Southern Illinois Journal

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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
FLORA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, JUNE   28,  1907.
NUMBER 24
NEW TERM OPENS NEXT MONDAY
The  Regular Teachers' Summer Normal Opens July 1, Con¬ tinuing in Session Four Weeks-
PREPARE FOR EXAMINATION
Science Classes and CoamoB  Branches
will Receive Skilled Atlentlon
aod Help hrom Experienced
lastructara.
ry
In falling to .Tttotid the training school at the Orchard City Collegi", some teacbera are misstag tbe best every day school ever held in Clay Connty. For instancf the lessons iu pennianshtp so different, so aniqne in drill and method that it is of injalcnable loss to the children of the connty that their teach - ers know nothing of teaching this all important brunch. The arithmetic demoneitrationa are not equalled nny- wbere. Nothing^ like it was ever at¬ tempted in this section. The leiuions in drawing and tba drill!! in reading and einging mnsic by note is the finest Bnc ¦ ce9.s ever known in Clav County.
Dv. Edwin A. Givenlaw's claHseH are of absorbing power nnd he bus not for gotten bis old way of intere..tim( nnd boldingj^herapt Httentiqn of his pnpils. He expresses himself as highly please.! with tbe personnel of the school.
The stnrtents nre all keeping noto books tilled with tlie drawings, sugges¬ tions, copieii, problems, snd study ont- Iinei>, all of which >tre incomparably superior to tuiything ever sent out to help tbe boys and girls who will lie tbe pupilx of tbew Htndent teachers during the coming school year.
NEW TERM.
iThe four weeks term for teaehers opens next week, Monday, Jnly 1. and the Connty Superintendent says that fifty teachers will join the ranks of the Students now at work.
The science class in Botany is busily at work and they .ire making fine ad- vancoment. The cnme may be said of the elass in ph^sic.-i. The outlines and esperimMif-. and apparatus and large compoauil microscope all give zest to tbis necessary aud practical branch. Nd man or woman is educated, mnch less qualilipd to educate children, who is not fatniliur witli the principles of physical science. The students in zool¬ ogy are nsing Tenny and otber authors while they stndy and recite from black¬ board ontlines. They are deeply inter¬ ested and some have studied ehead of the class and soou will complete the text-lwok.
Tne County Snperintendent's examl. nation of applicants for teachers' cer - tificates will be held at the close ot the Normal and before tbe opening ot the regnlar Institute.
Baalnens4'ollvKe l.oealH.
All ot the colkge gradaates who have made an eifort to   «ecare  job.i   as  ate nographors have obtained good pnsitions and satisfitotory salaries.
Miss AtH Btown is stenographer tothe Secretary of the Vice President of the Missonrl Pacific Ry. Company, St. Lonit She has a very fine position in an elegant office, short hours, and a salary of (50 per month.
Ur. Robert Riggle bas a good place witb a Cbiciik-u arm, Tbe National Founders' AsHociaiion, Ue says, "I bad very little trouble in seonriDg a position. I came to Chlcigo Inst Monday morning and fonnd a position tbat same e venlng.''
Mr. Hosea Stark is in the employ ot the Missouri Pai itic Ry. Co atSt. Lonis.
jvi. Uurmun ^itoue is employed at the Forest Park nighlanda, St. lionia.
Mr. Kay Scaly ia stenographer to tbe St. Louis Well Machine and Tool Co., and writes that be i« well satisfied with bis position.
Mr. Edgar Cocbennonr is in the em- ploT ot the Cotton Belt By. Co., St. Lonis, at a salary ot $06 per montb.
Prof. Oreenlaw layi that the oall for good stenograpben is far ahead of laet yekr. He conld giva immediate em¬ ployment to scores of yonng men and women provided tbey wera acquainted with the business branches.
KoriMAL CLASS LOCALS.
Miss Frances McCommons, Miss Katie Comlis and Miss Tonthel Combs are new enrollments in tb* Sclenos claasas.
Dr. Edwin A. Qresntaw's olssaes are doing carefnl and systematio work in Language and History.
The elegant and powerful college mt- oroscope adds mucb to the interests ot Ihe Mtnoe Clusas.
Attetnpti to Escape from Chester Qriaco
One ot the most desperate and deter¬ mined efforts to escape, in the history ot the prison wat made by one of tbe con¬ victs at the Soathem Illinois peniten¬ tiary OB the evening ot Jane 15.
Sevia Watkins, No. 5814, a negro, is serving a life sentence from Alexander Connty for murder. He was caught in the act ot bnrglarizing a r^->re in 1896 and lldlled f the man who interrnpted him. He was tried, convicted, and re¬ ceived at tbe prison, Jane i:), 1891). Jnst eleven years ago and tbree days fI om that date he enjoyed a few minutes of liberty, probably tbe last he will en¬ joy tbis side of tbe grave. He waa a model prisoner, and was advanced from time to time until he wsa