Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-01-10
A Christmas Trip.

Il
selected me to represent Oconee at
the Woman's Rural School Improve
ment Association, at Winthrop Col
lege. 1t is useless to say / went.
AT the depot in Seneca friend in
troduced me to his brother-in. law,
who was going to CHARLOTTE. The
4 gentleman.was a cultured and Chris
tian man, who bad travelled at home
and abroad, and made me have de-
lightful journey. / told him of my
plan for my Sunshine Home School
for crippled, weak-eyed, and de-
formed children, and he gave me
some money for foundation stone
and said later would get his society
to give more.
spent that night in Charlotte and
went to Rock Hill the next day. All
along the road met friends of mine
or my work. DIR. johnson. met us at
the train, and with Miss Salley, of
Greenville, we were driven to DIR.
and Mrs. Kinard's. With their
family, we were invited to Mrs.
Witherspoon's to All elegant turkey
dinner. That afternoon we went to
the college to see tour girls" Misses
Alice Stribling, Sara Furman, Lula
+ Hix Earle and our adopted Oconee
girl, brilliant little Miss Mary
Renyalds, of Columbia. They gave
"s royal welcome, and having been
once a college girl myself, l knew
how to please them and just "scat-
tered little sunshine" among them.
AtSo'clock, Friday night, the meet
ing was called to order. DR.. John
son and Hon. o. B. Martin welcomed
us and told the object of the meet
ing. DIR. johnson said "This asso-
citation had president, but she went
to Miss Lula Gignilliat's house party,
at Seneca; there she met a man, and
| hoW 10 OuIuSHeu Will uuSUduu.
Some one else will have to take her
place, but please don't go to Seneca"
The elocution teacher rendered
grandly "How Dot Found the Mes
siah." The vocal and one of the
instrumental music teachers ren.
dered selections beautifully.
The next morning the exercise
opened with Miss Louise Poppen-
helm, of Charleston, in the presi-
dents chair and Miss Mary Nance,
of Abbeyille, as secretary. The roll
was called and each woman was in
troduced. Miss Ida Salley was Sc
lected time-keeper. No woman was
allowed over five minutes to make
her report. 1t was amusing to hear
all the new ideas brought out. Every
woman had a new plan for improve
ment and thought her county had
made the most Improvement. 1
asked my county trustees several
weeks ago to send in report, and
not one came. This made me very
sad, for / had done 80 much work
here. However, l told of our rapid
progress and told that the county
name had for its meaning can acorn"
and truly it had sent out many oaks.
told them l did not want TO take
one honor from our noble worker,
Superintendent Martin, but Mrs.
Coleman and the Once a. Week Club
started theklibrary movement in the
schools.
Miss Ida Salley struck the key
note when she said, "You may build
nice houses, plant flowers, ETC., but
unless you get an educated teacher,
who teaches to better her country,
her work is failure. Get good
teacher and she will get better en-
rollment."
II wassdecided that the teacher
who has not prepared herself for her
work must give place to the college
bred teacher. The State is offering
an educations to teachers, and the
trustee who employs this class when
there are plenty of educated men
and women in the State, is doing his
State untold borp,