The log cabin Democrat., 1908-12-03
REPORT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
First Quarter Ends Showing
 Good Work
Done by All Gradss.-Superintsndent Wa tsrs Encouraged.-Roll of Honor
 Given.

Given.
 We feel that good work has been done and a fine spirit prevails through the entire school. Many things we should like to see changed, and we are working for and looking toward the ideal school, and while we may never be able to realize that for which our hearts yearn, we shall approach nearer than if we failed to strive. Our record for these two months is good, and we enter upon the work of the present with hearts full of courage, with hands ready for any task, with minds and purposes fixed upon achieving greater victo- ries in the future. High grades have not been made by many pu- pills, while most excellent work has been done. and if these pupils will only hold steadily and consistently to the work in hand, soon grades will come. It is far more import ant that one knows a thing and knows that he knows it, than to make good grade and not know it.
 We are putting the stress upon thinking, finding out he:why's and wherefores, rather than a mem- ory type of work, and we think that our pupils have a working force now that they never had be- fore.
 Our enrolment to date in white school Is SPA; in the colored, 132; total, 656. We have had 20 tar dies this month as follows: 1st grade, 6; 2nd grade, 5; 4th grade, 2; 9th grade, I; 7th grade, 5; 9th grade, I. In the colored school there were P tardies. Out of the 20 in the white school, nearly all of these were made by new pupils, and so we are proud of this record. Be sure to see that the little folks get to school in time. We begin promptly at 9 o'clock in the morn- ing, and at o'clock in the after noon. We shall be glad to have our patrons visit us and see what their children are doing; and we feel that your child will be en- couraged and we shall be. We shall look for many of you soon. Do not disappoint us. The colored school is doing bet ter work than at any time in its history, and the teachers are doing faithfully all they can to lift the ideals of their people, and are sure that success will attend their ef- forts. Mattison is kind, yet firm, gentle in his spirit, and his influ- ence over the children is good. ROLL OF HONOR. Below is a list of those who made the best grades for the quar- ter:
 First Grade, Rank I, A Class Jesse Allinder, Eula Robertson. Silas Holt, Mabel Courtney, Allen Isgrig.
 First Grade, Rank 2, A Class Louise Simmons, Irwin Powell, Tom Nelson, Mary Kinsey, Gladys Brady, Minnie Hanna, Floyd Campbell, Annabel Moore.
 First Grade, Rank I, B Class Gene Allison, Julia May Apple, Fay Teas, Cecilia Kirkpatrick Maud Johnson, Martin Wright.
 First Grade, Rank 2, B Class Henry Whiddon, Julia Hogan, Ruth Differ, Allen Dunaway. Second Grade, Rank {, A Class Connel Jones, Blanch Davis, Cath erine Majors.
 Second Grade, Rank 2, A Class Helen Collier, Mignon Newborn, Kinnince Dicks, Jesse Salter, John Spires.
 Second Grade, Rank I, B Class Nellie Dawson, Irene Howell, Vina Gray, Atherton Anderson. Second Grade, Rank 2, B Class Maurice Jones, Orvie Crow, Louis Dunaway, Edgar Wren, Jack Rogers.
 Third Grade, Rank I, A Class John Harton, Helen Hammer, Ed nes Anderson, Gladys Anderson.
 Third Grade, Rank 2, A Class Holloway Glass, Mary Ellen Hor- ton. Cabell King. Hattie Vaughn