The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-10-03
ECHOES OF TllE. SU MINER
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Hiss E.sio Gillespie expects to attend
Williamson College this session.
MIR. Price, although necessarily absent
Tor more than week. returned for tho
examinations.
II is probable that Missrs Mclla and
Ida Hendricks will enter Winthrop Col,
lego when it opens on the 9th of Octo.
brr.
Mr.. BENTLEY, who had boon absent
from the schoo. for three days making
arrangements 10 enter Furmnn uMiynrs!! =
next week returned to stand tho cxnmi
nations.
Tho Pickcns county summer school
for trnchrrs closed Saturday about two
O'clock, tho day having been devoted to
examinations. When this final test be-
gan, it appeared that of the 80 who had
Joined tho School during its session, 8
had fallen by tho wnyside. Three OF
these had remained until the day before
tho examination. Hero arc the names
OF tho 30 faithful workers "who endured
to tho end"
~. j. Adams, Miss Conycrs Allen,
Manic 6uiicntinc, b. A. Bentley, Daisy
Borroughs, Jnnio Bright, Vedn Chill
dress, j. NJ. Entrckln, Dora Fnrmor,
Henry w. Garrison, Ada and Essio Gil.
lcspio, John N. Ilallum, ID. T.. Hon.
bricks, Ida, Ilcnora and Mcla Hen
dricks, Emily johnson, Arthur Jones,
Bcrtn Jones, Mary Lesley, Bottle O.
McAInhnn, Fanny May McMalan, j. S.
Miller. Loucl!en Nichols, Mrs. Mary l..
Orr, II. \. Price, Miss Unity Rigdon,
\. White Singleton, 9. w. Smith, total
30, men; 10 women.
"l'hc picture WIS taken. And Mr..
Bright was in it. And they soy it WAS
the best group picture ever takon. And
Tor wonder everybody was pleased. 1t
was II triumph over many difficulties. Mr..
Taylor, the skillful photographer came
because he had promised to come, but
the rain WAS coming down and tho group
would have to stand outdoors. \ cloudy
day may be the best for picture, but
who ever heard of thirty odd people
standing baro.hoadcd IN tho rain to look
their best and have their pictures taken?
However, it was then or never. The
lust (lny had arrived. The SCHOOL, with
it's pleasant associations Of four weeks
was to pass into thing of memory only.
Although in ovcry5ody's mind there was
al indalible picture, thoro must be a
tangible picture to show to friends Mt
homo, and to keep fresh for ali timo tho
recollection of every faco Then, too
there were intimations Of q school exhib-
it at tho Charleston exposition, in which
tho Pickcns Summer School must have
o place. Specimens of tho drawings are
to bo there, but specimens of the teach
ors would look oven better than speoi-
mons Of tho teuchers work. The morn.
ing exercises woro ended, but tho exam
nations could not begin until the picture
was taken. Everybody was there.
MIR. Bright had come. Tho misty rain
continued, but tho picture had to be
taken. Somebody remarked TINT the
rain was in keeping with tho dreary
feelings on day Of examinations.
Standing in tho rain, dejoctod and sad.
faccd, they would make sight to behold
and a picture Indeed. Somehow the
very righteousness of the thing and
the (BrighD people in the crowd caused
every face suddenly to beam with sup.
pressed smilo. On hend and clothing tho
big rain drops stood as thick as dow in
the fields on an autumn morning, but
freshened rather than wilted tho frills
and curls The womens faces looked
like roses bedookod with dew, And it
was tho best picture ever taken~.every
woman ,Ssa l,s adorned with lupumeyabla AewS