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   Southwestern Academy ( 1896-1897 )


 

ANNOUNCEMENT  OF  SOUTHWESTERN ACADEMY  1896-1897

Session begin Monday, September 14

Holiday vacation begins December 19th and end January 2,
Session end June 4.


FACULTY
 

J.W. CANTWELL, A.B.B.A., Principal
(Baylor University and Yale University)

F.G. GUITTARD,
(Baylor University and Sam Houston Normal)

GEO. K. LOWE, B.S.
(Vanderbilt University)

MRS. LILLIE LEWIS, B.S.,
(University of Mississippi)

MISS RUTH YOUNG.

MUSIC.

MISS EVA MORSCHEIMER.
(Cincinnati Conservatory.)

MISS MILDRED JACKSON.
(Cincinnati Conservatory.)
 

DR. JOHN GOODE, President
H.C. STEWART,                                              R.S. WARNOCK,
C.M. POMBY,                                                  J.E. COUEY,
J.E. SMITH, Secretary
 

CATALOG OF PUPILS

FIRST GRADE

Beene, Thurman                                                                        Hall, Ada
Blewster, Leta                                                                           Harrington, Vivian
Burdine, Joe                                                                              Joiner, Joe
Burdine, Lillie May                                                                  Killgore, Dawson
Couch, Jennie                                                                            McNeill, John
Couch, Robert                                                                           Moore, Katie
Couch, Lillie                                                                             Merritt, Clyde
Couch, Nellie                                                                            Prator, Miles
Couch, Mattie                                                                           Prator, Frank
Collier, Mary                                                                            Purcelle, Maggie
Cooper, Eunice                                                                         Smith, Walker
Dodson, Earl                                                                             Stewart, Lillian
Cason, Mattie                                                                            Stewart, Frank
Dawson, Launie                                                                        Walker, Hugh
Davies, Pansy                                                                           Wiley, Lillian
Davies, Dixon                                                                           Willis, Fred
Dixon, Ada                                                                               Williams, Rubie
Decker, Rayford                                                                       Weaver, John
Eads, John                                                                                 Yates, Wilton
Fears, Jennie                                                                             Yates, Lillian May
Fomby, Rodger
Pauline Couch

SECOND GRADE

Askew, Ella                                                                               Harringrton, Lizzie
Cross, Truman                                                                           Hutcheson, Dossie
Carraway, Floyd                                                                        Harwell, Cecil
Carraway, Loyd                                                                         Joiner, Lillian
Couch, Gantt                                                                              McNeill, Jennie
Couch, Myrtle                                                                            Moore, Bennie
Couch, George                                                                            Pittman, Allen
Churchman, Charley                                                                   Power, Annie
Curry, Charlie                                                                             Pollard, Lizzie
Davies, Willie May                                                                     Power, Nat.
Emerson, Agnes

THIRD GRADE

Bayless, Maggie                                                                        Dudney, Pierce
Beene, Clyde                                                                             Decker, Jessie
Blewster, Clyde                                                                         Emerson, Leverett
Bussel, Sid                                                                                 Evans, Pearl
Carraway, Willie                                                                       Harrington, Claude
Collins, James                                                                           McNeill, Lucile
Couch, Lillian                                                                           Ozmer, Herman
Custer, Rosa                                                                              Smith, Nannie
Collier, Earl                                                                               Sharman, Anna
Couey, Clifton                                                                           Stewart, Vaughan
Cross, Dan                                                                                 Wiley, James
Cason, Fred                                                                               Wilson, Bertie
Drew, Lillian                                                                             Weaver, May

FOURTH GRADE

Brewer, Harry                                                                            Longino, Willie
Curry, Florence                                                                         McVay, Fred
Custer, Mamye                                                                          Merritt, May
Colquitt, Eugene                                                                        Merritt, Etta
Carson, Clara Belle                                                                    McIntyre, Annie
Dawson, Olive                                                                           McIntyre, Georgia
Dawson, Hazel                                                                           Power, Steve
Emerson, Lillian                                                                        Story, Hugh
Emerson, Ota                                                                             Stewart, Virgie
Gamt, Charles                                                                            Thomas, Harvey
Grimmett, Frank                                                                        Whaley, Gould
Gladney, Birdie                                                                          Walker, Willie
Harrington, Willie                                                                      Wilkerson, Lorina
Hall, Lena

FIFTH GRADE

Beasley, Ethel                                                                            Couch, Eddie
Barrow, Lizzie                                                                           Couch, Fannie
Beene, Beatrice                                                                          Couch, Harry
Bussel, Eulah                                                                             Cason, Jessie
Buffington, Carrie                                                                      Dawson, Cleo
Cross, Ethel                                                                                Eads, Nora
Cross, Charles                                                                            Emerson, Douan
Carraway, Andrew                                                                     Frazier, Phillip
Cantwell, Frankie                                                                       Goode, Charles
Carraway, Mamie                                                                       Goode, Clifton
Grubb, Everett                                                                           Robinson, Parker
Hines, Berta                                                                               Smith, Kittie
Hutcheson, Edna                                                                        Smith, Fannie
Halen, Gertie                                                                              Sharman, Roy
Joiner, Rena                                                                               Stewart, Sanford
Longino, Roy                                                                             Stewart, Lula May
Martin, George                                                                          Spriggs, James
Mullins, Loyd                                                                            Thornton, Joe
Monroe, George                                                                        Wheatley, Naomi
Monroe, Laura                                                                           Wilkerson, Arrie
McNeill, Maggie                                                                        Wesson, Fannie
McNeill, Mildred                                                                       Wallace, Minnie
Pollard, Carl                                                                               Williams, James

SIXTH GRADE

Askew, Lizzie                                                                             Hines, Scott
Boreing, Doak                                                                            Longino, Lulia
Boreing, Tev                                                                              Mathews, Lettle
Buffington, Andrew                                                                   Oliver, Harvey
Buffington, Lillie                                                                        Newton, Joe
Black, Luther                                                                              Power, Susie
Burdine, Maggie                                                                         Smith, Lora
Bevill, Willie                                                                              Sewell, Spead
Curry, Lottie                                                                               Sewell, Pico
Cantwell, John                                                                            Taylor, Lee
Cooper, Luther                                                                            Upton, Bert
Cooper, Felix                                                                               Whaley, Diamond
Couch, Fred                                                                                 Wallace, Spears
Custers, Edgar                                                                             Walker, Tom
Clayton, Jennie                                                                            Walker, Sam
Dudney, Valera                                                                            Waller, Estelle
Eads, Mattie                                                                                 Wiley, Tom
Fomby, Willie                                                                              Wright, Ollie
Harrington, Cooper                                                                      Weaver, Annie
Harrington, Arkle

SEVENTH GRADE

Brewer, George                                                                           Couch, Florence
Bolger, Estelle                                                                             Custer, Jodie
Bolger, Newell                                                                            Colquitt, John
Brooks, Fred                                                                                Colquitt, Sam
Bond, Carrie                                                                                Carraway, Maggie
Couch, Harvey                                                                           Ozmer, Finis
Couey, Coke                                                                              Stewart, Alma
Cason, Roy                                                                                Stewart, Clay
Dixon, Mabel                                                                             Sanders, John
Daniel, Arthur                                                                            Smith, Parks
Dudney, Arthur                                                                          Sims, James
Dudney, Maggie                                                                        Taylor, Walter
Elmore, Nannie                                                                          Taylor, Luna
Goode, John                                                                               Upton, Neppie
Gantt, Mamie                                                                             Whaley, Lizzie
Hutcheson, Neva                                                                        Wyrick, Ille
Hall, George                                                                               Wyrick, Agues
Hearne, Mamye                                                                          Walker, Berta
Keith, Willie                                                                               Walker, Leonora
Luck, Bennie                                                                              Warnock, Ora
Longino, Leland                                                                         Wilkerson, Willie
Longino, Alvan                                                                          Wiley, Emma
Lewis, Sam                                                                                 Williams, Walter
Lewis, B.A.                                                                                 Williams, Maude
Lees, May                                                                                    Wilson, Guy
Mulins, Joe                                                                                  Wilson, Lena
McKay, Frank                                                                             Wallace, Bertie
Mathews, Bessie

UNGRADED

Askew, Nancy                                                                             Grimmett, Henry
Beasley, Eugene                                                                           Hopson, Elton
Cross, Willie                                                                                 Lyle, Charles
Anderson, Overton                                                                       Monroe, Jennie
Couch, Alice                                                                                 Sanders, Percy
Colquitt, Charles                                                                           Smith, Eddie
Cason, Madye                                                                               Taylor, Lizzie
Davies, Clara                                                                                Whaley, Odwin
Emerson, Mary                                                                             Whaley, Ulta
Fomby, Louella                                                                             Wesson, May
Goode, Julia                                                                                   Young, Ruth
Gantt, Nick                                                                                     Couey, Dean
Gibson, W.M.

SENIORS

Alexander Polk Ford                                                                      William Robert Gantt
 

TO OUR PATRONS AND THE PUBLIC

Southwestern Academy has closed another prosperous session.  No man can truthfully say that the progress of this institution in the face of our country’s financial suffering, has not been phenomenal.  Eighteen months ago we entered upon the first session with an enrollment of one hundred and sixteen indifferent students.  During the session two hundred and thirty-four were enrolled; the present session closed with two hundred and ninety-two on our books.  Almost every body is enthusiastic now in their praises of the work.  The children, especially the older ones, are a sure evidence to the patrons of the genuine work of the school.  We are glad in our hearts to note that the aspirations of our young people are becoming nobler, each one is taking on a manly stamp, life is beginning to reveal itself to them as something to be lived; a disposition to press to the front, to be equipped, to do something is manifesting itself in their actions.

 Our school is now the pride of our town, and many of the good citizens of the county are interested in the institution.

 The country round us is impressed with the genuineness of the work that has been done, and not a few are making arrangements to attend next session.

 Why should they not! What parent would turn away from a town whose morals are proverbial, whose people have almost forgotten the old “saloon” sign and the red-nosed toper, whose alleys and dark corners are freed from gambling dens and cesspools of vice?

 We can safely claim that students coming to the Academy will be freed from these vicious influences that fasten themselves octopus like on so many unsuspecting sons and daughters sent off to school before character is fixed.  Why should not all south Arkansas patronize us if we are better equipped than other schools?  With a twenty thousand dollar building and equipments, with a faculty, selected from the best colleges and universities in the United States, what can keep us from success?  Are we not better prepared to do our work than the college whose course covers our territory?  If with a faculty equal to theirs we limit ourselves to preparatory work, we certainly can secure better results than a
so-called college in some other state where the course of study is extended over the entire field.  You can put it down as a good rule that a student who goes to college to enter the preparatory department will not get the attention or advantages that he expects.  Colleges are made for advanced students and that class always gets the best of the college has, the others take what they can get.  Southwestern Academy is in the field for popular education, education that will make better farmers, better merchants, better teachers, better preachers, better doctors, better citizens.

 Investigate the opportunities afforded here before sending your children off to college.  We do not ask for students who are thoroughly prepared for college: let them go, they are ready.  Too many of us in our hurry to go to college, are not prepared.  We enter low, spend a great deal of money, become discouraged and fail to graduate.  If your child is to succeed in life’s race to get him ready for it.  Do not run before you are shod.  The principal will give his advanced students such attention, advice and encouragement as is necessary to bestir them to noble effort.

 Our theory is moral education first: physical education second: intellectual education third: these three perfected in one man is the ideal education.  Towards this goal all our energies are bent.  We invite all people interested to call on us or correspond for further information.

Yours for education.

                                                                           J.W. CANTWELL, Principal
 

COURSE OF STUDY
 

 The school proposes to furnish not only the best system of ELEMENTARY training but also a HIGH SCHOOL course equal to very many of the chartered institutions together with special departments of Music, Art and Elocution.

 Southwestern Academy is not merely a preparatory school.  Its courses and work look to the interest of the pupil who will never attend college.  We are not dove-tailed to fit some particular college, but rather give a well rounded liberal education.  The more we investigate the more we hesitate to subscribe to the formula, ‘The education which prepares for college is the best for him who never goes to college.’  We are assured, however, that for work done in the Academy the student preparing for college, will have credit.  A number of colleges have already signified their willingness to admit our graduates to advanced standing, and we expect during the coming year to place ourselves in proper relation to many of our best schools.

FIRST DIVISION

GRADE ONE
 Chart-reading and First Reader, Drawing, Writing Numbers, Oral Lessons and Singing.

GRADE TWO
Second Reader and Supplemental Reading, Spelling, Numbers, Drawing, Singing, Oral Lessons in Natural Sciences.

SECOND DIVISION

GRADE THREE
Third Reader and Supplemental Reading, Spelling, Primary Arithmetic, Primary Geography, Language Lessons, Singing and Drawing.
 

GRADE FOUR
  Fourth Reader and Selections, Spelling, Primary Arithmetic, Primary Geography, Language Lessons and Singing.
 

THIRD DIVISION

GRADE FIVE
 Primary History of the United States, Advanced Geography, Elementary Grammar, Arithmetic, Reading Selections, Music and Physical Culture
 
 
 
 

GRADE SIX

 History of the United States, Advanced Grammar, Arithmetic, Advanced Geography, Reading, Fiction and Select Poems, Music and Physical Culture.

FOURTH DIVISION

GRADE SEVEN

 Physiology, Civil Government, Advanced Grammar, Higher Arithmetic, Land Survey, Elementary Algebra, Beginner’s Latin, Select Reader

GRADE EIGHT

 General History, Elementary Rhetoric, Physical Geography, Advanced Algebra and Geometry, Caesar and Virgil, Select Readings

HIGH SCHOOL

FIRST YEAR

 Physics, Cicero, Botany, Geometry, Trigonometry, Beginner’s Greek, Xenophone and English Literature
 The above course of study is intended to cover nine years, each grade requiring a year’s work.  Pupils of average ability can finish the course in this time, but examinations will be held several times a year, and we will be able to advance or retard pupils according to their needs.
 Courses in French and German may take the place of Greek, two modern languages being an equivalent for Greek.  For Greek and Higher Algebra each two years in music or art will be accepted from the girls.

GRADUATION

 At the close of each session, pupils who have finished the Literary course may, on the payment of two dollars and fifty cents, receive a handsome diploma, bearing the names of the faculty and board of directors.  We propose to make these diplomas represent a certain amount of work and attainment and to be an honor to the possessor.

MUSIC

 The department of music has succeeded beyond the expectations of any.  The enrollment for the present session has reached forty-two and the average daily attendance remarkably large.  The present teachers are both from a conservatory of high repute.
We are glad to announce the same faculty in this department next session.  It is our purpose to secure an additional teacher to take charge of the vocal department, and to instruct on violin and guitar.  The course in piano is arranged to meet the entrance demand of conservatories of high repute.  The vocal department is at present under the care of Miss Morschleimer.

ART
 The Academy has been too crowded to admit of this department.  Arrangements can be made for painting and drawing, with schools which are acquiring reputation, and which the Academy can recommend to students of art.
 

PHYSICAL CULTURE
 While the school does not propose to employ a teacher of Physical Culture, it does propose to care for the health and physical development of its students.  The principal will deliver frequent lectures of hygiene and will prescribe and supervise physical exercises that give vigor and animation of over-studied pupils.

 It is sure that the mind and body develop hand-on-hand: and what ever affects on produces a change in the other.

MORAL CULTURE
 This side of the pupils must receive special attention.  Education is a curse to humanity without it.  They must be instilled with high ideals of life, must gather moral strength as they do intellectual, must be able to control passions and appetites.

 To this end teachers whose daily lives are examples to the students of purity of heart and self control, will be employed; the school will be opened daily with song, Bible reading and prayers; the notion of right will be implanted in tender youth and nursed to manhood.

 The school is in no sense sectarian and church dogmas will not be admitted in any form.
LITERARY SOCIETY
The Philosopbian Society affords an opportunity for young men and boys which is not provided in many of our schools.  The power to express one’s self in public is almost valuable acquisition now a days, and those who expect to attend a school, examine with reference to this part of school work.  The teachers in the Academy are all members and assist in literary work which consists of debates, orations, essays, readings, parliamentary drills, etc.
 The Society has secured over four hundred volumes as a nucleus for a library.  The committee expects to increase this number at the beginning of the fall term of school.
 

EXPENSES
TUITION

 Tuition is payable one month in advance.  This has worked most satisfactorily during the present session.  It will be adhered to more rigidly than during the past session.  Good notes will be accepted as cash on tuition.  This is the only sure way to maintain a school dependent on tuition.  By this no man is deprived of the benefits if school and no man pays the other man’s tuition.

The following rates of tuition will be charged

First and Second Grades, per month      $1.50
Third and Fourth Grades, per month      $2.00
Fifth and Sixth Grades, per month      $2.50
Seventh and Eight Grades, per month      $3.00
High School, per month       $4.00
Graduation Fee        $2.50
Music, per month        $4.00
Art, per month         $4.00
Elocution, per month        $1.00

BOARDING

 The idea of establishing a dormitory has been abandoned after due consideration.  First, because the town is so quiet, it is unnecessary to college students and assume strict supervision at night.  There are no night revels, and hence no collecting of boys after dark.  In such a place it is better not to collect the boys.  Secondly, board can be had with private families at as low rate as can be provided at a dormitory.

 At present good board can be had at from $7.00 to $10.00.  The principal takes supervision of boarding students and reserves the right to transfer them if it seems best to him.

 At few good homes can be found for worthy young men who are willing to do chores for their board.  Some of our greatest men have come up in this way.

DISCIPLINE

Little need be said under this head.  The school will be controlled and as rapidly as pupils can be led to it, self-control will be admitted.  It is one of the strongest principles underlying education, that’s a boy or girl must be led to self-government and to a regard for the rights of others.
 

DIRECTORY OF MAGNOLIA’S LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES

BUFFINGTON & WARNOCK Fancy and Staple Groceries A.T. DIXON Agent Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York
DR. J.M. BOLGER Physician and Surgeon J.P. DODSON Carpenter and Builder
BLEWSTER & HALL General Merchandise MISS M.R. EARLY Millinery and Ladies Goods
BLAKE MANUFACTURING CO. Grocers sundries and toilet specialties.  Special terms to agents A.B. ELMORE Dentist. North side of square
J.M. BURDINE Carpenter and Builder FINLEY DRUG CO. Drugs, Chemicals and Sundrie
T.N. BURDINE Blacksmith and Farrier C.M. FOMEY General Merchandise
I.B. BIRD Saddles, Harness and Shoes repaired GOODE & LONGINO Physicians and Surgeons
CROSS-STEWART MERCANTILE CO. Dry Goods and Clothing, Notions GOODE HOTEL First class in every respect
I.W. COUCH & CO. Dry Goods and Groceries E.T. HUTCHESON’S & SONS Drugs, Patent Medicines, School Books and Stationary, Paints and Oils.  South side of square
COUEY & COUCH Furniture and Undertaking H.G. HARRINGTON Lessons in India Ink, Patel and Water Colors. Correct copying
COUCH & McNEILL General Merchandise B.L. JEAN Dry Goods and Groceries, strictly cash
COUCH & EMERSON Livery, Sale and Feed Stable JOHNSTON & MERRITT General Merchandise
IRVIN COUCH Proprietor Star Cotton Yard GUS KOHN All kinds of meats, game and fish in season
W.O. CARRAWAY Buys Wool, Hides and Cotton A.S. KILLGORE Attorney at Law, will practice in all the courts of the state.
COLUMBIA COUNTY BANK A General Banking Business LONGINO & GOODE Drugs and Druggists Sundries
T.G COUCH Everything in the Hardware line MARTEL & MELTON First class Barber Shop
COLLIER’S ORCHESTRA Under the direction of Prof. F.F. Collier
DENNIS MERCANTILE CO. Dry Goods and Groceries
J.J. MARTIN & CO. Fancy groceries, cold drinks, tobacco and cigars STEVENS & STEVENS Attorneys at Law, will practice in all the courts of the state
C.W. MCKAY Attorney at Law, will practice in all the courts in the state WALKER & SEMLEAR Constructors, Brick work a specialty.  Estimates furnished on all kinds of work.
C.L. MAXWELL Leading Jeweler, First class repairing J.M. WALLER & CO. General Merchandise
S.H. POWER, AGENT General Merchandise WHEATLEY BROS. General Merchandise
A.T. PRATOR Horses and Mules JEFF WALLACE & LEWIS Attorneys at law, practice in the Federal and state courts
N.H. STARK Cotton Buyer and Broker.  Always in market R.S. WARNOCK Horses and Mules
J.W. STORY Wagon maker and Blacksmith T.T. WILEY Jeweler, repairing neatly done
W.D. STEWART Agent for Star steam, Laundry at Little Rock POPE WALKER General Merchandise
 

COLUMBIA BANNER
BY THE EMERSON PUBLISHING CO.
FIRST CLASS JOB OFFICE IN
CONNECTION

R.L. EMERSON & CO.
GENERAL MERCHANSE

REAL ESTATE AGENCY
OF R. L. EMERSON & CO.
50,000 ACRES AT $1.00 TO $5.00 PER ACRE

R.L. EMERSON, Notary Public





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