Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-14
THE DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.

The following circular, now being dlstrlbu'
ted throughout the State, must be OF interest
to our citizens:
CIRCULAR.
The South Carolina Institution for the Ed.
ucation of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind
is located at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg
county, four (4) miles south of Spartanburg
Court House and one Cd mile west of Cedar
Spring station, on the line of the Spartanburg
and Union Railroad, and occupies health
full and pleasant site.
It is strictly an educational institution, hav-
ing for its object the moral, intellectual and
physical training of the young deaf and dumb
and the blind, of both sexes, residing IN the
State, and is, therefore, neither house OF ret
uge for the aged and helpless nor hospital
for the treatment of disease. No discrlnana-
ton On account of color will be made or allowed.
For the benefit of applicants and other in
terested parties, the following information is
presented:
l. The school year commences on the first
Wednesday in October Of each year and clos
es on the last Wednesday in June following,
making continuous session of nine months,
and leaving a vacation Of three months during
the warm season.
2. AS rule, applicants who are under ten
(1O or over twenty-one (21) years of age are
not admitted, but exceptions are sometimes
made in peculiar cases, at the discretion of the
board of commissioners of the deaf and dumb
and the blind.
8. No person of imbecile or unsound mind,
of confirmed immoral character or incapaclta-
ted by physical in6rmity for useful instruction,
will be, knowingly, received into the institu'
ton and in case any pupil shall, after fair
trial, prove incompetent for useful instruction,
or willfully and persistently disobedient to
the regulations of the institution, such pupil
will be, thereupon, discharged.
4. No charge is made for the boarding and
instruction of pupils from the State of South
Carolina, but those from without the State are
charged at the rate of two hundred dollars
(s2O0) per session of nine months, payable in
advance, that is to say one-half at the be-
ginning and the other half at the middle Of the
session.
5. All are required to come provided with
an adequate supply of good comfortable cloth
ing, embracing suitable articles for both sum-
mer and winter wear, in such quantity as to
admit of the necessary changes for washing
and repairing, the whole to be neatly packed
in a good trunk with a good lock and key.
6. Each article of clothing should be dis
tinctly marked with the owners name, in Or
der to prevent confusion or loss, and must be
sent in good order and condition, not only up
on the first entrance of the pupil, but also at
each subsequent return from home after the
vacation.
7. 1t is positively required that every pupil
shall be removed from the institution during
the annual vacation of the school, as well as
at any other time, when such removal may be
deemed necessary by the proper officers
thereof.
s. Persons bringing pupils to the institution,
or visiting them while there, cannot be accom-
modated with boarding and lodging at the i'll
stitution.
g. All letters to pupils should be addressed
to the care of the institution in order to insure
their prompt delivery.
10. Persons desiring to procure the admis-
sion of pupils should apply by letter or other
wise to the superintendent of the institution
forinstructions as to the manner of procedure,
and no pupil should be sent to the Institution
until such instruction shall have been fully
complied with.
F. j. MOSES, JR., President,
S. L. HOGE,
J.K. JILLSON, Secretary,
Board of commissioners Deaf and Dumb and
the Blind.
Columbia, S. c., July 25, 1878.