Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-06-16
I. SCHOOL PICNIC ] N G.
Prescott School Closes Very
Successful Year, D elightful
Neighborhood Picnic
Held Saturday.

Field SATURDAY.
There were probably half a doz-
en- or more schools IN the county
whose patrons and trustees were
wide:awake and pro ogressiye enough
to secure state aid, enabling them
to prolong their school term be-
yond the usual length. The Pres
cott3 school; was among those that
received money from the state ap-
preparation. The session which last
ed more than six months closed
s,ith appropriate exercises Friday
east and a. picnic was held on the
school grounds Saturday.
The Prescott school .has been.
taught by Miss Lila Lanham, a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. D. E.,
Lanham, of Ropers. Miss Lanham
lis a full graduate of Due West
Female college and is well fitted for
teaching. She has been patient,
painstaking,, thorough, and her ser
Vices throughout the session have.
given entire satisfaction to the pa
irons. There is very general regret
on the part of the pupils and pa
irons that.she can not be engaged
for another year.
There is nowhere in the county
Of state more ideally located or
more attractively environed school
building than that in which the
Prescott school is taught. Several
hundred yards in the rear of DR..
W. E. Prescott's residence there is
a very beautiful, densely shaded,
grove of stately oaks, with suffi-
cient intermingling of: pines and
hickory to give variety; and tits in
the heart of this grove that the COM
Portable school building is located.
Some distance in the rear of the
building, but near enohgh however
to be used as a playground, is seen
| a lovely meadow of many acres.
With a dense canopy over head,on
| the one hand, and a soft, green
carpet under foot on the other, the
pupils Sof the Prescott school have
an ideal place for disporting them
selves during the recess periods;
And being away from the public
bthoronghfare, far from the mad
ding crowd + there isin thing to di-
lYerti the children or interfere with
their book learnin' !. ''ss ss 4
spot is teo rich oreatbg
mature to be given oYsrSe entirels TO
Ecbildrsn, whose immature minds
are incapable of drinking in and ap-
preciating to the fullest the beau
ties of nature-that would beslike
permitting the flower to waste its
sweetness on, the desert air." Con
sequently, the young, middle-aged,
and old, were all invited to assem-
|ble in the Prescott school grove on
Saturday last to enjoy neighbor-
hood picnic.
/ While there are other patrons of
the school who also contributed to
the success of the picnic, yet if we
had to single ont one individual as
the host on this delightful occasion
we would \ name the genial, large
hearted, whole-souled DIR. w. =.
Prescott who can come nearer forget
Eting and ignoring self in serving
4 and entertaining others, especially
his guests, than anyone we have ever
seen before, and Mrs. Prescott, who
|also contributed SO much to the
pleasure of Saturdays picnickers, is
never happier than when she is add
1 ing to the comfort, joy and happi,
ness of some one else.
Joggling boards, see-saws and
swings were provided for the chill,
drenfwho could enjoy themselves on
this picnic day without having their
ears inyoluntarily listening fol. the
school bell, calling them from their
games end sports back to books"
Seats were arranged under the
spreading white oaks. for the older
persons, while the sixteeners and
those of the "spooning' age (what.
4 ever that means) were paired off in
Ebuggies or engaged in, low-toned
5ltete-a-tetes somewhat apart from
the crowd What was more popular
on this hot,i swelterings day than q
punch bowl at stag dinner, was
the lemonade stand. For fear Of
1 widely missing the mark we will
not attempt to say how many hun.
dreds of gallons of icezcold lemo-
made Uncle Billy Cartledge made.
i Naturally, ones thirst for COLI
drinks on a hot June day is abr
mally great, especially at a picnic,
! but when the beverage is handed out
! without money and without price
las free and limitless as the ir-one
seems to undergo an anatomical
transformation, being as hollow as
:. la reed from head to foot. In truth
Isome of the bows were either as hol