Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-01-07
WALEALTIA, 8. c.:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY :, 1914.
PRIZES AWARDED
The :. G.. :. |. a. Committee Distrib-
ute 81 900 to 30 Schools.
(The State.)

ASSOCIATION neIu tnelr session LOT
awarding prizes Friday afternoon.
This committee is composed of the
officers and one member from each
Congressional District Of the State,
namely: Miss Mary E. Hite, presi-
dent, Aiken; Mrs. Dora ID. Walker,
vice president, Appleton; Miss Mad
cline Spigener, recording secretary,
ST. Matthews; Miss Isadora Williams,
corresponding secretary, Liberty;
Miss Florence Stubbs, treasurer
Rome; Misses Carolina Dickinson
Summerville; Leila Attaway, Saluda;
Sadie Coggans, Newberry; Will Lou
Gray, Laurens; Leila Russell, Rock
Ethel Dreher, Lexington.
Through the support Of the State
Board Of Education the association
was able to award $1,000 in prizes.
This amount was divided into thirty
prizes, ten first prizes of $50 each
and 20 second prizes of $25 each
There were lac schools from thirty
seven counties of the State making
application for these prizes.
First Prizes.
The ten schools receiving the first
prizes were as follows: Meggetts
school, Charleston county; Antioch,
Darlington county; Ridgeville High
School, Dorchester county: Trinity
Ridge school, Laurens county; Poma-
ria school, Newberry county; Nor
way school, Orangeburg county; Dali
nell school, Sumter county; Rome
High School. williamsburg county;
Mt. Holly school, York county.
The twenty schools receiving the
sec~nd prizes were as follows: Floyd
school, Aiken county: Green Pond
school, Anderson county; Old Va
rennes, Anderson county; Double
Springs school, Anderson county;
Ashleigh school, Barnwell county;
Pleasant Hill school. Barnwell coun-
ty; Armenia school. Chester county;
McBee school, Chesterfield county;
Mechanicsville school. Darlington
county; Union school. Dillon coun-
ty; Good Hope school, Georgetown
county; Pleasant Hill school. George
town county; Burcol school, Horny
county; Beaver Dam school, Ker-
shaw county; Gray school, Laurens
county; Fair Play school, Oconee
county; St. George school. Orange
burg county; Eutawvi!le school, Or
angeburg county; Nesmith school,
Williamsburg county.
Meggetts School.
heggetts school, in Charleston
county, one Of the ten first prize win
ners in the school Improvement asso-
citation prizes, is located in the sec
ton transferred from Colleton to
Charleston county in 1910. Nowhere
in the State is the contrast between
the old and new conditions more evil
dent superintendent Waring has
made success in giving this truck
ing community an efficient rural
school. This is but one step in build
ing up the back country around the
city Of Charleston. Miss Julia Sal
ham, the teacher of this school. has
shown what can be done in the way
OF constructive leadership in this
school district.
Antioch school, in Darlington coun-
t" is six miles from Hartsville. Three
districts have consolidated and erect
ed modern building with eight class
rooms, two work rooms, an audito-
nun and all modern conyeniences.
The trustees have purchased a school
farm on which a teachers home is to
be erected. Three wagons will be
used for the conveyance of pupils, ex-
tending the benefits Of the school to
an area Of 40 square miles.
This type OF rural school Is stand
ard toward which the country dis
tTicts should direct their efforts. II
embodies all the excellencies of the
graded school system and offers in
addition the best facilities for agri-
cultural an dintdiarsul
cultural and Industrial teaching. The
principal, V. e. Rector, is a graduate
OF the University of South Carolina,
recently returned from the Philip
pines. He is planning to mako An
tjoch a model rural school for the
State.