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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1917)
l,.i, ifmloW.' Dl TUy oHuicoln Mx&bic Ali The Mews When It Is News. VOL. 2f. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1917. NO. 22. Dakota County Herald I'u k. I f f Items .of Interest Gleaned from Our Exchanges Emerson Enterprise: Geo. II. Ilaase had business in Omaha Tues day. Osmond Republican: Mrs. E. J Ilueyand children were Uandolpl. visitors this week. Lyons Sun: Miss Olive Stinson was here from Dakota City several days last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McDowell. Wakefield Republican: Mr. Green, of Hubbard, was a visitor at the George Buskirk, sr., farm on Wed nesday and purchased three Short horn heifers. Sioux City Journal, 21: Mr. and Mrs. Mel Niebuhr, 1307 South Helen street, will be the hosts tomorrow evening for the meeting of the Mon day Night Five Hundred club. Allen News: Owen Triggs was in Sioux City Saturday Frank Hill came over from Sibley, la., last Fri day evening for a visit with home folks. . .Reports from Mrs. George Twamley, who is in the St. Joseph hospital at Sioux City, are that she is slowly recovering from an operation on her throat. , Ponca Journal: The contest case in supervisor district No. 2, that was brought before County Judge Fales, Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock was dismissed by the contestant, Jas. Breslin. J. J. McCarthy was attor ney for the contestant and Sidney Frum, of Dakota City, appeared for the incumbent, A. M. Leubben. Sioux City Journal, 20: Mrs. Gaorge Hickox of Homer, Neb., ar Dakota City j Grocery 1 Specials for Saturday l.'i lbs Sugar ' $1.00 1 Can of Peas 10c 1 Can of Hominy 10c 2 Cans of Kraut. . .'. 35c 1 large Can of Peaches 15c 2 pkgs Raisins 25c Oranges, per doz 30c All our new American Dyed dS 00 .l. Overalls and Jackets P A CaLCfl H igfa.es t Price Paid for COUNTRY PRODVCE " I fM mmmm mm mmmmt mjmn ! i immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm urn W. L. Dakota City, It I D A Great Worm Destroyer and Hog Conditioner Price $2.50 per Jug, or Three Jugs for $G.0() Manufactured by C. A., Wheelock, Beresford, S. Dak. R. F. D. No. G. Phone 138 Pleasant View Farm, Home of the Famous Silver J,ake Herd, of Durop-Jerjpyg Guy G. Sides, I Phone 11 1-L8 Route KM rived yesterday to visit her sister's, Mrs. 0. J. Gwens and Mrs. E. E. Dana ...H. E. Brown, of Dakota City; Neb., was a patron of the day's sheep market. lie shipped n load of 72-pound lambs that sold at$13.35 and one load of 90-pound yearling wethers that cashed for $11.00, an extreme top on this class of offerings at the Sioux City market. Mr. Brown is a novice in the sheep feed ing business, but his operations of the last season have given him rank . long the best feeders of this sec n of the country. He started in Willi '.!.()()() lambs and 1,000 yearling wethers. Ponca Advocate: T. T. Harris was in town Wednesday night a guest at the G. II. Lewis home Mrs. Catherine Twohig, of Jackson, visited at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Davey, last week.... Mrs. C. E. Gould was in Dakota City last Monday and visited at the W. A. Niemeyer home. While there she sold her residence in Dakota City to Prof. C. E. Simpson Mrs. Mary Goodfellow, who died at Jackson Sunday of pneumonia, was a sister of Mrs. Joe Davey, of Ponca. The Davey family attended the funeral which was held Wednesday at Jack son. Mrs. Davey has the sympathy of her many friends in her sad be reavement. Pender Republic: Mrs. L. L. Ream, accompanied by her son, came from Homer yesterday to visit her mother, Mrs. Van Valin The case of J. C. O'Connor vs. Mrs. R. T. Tully, proceedings for foreclosure of mortgage under contract, was on trial before Judge Graves in district court Monday. Wilbur Flower in tervened claiming interest in said land by deed in trust to Will E. Estell. Attorney Hiram Chase in tervened in behalf of Bennle Saunso ci and Ardent Saunsoci as judgment creditors in and for the interests of which Wilbur Flower claims said land. Some twenty-five witnesses were called in the case and at the conclusion of the evidence from ROSS Nebraska W O R, M I Local Agent 2 Dakota City, Nebr. witnesses the court took the case under advisement. Judge Kvans, of Dakota City, represented J. C. O'Connor, Kcefe & Nuoenpiler for Tulley, Cecil R. Boughn for Flowers and Attorney Hiram Chase for the Saunsocis. Sioux City Journal, 23: That the body of Clyde Armour, of Sioux City, who was murdered near Glorieta, N. M., while enrouto overland by auto mobile from Denver to Fresno, Cal., will be held at Santa Fe for evidence in the trial of Elbert W. Blancett, who is accused of the murder, was the information received from Roy Armour, of of Hubbard, Neb., who is enroute home from Santa Fe. The report that the funeral would be held this week was incorrect. The identification of E. W. Blancett as the man who accompanied Clyde on his ill fated journey, is positive, according to Roy Armour, a brother of the murdered man. Armour as serted in his message yest. 'rv, that Blancett had not confessed as yet, but that he was suffers "'n siderably from his self inflicted wound. Tho date of the trial has not been set, as the authorities are waiting for the recoyery of the wounded man. That there is no mistake in the identification of the body of Clyde Armour was made clear in his telegram. Roy said that he had seen the body of his brother and that the identification had been complete. Roy Armour left Santa Fe Sunday night for his home at Hubbard. He has made all arrange ments concerning the sending of Clyde's body to the Nebraska home after the trial at Santa Fe. Our School As a Social Center BY CLAKKNCE MNTON. The school is at the crossroads of social intercourse of the community. Every interest of the community is afFected by it and every home is brought into its iniluence. It is the one great influencing agency of our social and economic life, affording the medium through which the social efficiency and civic righteousness may permeate the community life It oc cupies aplace unique in theall-inclu-sivenessof social interests in contract to any other institution. The school is the most democratic and represen tative institution of any community, and therefore, offers a, reliable fore cast of the future possibilities of the community. Children from repre sentative homes from an area of con siderable extent surrounding the school come together, forming a cosmopolitan society, and affording a medium of social intercourse unri valed elsewhere. The homes of the whole territory from which children come are welded together into one social unit. Common interests and purposes are engendered, wider so cial sympathies are born, and the community becomes socially efficient through the widened social horizon of the school. The school is the only institution which holds the possibilities of a true social center. The church is necessarily limited in its social ac tivities, for the most part, to its members, while the school reaches every home where thero are children. For six hours of each school day each child is under the direction of the school. It is imperative that the school should develope the highest type of social ideals, and there is nothing in the community that should take more of the parents' interest and cooperation than the attempt of the school to enlarge the social life of the children who attend it. A careful study of any representa tive school will reveal the character of the society of the future of that particular community. By far the- larger percentage of children now in school are destined to remain in the home community and follow the oc cupations of their parents. This is as we wish it to be, but empowers us with great possibilities and re sponsibilities for the character of this future society. This great trust given to the school is a most binding moral obligation upon all responsible lor its con duct. The fact that our complex so ciety has made it necessary for pa rents to delegate a portion of the duties of-child training to paid ser vants, or teachers, does not relieve the parents from the most vital con cern in the nature of the instruction and the social atmosphere of the school. All parents are interested in the education of their children, and most parents realize the im portance of the social and moral tone of the life of their children at school, but few parents fully appre ciate the important of the part they are ablo to play in the enlargement of this social life. It is not enough that parents feel that the school is well conducted, they should know the teachers personally in the envi ronment both of the school and the home. This would necessitate the attendance of parents at regular ses sions of the school and at all possible special functions. It is obligatory that the teacher live in the commu- 1 - nity in which she teaches. She should know the parents in their homes and know her pupils in their home and community environment. It is only under these conditions that parents and teachers meet upon common ground and are able to wisely consult each other for the betterment of the school. Necessari ly the teacher must remain a hire ling, but this fact in no wise excuses her from service of a constructive, permanent and idealistic nature. The school not only represents the society of tomorrow but it is the so ciety ot today. The children are liv ing their lives day by day in school and out of school, and are not mere ly preparing for the future adult lives they are expected to live. The attitude toward school, teacher, authority and other children will be the attitude of the citizen toward law, justice, and his fellow social be ings The school is directing tend encies and forming habits of con duct that form a permanent part of the child's life. In view of these facts it behoves us that we make the school life a real society, as nearly ideal as possible, a part of the child's normal life, satisfying his interests and ambitions. The child who hates the school is not le. ning to be a useful citizen by the coercion of the school. It is a strained and unnormal condition for him. Often the school is to blame for such individuals. The school life is not made signifi cant enough, his native tendencies and aptitudes are not given room to expand and the results may be a cramped, blighted life. It is not necessary that this condition should exist for the normal child, as it is due largely to the failure of parents and teachers to understand tjie child's needs. This article attempts to deal with only one of the important factors which tend toward the solution of the above mentioned problem, that is, making the social life of the school really significant to the child, so that he will go to school from his own spontaneous interests antl will find there larger life than he is able to get elsewhere. If the school is to mean this to the average child, it must stand as such a social institu tion in the esteem of the community. Parents must think of it as satisfy ing this need of their children and give it such recognition. We are interested in our own par ticular school and the special prob lems concerning it. We are very vitally concerned with anything that will aid in making our school the so cial center of our community. Surely there is much that may be done to improve this feature of our community life. Our community is said by some to be dead socially, meaning perhaps that community spirit is at a low ebb, little interest is taken in local social enterprises. There is much truth in such a state ment due to causes well known to all. While we lose in this particu lar possibility we are benefited in other advantages to recompense for the loss. It is true that better en tertainment can be gotten in the city for less effort and cost than the entertainment that can be gotten at home. Many things point cityward for our community, but if we are to lead a social life worthy of preserv ing its identity, we must tie it to something at home. It must be rooted in home interests and nurtur ed by homo talent, Otherwise we cannot hope to keep our young peo ple interested in home projects, and will find them taking up the pur suits of the larger world outside the home community. The logical and practical solution for this local and community prob lem is to be sought through the churches and the school. The school is especially qualified to assume its full measure of the responsibility. Perhaps thero is no better way in which to establish the social position of the school than through its extra curriculum activities. The parents are always interested in such activi ties of their children and will attend such functions more often than the regular sessions of the school. The handicap of our unlighted building has deterred us from more aggressive measures until thi3 time. Our building is now to be well lighted, is well heated, and will be well seated for any particular oc casion. The high school has organized itself into a literary society which has given regular programs nearly every Friday afternoon for the- past year and a half, llus takes tho time from tho regular work and does not obtain the community interest that shouid attend such an undertaking, it is now being arranged that these programs shall be held in tho even ings at intervals of possibly two weeks. The nature of the program may bo varied fro n time to time. including debates, declamations, es says, orations, parliamentary dis cussions and music. It is not neces sary to dwell upon the benefits to bo derived from such an innovation from the present work. It i3 im perative that we lims tho support of the parents in this undertaking It is no easy task far high school students, who. have not been well disciplined in such public work, to take a place on such a program. Therefore, I urge parents to give this plan an impetus by encourag ing all they can and by attending as often as possible. It will put new spirit into our community life, if we give it just consideration. Out of this literary society should grow inter-school debates and other con tests of brains, thus enlarging our so cial horizon to include the surround ing communities. Athletics have been developed somewhat and their social benefits are well known. They should re ceive the attention of every parent who has a student participating. There can be no moroinportantduty of a parent than to show the keenest interest in all such activities of their children. It is in this way that school becomes real society with life significance to each child. The ideal contemplates that the school shall be a center of social ac tivity which radiates the community interests and ideals into every homo in evei part of our neighborhood buynuit u into surrounding commu nities The school building should bo a well known hauntof all the peo ple whether they have children or not. The building and grounds should be an object of local pride. The building should be used, as ours is, lor a public meeting place, farm ers' meetings, public entertainments and public enterprises whenever possible. For the greater part this article has dealt with the subject in idealis tic terms. The educator must bo an idealist though he fails in attain ing his ideals. The ideal must first exist before it can be realized anil before any real progress is made. The ideal exists for our school and is within our possibilities. Let us cooperate to make it real. Next week tho subject for these columns will be "The Function of the School ' Notice Beginning with the new year, we have adopton tho cash system, and everything sold hereafter must be for cash. The Fields & Slaughter Co. Fred Parker, Mgr. i I F. Lumber, & ferial, Hardware 1 T lahe People yf Dakota City & Vicinity WE- iave succeeded Hardware and City, and are here to treat everyone right, and alike, and will guaran tee satisfaction on all sales and work clone at our place of business. We will carry a full line of Ltiin'vr, Building Material, Hardware, Coal, Paints, PI- .uing Material, Greases and Oils. We have a w. . equipped shop where wc will do all kinds of Plumbing, Tin Work, Furnace and Stove Repairs. Also Concrete Work of all Kinds. Come ra and see us Bret's Get Acquainted I I H. R. GREER, Mgr. Sturges Bros. to 31.5 where we will be glad to see all our old patvons, and we hope, many new ones. This move is nec essary, as the building we now have is too small for our growing business. Stwres Bros Old Location, 411 Pearl St. Looking Backward. -Sioux City Journal, .Ian. 21, 1807: Charles Westcott, formerly of this city, will bo married at noon today to Miss May Hazelgrove at the homo of the bride's parents, near Dakota City, Neb. Mr. Westcott is a son of George E. Westcott. of this city. He lived with his parents in this city until a few yeara ago, since which time he has had charge of his fa ther's farm in Nebraska. He has numerous friends here. Miss Ha zelgrove is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hazelgrove, who are widely known in this city. Your Last Chance. Recently wo published in these columns an offer of tho Youth's Companion and McCall's Magazine, both for a full year, for only $2.10, inclnding a McCall Dress Pattern. The high price of paper and ink ha3 obliged McCall's Magazino to raise their subscription price February 1 to 10 cents a copy and 75 cents a year so that the offer at the above price must be withdrawn. .Until March 111 our readers have the privilege of ordering both publi cations for a full year, including the choice of any 15-cent McCall Pat tern, for only $2.10. The amount of reading, informa tion and entertainment contained in the fifty-two issues of the Youth's Companion and the value of twelve monthly fashion numbers of Mc Call's ut $2.10 ofTer a real bargain to every reader of this paper. This two-at-one-price offer in cludes: 1. The Youth's Companion 52 issues. 2. Tho Companion Home Calen dar for 1917. 3. McCall's Magazine 12 fash ion numbers. 1. One 15-cent McCall Dress Pat tern ycur choice from your first copy of McCairs if you send a two cent stamp with your solection. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, St. Paul St., Boston, Mass. New subscriptions received at this office. For Sale Several good, fresh milk cows. Ward W- Joyce,Dakota City, Nebr. Hughes Co. Building Ma- Coal h I Mr. .bred Lynch m the dumber business in Dakota to stay. Our aim will be Dakota City, Nebr. Have Moved Pearl Street Sioux City, Iowa j. 3A w iriiwiiMt-,r""1"T' T-'-mimtUMmm. w wm 1M1 TlTM.