The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-09
a Few Words SbOut the Home Lecture
Course.

Hero is az old law: ."Yeu must
care for your own or nobody else will"
a course of bright and improving
winter entertainments, gotten up and
sustained by our home talent, seems
certainly to come under that head and
to be worthy the recognition of our
citizens, young and old, ON its own
merits. The means for eight pleasant
evenings properly spent, during The
season, is itselfan item Of general in
terest in place of the culture of our
little city, often not overstockcd with
;amuscments.
But the special object in view adds,
we think, not little to the attractions
of this course. St. James Hall is
specially a BoIivarinstituticn, planned
by Bolivar people, paid for with Boil
var capital, and justly worthy, there
fore, to be classed among the home
things of which she may be proud.
1t is out of debt. It's domain of twenty
acres in the precincts of the town, IS
not equaned, it is safe to say, in extent.
beauty and picturesqueness by any
similar institution in the State and by
very few in the country, east or west.
The building, already erected and
complete, is large and stately enough
to be Il suitable center piece for others
that may be gathered around t4 in the
future. The plan is, in every respect,
broad enough for superstructure OF
larger proportions than has as yet been
attained. And the healthtulness of
our town, the quality of its people,
and theIocation at the entarpce to the
wide South and Southwest, consPire
to favor the growth of a large and
prosperous institution at this point.
Without any noise or ostentation this
hope and expectation has, we believe,
been kept fully in view by its found
ors and friends from the beginning.
The advantages to Bolivar of the
realization Of this hope all can readily
appreciate.
Our town may, perhaps, have. nc
very great future before it as manu-
featuring or commercial point. A
any rate, it seems eminently adapted
to Incoming an educational centre
such as Vassar, Staunton, or Column
bia. And aside from the resulting in
fuence in making it more and more 6
delightful and cultivated place of resi-
dence, it is easy to see the pecuniar,
advantage of twenty-five or fifty
boarding pupils here the year round
each expanding an average of two o
three hundred dollars annually among
our business houses. And there
nothing to hinder the number of pu
pills in time growing to hundreds, as a
some of the older educational point
above alluded to.
This is perhaps a long preface t
what we began to speak few word
about. The school has a good star
financially, and, we believe, an eX
periencod and thorough management
but it is yet in its infancy, and in nee
of many appliances essential to sue
cess. Especially just now it need
additions in library and apparatus
No institution can, in our day, do it
work or compete in the open field 70
patronage, without these essentials
And our own daughters, studying il
the school, need them as well.
To inaugurate fund 20 supply thi
want is the Interior object of the lee
ture course. 1t is believed there viii
in such cause, be no difficulty il
''locating at least 100 Of these ''shares
in the Apparatus and Library Fund
of st. James Hall, and if so, ever,
dollar of the amount will, we doub
not, be religiously devoted to the Oh
jects named. 1t will certainly be al
immediate advantage to the presen
students of the Institution, and ma
terial addition to its outlook 70
growth in the near future, in which
every citizen of Bolivar may we'll fee
n deep interest. aa