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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1906)
i si f.l PROFESSIONAl CARDS PHYSICIANS Q L BIGGERS to. D, Physician and Surgeon &l Rilston Bid. over J.M.Beiry's store Offce Phone Black 1521 Rfciidence Phone Red 1001 J. H. HUBBARD, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Jf.Zi in Slater Building, Car. F;r Street -J 'Snerson Avenue. Pnone Main 79 DR. A. L RICHARDSON Physician and Surgeon Off.ce over Hill's Drug Store, if.co i-.Tone 1562 Residence Main 55 N. MOLITUR M. D. 0 tjiSIClAN AND SJRGtON Jor. Adams Avenue and Depot St Jiti; Main 68 Residence Main 68 BACON & Hhlu PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Otfsa in Foley Building, Phone Main 1 9 C 1. Bacon residence, Main 13 M, K, Hall residence. Main 52 A CfiAPHK- EXPOSE Of MtKMTC NORMAL-SCHOOLS SuDject Matter of Address Delivered Before Eastern Oregon TeacHers Association WHicIi Met Pendleton this Morning. Division of in -;R. F. E. MOORE DR. H. C. P. MOORE Osteopathic Physicians a rksville G radiates, under Founder Office Sommer Building k hones: Office Miin 63; Res. Main 64 f tW.ri.VoLP. Dr. F. Moormeister. hriYSiciAN Physician AND SUROEON AND SuROEON (Specialties: Surgery and Diseases op Women.) Office :Corpe Building. Telephone Mai.iSO Residence of Dr. Moormeister: Red 1712 Calls Answered Day and Night. ATTORNEYS CRAWFORD & CRAWFORD Attorneys-at-Law A'WA JriANOE OREC Office in Foley Building II. i. Williams A.C.Williams WILLIAMS BROS ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Office in Ralston Building I a Grande. Oreijon L. A. PICKLER ..'.vil, Minino, Irrigation Engineering and Surveying I Estimates, Plans, and Specifi ' cations. Office in Bohnenkamp Bui'ding. f a Grande. Oregon ABSTRACTERS J. R OLIVER Abstracts of Title. Fire Insurance Office in Sommer Building La Goande, Oregon. Dentists La jrande. Z. B. CAUTHORN dentist Office over Hill's Drug Store Oregon I ERINARY SURGtOo' DR. P. A. CHARLTON .'ETERINARY SURGEON OfTce at Hill's Drugstore, La Grande Or Kesidence Phone Red. 701 0;ce Phone 1361 Farmer L.r.e 68 ,J U RSES I..1SS ANNA CARLSON MRSE Phone Farmers 1 a - LA GRANDE SCHOOL OF MUSIC FR'JF. day. pr:nc:?a'-. wrs. day. ass:: TANT. xstiUtions n peop!e :n t-.'S beg.nir.rv iai of th:s schaoi. the best mus.ca fie state, a'.j .".at city ar-3 vj. are .cjver t-.e aJiar.taa Tne s.. stern ,s te i,,c. rr. 5t crac-..ai. .i- - ciudosall tne ares', d.scover.e, ,n the art of Uacn.rg mus.e T..e school is c.v.ded into to oepart mVnU:N,.I .sf-'-r 5 years cr rrore a-.a are .aJK .i t-e first tnreegraaes. H.pi.s ce jne hour each day. Tn.s is no kin dergarten system but f;wp."or. In No. 2 the graces from' 15. Here they gradual. Pup. is take one or two lessens a wee as IS.y d.tirt. No scholars will be permitted to remain ir. tni. cnool ...Ka An nnt ItudV. tvuw m - --- jl. ... ir.,- -war Pnor... o- Opposite the the candy store. Prof. H. J. Hockenberry. principal of La Grande schools, today delivered an address before the Teachers' Association whxh met at Pendleton this morning, on Our Normal Schools; what they are and what they should be." The article is right to the point and is a graphic ex Dose of the conditions of our normal schools. ,lt follows: The average American is said to be a chronic kicker. At least he exercises hit fault-finding prerogative on frequent oc-1 casions. mg may be commsndable. Satisfaction may be stagnation. Generally we are not fond of the man who tells us of our fail ings and yet he may be our greatest benefactor. Even when the fault-finding it done by an enemy it may be the meant of our elvation. Much more then thould it do us good when a friend points out where our deficiencies lie. I am a friend to normal schools. The most serviceable part of my school edu cation I got from a normal school. I prize my norma: diploma above a B. A. degree. 1 say these things to show that I have no prejudice against normal schools. Without further preface permit me to enter upon my subject, I speak of the Oregon Normal Schools because they are ours. I know very little of the normal schools of our sister states, Washington, Idaho and Nevada. Our normal schools may excel theirs as much as Hood River apples excel the old sum! Rambos of the fence corner, but even our normal schools are not fitted to be kindergartens for the ideal normal school. All that is necessary to graduate from any Oregon normal school is to be a graduate of one of our regular high schools and at tend the normal school one year. In that ! year students are supposed to study Psychology. School Economy, Methods of Tenching, History of Education and it may be in some cases one or two other branches. In additian to this there is teaching in the Model or Training School which is no doubt the best part of the years work. I need scarcely say that this standard is shamefully low. In order that we may find out how low it really is, let us compare it with what is required for graduation by schools of kindred professions All the best medical colleges in this country demand ar. A, B. degree or the equivalent for entrance and theo at least four year's work for gradu ation. (There is much talk at present of making it five.) Tnis is seven years in advance of the normal schools of Oregon. Surely it should require as much prepar ation to care for the minds of our children as to care for tneir bodies. I know that some one is ready to tell us that the de mand tor teachers is so great that our normal schools would have no students if they placed the requirements for gradua tion so nign. l hat may be true tor a little while, but I very much doubt it The increased demand for teachers would make it easier for normal school pupils to go out and earn some money by teaching and then return to school to make further preparation. Most normal school students are ambitious and would be willing to make their course at school more thorough. In order to have a large attendance the normal schools would not need so many different students as the same students would remain so much longer. As it is the normal schools must do a great dea of recruiting to make up the loss from graduation. The year of my graduation j at a normal school we had 651 students : and graduated but 37. There was no j lack of students there and yet but 6 of j tnose in attendance graduated. The med ical schools do not lack students, j How much work should the ideal normal school require of the average high school graduate? I shali not insist upon a defin-1 ite number cf years although I think that i four years should be the minimum. How ' ever I snail try to teii you what work I : thrk siiou d be done. Every branch that r.as seen taught in :ne mgn scnool snouid oe retaugnt in tne normal school. It is not the mission of the h.gh school to teach a thing so thoroughly as a teacher should leicw it. The higi school has rot the lure tr do it neither is there necessity that it -hoj.d do it. If it were the object of tne h.gn school to prepare young men and women to.be teachers then their method of teaching should be different, but you will all agree that the high school hat another work to do. There is an oid saying to the effect that a teacher should know more about a sub ject than he is expected to teach with re gard to that subject. If he does not have thit additional knowledge hit teaching! soon becomes mere note work. I can best make my meaning clear by illustrating it in the teaching of some branch of study as Arithmetic. The graduate of a normal school should be able to alk to the blackboard and prove every principle and derive every rule in anyordinary Arithmetic. In fact he should Know me wnoie suujw,i, of Aii-!iu.liw id know it well enough to prepare a text book on the subject. It it well that a teacher should knnw It is eisy to criticise, yet kick-i Algebra. Gometrv. Trimnometrv. Cal culus, etc. All these will help him in teaching Arithmetic, but unless he hat ttudied the tcience of thit branch "lis unfitted to be a teacher of Arithmetic. I know that many of our high tchoolt teach what they call Higher Arithmetic but in no one of them tcjfar at I know it it anything more than grade work. It con sistsor we working of problems not nearly to difficult at were worked tho average country tchool twenty-five yeare ago. The country boy of twenty five years ago who had solved the prob ems in Ray'e Higher, Qreenleaf t Nation al, or Brpok.t Higher Arithmetics would smile at the stuff now called Higher Arithmetic in our high tchoolt. In none of our high tchoolt it any attempt made to teach the science of Arithmetic. Please remember that I am not main taining that the high schools should do this work. All that I condemn it hum bugging pupilt by making them believe that th:y are studying Higher Arithmetic when they are doing nothing but grade work and that of not very high character. In truth most of the pupils in our high schoole are not mature enough to study this subject or any other subject as one preparing to teach should study it. But since this work is not dona in the high schools it should be done in the norma L. . C . I uuiur graauaung men and women as full fleged teachers. If our normal schools are to bo purely schools for the teaching of pedagogy then we should have schools of some kind between the high school and the normal schools for doing this work. What I have said of Arithmetic may be said with more or less force cf each study in the normal curriculum. There are twenty-two branches required for lire aicioma all these are taught in the normal schools. At least sixteen of them would merit much ttudy at I have tried w describe, By taking four of these studies per week and allowing two each day. For professional work it would be possi ble to get a fair normal course in four years (Continued on Page 6) THANKSGIVING DINNER Is not complete without one of our Turkeys. Fresh meats of all Kinds KR0USEBR0S Prop Successor to J. Bull and Co Phone Main 48 Mow is the time to have your old umbrella re covered. Smith will do the work. CREAMERY BUILDING Agent for Cleveland Bicycles ESTABLISHED . 3655 1867 The La Grande National Bank REPORT OF CONDITION, NOY. 12th, 1906. RESOURCES "Vo" ' $662,655.58 United State. Bond, 100,000.00 Pn.m.um.onU.S.Bond. 1.T60.00 r 1 Furn,ture' etc 33,475.39 Cash Assets: Due from Banks $116,009.24 Due from U. S. Treasurer, 2.500.00 Cash on hand, 69,029.79-178,439.03 Total $976,320.00 LIABILITIES Capital Stock...:.... ..... $ 1 00.000.00 f,Urplu -....'. .... 20.000.00 Undivided Profits : 46 023 22 Circulation 60,000.00 Deposits Individual...... $756.959 63'. Bank " 3 337. -5-760,296.73 Total $976,320.00 OFFICERS AND DIRECTOR'S GEORGE PALMER. President DIRECTORS .U MEYERS, Ch, w. L BRFNHOf TS Jt Mri nt' iuf ' Pti dent. OEO.L.CLEAVER. ' ' ' ' " F.M.BYRKIT. C, C. PENINGTON, F.J.HOLMES,. With ample capital, larse exo.ri.nr. .- B" C0NLEY' your deposits; 'and X SniTS " U rality consistent with conserj.tiv. bank'ng P yU COUrUou' r flb. ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE Notice it hereby given to all whom it may concern that Edna S. Swart hat been appointed by the County Court of Union county. Oregon, Administratrix of the estate of J. A. Swart, deceased. All persons having claims aaain.r k. .... of said deceased are required to present w.o.ii wan tne proper vouchers within six months from the date hereof to the Ad ministratrix at her home, No. 1401, 8th street. La Grande, Union county, Oregon Dated this Nov. 23, 1906. Edna S. Swart, Administratrix of the estate of J. A. Swart, deceased. REAL RUBBER A big stock of fresh, real rubber water bottles has just arrived at our store Good time to select. Newlin Druo Co. "e)))i Af IfR THE THANKSGIVING . DINNER every man who is a smoker loves a good cigar. The man who don't smoke don t know what a pleas ! ure he is missing, especially if i the cigar be a La Flora Da Hack- man ten cents and bit. Have a J box of fifty or a hundred or if I your guests are few-twenty-flve " of them and they will top off your J turkey In a manner worthy of the C E. MACKMAN, Phone Red 1381 Cnr AA,.. A.. J - aa.ataaa. n.ml nreuuv ana ureen Wood ' (BP copymhJ ' ' e e FOR RENT Unfurnished rooms for rent. suitable for housekeeping. Apply to Mrs. S. C. Zuber. FOR RENT A nicely furnished front room for rent.. Very desirable, close In Inquire of black 6 1 2 or at this office. ' THIS IS THE LAST CHANGE!! 10,000 SHARES of Aurclia Minim Stock are now offered at 15c per share. When this block is sold no more will be offered and the price will be advanced to 20c per share. One year ago the stock sold for a. ... 5c, today at 15c. You will have the same chance now to double your money in the next year. The Company has decided to sell this much of its treasury stock to clean up its debts. It has cost slightly more than was calculated to install its present plant and build roads, etc., and the Company is desirous of keeping the Aurelia out of debt. Sold for this purpose and only for this, the Company offers the above treasury stock. Buy now if you desire a holding with us. The property is well enough known to need no mention here. But will say that our mill run on the ores was a success, as was show by the assays return. Tailings taken every hour showed a. aTa. S f ... Z.uu per ton, and the concentrates assayed $223.55. This is extra for a start up. For Stock or Further Information Call on J.A. THRONSON or J.L. CORBETT corn Pned af "asvLi'
