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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1890)
definite purpose, anil vet keep the by all schoo o c • ” 6olic- BURNS ADVERTISEMENTS one. corporation, or society work of each so-called gra«’« sc in the county, is respect - something without value. wide in extent as to enable teachers ited. When'we go to church, if we do Very respect fill 14 to combine classes without retard WXDSESDAY. JULY». IWO. The object of this letter is to pre. not learn anything, we want at C has N ews ? sent for the consideration of the ed ing the progress of any. With this least to be interested. We can as basis, our course of studv is ar Supt. Schools. - Editor». sure conferenceofone thing certain, ucators, and friends of education, of ranged into three grades, each cov and that is, the better the talent rlarney county, a few suggestions ering about eighteen month’s actu Leading Merchant of Harney G oj as to the mode of advancing a step ------- DEALICM IN-------- Bishop W. Taylor, a missionary T he H erald has, several times the better the pay. al work. In thii plan there is great; educationally. The fact that prop of Africa, at a meeting of Method this spring and summer, called at DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS erly graded schools hive many ad frecdon for the teacher in combin ists ministers in San Francisco, tention to the inefficiency of our T he Ontario mail route is said to ing classes, yet the pupil is required BOOTS, SHOES, GROCERIES, HARDWARt June 23d. in response to an invita town to cope with accidental or in- 1 lie a daily mail from the railroad to vantages over the common mixed STOVES. TINWARE. CROCKERY, GLAS s W ab , or ungraded schools, is one that ad to “balance tip” at the end of llnee tion, spoke some time on the pro cendiary fire. P a KTS. OILS. GLASS, PUTTY, THE CELEHRn, I Burns, ami so registered. Let us distinct pc rii.ds. He cannot pass If some two or three prominent look into this niail business some mits of no reasonable doubt. The gress and prospects of missionary SULTANA RAZORS. AND “I X L” CUTLERY. WlJr • the primary grade unless he iseont-i men of the town would take it upoe what. The government thinks • superior efficiency of the city CKiAli-AYD A THOUSAND OTHER ARTICLE work in Africa. He said that i pletely prepared, as shown by ex-1 TEDIOUS TO MENTION. 14 themselves to agitate the necessity ¡that Burns is getting their mail ¡schools has fully demonstrated the manhood, womanhood, physically, ; amination, on the studies perscribed advantages of system in the teach- of, at least, good flues in the build daily from the railroad, the last were not inferior to those of any ings, then, we are told, the insur-j mail we received at Burns over the ;er’s work over the laxity of the for that grade, but he is not I ound other country on earth. The wo ance company will insure our prop-! Ontario mail line was on the first I common district school, but it is down so closely while yet in the men are very tall, straight and Full Weigh*FnH Measure, and Extra, Q,, gr. de. The conditions govern the erty at reasonable rates. II.i< always been t l- “,,J 1 bn.nd to undo aln my tt.r,Utt< >°’ " day of July, and to-day (Wednes , not thought that we are fully pre- intermediate and grammar grades. powerful, atol able to carry great In relation to fire the business; day) is the ninth, eight days with | pared as yet to undertake the regu- burdens. lié related an instance Again, the promotions being less; men of our town are actin? more ; out our daily, or what should be i lar and systematic grading of the in which a irebal queen had carried iS frequent ami more important, may like school-boys than sensible men.. our daily mail. Is the Ontario j schools of our county, therefore a a trunk thirty miles without ap- I e more rigidly based upon satis-1 In case it fire would break out, I substitute is proposed which will varent weariness after two men what would wc do? Stand and i route of any advantage to Burns,Jor accomplish about the same as the factory examinations. The pupil > hull given it up. He claims that the people living on the line? We may coipplefe the worlt in" the aver gape at each other like idiots, or graded school, and which can be more than half the population of run around excitedly, gather un a think we would be better off with ’adopted with but little or no incon age time or iii nJuch less. He can the country ire slaves; man-steal- few buckets, give a whole budget of out it, we get our mail three times venience, expense, or loss of time see before him the okjedtive points a week by way of Canyon City, and orders, and the result would be a to be gained in eiich brhnch before ing goes the same it has for ages loss to the town of enough dollars, the Ontario supposed daily line, on the part of teacher, School Board, he can proceed onward, lie knows past-; armed bands of mauraders I 'go from village to village killing if properly invested before any fire, interferes very much with us get or students; it is simply a course BVRKB, 01 to give us ample protection. of study. The advantages of a the t< sts, all of which myst be suc and destroying the weak and ear W. E GRACE, PaorniKTOK, . raoor. ting our mail by way of Canyon cessively met, for promotion, not Then why is it we do not see course of study have been well dis- the able-bodied away ahd rying .w¡> O ffîc ®» ' City. that every house has a good flue? necessarily at stated periods of ce Why? Because the supposition c.issed and are generally every time, but as definite . measures, of telling them fir slaves to other so that property owners, who desire A Large Assortment*^ "“"k* ^jaft where conceded. How to arrive at lie further states that to do so, can insure their property. is, that the Ontario is a daily line tribes. progress. This will tend, largely a course adapted to the require- and we will get our mail daily, and to the develpement of ind.ividu.tlitv strong drink is their greater ene- FZrJE CJ rLERY, NOT« L ast Monday, Judge Shields our mail is sent on that line, to lay I ments of rural districts, has been a in the pupil. He has to cross the mv, destroying and killing the na dropped his official roles and i.etween here and the railroad for I ; problem surrounded l>y a maze of tives rapidly, and it is, also, a great H ur juwi been Received. line fairly from step to step up donned the garb of a private citizen, six, eight, or ten days, and accu difficulties Variation of length ot impediment to Christianity and civ ward The clement of time is not and his successor, Win. Miller, mulate at points on the route, until | • school terms, frequent changes of considered Exaniinatiiui of classes ilization, prejudicing the people took the oath of ollice and stepped the citizens hire teams to go out j i teachers and many other things • need not beheld by classes at stat against the christain countries into a very responsible position, but and gather it up and bring it in. I j contribute to the perplexities of the ed periods, but by individuals at The liquor coming from civilized PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY C0MPCr*^pF. more of him presently, md when sent for, find it thrown j question it is true, but we believe such time as th*•• may present fountries, as it does, naturally Everyth» g guaranteed pure and of ths very ^»t fi’/sHKiirBY Judge Sheilds has made an abb loosely into rooms, barns, outhouseH 1 that the teachers and officers of ed themselves and be accepted as •turnsthe natives against the mis- jaeUlarhMt and efficient officer, and one whom and etc. Now if we are correctly ucational matters in Harney coun I sionaries sent from those countries ready for tests of scholarshiy. This the citizens of our county were, and informed th» is about the truth of ty, will solve the problem and are affords the greatest freedom to : I’olyamy prevails everywhere; even should be. proud of. Judge Shields the matter, and unless there is a ready and willing to take the step teacher and pupil. It encourages J infants are bought and held for is the only appointee made by Gov. change for the better would not the that will raise our schools from the bright ones, and stimulates the j wives. He thinks that in twenty I’ennoyer, who did not offer him people of Burns, living on the their somewhat perplexed situation dull ones. Another strong point in i years 1000 mission stations will self as a candidate, in the recent line of the route be better off if the to the plane of the graded school. favor of such a course- is, that pu I be established in that country; he county election, had he offered government would suspend" the Our schools must have an object pils who are compelled by force ot ! also thinks that the appointment himself he, no doubt would hav< rout entirely? for then it would ive point towards which the united j of Stanley, as governor, isa good This large nnd commodious Hotel has been gsneraBr » ' efforts of our teachers should be di circumstances to labor upon the thing and wilt be satisfactory. vated. The Proprietor wil. spare no pains to please hii E or SIN* been elected, bv a large majority not exist to fool the citizens. I 1« hereby si reeled. The time has passed when farm or in the householdqujav have for we think that his impartial /MF'Good tai le service, and tai lea furnished with all miri«iMMS|MM A! before them a guide to home study oupil8 can be allowed to drift along discharge of the duties of the of lerease*!. th A special to the Refill Jiean from Ores»». *»» with the tide of personal preference, j and instruction. With the course fice of county judge made him Our Band. ul»., the «1 of study in his hand, lie knows .« k a nt. of many friends among all classes in There is no question of the fact In pursuance of our plan, the dis-1 what to do, and finds out how to do San Antonio, Tex , says: Reports irt t o the he ........ - - rigs <sgl the county. but that our Band has done good trict schools of our county must be j ,t. It will thus enlarge t|>u scope which arc absolutely reliable have ay be to sat* reached San Antonio of sedition well balanced. Our pupils should He had an eye single to the go >d tvoik for our town, and is one ot vretor oftb <1 of the citizens, and fertile benefit the main fi ctors in any public en be able to read and write fairly the and influence of thcschuol, oy car ! and revolutionary movements going j of the county. A gentleman in terprise or gatlierirg that we have, English language, as well as work j rying it to every home, and thus ! on in the states of Mexico border-1 BURNS OSCULATING T ,IBRAr~~g every respect, and holding himself and from what we sometimes hear problems in arithmetic. The course ' gives added inti rest to the school, j ing on tile Rio Grande, and it seem.- AND above and superior, to any political on the street, remarks are mad*- of training undertaken should def t think the eimplicity of this j the utmost folly for the papers, how-1 : BOOK EXCHANGE trickery, or subsidy policy, to fur that would lead persons to think initely answer the question, “what j scheme will commend it to officers, I evtw friendly to Mexico and the IN TiIE UEKAO BUILDING. teachers and parents, and j with a Diaz adminstration, to longer sup ther his own aspirations or political and believe the Band to be of little j is a common school education.” : MR1. GRACE, - - - - - - ! ambitions. Honest in all businos- value in any respect. Now, the] To insure this end there must b a little explanation, every intermedi press the nfews. This movement ir ■ ihjeel of. pc in< h!a‘ ub I’cis i : c«>*.i dt i.jn with the free Readlt^r K oum its J ate and grammar pupil will seize tin n f«>r piirthashig b./vks f«.i a i ublii L.hrxr» L.r i»urna— The lot tv-r th«biiluiti not confined to any locality but is transactions; when duty called h< boys don't kick at poor pay and common plan of work, definitely ar T/.RM'S: Membership Fee $1 n car. Rea 1.14 Fee Hr. Dep Bi. uf L»r, ur Re.iii upon its chief features with un in undout tedlv widespread, as . fa: < i< al ur Huok, niMv.e wi.h he I.lLrar nti. it. o»er* i. a iuc «. &e».a fcr ( aiaie-jut cheerfully followed; never hesitat broken promises, but when their ranged, bo as to meet the ordinary" The i ibia ia> is a/ent f< r an will ink» .'U b 1 ip h v b at iho 1 vvii’Ri’tf ing a moment to express his opin efforts are not properly appreciated, conditions of our district schools telligent am jlllon to meet the tests i as the border states are concerned i i. a /US" . anti . r er an . tn.- k. pu >!i»he*. i:. lhe i ui er ft.a ts *>r 1 at »•*». A iv, »ht« ion on any public question and and slurring remarks made, such The courses of study fi r the ci y of promotion and graduation. Toe ! Constable Martinez who has jus’ Hi iiiivH. W.,rkt>..(Art, HwU»«-rtUiiUiitg Deai^na, Etc. always ready to condemn a fraud as “the band boys want to hog it schools do not fit these conditions difficulties of adjusting details need come from Nuevo Leon, descri. ed a threatening condition of affairs Every one knew how he stood. ; all," etc., in the very face of the Time in them is an element, while not te encountered, lor there all along the Rio Grandejt jHaiti. 1 . Judge, we bid you a kind adieu, of ¡facts which are the contrary, for in the distrtet or rural school, lhe none. The introduction of ficially, for the present, hoping that I the band doys have never made a j ability of the pupil, his intellectual course of studies requires but this He savs that at nearly every station and side track along the Mexicar vour ways may be ways of peace I dollar of pleasure spending money , growth, is the standard from which single proeeedure: 1. The careful study of flic ob National railroad lie saw crowds of nad pleasantness to determine his advancement from yet; what little has been paid Now after a short salutatory to them for their services has gone one step to another. Many coun jective points of each grade, as out men congregated and excitedly dis F. E. B each . President, I W m . M c F all . TrtnwB wur present esunty judge, Wm. for music and instructions. As ties of other States have adopted a lined in the closing statements ot cussing the advisability of joining E. H ughes , Vice-President, | W. F. B kow . xtox , scholarship required to Complete in a rebellion against the Federal Miller, we close this article. yet they have not been able, out course of study from which a vast The voters of Harney county of the proceeds of any money taken amount of good has beer dcrivid each, and as illustrated by the sam government. W hen he left L.treLo this morning a courier had just st gave you a handsome majority, the in for music, to buy a uniform. and if good has beer, done iu tl e e ple questions given. in Ast of Directors and Stockholders at the office of tbs 2. Tne arranguient ef the prima rived bearing informat’nn of fifty largest, except one, of any candi There is and ol*l saying, “give th* counties by such action, why may J. D. Shaw, date before the people; clearly devil his dues," it not be done in our county. The ry classes is then the most import : men, well organized and armed, 2-30tf BURNS» OREt ant work, but is certainly aided showing their confidence in your The Band has been, and is, of organization of ungraded schools rather than hindered by the sug ■ who crossed the Rio Grande from , tho Texas side, en route to some ability and integrity, and we be great benefit to the ¡town, and let demands these essentials. lieve you will not forfeit that confi us help them what we can, because ; point in the interior of Neuvo Leon. 1. Definite government by th«- gestions of the course. dence. We knew you when you they frequently neglect their pri- district Board, in perscribed regu 3. Tlie measure of intermediate ' where the revolutionary forces are pupils and of grammar pupils is ' massing in large numbers to march were justice of the peace in Burns 1 vale business, deprive themselves lations. given in the closing tests suggested , to Saltillo and route the troops precinct, how well you did your du of personal pleasure, and actually A good courre of study. 2. ty, being t|>e first in our precinct married men, who arc members of 3. Judicious classification upon m those grades. The question with | there. All the telegraph lines in each pupil is, Can 1 pass this teat Mexico are under rigid control of who, under all circumstan'-s. did the Band, are sometimes compelled that course. Keep« constantly on hand a larra Bl at k Federal government, audit is what you deemed just nnd right. to neglect their families and their 4. The program of daily exercises. lor promotion to the grammar \\ hat do I know.’ ; practically impossible to get any di- We are well aware of the fact* <hat wives, in ordei to please and ac 5. Arrangement of examination grade? riotous conduct received a check commodate the public; for the hus for promotion and for completing •What must I vet accemiplish in rect information. » ; I : order to pass?” With this intelli during your term of office, which band is the proper escort of the the course. check had only been feebly applied wife, and upon all public occasions 6. Complete, yet simple, records. gent aelf-measurement instituted, A praticnl and forcible illustration previous to that time, and we trust; the wife has to take care of Fifty-four months work, properly ¡corrected by the teacher, the older] ! of the folly of a third party inter- tnat a similar course of conduct of guided, should give the average pu- pupils soon find their places—i. e. i I fering with or attempting to make All kinds wf surface lumber thoroughly reasoned for traUdiag will actuate you in vour present herself, besides she has the care I pil in the country school a fair their immédiate uL^yett* u*. tliwj REDUCED PRICE. 1“ peace betwUfn a man wife, was position, and may you have the ' the family for the time being. I knowledge of the common branches; school work—and the question of clearly shown in an affair tliat took nerve to grapple every difficulty, a period of nineyears of six mouths classes disappears or exists only as place at Seattle, June2.fi, near the stamping upon every transaction of yours, the truth of your fidelity President Menendez died suddenly each. Under a well, arranged and lone of convenience, The school > Russ hotel, on Soutn Sixth street. June 25, soon after tha conclusion of ! fairly, observed course of instruc liecunies a combination of workers and honesty of pur[>oee. a banquet given on the occasion of. tion, the child whe enters the rural classified solely for the most useful ’ i As a consequence Mrs. O. E. Wiers, A Good ’ond all the wav. No. 178 South Sixth street, was hit the fifth anniversary of the entrance school nt six should be able to disposition of the teacher’s time. I T he large congregation, and the ' of General Menendez into Fa i Sal- count, after years of effort, notwith 4. The fourth step is represented I in the mouth by J. A. Parrel and attention given Elder Wakefield, I vador and the defeat of the Fealdi- standing all the difficulties of irter- in the work of each pupil to acquire had her set of pearl white falseteeth last Sundy, show plainly that the spilt upon the floor. Farrell was i iw;?n\ jieople of Burna and vicinity ap var faction. During the panic ular attendance, change of teachers the scholarship, and of the teacher I giving his wife, a variety actress, t llïLhl caused by the oresident ’ s death to give the training and instruction, and poor classification, a substan preciate the gospel, and when the n good sound whipping, when Mrs. \\ M. Worms, M anaoxr . conference can afford to send, on General Marcow and several other tial and symmetriJal progress, and stated as the measure of the grade, Wiers interfered with the result thia circuit, talent, it will be paid offi ers wore killed at th'barracks. stand at the age of fifteen with the in which bv works. The classifica stated I ARGES TSTABLE AND RARN IN THE HARNET 1 Having failed tostopFar- for. But if the Methodist confer Genera) Carlos Ezeta, leader of the training, the scholarship, and the tion and work of succeeding terms rell in the brutal assault upon his CletMi— Fresh—New ence think Harney valley in the forces, is now in command. All is ambition which the school system is a matter based on rcords of pro wife. Mrs. Wiers betook herself to quiet at present. Plentv Feed, Water, an d Comjietent of the State is intended to afford gress and acquired standing. back woods, and an ignorant mob. | police headquarters and made in- Th!» Sttb’e »th a lull I Kerr »-■« < ttd < ('••i« n. 1»open tu al!. Hvwi. • I arcfulh iruvind, fee «ad waictad. The course of study herein re The great anti only Bill Nye has the children of all the people. The who have not sense, or are not i formation against Farrell. An CHtkOi’ HKAHONABLK. €*»■• ferred to, has been arranged with this to say of th« salvation army: course of studies which I would re morally capable «.(judging a ser i officer started in pursuit, and after mon, and too deeply dyed with sin •'when they know the great adver commend at this time, for adoption »rxoial reference to the school. °* i (.|iaJingThe man aevèral ^bl'iH’ks and misdemeanors to be affected sary of souls as well as I do they in the schools of this county, is in Harney county and ha. already ,m.rtO(,k anj p|aced him un(lrf ar. Burns-Canyon Stage Line, and made better men and women, would not try to scare him with a tended to secure for our rural met with the approval of several1 I J ewitt . P roprikto *. Les»»» Bor-« ••» Mondays, wsdnss-'s's, snd PrWeTS, ■ it is very much mistaken. The cross-eyed woman or hive h.ni and schools the benefit derived from a prominent educators to whom it! >CM>Mets «l.h ;hs ontsrl.., FriMvIll«. and t star*. •* —A Cnvingtion Kv. a mans wife citizens of our country are intelli his host by beating the tamlorine. course in city «ehoils. without has been presented for criticism lioee Ur psMsursrs. gent, capable, and know when they the scad-but and the landlord. Hu binding pupilsand teachers to those The course is. ns yet, not in print, refused to sing for him, which made manity. charitv, soft soap and un- rigid classification which, though but if it is the un/himotts verdict him very angry, he locked her tip hear a good sermon. We do not dictate to conference, selfishness wdl do more toward giv necessary and useful in graded of the school officers of this county, in a room, took her clothing from and command them what to do. ing Satan “tired feeling” than all schools are impossible in the that the course shall be adopted, her. and fed her on bread and water TON SAM ------- neither do we allow the conference the loud onion-flavor*! ho'annas of country district. Promotions are provided it proves upon rnve.tiga- nineteen days. At the end of that to dictate to us and say we must misguided men and bleating women not intended to be made necessari tion to be satisfactory, then, it will ! time she warbled like a bird; but to CHINESE AND JAPANESE < take what they see ¡proper to give who seek to harass the hosts of hell ly by classes, but also by individu be printed and distributed liberally a . policeman, not her husband, and Fite, Fanc’ful. and Varie •• d. and be thankful. We guess we are i with a bass drum, while their own als, and without reference to stated among sch*«! officers and teaoliers the hue* and is now warbling to Gire hie »»..re acai «ben in ton. aed examlae the eretta Reae nab!# Prkee for r»ah ling d.ww * .•*<»’< Ward«-*’ tim s. The idea is to hold the in- 'children, with empty stomachs and of our county. An earn* st clpees himself in thegl.om of a prison not a thankful people, at least Har ney valley ¡xxiple never thank any , unlaundrikd noses, weep at hoiu«"., dividual ambitions of pupoe to a sion of Mutiuieul upon the sui pct. >cell. A CHINESE LAUNDRY THE HERALD. THE PACIFIC FIRE INSURANCE CAPITAL St300,0 setfo dS? ireliiat)le4 Flooring, New ¿¡XÆctotiine BURNS CHINESE BAZAR