The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24
CAMP HILL SCHOOL
spLENDTD WORK BEING DONE BY
 DIR. WARD.
TuauatriaI Training of Waite Boys sna Girls of Alabama Needs Heip OA
 PhiIanthFOpfe Persons.
nx D. w. McEver.

Nv D. w. McKver.
 The southern Industrial lnstltute Camp Hill the excellent edueauonal institution for the poor boys and girls of Ainbana. has completed another most successful and satisfactory year.
 For eight years Dr. Lyman Ward has labored earnestly. zealously ana untirinEIy for the aid for the giris ana bows who were desirious of secur- ing af, education and were willing 10 work for It. He has. by his own ef- forts provided the ways and the means for them to do this. and they nave onlv to 20 there and work and apply thernselves and they can learn all the rIrdiments of an, education necessary to make their own way in life.
 The commencement exercises of the school took place May 27th to June isf inclusive. The program was an Interesting and instructive one. Prin- cipal Ward delivered the sermon sun day morning at Ii o'clock and the closing sunset services took place the same afternoon, beginning at { o'clock
 Monday night Miss Helen Turner and Mics Francis Dillon. who had made an adAptation of the Mother Goose rhymes, with the children, presented the play. It was happily rendered ana great credit is due. not only to the children taking part, but also to Misses Turner and Dillon.
 Tuesday night the students pre- sented "As You Like It." and the work of directing was in charge of Miss A1~a White. teacher of English and graduate of the Emerson College or oraforv. Boston. It was originally planned to give the play in the am fnhftheatre, but the weather proving unfayorable, the play was given in the school auditorium. The costumlns was very fine and the play was in all particulars the best ever rendered at the school. .,,
 wednesday night came the Alumni dinner. Thursday was graduating day Three young persons were graduated in the morning and in the afternoon. Rev. Quincy Ewing. of Birmingham gave a brilliant and eloquent com rnencement address. upon the subject of Education. Hon. W. H. Tayloe. of Uniontown was elected trustee to fill a vacancy eighty-six students and seven officers and teachers in the school. In his re- port, Dr. Lyman Ward, the principal, said: "The current expenses for the wear have been $7,000 At the close of the school year. May 22d. the do- nations during the session amounted to S4,42O.70. and since the close of the school. gifts amounting to $l,6oO nave come to hand. The school yet needs ahout S1 900 to close up the year. There has been about thirty-five in- dustriaI students in the school during the wear, twelve girls and twenty-sev- ep boys. The girls, besides their academic training, have taken instruc- tions in cooking and sewing and gen efal household work.
 '"The boys have cultivated about 100 acres of land; they have. raised corn. cotton. oats. wheat. irish and sweet potatoes. sugar cane, COW peas and abundance of garden truck. The farm boys have organized farm council and meet once week. They take general supervision of the farm and stock. Various standing commit fees make reports from week to week --one committee reports on garden another on hog fielding. etc. The committee on horse feeding decided to experiment in care of horses and mules. The mules were fed the usual amount of corn--storm or COW pea hay ana from six to eight (never over eighty ears of corn, three times day Great care was taken to groom the teams well. Sunday included. The farmers of the community usually feed twelve and fifteen ears of corn to a feed and yet the school mules doing hard work all the time. look aborif the best of any teams in the To- cality. Two years ago the boys be- gan building up worn-out land by blowing deeply with the two horse blow and maturing and planting cow peas. Last season. one acre of this land produced one bale of cotton, which brought $50.
 "The farm council is now trying to