The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 207, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 27, 1924 Page: 7 of 10
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STEADY GROWTH
RURAL SCHOOLS
IN THE COUNTY
i _
County Superintendent Ken-
namer Gratified With Gen-
eral Progress of Schools in
Rural Districts
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St**djr growth and improvement over
past years has been made by the Camer-
on county rural schools this term in
•pite of the unfavrrable weather which
marked most of the school year ac
cording to P. D. toennnm* r. county sup-
erintendent of schools. Mr. Kennnmer
just completed a round of the
•chrols in the county which he started
toon after the Christmas holidays. AM
but three schools of thi county have
been vifited he states and satisfactory
progress ia shown in all and in most
schools a marked improvement has been
made especially in certain lints.
In spite of the unfavorable weather
conditions this year has thunn an in
crease of approximately fifteen per cent. I
ov*r the enrollment last year Mr. Ken-
namer stated and fully 25 per cent over
the 1921-22 term. In addition to increas-
ed enrollment there is also an increase
>n the percentage in attendance.
The standard of work has been rais-
ed in a number tf the schools the >up-
• rintendent states and more stringent
scholastic requin ments are being made.
The schools of Santa Rosa. Stuart Place
Santa Maria El Jardin Los Fresnos El
Muerto and Juaratada have all raised
their standards over last year.
Quality of Work Improves
There has been a v<ry noticeable im-
provement in the quality of the work
done throughout the county the
superintendent states; and he attributes
this at least in part to the raising of
i requirements for teachers. Practically i
all teachers now’ employed in the rural
schools have certificates of fir-t or
higher grades; two <t three teachers j
! 7^° *>ave *econ‘> grade certificates be
ing retained bccaus< better qualified
teachers were not available. By 1924 ev- •
ery teacher in the county schools will !
b* required to hold certificates of first
or higher grades the superintendent
states.
Improvement in English
One of the most important phases of
work in which considcrah]- improvement
is shown is in the use of English in
schools where all or practically all of
the pupils are front Spanish .-peaking
families. Nett only are the pupil- being
taught to speak English but an active
campaign is being carried on continuous-
lyin the scools to induce pupils to use
English on the playgrounds and in their
homes. Special .exercises and drills are
given in conversational and certain
forms of written Engli-h which are
proving very successful. Pupils in at
least six erf the rural schools m the
county have pledged themselves to
I speak English on the school grounds on
the way home from schofl and at least
partially in their homes and according
to Mr. Kmnnmer observation shows
that these pledges arc being observed to
a large extent.
Improvement in enunciation and pro-
nunciation of English is the field in
which the greatest improvement has
been made the superintendent 'tat's.
In school exercises and class room Vork
pupils are receiving training in phonet-
ics and are pronouncing the English
words propi rly. Two sch'ols have been
able this year to give all-English pro-
grams that had never been able to do
so before in the history of the schools.
Industrial Work in Rural Schools.
Considerable attention is being shown
to industrial work in the rur;l schools
this year. Nine schools are this year in-
cluding some phase of industrial work
in their curricula against four f< r last
year and none for the year before that.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that in most cases teachers were
employed who had had special training
in the line of industrial work which the
•rhocl has introduced.
The present school term has shown
the results of increased activity in im-
proving school plants and buildings. New
buildings havt been built or old build
ings improved in more than half the
county schools during the p-ist few
months and a number of schools have
put teacherages into operation for the
first time this year. Th<* school-owned
home fee teachers is proving very satis-
factory the superintendent states.
Seven .transportation lines serving
five schools are in operation this year
in comparison with four transportation
lines serving four sch'ols last year. Th-
mnintename of transportation lines i<
one factor that has kept the attendance
record so high during the bad weather of
the winter and fall it is stated.
Schools are Crowded.
The greatest problem confv nting the
rural schools of the county at present
the county superintendent states is
that of securing more room and more
teachers. The schools in the n-rth part
of the county are badly overcrowded.
This condition has been brought about
largely through the increased attend-
ance. In at bast eight school ro ms in
the county then are more than 60 pu-
pils to the room he reports. Three
grhnl* have found it necessary to a*'
I teacher* to the faculty since the opon-
| ing <t the term on account of the
crowded conditions these schools being
Rto Hondo. Stuart Place and Santa M i-
ria and several other schools are in
need of additional t'achers and addition
•1 room. f 'f
w Mr. Konnamer expressed himself as
gratified at the excellent showing made
Jjjy the schools thus far thi« term in
'the face of adverse conditions and st-'*
that the rural schools in Cameron
ffliunty will compare favorably with
iosc of any other section of the state.
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i. CHICAGO MAN RUNS AMCCK
(Rv The Asaociated Press)
CHICAGO Jan. 26. A man brandish-
ing* a dagger wounded three men one
of them a policeman and caused a pann*
early today ^before a squad of po-
‘ lire responding to a riot call subdued
him after he had been shot twice and
probably fatally wounded.
R)>ooting stars Is what some movie
(go* would like to l»e doing.
"v ‘'V-
M 1 a» i- '"'X.
Business Conditions in Texas Rank Among Best
This map shows business conditions in every state in the UnTon ns reported in
the February numln>r of The Nation’s Business the official publication of the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
| VI ASH I \< i F< IN J*m. at}. Tin* gi*n-
j *‘rnl tmtr nf luisin«>s(t during t!•«* firsi half
«*f .launary is d»‘s riI••-«! as ••umri* ••hi‘*r*
j fill" l»v Frank lirfi-iM* in hi> mmilhly sur-
J vf*jr nf biisiiM'ss rniidit.tis in thr Nat inn's
! lluKiuess.
II u<|ii«*slimialdy.“ says Mrs. i«rm'ii**.
"lh*‘ sail si and nf t|i«> |iri*sidi'iit and
Swretary Midlnu mi ia\ uiafi«-r> I
In givi* a brighter mitlnnk tn Inisiimss
g**iH*rally. m iminliug in smin* jmssildi*
r*‘dmiinn nf |»uldir hurdi'iis. whilt* in
luisiiirss and industry |»ro|M*r lh»*r«* s**#ni
••d In In- ratlinr < h‘ar«»r idms nhtainrd
. i . _
I n i > I»I WIUII il |‘«*:|||\
J»M»d business year tiiis i otiiitry enjoyiH
ill I lien. t**o. following the meet
ing of congress there seemed <e ntrary
! to nmnv expectations to he a perceptible
| simmering down of radieal talk. Tbi
heartened the stock market and in turn
had a cheering effe t on the ordinary
business man who cannot he said to view
higher prices in the security markets
| with distrust.
“.Not all the developments of the
i mouth past were unfeigne ily favorable.
I Holiday trade proper that is. gift buy
j ing. was very good probably llie best
ever but retail trade seasonable goods
J affected by the warm fail and early win-
j ter. with excesses of rain in wide areas
of the southwest was rather slow and
the early January sales bore witness to
TRACES HISTORY
OF PUBLIC WATER
SUPPLY OF U. S.
WACO Teias .Inn. 'JU. The history
of public water supplier fr«*m the days
• •f the town pump and the “old oaken
bucket” to the modern filtered water
systems was traced by liontas F. Wolfe
of Chicago in an illustrated lecture he
for#* the Sitae Waterworks ICngineers*
st bool here tonight.
A feature of the picture was a view
of the first cnst ir#»ti pipe laid which
is still in service at Versailles I'lan
offer Jolt years uiid#*rgrouiid.
“The earliest form «#f supply con-
sisted ill hauling water in buckets either
fr«#in a spring *#f a nearby brook." said
Mr. Wolfe. “In tin* course #»f time it
became imposihle f«ir ail s#*ttlers to o
cate adjacent to such eources „f supply
ami it became neeessnry to #lig wells.
The early wells were either of the ’»d#l
oaken bucket' of the ‘sweep* type. Later
tin* moilerii hand pump was m-tnll'd.
1‘raeti'ally no progress has hen made in
private wells since the introduction of
these pumps. \s population hfcatiMii
more dense it was impossible to l«wate
tlieie private wells away from contain-
inating influences and l»*'t' have shown
that the majority- #>f private wells cither
are eontaminateil or tire subject to »#»n-
tamination. Furthermore these itidi
vitlual wells furnished jira* ti«-ally no fire
protect loll.
• The need of a public water supply
was then felt and in some of the larger
•ities these supplies were installed.
These early supplies furnished a water
that was no better than the water fur-
nished from individual wells hut they
had the advantage of furnishing a some-
what larger quantity so that fire pro-
tection «:is improved.
••The only pipes available at that time
in this country were bored log-.. A-
tlie demand for water increased it soon
became evident that some other form of
pipe would be necessary because of tin*
very limited capacity of these old fash-
ioned pipes t'ast iron pipe was then
introduced nnd it become possible to
distribute large quantities of water.
Pictures of old pipe laid in Boston and
taken up and relaid in llt-l were shown
as well as pipes relaid after |t* years in
the ground at St. Paul and Omaha.
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REED IS CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENCY. HIS
MANAGER ANNOUNCES
(||y The Associated Press.t
ST. LOUIS. Mo. Jan. ’JO. United
States senator James A. Retd is a ran
ditlate f<r the democratic presidential
nomination Ed Glenn of Louisiana Mo.
his 1922 primary campaign manager an-
nounced this afternoon.
The announe ment followed a confer
rnce with Reed held with a largo number
of friends and supporter*. Reed did not
mitk* the statement himself but in an
address said he was **>n the hands of
my triends.”
■ .—■ • •
MONTANA BANK CLOSED
Ittv The Associated Press »
MISSOULA. Mont. Jan. 26. Duo to
heavy withdrawals since the first of the
week the Am< rican Bank & Trust Com-
pany closed its door.? yesterday an hour
after it had opened for business.
ftotneiiij'"* a Ctrl thinks to be a little
dear she be a little bare.
Bellirnfbfcnt (Wash.) cops using
tooze for alcohol to ke« p their autci
from freezing. Autos not autoists.
this in a fiiyrin ; nf special salfs mill
heavy min linns < lamo-d in mo • in
si air «‘s.
“Til* belated arrival nf winter l.it•• in
I•«*« ember lt«*l|••*«! tn move .I nf th**
Km I • 1 ** rribed. liu«i-vi>r. In mmim*
hran<li«*s «»t tin* textile trades partien
litrly «>ttnns. tin1 nil trouble nf uiieer
i t a ini y a.- in tin* rerept i«m tn In- given the
new an<l higher prims asked was ami is
still ... with nulls agent- ami j-'l>
bet's wllllr UtlSi'ii • ntiltlde Weather ran r*|
smile cutting nf |irk rs nf unsold stork
• >f v. nolens
"'I In- silk Iraile |ti<-ke«| tip a |jn|r hut.
hy ami large the textile Iraami *oal
| leather ami furniture titles did imi seem
tn share i<> the full the lightly more
I eiiei rflll feeling perceptible ill tin- do
nieslie him min markets ami in tin- -teel
an I nil industries the latter showing a
good ■ ral tm*re nf strength in i-rude with
imrensetl takings hy refineries olid nf
late a sight firming up nf subsidiary
lines nf niaupfa lured products.
“As imi rated a nmiifli ago. in fai t
a number nf pew high remrds yyere set
111• in trale and industry The l^ederal
I {r serve I hi tik review indeed says flatly
that the year as a whole hus mi*- of mi
par.-menu imlu.-t rial ami trade aetivity.
With stiikinglv few ext-Opt mil- in fa-I
. the your was mm nf expuii-ion <>\■ r l!»*_o
ami. if lower |»t*i»levels -in- ton sub-red
it i> (•lain that volume of trade um rlo-e
! up to or in ndvattee <>f ih«> peak point
The aniomohih* making. ordinary build
) • iik. pig* iron an I »-«-ui*-iit industries ail
'broke previous lost reoonls in 1 !»1T-J. In
addition. railway gross earnings not not
inenme ami r**tail ira«b-. made new bigii
levels. Fleet rioal power prodm-fion
broke all ret old' a - did petroleum mil •
: put ami refining. Foal pro notion «>ut
put of steel ingots. < upper prodm-tion
ami «niton «oiiMtiupt ion were near the
peaks. Lumber production was the
largest for a tb- a*le.
"New itieoi pot at ions and outputs of
j new so« m ilios exeept -tat*- and mtiniei
pill bonds ext fi-detl those "f aliv **r
year. Lank elearings were above
I bl|t -lightly below the I!»■_*• I and !!»!!»
peaks. The laughfering ami tin-nt park-
ing industry set up new high pr.-du timi
reeortls. mainly ■ ue to nnpret -edented
re eipts of hogs fed on the big corn crop
1 d
“t Vop yield- as a w hob- were above
the l!t*Jl! vnltie In-low it iu aetnal tpianti
tnttve yields. Higher ent ton ami torn
were big'moving features iu this eonnoe
timi but low priee'l-h'ig • redmed farm-
ers’ earning- a tel llm steadiness of
wheat pines through the fall did not off
set the losses of those W ll<* seemed small
j yields as in Kansas Oklahoma olid the
spring wheat Northwest. Nor did high
I pri es for t of ion lo-lp the planter whose
i fop wa- greatly redm-ed or de-troyed
i by the boll weevil.
j “Failures were fewer than in llt'J'J or
11*1! 1 and liabilities were smaller than
in both those years. The pereenlage
of business mortalilv dropped off also
!uit there were more large failures than
i in IJtU'J. and bank suspension were
seomd 'inly to lytt.'J the worst year -itiee
{I have Strawberries '
In your Carden *
*1 Hid you know that you ran erf a *
•B few strawberry plant* in your gar- *
den and have fruit each apnng for
"I thirty daya? Juat think early in
•*B the*pring you can pick berricjfrom
*B your own garden. . *
;fl FREE CATALOG! $
*m I>on*t fail to aend nt onre for •
J catalog telling the whole etory of
!B atrawberriea. He mireto get a nice %
-■ patch set thia spring. Your name r
*m on portal will bring the nice three '
•B colored catalog—FREE.
1 ; -■ -.— - i.t; ii
• lie «• shili'ii's were compiled while
suspending bank ■ ' liabilities were only
I twice exeee e»| ■ mee that year.
" I "<• industries automobiles ami
! building may be said to have in IJI'J.'!
enrolled theiiiselves among the 'wonders
of the world.' r.iiiMiny *at 17b cities
in 1totalled about i«nm#.
Jl |*er lent above I Jl'JJ neatly double
j that >.f IJIJl and seven titties that re-
tMrdeil in Hie war rear IJMs. Auto
mobile' built wen slightly above I .tit HI.
- mat a gain of ol |>er i ent over liUJ.
i 1N tb e one maker tun e more than
| one hall Value of the output li >1 uni h
different from that expended for building
! in the entire country. In other word'
the value of new building and of new
• at and ttmk wa about the same.
Mention has heen made of the elteey
till tone of (oreia'is for IJIJl. The
Weiglit of pl’opheey seeuis to !>e that
trade and industry will have a fair-to-
• . .'ear. due regard being had to tlu*
• i eiiiiciiee ot a president tal elect ton and
th** fuel that tiidn al talk is still rife nl
though as already aid. the hitter has
semetj to have iiuniet<‘i| down con ml
etahly of late. To u >e ;in old simile
there seem to be n utlmher of reasons
not otdv for hoping but for believing
that main of these people wil sit •ptiel
:iml not 'rock the boa!’"
RENEW EFFORTS
TO’STOP STRIKE
ON ENGLISH LINES
( Hy Th* \ -seriated 1‘ri - )
.Ian. Tlioma Shaw
labor mini a r. and Mi-. M irt'-iret
B*n field parli.imentary secretary for
t1 •• labor 1111iii try b ve taken
toward ending the trike of th A o
ciated Soci'ty of Kngiiteer.; .a id Fire
lien the mottling n«*w [taper -a .
There is .tome feat tint th trike
will ore i.l r the \lm igamnted Fn
ginrr ring t’nion has unbred it mem
U-ht in*; t repair lornin- t iv« s manned
by* trike bre kers.
Railroad e\eeutiv< annourtee that
man membei - of the station union of
railway m* It who joined the stnke at
•be < iit.->et ; gainst the orders of their
!*a«ler- have resumed work.
Beware of Imitations!
I n levs you nrr Hip “Bayer fros*" on
package or on tabh ts you are not gef
ting Hie genuine Bayer Aspirin proved
Htfe l»y millions and prescribed by
physicians over twenty-three years for
t olds TTcadaehn
Toothaeho Lumbago
Neuritis IHieiinKit ism
- Neuralgia Fain Fain
Accept "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin'*
only. Kaib unbroken package contains
proven direction:. Ilandy boxes of
twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug-
gists also sell bottles of 2-t and 100.
A^’irin is the trade mark of Rayer
Manufacture of Monoaccticaciileater of
sabcylicachi.
- ' ..—..; rv
1 Agents of the New Silent
Ball Bearing throughout which
makes them the longest wearing
—by many years
I S Maverick-Clarke Litho Co.
1 > n > w n s'v i 11 e Tex a s
Everything for the Up-to-Date
Office Man #
CLAIMS FEEBLE
CALLS FROM THE
DIXMDDE HEARD
• Bv ’I lie A-anriated Pr*-H)
<»AI.\ hST» l\. Te*.. .Inn. lili Feeble i
®; " 8. calls from the French navy di
ligihle Itixrnt de. which w.i * )«»• t m t(M.
Mediterranean last month with .r»7 men.
wen- heard the night of |i eeinbt r IH i
I * > M * S. .Shipping Boa td steam -hip
.lolrc now in put here after a voyage to |
Venice and Trieste it was .stat'd by
Captain H. Muller master of li e v. I
pel.
“At about !» o’chrk the night of Jn*r. |
IHth." V plain Muller state I *♦ we heard
some on sending out S. t». S. call at 1
frequeit intervals but no report of po ’
ti*ion was given. The weather wa ter I
lihly had at the time With considerable j
radio interference dir to thunder form :
The Jelee at the time wa off lh<* roast )
"f Sardina a long island in the M-dit
i rc.inian off Italy and it was blowing a
Ifate with s*veto hint.
**Srv r:«l call:* were hoard through
the nigh* hut it wa< not until 'J o'clock
in the mot ting that vie knew it w* the
Ituttiuilr. At that hour we picked up
i radio pr*-*x dispatches broadcast from
London which slatid that the (tixniudi
! w.is .sending out S. II. X. call and hy
i then we knew it was h*-r. Ti c |»t;.
■ ttuide had I.. giving het french naval
rode designation in her di tre = call
and tp to that tint* we did not know
who "he wa . The call" during th" agf
wer feeble perhaps due to weather ho*
next morning we again lieu id ‘lie S. It X
calls and thi lion tbev*werc very much
cleerer. It wax apparent that the h* Ip'e. •
■liiigihh had no idea of In i | > it mu
and wa tin- unable to direct .< i t.
a nee. ”
Cap! tin Mull* r stated that this wa
the fir ■ tim** in his expert" ice he had
lee* iv* d an X O. S * II ft nt Mil
aircraft. Ileyorid fimling th*- hotly
of th*- e. plain which wa w i:-he I a 1 no
hy lie -en. no trace ha- *-v* r t een found
of t hi- dirigible which to **f (• rman
build. Whrn last seen ;h< wa blowing
help)*- towards •* a over tic <»ulf *f
(i hi- on the i s t coast o‘ 1 tint :» and ti‘
that time had b* en in the «tr **v* r ix
dav . and her fi»* I and food iv*ic* exha’i
tel. Captain VIu!I**r said.
—-—.•• - - -
Clothe may not make ih<- woman hut
luck of them tii*k*-s her mad.
Ileal ijim-s up. mi doc coal.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ft
Mr-. Wanda and A. Speight tt Mrs. )
M A. I*•»»!• »». Jot I» in block 78 town of ]
Harlingen.
Jame Ftingkam tt til by * on -table to
t'ommerci*l .Mortgage & Loan t o. north
24.29 acres tn lot I block K Landrum’* j
Subdivision I Landrum’s Rest rve.
W. A. and Omah Wright by truste
t A. F. Parker noith l«l acres of block
2# Parker's Subdivision.
Vicenso toncialdi by tru-tce to A. F.
Parker south 9.71 acre in block 122
Minnesota Trias Land ft Irrigation <«.
Skibd i vision.
W. II. Ladd to Olivette M it ark south
f» acres of north Ik acr» s of block 2*1
Survey «.*•{ I>**ui rty and Faille! Sub-
division.
Ivan Ford to Minnie K. Ford.
n*iith 10 acres of block lat* El Jardin
Subdivision Share 19 E piritu Santo
Grant.
Albert K Snow to John M Raymond
!*.♦ :iir. 3J|t of Kan It* nito Irrigation Co.
Subdivision Share No. I K> piritu San-
to Grant.
EARLY SPRING DRESSES
Just Arrived From New York 4 r
Bright new Frocks that
bring a delightful fit t show
mg of the new style* for early
«
spring are ‘here for your sel-
ection Monday!
Charming in every wav
these Taffeta Canton Crepe.
Satin Clinton. Crepe de < hine
Dresses reveal the straight
lin> and battue effects and
the trimming* that will dom
inate the ♦ a-.on* » mode*.
The color* already shown
include the new reseda an
unusual green tnocnii. brick.
tan du*t rose coma and the
shades of f^ray brown blur
also black.
SHOWN AT
$17.50
— ANIJ — AZIZ BROS.
*91 rn PROPRIETORS
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— there is a
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you.
* >r pos iblv you do not care to
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And too—there are hats for
those of you who want some-
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ing.
flats lor all occasions all
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of quality.
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HALF PRICE
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