Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1909 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY PROGRAM. j DevotS e»reta».L. D. 0. W J 9:oo“Arithmetlc (sic. I).Dr. Ferris 9:oo—Music (Sec. 11)...Dr. Hanson 9:4s—Rest 10:00—Language and Composition (Sec. I) ...Prof. Thomas 10:00—Arithmetic (Sec. H) Dr. Ferris 10:45—Rest. 11:00—Music (Sec. I) ....Dr. Hanson 11:00—Grammar (Sec. ID ••• Prof. Thomas ■ f Music I:2o—Human Nature in the School /' room Dr. Ferris 2:os—Rest 2:ls—Music ... Dr. Hanson 2:55 —Rest. 3:os—Oral Composition. Prof. Thomas: Monday Afternoon. Dr.; Ferris resumed his talk upon Arithmetic, taking up the second division of his Subject, /‘What to t Teach.” The first thing in teaching ' arithmetic to get in touch with the' things that surround you. If we attempt too many things, we become proficient In nothing. Waste no time dealing with things that are not of any use to the child, but get In touch with the world in which you live, and give the child training In those things with which he will come in contact! The main thing to be considered after knowing what to teach, is rapidity' and accuracy. Do not waste your time seeking short cuts. Many text book writers pridte [themselves on j their many short cuts to an educa- j tlpn. But If I teach a boy one way to do’ a thing I congratulate myself and the boy, without trying to learn him many ways. One can know but a few things and know them well and quickly. Custom should in a meas- * ■ I PROFESSOR FERRIS •-T ' — i — i—ure control your method of teaching numbers. Help the child live in the community in the fullest sense by knowing that which will help him in the business world. After a short rest, Dr. Hanson gave another interesting lesson on music. The Dr. makes his work practical and of lasting benefit to the teachers. The last speaker of the day was Prof. Thomas, who continues his subject English. The English teacher should co-operate with the teachers of other subjects. Most of us would be willing to correct our English if we knew how. Therefore it behooves the teacher to be at his best in a community, that he may establish a correct form of language, and he will be to a certain extent Imitated by the people of the community. We sometimes create confusion in the child’s mind by trying to teach too many things at once. Teaeh one thing, and after that has been assimilated, go on to the next In teaching language we may teach rules that to .a certain extent will govern the spelling and . formation of words, yet after all each word must be studied individually, for the English language is a lawless language and 'the English spelling a lawless spelling. A child that comes from a home where good language Is used will use good language, although he may not know a single law of speech and the adverse is true of a child coming from a hdme where no attention is given to the use of language. Yet this does not give us any' reason why we should not teach good English. We should be all the more persistent in our efforts to overcome the evils of incorrect speech. Tuesday Morning. The opening song of this morning’s session was the hymn ‘‘Uxbridge.’’ The devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev. Imler. “The Art of Expression/’ was the theme of Prof. Thomas’ remarks this morning. Naturalism of expression is the thing to be emphasized, because naturalism is the first law ot expression. The child upon entering school has, perhaps, a vocabulary of from thirteen hundred to two thousand words, yet it la our duty to still increase the number of words, and teaching the natural way of expressing them. Words do not become ours until we are capable of using them ourselves. To tn- ; eretpe your vocabulary, get the dictionary habit, yet this alone will not suffice. Association of words will will give an understanding of new

I words The child gets new words by ' imitation, so the teacher should use the best Every new word learned gives a better understanding of our old ideas. It gives a broader view of thought Even though the child has a vocabulary, it does not use it all because it has not learned the art of expression. It is the person of largest experience who ought to be able to express himself in the moat natural way. I would advise every teacher to have a collection of good stories and use them in connection with language work. The ; [teacher! with a good character, able to see the good in' stories, Is better able to present them. The most efficient help lin language work in the lower grades is the story interestingly told. The second period was used by Dr. Hanson in the study of music. The history /of 'music dates back linto antiquity. The very earliest peoples had some form ot music. These ' forms,W course, were very crude in I comparison with the forms of music 'of today. In parts of the Philippine Islands we find yet today, some of the crudest forms of music, while in other parts much Improvement in this line is noticeable. It was the Italians who developed the melody in music, iwhlle the development of harmony came from Germany. The value of ■music in the school is so great that no teacher can afford not to teach it. The teacher who carries music and ! a love for music into a community, jis Worth more to that community than one who does not. The Dr. then gave thirty minutes practical work, which was highly appreciated by the teachers. Dr. Ferris upon the “Care and Culture of the Teacher;” The teacher should be careful in the selection of reading matter. You should read some for recreation. Read from Mark Twain, Josh Billings and such writers for pleasure and recreation. You should read for Inspiration. Reed from Emerson and Franklin. Inspiration is a power to every man and woman. We catch f thls inspiration from 'Emerson and Franklin. Don’t read too much, but assimilate that which you do read. When I hear a man say “Ten years ago I could read Latin easily because I was just out of college,” I think that is pathetic. Do not forget what you read. We can retain literature by making it a part of ourselves and using it Be a reader of magazines, but be sure that the magazines are stilted to your case. The main thing in the care and culture of teachers is associations. The higher aspirations of man come not through the intellect, but through the sensations and impulses of the heart The actor will teach a more lasting lesson than we may be able to get in any other way. INSTITUTE NOTES. The work of Prof. Charles Swain Thomas on the subject “English,” is of a very high ' character. Prof. Thomas is an authority on language: work. v Dr. Hanson isi a singer. If you doubt it come out and hear him. F. L. Sixby ot Michigan, was a visitor on Monday afternoon, and gave an interesting talk to the Institute. Prof. George Suman, of Rochester, was a visitor at the institute Monday afternoon. Dr. Ferris has won a place in the affections of his hearers by his forceful and masterful way of presenting his subject He has away of making a’ point and then driving it home. The teachers are very enthusiastic on the subject of music. This speaks well for the work to b e done during the coming year. — _ .. . ,;-0 . ' The Junior League ot the Christian church will hold a picnic supper at the park this evening. The plcnicers left on the one o’clock car this afternoon, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Artman in charge. At the park they played games and enjoyed themselves as children always da John B. Singleton and Miss Edith Cook, well known young people, were united in marriage at 8:80 Monday evening, by Rev. Imler, pastor of the United Brethren church. The happy couple called at he parsonage and the ceremony was performed there. Mr. Singleton is an industrious and prosperous farmer, living about three miles west of the city and they will make their home at that place. , Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Grandstaff of Monmouth, are entertaining as their guests, Mr .and Mrs. Ned Ball of Van Wert, for a few days. Mr. Ball is a member of the Van Wert fire department and is enjoying a short vacation. The Misses Nora and Della Werling of north of Preble, entertained Sunday afternoon with and contests, after which a delicious supper was served. Those present were the

Misses Mathilde Llnnemeler, Clara Kqfenemann, Louise Selking, Hulda t Ewell, Marie Smith, Hilda Bieberlcb, 1 Ella Schaewel, Adelle Ewell, Emma i Selking, Luella Buuck and Rosy 1 Buuck. ■ 4 —■ 1 The Y. P. A. of the Evangelical i church will be entertained at the i ' beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred < I Huffman this evening. The Order of 1 the meeting is business, followed by i a musical program and concluding < ; with a social hour. A splendid report I , will be given by the delegates of the 1 convention at Oakwood Park. Miss Ireta Erwin will give a picnic 'at Maple Grove park tomorrow that ] J promises to be the largest one given I I this summer. Her guests of the , house party will be the honor guests I of the occasion. i An elaborate dinner and a good time is reported from the home of Mr. 1 and Mrs. Christian Franz, the vent 1 being in honor of the sixtieth birth- ’ day of Mr. Franz. The day was pleas- ] antly spent, much of it in reviewing ’ the good old times of ye olden age. < The dinner was immense and the en- ] tertainment throughout thoroughly i enjoyed by those present o : ] Charles Grim and Mrs. Ella Louthan was arrested Monday night by De- .: tective Ellis and a Decatur officer , near the Erie tank upon the charge : of living in adultery and the two were ■ released upon their promise to ap- : , pear in the court of Mayor France 1 i last evening at seven o’clock for trial. ' At the stated time Attorney D. E. Smith appeared for the defendants ,■ and upon motion the trial was post- , , poned until Friday-afternoon at one ■ o’clock. Detective Ellis and the officer were walking near the tank in ■ search of hoboes when they daw the 1 couple walking down the track together. They followed and after as-j ' certaining sufficient evidence to warrant the arrest the two were taken ' into custody. The woman is the wife of Howard Louthan. Some months ago she petitioned the Adams circuit ' court for a divorce from her husband, ’ but in this she was defeated and since 1 then she has not lived with her bus- ' band. The woman is the mother of four children, who have been placed ' in good homes. It is likely the case ' will be vigorously prosecuted. —; o ' Charles Adelsperger of El Beno, Okj lahoma, is in the city for a week or two in which he will visit his many » friends ana incidentally recuperate 1 his health. He submitted to an op- > eration for appendicitis and he is • taking this vacation in -order to rest 1 and gain back some of the good health he had previous to that time. He is still connected with a newspaper in El Reno, and has several other 1 side issues that is making him the • candy, and in all he thinks well of Oklahoma, and the-city in which he • spent the last two or three years. They have struck the Interurban craze there, and are building several lines which will do much in the development of that country. Everything is booming in away, although the extreme dry weather is going to cut the > corn crop below the middle, and consequently make the farmers hard up for the next year or so, but with all • this that country will continue to ' prosper and flourish for the next several years, and that means that the people that are in the swim now will 1 make plenty of money. He likes the ‘ country and will settle there for the • present at least. > a o— Every Woman Win Be interested. There nas recently been discovered . an aromatic, pleasant herb cure for , woman’s fils, called Mother Gray’s Australian-Leaf. It is the only cer- ’ tain regulator. Cures female weaknesses and Backache, Kidney, Bladder , and Urinary troubles. At all Drug- , gists er by mail 59 eta. Sample Free. Address, The Mother Gray Co., Leßoy, ■ N. T. I — -O Dan North, Alien North and William Beer will remain in the store for a have owned and operated a hardware . i store in Kendallville for several < years, have sold out the store. Mr. Beer will remain in the stor efor a i time. Dan North is city engineer for ’ 1 Kendallville and consequently will re- ; ’ main there. —Bluffton Banner. • ‘< Many Children are Sickly • Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for ( Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, * break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Fev- ' > erlshness, Headache, Stomach Trou- 1 bleu. Teething Disorders and Destroy 1 Worms. At all druggists, 25c. Sam- 1 ! pie mailed FREE. Address Allen «. 1 ' Olmsted, Leßoy, N. T. 1 — " 11 *"'O ' . - Lawrence Diggs, twelve-year-old ’ r son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Earle Diggs, ; of Marion, was a happy lad when he ] rushed into the office of the county* 1 clerk Saturday with a note from his 1 : mother authorizing dismissal of her . ’ suit for divorce. The boy had been i mediator between his father and ' mother and finally brought them to- : < gather. .

People who hate never seen a real airship may have their curiosity satisfied and will have a chance to see what future travel overhead is like by attending the great Fort Wayne fair, which will be held September 14, to 18. Charles Stroebel, of Toledo, who won the great international airship race at St. Louis, has been secured as the premier attraction at the fair. Strobel with his -winning airship will make a flight over the dty of Fort Wayne. He will also make two flights dally at the grounds during the fair. A Certain Cure for Aching Feet. Shake into your Shoes Allen’s FootEase, a powder. It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all druggists and shoe stores. 25c. Sample Free, Address, Allen 8. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. ■ o— — County Auditor O. D. Garrett and C. S. Brinneman have succeeded in selling the bonds for gravel roads for which they secured the contracts in Huntington county, and will have work commenced on the. construction of the roads in about ten days. They have ordered a scraper from Galion, Ohio, for use on the two roads, comprising about five miles.—Bluffton News. o Fifty Years’ Experience. Mrs. W. W. Ralston, Hopkinsville, Ky., says: “I have been raising chickens for fifty years and Bourbon Poultry Cure is the most satisfactory remedy I have ever used or chicken cholera and gapes. I would not be without it. Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. ■ 0 — William S. Kapp has been seriously sick since Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lon DeHaven, on Wabash street His mind wanders at times, and his condition is such as to give fears that he may suffer another paralytic stroke at any time, and the family is giving him the closest of attention and a nurse will be kept with him constantly. Mr. and Mrs. DeHaven abandoned for the present a trip which they had planned to make today to Clear Lake. —Bluffton News. —o — HAS EIGHTY TURKEYS. Mrs. Ellora Sonnemaker, Glasford Hl., says: “My neighbors have lost all their young turkeys. I have eighty head of fine Bourbon turkeys and I give them Bourbon Poultry Cure in the drinking water twice a week and have not lost any.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. —o— Martin Rankin, an old-time gold miner of California and Australia, has panned enough gold from a little stream in Glen Miller park, Richmond to make a scarfpin. A huge bowlder deposited in the park during the glacial drift ages ago was discovered by Mr. Rankin to be gold-bearing quartz. Figuring that if the rock contained gold there must also be gold tn the stream, he began “panning” the sand and after a deal of labor got enough to make a trinket ... . o ■ This Is An Easy Test Sprinkle Alien’s Foot-Ease In one shoe and not In the other, and notice the difference. Just the thing to use when rubbers or overshoes become necessary, and your shoes seem to pinch. Sold everywhere, 25a Don’t accept any substitute. . ' —o 1 ——— The onion harvest in the northern part of Whitley county and southern part of Noble county is beginning and in a few days will be on full blast. The harvest comes earlier this year than common. James Beery and Guy Dorwin returned last night from an extended trip In the west. While gone they visited the exposition at Seattle, Spokane, Denver and many other large cities. They report a most delightful trip. E .E. Rice, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, came in yesterday, and will attend the institute this week. Incidentally he will arrange for the housing of his family who are expected here the latter part of the week. j. W. Grandstaff, of Hicksville, 0., a brother of Doc Grandstaff of Monmouth, is visiting here for a few days. He is arepresentative of the Willett Granite and Marble Works of Bryan, Ohio, a concern that does considerable business all over this part of the country. Rock Creek Center, Huntington county, has had a mad dog scare. A strange canine of the Collie breed appeared in the neighborhood Friday and began biting dogs and other animals. The dog was shot by a man it had attacked. The head will be sent to Mdlanapolls for determination whether or not it had rabies. Mr. W. F. McCormick, who for the past month has been serving as third trick operator at the Erie tower during the vacations of Ray Teeple and Jesse Cole, left this morning over the Erie for North Manchester, Ind., where he will assume duties at that place. Mr. Cole and Ray Teeple have returned.

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When Winona Technical Institute, at Indianapolis, “the school that gives the boy a chance,” opens its new year on Sept. 1 it will have seven departments in operation, with the eighth well on the way. Boys who have been taking instruction in practical trades which require two or three years will be back in the Winona workshops and it is expected that a much larger number of new boys than usual will help to send the total enrollment over the highest point the Institute has known since it began in 1905. During the summer the workshops undergo a general overhauling. Machinery is set to rights, material with which the boys work is replenished, and through the coming winter these shops, each one a factory In itself, will hum with industry. The Institute’s official “family” has been organized for the year with these officers: President, S. C. Dickey, who is also general manager of Winona Assembly and schools; president of the board of trustees, Hugh H. Hanna, president of the Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis; vice-presidents, H. J. Heinz, Pittsburg capitalist; Alexander McDonald, vicepresident of the Standard oil company of Kentucky; John M. Studebaker, of Studebaker Brothers, South Bend;

Graphic Arts Building, Winona Technical Institute.

treasurer, W. J. Richards, of the Union National Bank, Indianapolis; general director, W. C. Smith; dean, John H. Gertler. The executive committee is: H. H. Hanna, Chairman; John H. Holliday, president of the Union Trust Company, vice-chairman; W. J. Richards, secretary; H. C. Atkins, of the Atkins Saw Works; A. A. Barnes, president of the Udell Works; S. C. Dickey; M. L. Haines, pastor of the First Presbyterian church; W. H. Hubbard. realestate and Insurance; T. C. Day. of the T. C. Day & Company, realestate; Arthur Jordan, president Meridian Life Insurance Company; J. L. Ketcham, of the Brown A Ketcham iron works. The oldest and one of the most successful of the Institute’s departments Is the school of Pharmacy. Although only entering its sixth year, it Is the largest school of its kind in Indiana In point of students enrolled, and it is the seventh largest in the Unite® States. The present laws in Indiana has made it necessary for pharmacists and chemists to become educated before they can practice their calling. They must be able as a dispenser of medicines to meet a practicing physician on his own grounds, and under the law an apprenticeship is a drugstore as a washer of bottles and a dispenser of soda water will not qualify a young man to do pharmacutical and chemical work for the public. The laws are. so rigidly enforced that a druggist is no longer permitted to be the teacher of his clerk, and this alone has made It necessarf for young men to turn to schools of pharmacy. The Winona School prepares a young man for work along scientific lines in pharmacies, sugar refineries, foundaries, tanneries, steel mills, packing houses, and for many lines of business in which a few years ago chemists were unheard of. The Winona School of Lithography, the only one in North America, which draws its students from foreign countries as well as from over the United States, has graduated a number of young men who have since become foremen and superintendents of commercial plants. Its methods of instruction have succeeded the old way of teaching apprentices in shops. The School has a very extensive equipment, given over entirely to the use of the students, and the instruction carries the young men through every detail of the trade, not only how to perform the work, but why certain effects are produced. The chemistry of lithography, something never learned by the old lithographer in his apprenticshlp days, has a conspicious place in the school’s instruction. The preparation of stones, drawing, engraving, transferring, presswork, all necessary stops in lithography, are a part of the Schooling The Institute’s School of Printing graduated 83 students last year, a number of them young women who learned machine type-setting. The school gives a student a thorough training all along the fine of printing, or a student who has this general knowledge is developed into a specialist as a compositor, pressman, or some others line. The School. of Printing has since it was founded kept a waiting list of young men and women who

desired to learn the operations of a linotype, not only how to set type by machinery, but also how to repair and take care of this intricate machine. It is difficult to find enough good operators to run the machines in the coitf / mercial printing plants, as the owners of the machines are too intent in getting finished products from them to give them over to those who desire to learn how to operate them. It isdhis limited opportunity in the commercial plants that has caused young men and women to turn to the Winona School in large numbers for the Instruction. The School of Tile and Mantel Setting teaches a boy in six months what required four years under the old apprenticeship method. It carries a student through all lines of tile work, from the history and manufacture of tile to the most intricate forms and patterns of construction. Shop lectures, mechanical drawing, estimating on contract work are dwelt upon. The boys from this school have never had any difficulty in finding Employment with the largest tile-makmg concerns, and several of them have become contractors on their own account The School of Bricklaying is to be largely expanded to include all of the important building trades, including

carpentry, plumbing, painting, and | others. The school will train young | men that they may follow any one of y these trades, or, where they desire, 1 will give them instruction in all that | they may become contractors or build- > 'J ing superintendents. Not only will -g they do practical work in the school, -.4 but will earn their way in large part | by work done on homes and buildings || In Indijplapolis. Muc® preparation has been made for opening the School for Machinists, the equipment given by members of the National Metal Trades Association making a very large and complete workshop. It will give Instruction in machine, floor and vise work, in die and tool making. An arrangement has been made under which the work of A|| the students will be done for commercial concerns, and the boys will earn S enough almost to pay their own way. The School for Iron Moulders, established by the National Founders’ Association to make up the shortage of 25 to 50 per cent in skilled workmen || in the foundries of the country, has been highly successful. The school plant is a big foundry in itself, where the boys not only learn the trade, but . ? make good wages while doing so. The Instruction begins at the beginning of the trade, and when a student finishes yaa the schooling, he is ready for a permanent place in a commercial foundry, with many places of employment open '>l to him. The school occupies a >IO,OOI > JI building of brick and sttegl,, which was || built for the purposes of the depart- ■'s ment. A department of the Institute that Is in Immediate prospect is a school for training hotel stewards and chefs, and || it is being promoted by the National Stewards’ Association. This organisation is raising a fund of >200,000 with which to erect and equip a large build- s ing on the institute grounds, where it will train stewards and other heads of | departments for the hotels of ths | United States. Good progress has 9 \been made with this project and the cornerstone of the building will probably be laid this fall. The Institute is broadly philanthropic. It was not founded for the purpose i of paying dividends to the men who have pushed its cause, but it is doing a unique work, one that is far-reaching j in its effects. It is more on the order 1 of a Y. M. C. A. or similar organisation, which does not strive to show a profit or even to be self-supporting, but bends its energies to the end etW I helping young men help themselves, a I There is every indication that as the I manufacturing interests of the United ,;|| States expand trade schools on the I order of Winona Technical InsttteU ;.9| will grow largely in enrollment and I will year after year prove their worth I to the young men who receive their 9| instruction in such a school and to the I business men and associations wha. I help to foster the Institutions. Since I it is a pioneer in this field of educe- I tion, setting an example for similar I schools to follow, the signs Indicate 91 that coming years will develop the I Winona Instate into one of the won- 91 ders of life in thia cou» 9 I try.