The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-22
Annual Teachers Meeting and Pupils
Graduating Exercises ut Grange


Hall.
This meeting, which occupied Thurs
day and Friday, 10th and 18th
inst, was full of interest and profit to
those who attended.
The leading feature of the occasion
was the annual address, delivered by
Rev. z. b. Graves, of Summit, on 1.-THE
Teachers influence" 1t was brilliant
effort, eloquent and full of inspiring
thoughts, and much enjoyed by the
audience.
The exercises on the afternoon of
the first day were furnished by the
county teachers. Papers were read or
addresses delivered by the following
named teachers: Miss Addie Smith,
Miss Mollie Currie, Miss Hattie Buie,
Miss McAlpin, Miss Louvinia Mccall
lum, A. A. McAlpin, w. G.. Williams,
H. d. McInnis and p. Mullen. In
addition to the above, the following
named teachers we're present one or
both days Of the meeting: Miss
Bonnie Dunn, Miss Susie Alfred, Miss
Gussie Paxton, Miss Decell, III. +. Mid
dleton, J. V. May, M. M. Magee, Edgar
Godbold, 4. ID. Sutton, Sheldon And
ing, II. l.. Applewhite and w. r. Nor
ton. At night there was a select
program consisting of recitations,
vocal and instrumental music. In this
the Brookhaven String Band, compos-
ed of Robert Sexton and Tom Penn and
Jonie Hoskins, took an important
part, as it did during the graduating
exercises on the following day. Other
parts of the musical program were
furnished by Misses Fannie, Rosa and
Alice Decell, Stella Easterling and
Mollie Moore, and recitations were
rendered by Rosa and Alice Decell.
Friday was given to the graduating
exercises of those pupils who have
creditably completed the prescribed
grade of studies in the several county
public schools. There we're II of these
graduates, as follows: Misses Fannie
Caldwell McRee, Minnie Sutton, Rae
Higdon, Ada Anderson, Gussie God
bold, Edith Badon, Hattie McNulty
jamie Carruth, Fannie Beasley, Fannie
Dozier Decell and Hattie Covington,
and Messrs. John L. Bryant, Albert
Godbold, Edward Coker, Willie Morse,
Kavanaugh Wood and Joe Carruth.
The young ladies each read a grad
uating essay, and the young gentlemen
furnished declarations, the program
being appropriately interspersed with
music, and all acquitted themselves in
a creditable manner. The essays of
some of the young ladies were excep-
tionally fine and Messrs. Cocker and
Carruth exhibited decided oratorical
talent. Ten of the graduates were
from Adams Camp Ground School,
which was certainly a high compli-
ment to that school, and to Prof. A. A.
McAlpin, its teacher.
County Supt. Edgar Green, who has
done so much to bring the public
school work up to its present high
standard, and who was master of
ceremonies" during the two days
meeting, presented all of the graduates
with their diplomas, preceding the pre-
sentation with a brief, appropriate
address.
Last year there were only five grad
yates. These were Misses Blanche
Carruth, Bette McRee and Carrie
Powers and Messrs. Edgar Godbold
and Ernest Brown. The diplomas Of
these were also presented by Supt.
Green on this occasion, he not having
been able to secure them until recent
ly. A pathetic incident of this pre-
sentation was that the diploma of
young Ernest Brown, who graduated
from the public school grade last year
full of hope and promise and started
off to college in the fall, fell sick and
died, and his diploma, tied i'll crepe,
had to be presented to little sister
who was present.
The good people of Grange Hall dis
tinguished themselves, as they always
do for their cordial and bountiful
hospitality Both in their homes and
by furnishing splendid dinner on the
grounds each day, they exemplified, in
fullest measure, this adjoining grace.
This scribe had the very great pleas
ure of attending the meeting on the
second day, in company with Miss
Bonnie Dunn of Brookhaven, one of
the county's brightest and most &C
complished young teachers, and had
ample opportunity of sampling the
bill of fare, which could scarcely have
been excelled. We are under
special obligations for courtesies ex-
tended by Mesdames w. w. Davis,
j. Z. Decell and Prentiss Buie.