Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-08
The MOunfdineer Summer School

After q teachers had each refused In turn to
teach the regular school at Irish Creek Hollow, III the
mountains OF Virginia. two county school teachers
and a. l2.yearold assistant invaded the district with
camping outfit an.. organized a summer school ana
an evening school That were both better attended
than any school in past years had ever been. The
experiment was so successful that other isolated
communities in Virginia to be handled in the
same way. Instead of allowing these isolated dis
trcts TO get along best they may state and county
officers In Virginia are going to send to the noun
tains every the very best teachers they can
secure in order to provide the educational facilities
that needed
Irish Creek Hollow is in mountain valley in
Rockbridge county. 1t is sparsely settled and remote
of access. The inhabitants mountaineers OF
original stock who have inermarried as much as the
law permits, They live in log cabins that are not
even good log cabins There school building
hut for several years there had been school, No
school teacher would accept the position.
In 1911 after all attempts to get regular teacher
had failed the county superintendent persuaded two
experienced teachers to so to Irish Creek Hollow
after their own schools had closed, and to open
summer school They carried with them tents to
live in. provisions and cooking utensils School was
opened in the old school building and the attendance
exceeded all expectations. There so children
enrolled in morning classes, and 30 to 40 adults In
afternoon and evening classes. The mountaineers
were so apprecative Of what done for them that
summer that they built an additional school room and
two comfortable living rooms for the teachers.
Public spirit had developed to such an extent the
following year that when one of the state inspectors
and the secretary of the Virginia Cooperative Edu
cationa- association visited the place in the
OF 1912 they able to organize school and civic
league and athletic association. Practically all
the residents OF the community enrolled in. the civic
league, An Interesting feature OF the work is that
il reaches the adults, as well the children A
Saturday afternoon class in reading and writing for
women. with grandchildren in the morning school.
In speaking OF the experiment Mr. A. c. Monahan,
rural school specialist in the T. S. Bureau of Educa
ton, says that in inaugurating this work. Virginia
has undoubtedly taken valuable step toward benefit
ing one of the most deserving and most neglected
classes OF our country, that OF best Aneri-
stock is III the mountains, and it should not be
allowed to degenerate for lack of educational oppor
tuntes The state department OF Virginia is now
and proposes to conduct many summer schools in the
future like this one, which has been held for three
years in Irish Creek Hollow.
The interstate commerce commission appears to
regard that day lost whose low descending sun sees
nothing to the old New Haven done,
To be consistent, those militant women in Eng
land who set that 100000 FIRE ought to out and
demand least two votes apiSre far themselves