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I_The Big Stone Gap Post. p>LVX,x- BIG STONE GAP. WISE COUNTY, VA.. WEDNESDAY; MARCH 15. 1911. ""-Nt^TT PODERN SCHOOL HOUSES IN WISE COUNTY. H So county in tho Appalachian | ?fc ginn has experienced it inure j ?iki.iikod mali rial development ?flu tin- last twenty years than j ?Rvise county, \'a. Froth being Bane of the poorest counties in kHIm state it has become one of llni,.- riches) in the south. 9 It is gratifying that the Hovolopmenl of that county has S^S,,,t been material anil industrial Holl.seclusion of the intellec? tual and cultural The citi/.ons |*[)f this progressive county has $S\perifiicc<l from the earliest SB.ins of the county's develop Sin-tit the tiuth of the Ituskin's V : ?. ? 111. Ii t that, 'Tin- I rue Veins iv*J'! wealth are n'>t in rock, but in aSh'-h. The final outcome nn<) | Bonservatien of all wealth is inj ?he producing as many as pos-l fSihh- full breathed, bright-eyed I Ham I happy-hoartetl humaneren Ifflures." The coal and other Bcsbttrces of Wise county are of HiicalculnblO value, yet the most H (ltlitible natural resource of the H-otinty is its children. No K'oimiy, howbvor poor in soil Bind natural material resources, miwiII long remain poor if it I i?), alizes that the boys and girlsj %ni the most valuable raw Hinaterial of any country. 33 The following article, written! ?|l'n the progressive and efficient' {?superintendent of schools of 9Wise ciiiinty, .lames N. Ilill-j ajiiian, portrays some things that' Hhave been done to make the SaM-liools more Olficiont: Wise County Nolcs. ?5 If. in the course of this ar Bticle, there should appear to he I lino "selfr-boosting," our rend Bers will please he kind enough Hto believe us when We say that ? there is hp such spirit on the H part of tin writer. Development I? lluihliiigs: It is common I adai;e, not only with the people 1 oi V\ No county themselves, but fl vvitli other Becttdhs of the stnto 2 as well, that our development a? in the last twenty years in the g way of increased population, la increased wcnlthj and increased H trade, has frilly been wonder? 's inl. it will bo our ami under a ibis theme to show that our a ilevelopmonf along educational 9 lines has kept, pace with our i' rapid material progress, lieliev y ihg, as wo do, thai the richest fl being on earth is not the man 3 who is master of millions, hut 9 be who is master of hiinSolf g through a well rounded (level i optnent of his physical, mental a ami moral natures. 1 With your pardon for a per I sonal reference, we will first I contrast some of the buildings I nf twenty years ago with some ? of those being erected in the 1 county today. I Tho writer is a native of Wise i county, and twenty years ago B was a school hoy, and the eon ? ditinns as now remembered are j about as follows, with regard to ibis particular school: A log house on tho hiil, size, n; feel by 'Jo feet, height of ceiling in feet; number of pupils about :)(); number of square feet lloor space per pupil about 10; mini her cubic foot of air space per pupil about 100; light arrange? ment, three 8x10-inch 12-light Nvindows, placed, one in the center of each of the two sides, and one in the center of the rear wall, corresponding to the door in front; percentage of light, bused on the lloor space, li; heating, a big wood stove in the center; seating, benches with straight hacks made of strips, not solid, blackboards, a mova hie one -planks nailed to two upright pieces and painted black; inside decorations, the natural hewn logs with boards nailed over the cracks between! the logs on which there were! NN'ritleu many names,of ten times accompanied by appropriate; drawings; outside trim. the| natural hewn log with green moss which the writer helped to gather, chinked in thecracks between the logs to break the; monotony, incidentally to pre-! vent too much fresh air getting into the classroom; and covered1 with boards through the center; of whose Oomb projected to the j height of about 1? inches a stone1 Hue. Suffice it to saj that this! i hnuso lias not withstood thoj onward march of progross. Tnis| ty pe of school house has been I supplanted by modern school j buildings a'ntl equipment. Pas? sing over the intermediate stages we believe that a de? scription of a one room house erected this year will give as! gbotl idea of the development 1 along this lino as anything oIbo that we could do. Following In the line of tin- other description in order to aitl in the compari? son; wo give it a-? follows: A one room framo building, hav? ing a playground of about one I acre.in a level bottom, even if it is shut in by a chain of mountains and in a very rural section, what some tiro still 1 wont to call the "backwoods;" size of classroom 25 feet by 112 j foot, with a cloakroom S by 25 foot, a vestibule 8 feet square, and with porch in front H feet by l-feet; height of coiling 1.1 feet; floor surface (classroom) BOO, feel square; number of pu? pils aiion; 10; number of square feet ' lloor space per pupil about 120; number of cubic font of air space per pupils about I 200; li^ht arrangement, 1 fl ami rear, six 10x22 inch slight Windows, massed, m the left, ami two 12x1$inch 12 light windows in the rear, with two large windows to the cloak? room, ami two for the vestibule; percentage of liubt in class? room based on lloor space, 25; heating, n modern jacketed j stove with fresh air duct lead-1 ; inj/ ti> outside mr. the same ? being regtilaletl by a valve I inside the classroom, ami a double slack for smoke from [stove ami to extract from the classroom all the vitiated air in a very short time, ihus cluing-1 Iuk the air in the room every few minutes. Seating, patent I desks, Rlnglt) (made a mistake iii not Using1 adjustable desks', blackhoanl, slate ami about loo I square feet, of it; decoration inside, all woodwork liardoilcd | ; ami plastering to he tililcd a j j cream color, while to this wo [ hope to effect through a civic i league the collecting of some [pictures for the walls, and by this wo do not mean a oollcc I lion of calendars and whatnot,! I lacked "all over" the walls, but i we believe in a picture mould ling, pictures framed, and artistically arranged. We much profi r the dignity of a bare I wall than one "spotted'* with a conglomeration of scenes, tin in, wo do not believe in teaching a child to mar the benuty of a I plain wall, even; outside, paint? ed a good gray, with the hipped, ! tin shingle roof painted, and withal, mad.: as homelike as possible. With this comparison, then, may we not say that our educational development has kept pace with other develop? ments so far as buildings are concerned!' We might mention, In pass? ing, that the buildings at Big Stone (lap, Bast Stone Uap, Appalachia, Wise, Norton,! Coeburn, Ueorgel, and St 1'atill were erected at a cost of about {1125,000, ami with equipment,] improvements, etc., uro worth about $1-10,000, We might men? tion other smaller buildings, erected this year Which arc modern in every particular, having lavatories and drinking fountains in the buildings, hut time forbids. The School: We are well aware of the fact that a line building with a splendid equip? ment and every modern con? venience does not make a good school. Such things are very necessary means to the end, but not the end. We hear a great deal these days about the school and society, much of which is good, but it is simply supplying many of the experiences which a materialistic and mechanical civilization has drowned out of the child's experience. The introduction of industrial train- ' ing, manual, training, domestic science, etc., but verify the; statements above. One thing, however, we are realising today that the educator of a few de cudes ago never thought of. for the simple reason, possibly, that it was not necessary in an age i of family prayer and family altars, at a time when parents took time to teach their children of tied of nature, and of the bounty and symmetry of tho world which surrounds us, and Bttrrounds them with an en? vironment which led them to an appreciation of the aesthetic t?idi> of life, of the beauty and of the seriousness of living, for the second master, as then known, to spend time in the develop? ment of tin- aesthetic tastes of his children. Hut in this age of strain and stress when every nerve is being brought into play, and every household is studying about its maintenance, when family altars are forgot ten, when family prayer is unknown, it behooves us to counteract the sordid and materialistic with things worth while. Thus wo have the re lined lecture courses, the high class lyceiim courses, etc. We tried one of these courses this year, a brief explanation of which might he given. We contracted with the Rad altffeo Lyceum Bureau, of Washington, l>. C, font course of live attractions, consisting of two musical and recitals, one niagicrtu performance, ami one lecture, and one impersonator. By giving these different at? tract ions four consecutive ap p.dtitmoots on each trip, we secured a good rale. That is, an attraction would come to Coeburn on Monday, go to Wise on Tuesday. Norton on Wed? nesday, and Big Stone (Jap on Thursday. Tins means that each of these towns which supported this course got live attractions at a very reasonable cost. The guarantee was hacked by the school boards of the respt ctive ' districts in three instances and by the writer in lie? other. As a whole, the course was not a paying proposition, tlnancially, I but we hope some good has been done. The guarantees were provided for by selling season iiekets. The school children were made special prices which were nominal. The people, on a whole, sii far as we have been able to lind out, have been very well pleased.. ISvcry elTort is being made toi get a close co operation of the patrons with every move to make the school, in fact, tint social center of the community . I Debating societies, not only in our high schools, but in some of | Ho- one-room schools of the county, arc bringing tho patrons I and young peoph of the com mtiuity together in debate und social intercourse. The writer took part ill a debate recently t at the closing of a one-room i school in winch one of the patrons of the school, two young men of the community ami himself were the debaters. I Needless to say that there wus a ??full house." So much for this side of the work which we are trying to do. We shall be glad to continue this outline of I our development in an article: later, in which article we shall! discuss the development of the; teacher, together with the methods of the teaching today us compared with those two I decades ago.?Bristol Herald Virginia Wins The Debt Case Supreme Court Holds That West Virginia Must Pay $17,182,507. Washington, Mar. U.?Sitting in the unusual capacity of a board of auditors, the Supreme Court of the United Stutes today computed that the State of West Virginia was under obligations to pay over seven millions of dollars of the thirty three million dollar debt of Virginia which existed when the new Rtate wus formed. it was the biggest problem in arithmetic the Supreme Court has had to handle in many years. The exact figures held by the court to be the proper proposition of the old debt which West Virginia is under obligation to bear was $7, !S'Vi07. STRANGES DIES BY ROADSIDE NEAR WISE Supposed Suicide---Thought to Have Been From tlie Soldiers' Home. Wise, Vn., March 9.?Lato yostorday evening an old man, supposed to he 56 or 50 years old, was walking along the I lladeville pike near this place. ! lie was seen by Home small hoys to lake a glass out of his pocket and ilip some water from a spring by the road side. He put .something in a glass from a bottle and drank it and then ho, threw the glass and bottle to one side. He then walked a fow steps and fell unconscious. Mr. .lames Bradley, who lives near the place, together with some other parties, carried him to the house of Mr. Bradley and seal a messenger af tor a doctor. I>r. Miles immediately answer? ed the call, hut when hearriveil' it was too lute ; the man died without gaining consciousness. He is about six feet in height, j well built, weight el,out i pounds, front teeth gone, smooth shaved, bald, scar on the point of tin- left shoulder, | which looks as if it came by a. gunshot, hail on pants of navy blue color, had a case in his pocket hearing the name of Ueorgu Meredith, t Imnha, Nob., also some trading stamps issued by C. 1). Ward and Frlberg, Johnson City, Tenn.j had a large clap knife of peculiar shape, a pair of gold glasses and a purse containing thirteen cents in change. It looked like a case of self destruction. No one knows him and there was nothing on his person by which be could he identilii di The man was well dressed and lias an intelligent face, lie is supposed to be from the soldiers' home at Johnson City, Mayor Vance has wired the superintendent of the home. I'p to this t Hie? be has heard nothing. Unless the body is claimed it will be buried tomorrow at the poor REV. MR. BUNN DIES SUDDENLY Hey. A, Bunn, one of the oldesl and best known Method-1 isi ministers in this section, died at the home of his daugh? ter, Mrs. 8. A. Single, on Clay street, at 1 o'clock Thursday, after a very brief illness. Mr. Buhn was for nearly half a century a minister of the gospel and raised a large family, lie was the father of Krank Bunn, Henry!) Bunn and tleorge 8. Bunn, all well known business men of Bristol, in addition to a number of other sons and sev? eral daughters. Mr. Bunn watt the father of fourteen children and leaves thirty-eight grandchildren and several great grandchildren. He had been in feelde health for several months, but only lasi Sunday he attended the Kirst Methodist church and assisted the pastor, the Rev. W. K. l'itts, in administering the sacrament, lie was taken sud? denly ill at the dinner table Thursday, complaining of a pain in his breast, and died a few minutes later. Of the surviving sous and daughters living in Bristol, there are: 0. F. Bann, II. t?. Bunn, tleorge S. Bunn and Mrs. S. A. Single. The others in? clude: Mrs. Isaac Worley; of Oklahoma City, <>kla.; Mrs. T. L. King, of LaJara, California; Stephen Bunn; of Limestone, Tenn.; Klbnrt Buna, of Big Stone (lap, Va.; and Joseph 8. Bonn, of Norton. ? Bristol Her? ald Courier. Life Saved AI Death's Door. "1 never felt so mar my grave." writes W K Patterson, of Wellington, T>-< . as when a frightful rough and lung trouble pulled me .loan to inn pounds, in spite of doctor'* treatment Tor two ycara My father, mother and two aistera died of consumption, anil that I am alive today k due solely to Dr. King ? New Discov? ery, which completely cured me. Now I weigh IS? pounds and have been welt ami strong for yeara." Quick, safe, sure, its the liest remedy on earth for coughs col.is, lagrlpDO, asthma, croup and all throat and lung troubles. ,VX-and ft.00. trial bottle free. Guaranteed by J. W. I Telly, Druggist. LETTER TO SOUTHERN PEOPLE Johnson City, Tonn . Mar. 10. ?The people of California, nt the suggestion of oho of tlio i Western railroads, have begunI tin) sending of four million] invitations to persons onst of the Mississippi river to go as] settlers to California. .Ml tho Western railroads are urging t lie people of the West to do Ijkowiso for their different I states. A large part, if not a, majority, of those invitations] will cotne to tin' South, and wo| navo not any people to spare, j In fan, oar greatest need is| innre people. Why, then, shall we not undertake to gather the names and invite them back to the Smith "back home"?our own people? Millions of thorn are in the West and Northwest. Is not the South good enough for them? Have we not stitli dient confidence in its oppor? tunities to invite, nay to urge, Southern people to come "back [ home" ami share them? Final? ly, is not the "Hack Home" movement a real, tangible work for us as individuals some thing definite for us to do? Toll every one you know to write to every one he knows in the West or elsewhere to come "back home" and bring others, (?all on the railroads to send tie m literature of reasons and facts as to why our people should come "back home," Lot us show the Western railroads that we can send live invitations to their one. Let us show that the South can olfer, and "make good" on ;is manv opportuni? ties as the West indeed better ones. I .et us ?vomo alive!" You Take No Risk Our Reputation and Money Ate Back of This Offer. We pay for all the medicine used during the trial, if our remedy tails to completely relieve you of constipation, We lake all tin- risk. Von uro not obligated to us in any way whatever, if you accept our oiler. Ootlhl anything be more fair for you'- Is there any ron ??.Ii why you should hesitate to put our claims to a practical The most scientific, common senso treatment is Itexall < >r derlies, which are eaten like candy. They are very pro? nounced, gentle and pleasant in action, and particularly agree? able in every way. They do not cause diarrhiea, nausea, llatul dice, griping or any inconven? ience whatever. Kexall Order? lies are particularly good for children, aged and delicate persons. ?J We want you to try Rexall j (Irderlies at our risk. Two sizes, loe. and 25c. Remember, you can get lloxall Homed ics in this I community only at our store? The P.oxall Store. The Kelly i I >rug (lompany. CARTER FLANKRY Rye Cove, Va.. March b.?A] j marriage of much importance socially occurred last week j when Miss Kita V. Flanary. granddaughter of .1. M. Flanary, I of Dot, l.eo county, Va., became the bride of .1. 1'?. Carter, a well known young man of Rye ('<'v e. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. II. Graham, in the presence of a company of friends and relatives of tin- parlies. The groom's mother, Mrs. P. K. Carter, welcomed the guests, it reception having been given Inter in honor of the bride and groom. Those present included Miss Agnes Richmond, Mrs. C. H. Cowden, Mrs. J. F. Rich? mond and Ii. F. Feuilleton, the latter of Arcadia, in addition to the bride und groom and mem? bers of the immediate family. A delightful supper was served. There was music by Miss Agnes Richmond, Mrs.Kmmett Carter, mid Miss pet Flanary. l:alU Victim To Thieves. S. \V. ilinil.-..or Coal City. Ala., lus a justifiable grievance. Two thieves stole bis health l-.r twelve years. Th?y wem a I liver anil kidney 'rouble Then Dr. ; King's New Life Pill? throttled tbeui. He's well now, Unrivaled for Constipa? tion, MaUrla. Iloadaehe Dyspepsia, I&V, at Jt. W. Kelly's Drug Store. Mine Location. W. M. Blair has in hispossea Sion a very old writing which lia-* been handed down by his foreparents since 1707, nnd since the building of n railroad through this section will bring about many changes anil de? stroy much of our timber, scenery, etc., he has decided to have a copy of the same pub? lished. It is as follows: "I.ovation of Swill, Mondav and (larrcll Mine." "Two short days' ride from Castle's Camp (supposed to 1"' now called ?OStlesw??ds, Va.) See water courses running in ft Northern direction, See a ball spot on mountain stitablo for a pasture for horses with very rough cliffs around it so as to keep horses inside by putting a few polos at entrance. See water falls near (his. Seo a large spring boiling up with small streams running up from it in little channels forming tin* shape of a jew's harp. See a remarkable lock just above the forks of a crook near where the rook goes nearly across the creek (called the old man). Seo tin namcH Swift, Monday nnd (larrett, cut on a largo beech tree, near there in a holly grove near the forks of the creek See an awful rough country along the creek for fi or ii miles from the ball spot on mountain. "See a buffalo or deer lick two miles from furnace. See a salt spring at a water course 'J I to l miles from furnace. See a long high ridge rt or 0 miles north of the furnace, See ponds mi mountain with entail flags around them near furnace. Seo hills from Ihn mountain near furnace at a distant forming sharp tops like haystacks. "Kind over600pounds melted from ore and placed under roots ? if a birch ami pine, 'ingrown,' j about midway between furnace and mine, ami the ball spot where horse-, were enclosed." A true copy of the above writing found in the papers of Charles Hhiir, grandfather of '.Squire lllair, who onco lived on head of I'Vauks Creek, head of Cumberland river, are now in the hitter's possession. Unless accidentally destroyed, lost or stolen, 'Squire Ulair says ho will not part with same.? Whitcsburg (Ky.) Ragle, NORTON TAXES HIGH. A special to the l.ynchburg News from Norton say s: "Some of the citizens ami taxpayers of Norton are Bomo w hat disturbed over tlm fact that, hereafter, forty cents on the hundred dollars will bo udded to their taxes for road purposes Up to this time the towns in Wise county hnvo been maintaining their own Streets, and consequently were not required to pay road tax. Kut the ?700,000 bond issue for new roads has changed matters. The towns participated in vot? ing these bonds and are hound fin their proportion of the in dob ted miss, In the future Nor? ton, according to the present assessed valuation -if property, will have to pay about $2,200 annually to the building and support of roads in the county. I his, notwithstanding tho fact that the tow.i gels about one mile of macadam road as a re sul; ..I the big bond issue. This will run through main street and *.vill be only sixteen feet wide hardly the width of the street itself. In the thirty years Norton will have paid, counting interest, over sixty-eight thous? and dollars for this piece of road. Of course the town will reap large benefits from tho good roads throughout tho Bounty, at the same time this enormous outlay of money for one mile of road is bringing a rather sickly grin to the faces of niuny tax payers. Wife Ooi Tip Top Advice. li' My wife wanted me to take ?.ur boy in Ilm doctor to euro an iiijly boil." write* I). i'rnnki'l, of Hlroud, Okia. "1 said put Uneklen'a Arnica Safvo on it.' She did and it cured tho boil In a abort tltnc." Quickest healer of Rama, Scalds, Cut?, j Coma, Umbra, Sprains and Dwellings, 'Real Plbjoure on earth Trv it. Only 230-atJ, W". Kelly's lirun Store.