The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-06-05
The CITY SCHOOLS
HAVE JUST CLOSED
ONE OF MOST SUCCESSFUL IN HIS
TORY OF SCHOOLS.
Twenty Graduate>-PrOgramme o.
EXerciSeS-AWard OF Prizes and
Medals.

The Newberry city schools held
tAis week exercises closing very
success. III year.
Tne exercises at the high school
auditorium on Monday night, June l.,
consisted O; a recita ion contest by
girls OF the Waverley literary society
and a debate by boys of the Athan-
aeal society Miss Ruth Digby Won
! tAe W. s. Langford medal f)r excel
| lence in elocutio1, Miss Fannie Eleazer
honorable mention.
The debaters were Messrs. Ralph
Higgins, Neely Cromer, William
Thornton. John Higgins, Forrest Dick
ert and John Floyd Mr.. Ralph His
gins won the John NJ Kinard medal
for the best debate, and Mr. John Hig
gins was awarded honorable men
ton.
The question for debate was: Re-
solved, TGat he city Of Newberry
ought tc vote an additional tax OF
three mills for school purposes. The
affirmative side won. Some of the
pcnts advanced by the affirmative
we're nat the trustees after running
the schools most economically and
with insufficient teaching force find
| themselves at the end Gf the year ST.
500 in debt, that at Hoge sch3ol one
teacher has enrolled tnis year 168 pu
pills and another 1BS, that the outlook
is for an increase of 81 in the high
school enrolment aId he need Of
another high school teacher, that
Speers street school needs very badly
an additional teacher, tnat West End
school ought 20 have two more teach
ers, that the schools ought to have
an up-to-date manual training equip
ment, that more men are needed in
! tne ;eaching force, that the Speers
Street school needs additional repairs
and painting, that the hign school
building ought to have $1,000 annex
so as to pri vide an additianal class
room, a library, scientific laboratory
aad a larger auditorium, that several
States in the union pay five times as
much per capita OF population for
schools as South Carolina pays, and
that several cities of the State pay
twice as many mills for schools as
! Newberry pays.
On Tuesday morning at the high
school auditorium deligh full ele-
mentary school exercise was held.
The following pupils were competitors
in an oratorical contest: Lille Wood
ward Garyis Taylor, Azile Parr,
Nancy Fox, Herndon Sample, Garland
Taylor, Margaret Kinard Edwin Setz-
Ter, Edward Epting and Abbie Gail
lard. Medals were awarded to AbD1e
Gaillard and Herndon Sample. Music
was furnished by Sophia Nell Crot-
we'll, Harriet Adams and Selma Gro
we'll.
TIE following pupils were awarded
seventh grade certificates by the su-
perinteadent: Emily Hoof, Gray
Hays, Nancy Fox, Annie Dunstan,
Robert sentel, Estelle Kibler, AM
brose D5nohue, Joel Wertz, Harriet
Adams, Marion Blease, Nina Maude
I Chappell. Sam Morris, Fred SfNe, Min
ME Lurey, Wal er Lindsay, Azile Parr,
Ruth Schumpert Louise Stilwell, Bes-
sic McCarey, Oto Klettner, Edgar
Paysinger, Harry Sumner, Mary
Fra :ces Cannon, Frances Houseal,
Brooks Jones, Roberta Mann, Pauline
FAINT. Sarah Davis, Parriette Mayer,
Marguerite Spearman, Mary Wheel
er.
! THE Rev. E. D. Kerr delivered for
he Civic league prizes offered for es-
say in the elementary schools on some
! subject of civic Importance. The
banks of the city gave $3.50 in gold
to three winners. At Boundary
street Rober a Mann, honorable men
ticn Of Brooke Jones and Azile Parr;
subject, Value of Trees. At Speers
street Nancy Fox, honorable mention
Nina Maude Chappell and Marion
Z Blease; subject, Fairgrounds. At West
End school Pearl Padget, honorable
mention Eva Robinson, James Caid-
we'll; subject, Danger OF Flies.
Tuesday night at the opera house
the graduating exercises were held.
The following graduates received high
/ cchool din1omaS Misses Teresa