The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-08
fAIzES FOR RURAL SCHOOLS.
FIELD AGENT OF IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION MAKES REPORT.
About $4,000 to be Offered to Schools
Making Most Improvements-The
Announcement.

Columbia, June 6-The field agent
of the South Carolina School I'm
provement association, Miss Elise
Rudd, has made report on the work
that she has done since becoming
connected with the association.
Bulletin, No. S, will be issued dur
ing the present month. After the
bulletin has been issued and the bulk
of the office work completed, Miss
Rudd hopes to meet the teachers,
trustees and partons at the various
county summer schools and at Wof-
ford college, where the State summer
school will be held. She is arranging
to spend a week at each summer
school, so far as is possible.
This year the school association Of
fers $4,000 in prizes to the rural
schools making the most decided i'm
provements. Each county should
make applications for the prizes.
1t is announced by Miss Rudd that
blanks for the prizes are now ready
and will be sent to any school COM
peting for the prizes.
This year the bulletins will con-
tain several subjects discussed by
leading educators Of the State; pic
lures Of some of the schools that won
prizes last year; a picture of Marl-
boro county's we'll known corn grow
er, A. Bascomb Usher; several model
programmes for rural work and other
helpful articles. 1t is hoped that the
bulletin will reach every rural school
teacher, trustee and parton.
In the report of Miss Rudd it is
stated that the department of edu-
cation is always glad to mail out any
literature to school teachers, trustees
and patrons.
Miss Rudd will attend the meeting
of the National Educational associa-
ton, which is to be held in Boston in
July, after that the summer schools.
Announcement of Prizes.
The following is the announcement
of the prizes to be given by the
School Improvement association
which has been made by Mrs Mary
Nance Daniel, the president of the
association.
The South Carolina School Inn
provement association offers so prizes
to the schools of the State for the
most decided material Improvement
made during a given length of time.
Ter of the prizes are to be 500 each,
and 10 are to be $50 each. Regula-
ton concerning the SO prizes that are
to be awarded by the association are
as follows:
improvements must be made be-
tween November 1, 1909, and De-
cember 10, 1910.
Prizes will be awarded to schools
where the most decided material i'm
provements have been made during
the time mentioned.
Under material improvements are
included local taxation, consolidation.
new buildings, repairing and paint
ing ones, libraries, reading rooms
or tables, interior decorations, beau
Trying yarCs, and better general
equipmen,.
NO school can compete for any of
these prizes unless it is rural school.
NO town with more than 100 popula-
ton shall be eligible to the contest
All who wish to enter this con-
test must send names and descrip-
tlons of schools before improvements
are made to the president prior 70
October 1st.
All descriptions, photographs and
other evidences showing improve
ments must be sent to the president
before December Is, 1910. The chair
man of the board of trustees of anv
school that is competing for a prize
must approve all descriptions before
and after improvements are made.
Blanks will be sent to schools
competing for the above prizes with
questions to be answered relating to
the conditions under which the i'm
proVements have been made.
Prizes will be awarded in checks
December 81, 1910. The prizes are
to be used for further improvements
in the schools receiving them.