Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-15

VIC have been reuueSteu 10 give
the Washington School rips taving,
rearing and tearing write-up, o puff
Us big as q balloon and blow like
q South Indian Ocean Simeon, and
as high as the heavens are from the
earth, If we are to meet the expecta-
ton OF the obIiging informant who
furnishes the data and makes the re-
quest. Something Warn" he says.
We dont pretend to know what that
means in this day OF swift meauino
and changing infection in modern
slangeology. However when we havo
done we trust the gentleman will be
able to say that we at least wrote
something that stretches out over
several inches of our valuable space.
Warm, let's see. Well, we sup
pose had we happened by upon some
evening when the worthy Professor
OF this seat OF learning was welding
his supple huckelberry switch upon
stubborn young votaries who go per-
haps unwilling to his shrine of p,-da
goguery, we could have mentally iot-
ted down some impressions that
would have been of assistance in
phrasing this Warn" article. Ui.-
less things have changed with the
knee-hreeches umchin since we were
a lad, the Juveniles of Washington
parts yawl as vociferiously to The
swirl of the switch cleaving the air
and tight drawn pants as they did
and have done for years before. A
Comanche dance is nothing to the
prancing and quick stepping that a
youngster can do while such punish
ment is being administered. The
shrleks OF wildcats, howl of panther
the rebel battle yell, the bloody In
dian war whoop have no comparison
with the sounds that pierce the air
while this dramatic feature of rural
schooling goes on.
Seriously speaking there is consid-
cradle that can be written common
datory of this School. To the wri-
ter's own knowledge this has been
a nestOr of Schooling for a good
many year S past. The strongest
start on the upward course was given
by the hard llcks B. P. Harrison put
in there some four or five years ago.
The School has been rather uncom-
fortably and inconveniently housed
in a Church-house. This term the
patrons OF the School were brought
to see the necessity of better quar-
tiers in rather an abrupt way, when
the present competent and energetic
Professor refused to teach the School
unless a house was built. Fourteen
of the best men in the community
recognized the business of the demand
and promptly got together the means
and devised the ways to erect build
ing which is a credit not only to
Washington but to Green County,
one which is if not the best one of
the best country school houses with
in our boundaries.
1t cost approximately $500, is well
lighted and heated, now by old Sol S
burning rays and in the chilling
days of winter by methods not stat
ed in our data. Two commodious
rooms. Is seated with the best paten-
ted single school desks obtainable.
The enrolment this term ran to six
ty with several boarding pupils from
other communities, SO runeth our
information.
The public spirited Washington
ians to whose loosened purse-strings
and liberal efforts is due the realiza-
ton of this Educational condition
for their fair little hamlet, perched
within the inland pine hills of Old
Greene county, are NJ. e. Green,
Chas. Billman. D. H. Hilllnan. L. V.
Hillman, Alex Breland. H. J. Bre-
land, Jno- Harrison, Lewis Green,
Henry Hathorn c. j. Nicely, J. NJ.
Green, L. A. McSwain. D. E. Brad
ley, Chas Green, w H. Brewer, L.
~. Baldwin, Ed Green aud W. ".
Moody.