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Marion Herald, June 23, 1887
FROM SHOTTSVILLE - Shottsville, Ala., June 13th, 1887 - Editor Herald: I
am a little boy just out of the teens, I live on Bull Mountain Creek three
miles north of Shottsville very near the center of the coal region a very
mountainous portion of country it certainly is. Crops in this section of
country are promising at present, people are in the grass some on account
of so much wet weather. It is reported that MR. LOYD has found near his residence
a bed of coal eight feet thick. There is great excitement in this part of
the county about railroads at present. The Sheffield and Aberdeen survey
is being made about five or six miles north of this place on Hurricane Creek.
It is rumored that Mr. THOMAS YOUNG will announce himself as a candidate
for Representative next term. A word to the school teacher. I favor a uniformity
of textbooks and would recommend the following named branches as the standard.
McGuffey's readers, Webster's Dictionary, Harvey's English grammar, Ray's
mathematics, Kearl's Composition and Rhetoric, Murray's Geography, Steele's
fourteen weeks in Natural physiology, and any good work on Hygiene or Physiology.
I am in favor of retaining the old Webster spelling book. Therefore I can
not indorse the theory of Mers. ARNOLD and FARRIS that it ought to be excluded.
I will close for this time. J. W. HARRIS.
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