The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1930 Page: 3 of 14
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THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO
OUTLINE OF WORK
FOR RURAL SCHOOL
OF HOPKINS COUNTY
■ Following is the outline for work
to be accomplished in our rural
schools for the year 1930-31:
AH of our rural schools have open-
ed and are having' fine attendance
for this time of the year. We are
looking forward to a very profitable
school year arid with the help of our
teachers we are sure that this may be
accomplished.
We are planning- a very extensive
program this year. Many new phases
of school work have been added this
year, but the outstanding aim of the
year is to enlarge upon the work I
that was started last year. Our main
subjects will be reading (oral and si-
lent), arithmetic, writing, spelling
and English. The State course of
study will be followed very definite-
ly this year. We shall send out vari-
ous. supplementary materials during
the year.
I. We shall continue use ,of the
score sheet this year. The aim of the
score sheet. is to. create a desire for
attractive 'school rooms, and school
grounds. We should like for the P. T.
A. clubs to organize and aid in beau-
tifying school grounds. Our Farm
Demonstration Agent will be pleased
to aid in this program too.
II. This year we are having pri-
mary teacher meetings once a month.
The teachers will meet with Miss
Pierce for studying methods of teach-
ing arid to see some class, demonstra-
tion work. The first meeting of this
kind is to be at Saltillo, Texas, Nov.
1, 1930, at 9 o’clock. We are very
anxious for all primary teachers to
come to this meeting. Miss Pierce
will have charge of the program and
has several outlines to be given out
WHY
MORE?
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AND
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MASTER..CLEANERS
that day. Teachers please bring note-
books and pencils. Once, a month the
primary teachers are requested to
file a lesson plan with Miss Pierce.
The first lesson plan is to be on pre-
primer reading and will be due the
second Saturday in November. Our
aim in this project is to. help check
on the laws of learning and to em-
phasize the learning process. Our
greatest aim in education is'to help
our children to be happy and to be
useful citizens.
3. We should like for each school
in the county to get a copy of The
Pledge of Allegiance and teach this
in all grades. The United States flag
should be raised on all Special Flag
Days and the children should know
what the day means and why cele-
brated. (We can give references as
to where this may be obtained.)
4. We are in hope that we can
have more singing in our schools.
The teachers should get a copy of
our State song, Texas, Our Texas,
and teach it to the children. Very
few States can boast of having a na-
tive song, and so we should be proud
of our song and sing it. all the while.
(Words, history, and music to this
song may found in the May, 1930,
“Texas Outlook.”) Music and song-
help to create Happy School Days.
5. This year some special problems
in group reading are to be worked
out in various schools. Miss Pierce is.
planning to have a picture show tm
Group Heading, that has been work-
ed out in a demonstration school.
This will be a feature of one of your
teacher meetings. This picture deals
with Group Reading and how con-
ducted with various groups of read-
ers. We will tell more of this after
our good friend Mr. Lilly finds a time
for us at the show.
G. Miss Pierce has started her .vis-
its to the schools and will be to see
all in due time. She will be glad tc
come at any time that she can help
you with any special problems. We*
are planning to give quite a watchful
study to our six-year-old children
that are coming to school for tile,
first time. We hope to appeal to:
these little tots and make our ap-
proach to them very natural. The
teachers are asked to make charts
that will appeal to child nature. Use
pictures of pets, toys, and objecfs:
that interest the very young. We
should like for each teacher to give
at least four weeks to pre-primer
work, and study before going into
the Child Story Primer.
7. Library Readings—This year
v/e are very anxious to- give our boys
and girls a chance to get a State
Reading Certificate, issued by the
State Department of Education. In
order to grit this certificate the chil-
dren are required to read fifteen
books from a prescribed list, fount
on pages fourteen and fifteen in
bulletin No. 239. If you do not have
one of these bulletins you may get
one from the office. Be sure to se-
lect some of your books from this!
list.
8. Reading—(i) This year we are
very anxious to have an extensive
program in reading. We are going to
follow the State Course of Study.,
We have many new supplementary
readers and children will like them
very much. Our chief aim in reading
will be to have an abundance, of easy
reading material, formal and infor-
mal reading- test. Please Hook in your
bulletin. (2) Health—We are very
anxious to have an extensive Health
Program this year. Miss Pierce has
had the good luck in securing an
Itinerant Nurse for this county; she
will work with her and each boy and
girl in this county will be given a
free medical examination from this
nurse. Further plans for .this..will be
worked out later. See Bulletin 273
for State-wide Health Program. (3)
English—Please follow your Course
of Study. Get supplementary materi-
al for English. Give special emphasis
to all the principals in your Course
Saturday Specials
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SHORTENING—8 pounds__________98c
BAKING POWDER—5 lbs. K. C. __ __59c
SOAP—Wlilte Laundry Soap, 20 bars. „67c
_$2.00 I
i— 25c
SUGAR—20 lbs. and both
COFFiiE—6 lbs. good bulk for _
CHEESE—Full Cream, per lb. _
SPAGHETTI OR MACARONI,
per package_________'_____'___________6c
We pay the high market for fresh eggs, and would buy |
a few pounds of good Pork Sausage and,
Frying Chickens.
L. Moore Gash
Store
(Allege Street
of Study and drill on these * daily.
(4) Spelling-—Read very carefully
the direction on How tp Teach Spell-
ing in your adopted text. Emphasize
written ^spelling in all grades. Select
words from other adopted texts. See
that all children examine papers aft-
er they have been graded. (5) Writ-
ing-Teachers’ Manual—at the of-
fice. Script letter chart in -each room
and on the wall where the children
can see it. This is a state require-
ment too. Get this chart from W. S-
Benson & Co., Austin, Texas, 60c.
Teachers are requested to please
study the manuals and give much
time to writing. We suggest that
teachers, use number one copy-books
in all the primary, and lower grades.)
Do not try to follow each grade, but
have all one room using the same
book. (6) Arithmetic—Stone’s Arith-
metic Ma- lal will be a great help to
all teachers. .Follow State Course of
Study. Get Drill Cards for lower
grade number work* Get colored,
pegs, blocks and other things for the
tiny tots. (7) We have some copies
of work books that have been adopt-
ed for our school. Get these at J. B.
Wilson drug store, Sulphur Springs,
Texas:
1. Primary Seat Work.
2. Primer Seat Work.
3. Work and Play in Nymberland.
4. First Grade Number Book.
5. Language Helps.
9. School Fair—Sometime in the
early spring we hope to have a school
fan'. This is to be the largest and
best school fair that Hopkins County
has ever had. We will send out more
detailed information about this fair
later.
10. School Magazines and Papers
—We think that it is necessary for
all school teachers to subscribe to
some school magazine this year and
a grfod daily paper. Miss Pierce will
be glad to talk with teachers as to
what magazines to take.
We should like to say more but
this time we must not take too much
space in the paper. We are hoping to
have the best school year evser. i
Please watch the weekly news for
school items. Our good editor has in-
vited us to have a Corner for Coun-
ty School News. Let us have some
writing from each school in this
county.
We are 'eager to organize many
P. T. A. clubs in this county, and will
be glad to help in this field of work.
We wish to thank the teachers and
patrons of Hopkins County for such
loyal cooperation as we had last year.
Yours for better, schools,
' ‘ ‘ ‘ MAC. McClain; ' "
C o u n t y S u p e r i n t e n d e n t.
MISS ERA PIERCE,
County Primary Supervisor.
right-of-way negotiations. Adequate
land has been deeded to the state, he
said, for tourist, camps and accom-
modations.
Construction of the highway, will
be carried out with convict labor
from the Texas prison system. It will
afford, according to Senator Love, a
good opportunity for the state to
test the value of labor of this kind
on. highway work and at the same
time provide a recreation spot for
Texas residents.
State highway engineers will su-
pervise the convicts with the equip-
ment being furnished by the Highway
Department. Food and housing will
be provided by the Texas .prison sys-
tem.
A law. was. passed at the last ses-
sion of the legislating directing the
Highway- Department, the prison sys-
tem and the park commission to co-
operate in the project.
MAN Of MEANS
WITHOUT MONEY
BIRTHRIGHT NEWS
School is progressing nicely and
the pupils are very interested in their
work.
Our Epworth League went over to
Tira Sunday night and presented a
nice program. There was a nice
crowd and everyone seemed to en-
joy the program. We .will he expect-
ing them to return the visit socn.
We are also looking for Shook’s
Chapel to come here soon.
Aubrey Young, who is attending-
Byrne Commercial College at Fort
Worth,, is spending a few days with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Young.
Miss Verdis Goldsmith spent Sun-
day with Laverne Gregg.
Several of this place attended the
parties at Tira and Addran Saturday
night.
Miss Tera Mae Shirley and Jewel
Watson spent Sunday with Alva
Palmer.
Several are planning on lots of
fun Friday nig-ht as it is Hallowe’en,
“so the goblins ’ill get you if you
don’t watch out.”
REPORTER.
SCENIC HIGHWAY
10 IE
DAVIS MOUNTAINS
Austin, Texas, Oct. 30.—Right-of-
way for the proposed Davis Moun-
tain state scenic highway have been
obtained with but three exceptions
and negotiations will be completed
soon for these tracts, according to a
report made to the State Highway
Commission by*D. E. Colp of San
Antonio, chairman of the State, Park
Commission
Colp recently,; conferred with the
commission relative to the project
but was told that no action would be
taken until all the right-of-way had
been obtained and deeded to the
state. Work on the proposed highway
was expected to be started early next
year.
The plans sponsored by Senator
Tom Love of Dallas who said prop-
er development would give Texas
one of the greatest natural scenic
parks in the United States, Colp told
the commission the plan had met
with the hearty . approval of land-
owners in the section through which
the highway will be routed and that
no hitch had been encountered in. the
(Times-Herald.)
His racket had worked in New Or-
leans, Garden City, Mich.; Calhoun,
Ga., and numerous other cities. Why
shouldn’t it work in a little town like
Midlothian, Texas?
A well-dressed man, perhaps 25,
stepped from a bus in that thriving,
town Saturday morning.
A negro boy carried his baggage
to the hotel: There he inquired -for
the leading bank. Informed, he went
there and made the acquaintance of
one of the officials.
“This is a thriving little town, so
I’ve heard,” this striking- stranger,
commented. “I was wondering if you
could refer me to a good real estate
agency to show me some business
.property. It may be that. I shall find
it profitable to locate here.”
Of course, the real estate man was,
on hand shortly. Followed then a vis-
it to several sites about town, lit was
well impressed with the town and the
possibility of an investment there.
Back at the bank lie met other
leading citizens.
Bent on Impression.
This stranger was bent on-making
the strongest possible impression.
“I have some business over in Dal-
las,” he. said, “but I like this town so.
muoh I think I will transfer one of
my bank accounts here.”
With an air of a. business man of
considerable; importance' he produced
his bank .book one of several.
The last entry in the book he ten-
dered (it was a bank in Calhoun,
Ga.) showed a recent do pis it of $9,-
0.00.
. “If you don’t mind, I wish you
would open an, account for me here
for, say,—well, just make it for $9,-
000,” the stranger- suggested, draw-
ing his checkbook on the Georgia
bank and writing his check for that
amount.”
Citizens Impressed.
The leading citizens were duly im-
pressed.
Business of opening the account
finished, the stranger thought it wise
to again look over the business prop-
erty he was interested in. Pie did.
And then later he called by the bank
again.
“It just occurred to me I might
need a little money over the week-
end while I am in Dallas,” he told
the bank official. “I think $200 will
be enough.”
He wrote his check. It was cashed;
The stranger left,-A short time later
the man who -had cashed the check
began to think the matter over. He
called the hotel. The. stranger had
just been seen to take a bus for Dal-
las. Yes, he carried his baggage with,
him.
Substantial citizen ?
Caught by Deputy. .
The banker got in touch with the
sheriff’s office at Dallas,
“He is en route there on the bus,”
the banker told Deputy Pat Richards.
Richards drove across the viaduct
and met ..the . bus;—-f ound the man
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Suit at a
Decent
Price
SHED
CHAPMAN
with the baggage who got on at Mid-
lothian.
The next stop was the county jail.
Richards got $199 of the $200 back-
The stranger had spent a dollar for
bus fare,
Richards searched the man. He
found bank books and check books
on numerous banks in several differ-
ent states. Each bank book showed
substantial recent deposits, which the
arrested man admitted had been
forged.
He later admitted to Richards he
had successfully worked the racket in
numerous towns and cities.
Meanwhile Jailer Jack Gorman has
a prisoner who is a man of means
but no money. They won’t even take
his check in the prisoner’s poker
game. His racket just didn’t work in
Texas.
NAGGING IS
CHIEF CAUSE
MARITAL WARS
Chicago, 111., Oct. 23.-—It isn’t
anything modern, like golf or bridge,
but old-fashioned nagging that most
often causes marital troubles, the
Rev. Clinton C. Cox of Drexel Park
Presbyterian church has decided aft-
er studying the answers to ques-
tionnaires he sent out to 300 couples
he has married.
There wasn’t a case of a “golf
widow” or “bridge widow” cited
among the entire 300 sets of answers
he received, the Rev. Mr. Cox told
his congregation last night at his an-
nual “married couples’ service.”
Among the things which the cou-
ples listed as most frequently caus-
ing domestic troubles were first of
all, nagging; then ingratitude;, feul-
lenness, lack of money, lack of
amusements, too much amusements,
too little company, too much compa-
ny.. jealousy, suspicion and unfaith-
W $s.
Announcing the Opening of a New
Drug Store in Sulphur Springs
Proctor Drug
Store
G. G. PROCTOR, Proprietor
Southwest corner square, former Ridgeway Drug Co.
location.
New Ice-Less Soda Fountain installed, affording the
finest of Fountain Service. Complete new lines of
Drugs, Drug Sundries, Toiletries, Cigars, etc.
Come Around and Let’s Get Acquainted
’y
MG SPIRITUALS
ME SUNG FOB
DEATH ROW
■ Raleigh, N. C.—-“Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot, cornin’ fo’ to carry
me home—-.”
“No harm, no harm—”
The strains of these famous south-
ern negro spirituals came from the
throats of many condemned men in
North Carolina state prison here be-
fore and during the march to the'j
electric chair.
Religion—mainly southern negro
religion—prepares them for then-
last walk down the narrow concrete
floor and eternity.
There are 17 men on “Death Row”
today. Two of them are there for
safekeeping, as a precaution against
possible mob violence.' The others
eventually will die in the old wooden
electric chair, time-worn after 20
years of service in 106 electrocutions,
unless the supreme court or’ execu-
tive clemency saves them.
Harvey Lawrence, young- negro
who recently was electrocuted for
first degree burglary, led the “Death
Row” songsters on his last day of
life. With Lawrence carrying the
lead, fifteen other voices joined in
singing “No harm, no harm—,” a
negro hymn. A few minutes later
Lawrence was led away and the
“row’s” population had decreased by
one.
Religion, as expounded by negro
ministers, soothes the nerves of con-
demned blacks. They meet death
calmly, often with a smile and chant-
ing, or reciting parts of the Bible or
hymns.
CHOCTAW COUNTY
FARMERS PRODUCE
810 WATERMELONS
Hugo, Okla., Oct. 23.—-Eaglebar-
ger Brothers, growers of heavy-
weight watermelons, who . farm four
and one-half miles west of Hugo, ]
have exceded all their previous ree- i
ords this year, by growing a melon j
which weighs 163 pounds. Other!
large melons grown by these Choc-j
taw county farmers this year, weigh-!
ed, 142, 145, 146, 150, 152, 153, and
160.
However, the Eaglebarger broth-
ers are not satisfied with their pres-
ent record. They have declared that
they will try to grow a 200 pound
melon next year.
The farmers grow two varieties of
watermelons. The Tom Watson is
their early crop and the Improved
Triumph is grown as , a late crop.
Although the Tom Watson is grown
primarily for the
j these farmers have grown several of
I these to more than 100 pounds. How-
j ever, they do noo ordinarily try to
| grow this variety to a large size, but
i try to produce a maximum yield.
They depend on the Improved
' Triumph for their unusually large
j melons. Through several years
careful seed selection, they have
improved this variety until very few
are produced which weigh less than
100 pounds.
CLAIM GANGSTERS
GOT SI 0,000 FOR
ASSASSINATION
Chicago, Oct. 28.—Detective Ser-
geants Feletti and Balzano today
said they had facts supporting their
theory. that the assassins of Aiello,
gangster leader, shot down by ma-
chine gunners Thursday, were on the
gang payroll at $100 weekly and re-
ceived $10,000 after the assassina-
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Bagwell, John S. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1930, newspaper, October 31, 1930; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1125827/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.