The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-09-19
BAMBERG GRADED SCHOOL.
AN INSTITUTION OF WHICH ALL
BAMBERG is PROUD.
Opening Exercises Monday-Speeches
by Prominent Citlzens-Unusually
Large Enrolment.

The Bamberg graded and high
school opened for the regular fall
session last Monday morning. At
$50 o'clock good crowd of friends
and patrons of the school had gath
cred in the large auditorium on the
second floor of the school building,
among them being a number Of bust
ness men, this going to show the in
terest taken in the Institution by our
people generally.
The exercises were opened with a
reading from the Scriptures by Rev.
Peter Stokes, pastor of the Metho-
dist church, then a song by the school,
my Country IT'S of Thee" Mr..
Stokes then offerered prayer, after
which Superintendent Sheridan in
troduced J. F. Carter. Esq, who
made strong, practical address.
Rev. Peter Stokes was the next
speaker, after which Jno. R. Bellin-
ger, ESQ.,, was called on. Mr.. Bell
niger was seated in rear of the hall
and did not expect to speak, but ne
has always been a warm friend OF
the school, being for years secretary
of the board of trustees.
Mr.. Sheridan was the last speaker:
All of the addresses were good, and
no doubt the utterances of these
thoughtful men will result in great
good to the school and the commun-
ity generally. No synopsis of any of
the speeches can be attempted here,
for lack of space. This closed the
opening exercises, and the audience
was then dismissed and the work
of enrolling the pupils begun. The
years work has begun most au-
spiciously. Bamberg has taken a
great stride forward in educational
matters in the last few years. When
the writer came here in 1899 there
was no public school, but soon after
wards the school was opened in a
dilapidated wooden building with no
| income except that derived from the
constitutional three mill tax, there
being no special levy on the district.
Our readers well remember no doubt
the long, hard fight for a special levy
and a new building, both of these
objects finally being pushed to a
successful conclusion, so there is
no need to re-write anything in
regard thereto. But, our people
were not satisfied with these i'm
provements, and the past summer
an election was held and Bam-
berg school district was the first
| in the State to organize under
the high school law enacted at
the last session of the legislature.
Three additional teachers were elect
ed and a business department added,
which gives Bamberg children ad-
vantages not surpassed by any city
| in the State of its size.
The faculty this year consists OF
LII. G.. Sheridan, superintendent;
Mrs. Mamie Murdaugh, who teaches
the fifth and sixth grades; Miss Eliz-
abeth M. Barnett, fourth grade; Miss
Clara Riley, third grade; Miss !elita
OFT, second grade; Miss May Zeig:
Ter, first grade. In the high school
department Mr.. Sheridan teaches
mathematics and Latin; Miss Mamie
Connor, English and Latin; Miss
Louise Saratt, history and geogro'
ply; Miss Jessie Huey, stenography
and typewriting, as we'll as genera
business course. =:
Another grade has been added te
the school course this year, thus Civ
ing pupils another year at home be-
fore going off to college. The schoo
course now embraces ten grades, a.
we'll as a commercial course. The
enrolment this week was the largest
in the history of the school.
The principal directs us to an
nounce that after Monday, Septem
ber 23rd, no further enrolment II
the commercial department will bt
permitted. This is made necessary
| by the work of the department.
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