The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-25

operation. Men have built the SCH
, and voted local taxes and the wan
| have adorned the school with pictt,-.a
and made it comely and attractive -s
the children. / do not know Nh,a
I have seen anything that is more 49,
/ couraging the the spirit which these
women here have toward the s1ha,f
THIS was expressed in the fact ;hst
the leading place on the proer,m
was given to the report of the :, -
tary of the Woman's Bettermert A.
ISOLATION, Mrs. J. H. Weathrr~. 81
paper by the president. Miss Tan.
White, an essay on the Rural Public
High School by Miss Carrie Whit
These three papers demonstratgI
what the women had done in the.r
Betterment Association. and X was >
remarkable showing, the best thing
about 1t being that 1t disclosed the
deep interest on the part Of this COM
munity in the education of the chill
dren and of the opening up 10 them
Of the avenues of beauty and art and
music that have not always been
within the reach OF our rural pop.-
lation.
/ am not going to write about ,b.,
school, or the commencement This
schoo is in its eighth year and has LIS
students and four teachers. During Tho
past year it has been under the mani
agement Of Mr.. J. NJ. Broushton. Jr.
principal. This Raleigh young man.
who received his license TO practice
law last year, decided to give a year
or two to teaching before entering the
practice, n he is getting here an ex-
perience that will be worth while al
his life. He has won the hearts Of his
people and has done q splendid work.
The most notable thing about the wax
ne Of this High School, and q thing
that ought to be emulated by the peo-
pie in every community having a high
school, is something that / have not
found anywhere else. OF course ~"
have public libraries IN towns auG
some of the schools in town and coun~
try have their libraries open for the
children. and the children take the
books home and the parents read
CAASiH, bul WI od6Ilo q IIIaLE8-
rated here a reading room for the
community. It has the best magazines
and current literature as we'll as stand
ard books and two nights in every
week this reading room is open for TIE
men Of the community, and on an aE-
erase about twenty men are there every
night the reading room is open. They
read the magazines and papers. ii il
q sort Of a meeting place to discuss
matters abou which they read and
about the progress OF the community
and a center for the interchange of
views and for reading and studying by
mature men who no longer so-tr
school, So that on these two nights IL
the week their intellectual life }"
quickcned. 1t is the plan now TO keep
this reading room open through the
vacation as well as during the school
term and it is believed that it Will be
the rallying point u which VIII
center the life and thought o1 the
community, encouraging he love t"r
books, papers and letters.
Til air is all astir here with tn ez-
pectat!on that this Is to be a great
town. Some years ago the Mont.pm-
cry Lumber Company purchased A
large body Of land about three-quar-
ters Of a mile from the school, and he's
established large lumber mills mere.
and they have built a railroad rom
Spring Hope to Bunn's, and here 81
the terminus Of this road 4 town is
springing up that promises to be quite
a place. 1t is eleven miles from Ieo-
ulon and eleven miles from louis
burg and twenty-six miles IT. the
crow flies from Raleigh. The railroad
from SDrino Hone Il Ill. ,--a.- ---