and that the yield would be
practically doubled. 4
It would be just as reasonable to
shake down the apples promiscuous-
ly from a tree and take them to the
fair, hoping to win k premium in
c >mpetition with a man who had se-
lected only the choicest specimens,
or to turn all of your stock loose to
breed indiscriminately, instead of
forcing the survival of the fittest
by the most rigid selection,»and ex-
pect to improve your stock, as it is
to plant seed of any kind without
selecting with the greatest care the
most vigorous and the best, and
hope for good results.
It is fair to say that ten per cent
of the cotton seed selected as above
suggested,' is infinitely superior to
the average of the other ninety per
cent; therefore, if you plant only
the average ef the whole you invite
deterioration at nine to one.
Every cotton grower, from the
man who raises one bale to the man
who raises one hundred bales, can.
very greatly increase his.yield and
hU profit by this simple and inex-
pensive method. This is something
j that you can do In your own field;
try it.
large stock deal
was consummated here recently
with the sale of seventy-two head
iof mules for a consideration of $8,-
less than 190 rooms in the business 257, an average price of $115 per
district xz head. {
neighbor^, and our income does
have a great deal to do with that
when it is compared with the cost
of living and without happiness, and
therefore economic questions, ques-
tions of the tariff, questions of ev-
erything that enters into the cost
Hebree Revival.
Rev. A. R. T^fon. well known in
Jack County, flMpted the pastor of
the Baptist Churth at Sebree in a
revival meeting which resulted in
much good. Plans were put on
foot for building a church house;
also, a B. Y. P. U. with thirty-two
members was organized.
The Home Newspaper—The Gazette.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1912, newspaper, August 22, 1912; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth730051/m1/5/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.