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Thursday 8 1923 THE ALBEMARLE PRESS EDUCATIONAL SECTION PAGE 3 Sketch of Stanly County Vol I kditecl by the Oakboro High School Oakboro 0 ACULTY Prof Summers The Value of Latin He last few vearsfbut vou shall see greater things j1 great interest in and forms ()f expression in Eng three dry goods than these when the vounger generation gets agucultuie and livestock hsh Then too quotations from and one hardware into action in this section The agricti the Latin frequently appear as two garages a wh tural work here is equipped with mottoes of various sorts Nearly two lumber plants The Importance of English anced rations for hogs and cat Clyde Cline Startown 5 well vivnuuu iuvic VVUV11V10 busi and more room will be an abso in flin naov UlCle RAISE POULTRY which have a large new brick build is contest Each a ing PRIMARY DEPARTMENT mere is hardly trained so they can handle the farming business hps Tint ncroQ With nlmlelioA ii'Iiwaaa i 4 nz Imai husbandry line and make a success Why is all that? Because we have learned hnw if IO 100 (Continued on page 6) agricultural Colvard structor is doing splendid work and is creating great interest in teacher and five which They com from Soon stores repre They Miss Maude Pridgen Miss Osie Smith Mrs Morgan Miss Carrie Beis Miss Carene Bookout seventh grades especially are More teachers Another need that will soon is for more Since Grove lute necessity in tne near ruture hoping we may soon little kitty cats Helen Hart sell first grade I am a little boy My name is Barrett Tucker I 1 am seven years old I am in the second grade I like to go to school I am a little girl My name is Carrie May Hatley I live in the country I am eight i years old I am in the second grade I like to go to school OUR TRIP TO THE STATES VILLE LIVESTOCK JUDG ING CONTEST We long Economics built worship in Oakboro tists worshipped at the same church for several years Dur irst Grade Second Grade Third and Lower 1th Grades Upper ourth and ifth Grades i 1 I 'PN in flip tfomvfmanl farmers of other districts have grown so interest ed they have had our teacher to organize classes (Mary Barbee 9th Grade) Every boy and girl should study Latin because it is an in tensive study of English A large proportion of the words of the English language are derived from Latin Nearly three fourths of the words in Preamble to the constitution of the United States are of Latin origin When one has become famil iar with the derivation of the words he uses he is more likely to speak and write them with greater clearness or this rea son those who wish to become newspaper writers are required to study Latin The man or boy who has Thoro nno rvn viv iiunurvu pils trom these schools speak correctly They would teach their chil A Riddle I am black I have a long mane I like to eat hay I like to run 1 pull a buggy What am Clara Hatley second grade A Riddle I am black and white spotted I have a long mane My legs are short I like to eat hay I can pull a buggy What am Mary Jane Tarlton second grade very nicely and the stu are working hard to pass i work at the end of the Since we only have an school term it great store house of literature Educated people get most of the enjoyment of today Why? Be causc they know English and can enjoy good lit erature while a person who knows nothing at all about English can not appreciate good literature They want ten cent novels or these reasons I think the attainment of good English should be our highest ambition school was represented bv team Startown made the high est team score and won the sil ver loving cup Individuals making the highest scores in I have eight pets at home the different classes were given estern prove that there is About farm occupation that shows 1 i a xi ni i vu i idii piuLuit? un ueienucr 01 tne soumiaiiu hurling the invaders back on the Potomac time after time snatching victory out of the jaws of defeat with a courage and bravery that has since been the wonder of an one stricken world Later when hunger privation and disease came upon him like a thief in the night he stood like a living wall against the ederal army Nothing but death and starvation alone could have sub jugated this heroic man Undismayed by his seeming irretrievable dis aster this ragged and broken survivor came back to the ruined home which he left so lovely and dear to him and there with the aid of his wife and a spirit that was not born to die thisbattled scarred veteran fought through the thioes of re construction helped to bring the south back to its position of leadership and prosperity It is to the memory of this warrior that I join in solemn rev I erence Within a few vears this veteran will nass igtit leceixo iii i a i in tne nver and win his comrades who fought JU MHI1V Tbif 1 wU By Augusta Parker 9th Grade On the 22nd day of Novem ber 1922 one of the greatest I contests that has ever been par ticipated in by high school boys was held in Statesville This was the Livestock Asso ciation meeting The following seven vocational agricultural de partments took part in the live stock judging contest: Chapel Hill China Grove Harmony Hiddenite Oakboro Scotts and (Rellie Hathcock 11th Grade) Oakboro High School has about 275 pupils enrolled and is doing eleven grades of work A splendid school spirit is in evi dence on the part of Prof Hale and all the teachers The school committee composed of Messrs A Cagle James and Bamhardt show great interest in the school and are very co operative The pupils and teachers co op erate dents their term eight Hinson 9th grade) data than in the dairy is a small town of Investigations of many suc inhabitants the south Thursday ebruary 8 1923 1 i next year worn I Laboratory equipment been added this year for the benefit of the Physics class Al so library facilities have been added and this school expects to be placed on the accredited list of state high schools this year This will mean splendid advan tages for the high school chil dren in the community and in this section Prof Colvard agricultural in This does sfmrtnv dnino" cnlondid i (Roy Hatley 8th Grade Agricultural Student) armers should raise poultry 1 STANLY COUNTY SCHOOLS Benefit of the Agriculture De partment to the Community (Ry Glenn Barnhardt 8th Grade) Since the Oakboro High School has an agri Mort decidedly a salesman needs a knowledge of English that? Because we have learned how it is done in our study of agriculture By the time the boys finish the course we shall have some up to date farmers in Stanly county We have a farm shop also at our and have instruction in how to make things in the farm shop line In fact to sum it al! up we are learning to lie our ow boss and we ahnii shall not We can say to the older folks and parents tluf great things have been done in Stanly in the are up Wei I Mr Eli Herrin a Civil War veteran is now jftl years old and has lived in Stanly county all his life He was born in a log house and of par ents who did not have much of this goods i However they wot ked hard and in return for their labor they had plenty whereby to live andsome to spare His educational training was very little as he have the educational advantages which the youth of today enjoys The school which he at tended was a little one room log school house with a big fireplace at one end in which you could almost burn rails The school room was poorly equipped It consisted of a stool and table for the teacher slab tenches for the pupils to sit on without any backs to them and slabs nailed up along the side of the wails for writing desk These were used for the benefit of the pupils who were adv arced far enough io write The old school master also had a bundle of hickory switches used as medicine for naughty boys and girls usu ally it was the boys who got the taste of the medi cine The school term lasted only about six weeks and the remainder of the time the children were hard at work on the farms He was put between the plow handle when only a mall boy 1 where he lav manv i weeks suffering intense pain When he was able he made his way as best he could home There being no railroads or any way much for convey ance tne journey was long and tiresome went many days with scarcely enough food to keep alive and many a night his bed was the frosty ground After a long wearisome journey he reached heme It was a happy meeting of the husband and wile and the father and children He was a great fox and deer hunter and be fore and after the war he went on numerous trips and never failed in bringing home game After the war sometime his second wife died He was left again to fill a place Thev made the way for some time then Mr Herrin married the third time his third wife lieing a cousin to his first two wives Most of his chil dren were married before the last marriage Mr Herrin although a little nervous is still enjoying good health He is the father of seven children He was able by hard work to start his children off with a home He has plenty now and would not be in want should he live many many years I He has 32 grandchildren living 35 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild A TRIBUTE TO A CONEDERATE VETERAN I take this occasion to pay in my feeble way a tribute to a veteran of the last cause who is en joying the best of health The memorable strug gle of this soldier in gray flashes back with bril liancy which the passing years serve only to en hance Would that my lips had been stung with Dairying and the Value of Its Product bungalows the houses and streets are very beautiful with lawn grass and flowers and some of the yards also have groves of elm trees and oaks which are most pleas ant in summer In a few years Oakboro has Rnmno tin and Iwnmp nrns i perous HLue unvn ana ine pros pects are far still more mar velous growth in the future Several high schools have V'T 1 iai batIn "as a to thPV mav hn nrnmntArt tap thp gt ut eve lined and wi 11 comnete 1 greater tne year tun the 1'resby 1 KVir tlipva i'nacnnc 1 Hiint We are not content with Latin is really worth while medals These were won as fol lows: Wayne Patterson China Grove mules Edward Lackey Hiddenite sheep Augusta Parker Oakboro beef cattle Paul Jelton Startown dairv cat i It is also a pleasure to read the old classics in the language i in which they were written If a person knows Latin he 41 £1 iounuanon 101 nnei ch will mean emu 1 1 vein 1 veil i 1 1 1 i languages much more i easily than he could if he did not in i an are A number of the mines jv (Angeline i Oakboro 1 about 500 situated in part of Stanlv countv 11 years ago there was nothing' greater range of profits than the here but one store and a resi l'iry farmer Ton much monev clAnon reliinL zzl 1 If i i liu ihn I' i ii i i I paih VIVI It vv 1 1 1 1 TO i It I 1 I i 1 1 uric icu nrei i "i Ji urr A little later a mercial feed when a large nor i i i ui i it moi iioiises were DUiit neru uu on mu and it was called urr City i In the year 1912 the Norfolk and Southern railroad company surveyed the railroad runs through Oakboro completed the railroad in time for the first train to run on it November 1913 At that time a beautiful oak grove occupied the place where the town now stands So the railroad pany changed its name urr City to Oakboio afterwards several more were built and also several at tractive dwelling houses Nine years ago a post office was es laousnen nere wun rurs practice the most i Hartsell as postmistress which I methods with the rural delivery position she has held ever since system for collecting and dis Sometime during the year tributing his mail the telephone streets and along them on both i hat should be called Ex sides are stores and attractive celsion of Every grown bungalows The vards between i up child should drink at least i 4 a They are little bantams Blanche Smith first grade We are going to plant seed in our school room We all want to help make the room pretty Bobbie Helms first grade and she be trying to teach students I 1 nave tmee pets at nome wflAtl eha zliJrvf Lnnir frt cvioll lonbinrr HclVC cl Dcintcini lOOStd WC1 wounded on the battlefield and it cost of one of his lees He lav on the battletild suffering and bleeding for some time 4 1 1 should because of inferior prod 1 Lh him a dnnk of water He was carried to a hospital tions lust class pioduce al 'ppissij( ways demands the highest price because no one wants inferior produce armers should make an effort to establish a record for themselves first by having a good product second by ad vertising or in some way calling the attention of the consumer to it The dairy farmer of today has many opportunities to up to date High School Department English and Latin Math and Science History and Math Agriculture Babcock testers agricultural I labaratory equipment projec 1 the number) has a Latin motto I work The Literary Society which is composed of the High School Department is making much progress We have four de baters who will represent our tie and poultry The Prof boys who are studying voca tional agriculture were sentatives from Oakboro were as follows: Messrs Claude Goodman Horace Howard Au gusta Parker Maurice Smith I and Raymond Hatley The team left Oakboro about I 6:30 on the appointed day and arrived in Statesville about I for the simple fact that there i stead of merely vieldin a scantv hvin 1AOH Al I or lawyers 1913 the Methodist church was and good roads to haul his pro It was the first place of tice to market ana most ot all The Bap an aounaance oi literature on all has been done with has clearness than the one who has Italians built a nice brick buiid not studied or had the training winch was the second in Latin church in Oakboro Then in A course of two or three years i veai' le baptists built will help in many respects beautiful cnurch So Oak Some of the greatest works of I oro now contains three English literature have been i churches and they are all doing written by men who knew Latin (food church work Within the and they contain many passages I years the Baptists and which cannot be understood! I have built large i without a knowledge of Latin I their pastors nr i vwri I UL IHRiHl SI) vanuviu Latin quotations but references large lienlihy looking young man He wa a very young man when he married He had I mon married twice when the Civil War ranv on answered his country's call and left his home and loved ones liel'ind The mother and cliihlreii had a hard road to travel during ther absence of Hie father without any man to help I hnni I I He was I i i 1 i i 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 Jlctllt lliltts 1 Ul 1 1 id IHII ID gather the profits that they I school in the debating contest of tiie county Thev are now 1 tvnvlr i tr rvn Hww L'ruinnhnc 1 edSll It seems that the outlook for Know Latin ror these reasons 1 I (Claude Dunn Sth grade I Agriculture Student) In these days of sharp compe I tition it is necessary for the dairy' farmer to make a close I study of his bu iness if lie is tosucceed Like the manufactur i er lie must know exactly what i his products cost him and deter mine the sources of hi lo ses Historical Sketch i 'the whole farm In no deoart 1 II UrdixUUny i connected with the farm 1 He was a very industrioiis boy and was right on is there more need for absolute the pot when lis father had a piece of work to mind the a fine a quart of milk a day A great many pupils in school that are listless behind in their work in school and are undersized both in height and weight receive lit Al1 no 1 it has been proven that certain tor lhet ast but who am at the diseases such as rickets and tu dav show my appreciation by per berculosis would have been hls leeds in tne minds of my friends avoided if the people had drunk plenty of milk According to the 1920 statis tics milk and its products most important in building strone and robust citizens hope that farmers everywhere I culture department the communitv is awakening will look after their bovine to the fact that there is soemtiiing to friends more and not everything in experience Peo pie of this community once thought there was THE ARMER SHOULD nothing to an agriculture department: thev thought they knew everything from experience I But now they are beginning to sit up and take notice of what the agriculture boys can tell them I or one thing they are beginning to learn pthat farming can be made a paying business in 10:30 a is a great deal of waste material ale beginning to take more interest in poultry After arriving Statesville I that can be fed to poultry and it is due to the simple fact that Oakboro has we went to the court house thereby converting into a profit I an agriculture department that is wideawake and where a scrub bull was being what would otherwise be lost I showing the farmers in poultry tried by a mock judge and law Ry raising poultry one can use vot oniy the people of this community are taking vav i li ora 1 1 Tim aiJv li 1 viatzv 4 i ima rl vaaaii a 1 i i Vi nt i iv euw a nreii inn i i 1 1 1 1 1 til iitcn i till this animal was convicted and valuable experience I sentenced to pay the death ren The value of poultrv raising alty This trial created a bit of cannot be overestimated because for them at their schools excitement as the conn had the thereby one can provide his own ammai on the stand Alter tne eggs and meat trial the men and boys went to a farmer who does not dinner after which the boys in i in some form Then spected the animals which were raise his own flock of good specimens and have nice fresh The judging started at 1 abundance should and lasted until 3 I means have from 5(1 'The Oakboro team left States i birds at least in his flock and ville about 4 in a Chevro I do not mean jay bird crows let car driven by Horace How 1 but pure bred poultry On half ard The crew arrived in Oak of the farms of this county there boro at 8:30 without any is a flock of mongrels which trouble with the excention of does not return the owner anv ivuiiinig iu kv vui unn wan II1U Wc one blow out and three skinned profit and no wonder for they to ask nobody what we shall do and what noses caused by reckless driving (Continued on page 6) shall not (Ry Annie Hill 10th Grade) Stanly county was formed in 18 12 from a part of Montgomery county and was named in honor of John Stanly It is situated in the southern part of North Carolina and is bounded on the south by Union and Anson on the north by Rowan on the east by Montgomery and on tiie west by Cabarrus Its area is 116 square miles and has a popula tion of 27 192 people There are three railway lines through this county The Southern connecting with the main line at Salisbury and the Southboudr Trunk Line running entirely through the county The Norfolk and Southern fiqm Chailotte to Raleigh runs through the southern part of the county Owing to the warm summer climate and ex cellent soils it forms a great farm producing sec tion The soils of Stanly constitute her greatest source of wealth Several varieties of soil may be found and only in limited areas is the soil lacking in fertility "rhe success of agriculture in this countv is chiefly cotton raising though corn and wheat are very important crops However almost all kinds of farm products can be raised to some extent With the increas ed attention to improved methods of farming there is almost no limit to the agricultural possi bilities of Stanly county There are vast undeveloped resources Stanly county In the forests there are abundance of pine and oak and in the hills irold silver and cooper have been successfully worked while many are iiTrLvplnnpd Stanly county has always been chiefly agricul i Ih'ot Hale final and probably always will be but more and I Mr Colvard more attention has come to be paid to manufac taring There are several cotton mil's a hosiery 47znnnn numm mill cotton seed oil mills mantel factory furni (JAlrJOIlO SCHOOL lure xudurj unu a iiiunuu ui uuiex uuuu vsuik ing factories The region is primarily an agricultural aiea though manufacturing is increasing owing to the excellent water power and the abundant supply of raw materials Some of the greatest sources of water power in the state are in Stanly county The chief source is on the Yadkin river where now stands a large aluminum plant Stanly provides an abundance of direct water power much of which however is not yet fully utilized Stanly has been constantly improving the system of highways for vehicular traffic Many good roads have been built throughout the county in the last few years Education has been making rapid progress Schools 1 been enlarged and improved and al most all the i "al schools of the county have been consolidated into larger and better schools Many districts in the county have a special school tax ana now nice modern duck uuiiaings nave oeen i i means that the num must do erected wnere nine one ana two room wixKien i hnilHinr nnro stnnd SpvM hioh rlmnk hnve some haid work in order that studied Latin has the ability to bi en established and developed and will compete witfi any of the high schools in the state the educational revival is on and majority of the people are becoming more and more interested in education Stanly great progress in educational matters is largely due to the efforts of our progressive Supt Charles A Reap There are several towns of interest in the county Albemarle is the county seat and is sit uaftd in about the center of the county It has several large cotton mills two knitting mills and the town has various other manufacturing inter ness With more strict regarding the methods of i 1 ii 'ii now contains ten uucmg ana naiumng mm ana i large store three orocerv with the increased use of the I TLt I three dry hrniture Boys who are taking this course are being like eggs with pleasure whereas it was once drudgery We why not have boys now who could take a herd of cattle a chickens flock of poultry or almost anything in the ani eggs In to (By Anna Jane Hinson 8th Grade) English means more to us than any other study in school We use English every day of our life and it is the only study taught in high sc1 (m1 that we do use daily nnp mav don't think need to the COlintv spend my time studying English I am going to working on their speeches Ha colccmnn A ccitiymnn hoahq ncrhch Why? Because he is going to meet up with edu Oakboro school is very promis rnjtzwt nAAnlA nnn rr nswi'firtf knn lich 'JC 1 V19 10 inr rnniPtlT 1 VtfcWAJ pCUpiCf 4 VV 4UlgllK31l twi "Vll UU 'V VVVVIV Vij uneducated people and he will not be able to talk present attainments but are conuincingly to the educated man The sales confidently expecting greater man will have to write some and he will have to things in the future We long know English before he can write a nice letter to have a Home thorough course included in me curri And in anv occupation cnlum The boys have agricul that may be mentioned a command of the Eng ture and learn to prepare bal lisri language is a valuable asset anced rations for hogs and cat Vhy does it pay parents to be able to speak tie is it not more important correct English? Almost any child in the second that the girls learn to plan and grade can answer that Now just think how I prepare well balanced meals in wonderful it would oe if all parents were able to monies WLlvVllv lie nuuiu vvavii mvii dren to use good English and the children would have to be met 1 I 1 4T I I I II 11 I I nrf'l I no ri viuju iz i i'diTMi i riiiM vw a were young Then the English teacher would 1 school has been consolidated not hnvp fiiirli timp trvincy tn tpaeh them ffood with this one the sixth and AAAok 4 Lzil 2 ailCI V11CV WCICUIUVI One is judged by his English in writing as well veT crowded as in talking If anyone were writing to a i ness man for a position and wrote letter in one sentence used capital letters all the way through and misspelled half the words what kind of an answer do you think he would get? Note at all His letter would be put in the waste basket But if he had written his letter correctly he might have gotten the position Mr Reap our county superintendent received a letter from a school teacher once saying have decided to except the He said if she knowr how to spell accept she know enough to teach school Also another superin tendent received a letter from a teacher saying she had taught a month liking one day and wish ed to get her salary for one month He wrote back and told her she would not get but half of it I wnen sne nerseii man Know now to speu lacKing The superintendent found another teacher and she lost her job or own pleasure also it is very im portant to know Enelish Without a knowledge of English one cannot enjoy the treasures in the jve jn Oakboro fryAOT lxvvyvsv xv I i4vma4vimzv LxxJ irtn 4 xx j4 waxiwIa subjects pertaining to his busi ness Then why should he not make a success? One reason why dairying is not found profitable by many is because they do not equip their farms with the necessary appa ratus for producing a good pro duct A dairy man under these con ditions should enlarge his dairy work and conduct it as a busi laws pro mvl 1 1 could eloquently frame in vivid descrintion and I LJ1I! i 1 1 i It also lias in the future will be to increase i uieu uepeM I 1 I 1 1 I 4 I Wivvvxlvzvi 4 I I siruyeie in wnicn mis man so hrave narticinat is two garages a wnoiesaie nouse nuniot i iHgui uunvi mottoes of various sorts Nearly two lumber plants and a banking reduce the smaller ones every state (our own included in which are all doing excellent The dairymen should use the A ZAl xv 4 4 XV VV W4lt 1 I I 1 1 I I Ut ill 'I fill I 1 11 (I vi ci irti gt? vuuun iiiiu 1 i I is being erected which will begin tiie milk and its products be work in a few months This I cause so many people use milk will cause the town to increase i that the health of tne commu in size as well as in riches A i pity is endangered if the milk large roller mill is being built contaminated thereiore they "real i snouia use me strictest oi care deal to the town and surround 1 Dairy products are the most ing communities I valuable food known to man No This town has several good: child or beast has lived without 7.