Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-23
School visitati NJ.

EDITOR GREEN COUNTY HERALD
1t was my pleasure as well as my
good fortune, to attend the closing
exercises of the Williams School,
which is new school, located or 8
miles south OF State Line, about one
mile from the line of Ala, by the
school board last summer. The Board
has made no mistake in giving these
people school.
The school has been taught by Miss
Ada Russell, a young lady from Ran
kin county.
/ Every family belonging to the
school came out. and some others,
giving us a very good sized crowd.
We noticed, with very great anx-
iety, that the yeomanry of this crowd,
as they came. deposited in the school
house, with seemingly very great
care, large boxes. baskets, pans etc,
which we wish to notice again.
About II o'clock, Miss Russell be-
gan calling the roll, and the children
all responded with speeches, which
were just splendid Why, we actu-
ally forgot about those boxes and
baskets, while these speeches were
being said The calling of the roll
was completed by calling out little
Biford Cortney, a little boy A years
old. His speech was just as nice as
it could be. Biford is little Ala
bamian.
At II o'clock, some long benches
were placed ON the yard, side by side,
and those boxes, baskets, pans, etc.,
were brought out and their contents
put on these benches as a table.
Mr.. Editor, l just wish you could
have been there to have seen and en-
joyed the abundance of nice food
those good ladies had prepared.
Last Saturday closed the 9th
month of this school. The record of
this school shows that every child in
the District was there the first day,
and not a single one of these children
missed day during the whole term;
neither did the teacher miss a single
day The trustees assured me that
this record is true. We don be-
lieve any school in the State can pro
duce a better one. These good peo-
pie mean to educate and prepare
their children for the great respon-
sibilities that await them in life
They were fortunate in securing the
service of a most excellent teacher
Miss Russell did splendid work here.
The patrons are very anxious for her
to teach this school again next win
ter, and we hope she can do So.
We also visited the State Line
School, which is being taught by
Miss Mittye Smith, and Poplar
Springs School, taught by Miss Will
lie Mcleod. These schools are both
getting along nicely. These teachers
seem to be doing splendid work.
On this round, we visited Mt. Mo
riah and Boyce Greek Schools, two
colored schools near State Line,
which seemed to be doing very well.
While there are many things to
discourage us in school work, as in
every thing else, yet, there are some
things to encourage us. We are
pleased to note that the average at
tendance of the schools, as Il whole,
is much improved We have had
some splendid school-houses built
and seated with patent desks, which
shows that our people are interested,
that they are with us in this great
work of educating the children of
the county We hope that it is only
question of very short time, when
the people, of every school-district
in the county, will come together
and provide good comfortable school
houses for their children. 1t is SO
often the case, that the teachers,
who are most successful in school
work, refuse to teach our schools
because of the comfortless, made
quate condition of our school houses.
A. G. FERGUSON, Sup t.