The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-11-24
THE JOLLY STREET SCHOOL
Fine Exercises and Much Interest A.
Exercises COmmemOrating Com
pletiOn of New Building.

pletl0n OF New Building.
The addition of the school biulG
ing at Jolly Street, which was mad
necessary after the first year by tf4
: increased attendance and the neces-
slty of employing three teachers, wa
completed sometime ago and the
school opened The trustees, patron
and teachers desired to celebrate
tie occasion with a public meeting ant
with the presence of the State superin-
tendent of education, the county sU
perintendent and the county superVis-
ing teacher. Last Friday was the da!
for the event. 1t was cold and strong
north eastern was blowing but tie
school spirit in that community is SO
strong that such little things as these
cool winds could not cool their ar
! dor or keep them away from the meet
ing.
lie exercises began in the morninG
about II o'clock in the presence O.
practically all OF the patrons of the
district. State superintendt of edu-
cation Swearingen was present and
made an address, confpl;menting the
county superintendent and the peo-
pie of the community upon tne Won
derful progress witch they had made:
Hon. c. T. Wyche was also present and
made congratulatory speech to the
people, in which he told them tina,
during t1e past summer he had held
that community up as an ideal OF
wat could be accomplished in every
school district in Newberry county.
An intermission was then had for
dinner and thougi it was a little
chilly an elegant picnic dinner was
enjoyed on the school grounds. In
the afternoon at the earnest request
o. the people of the community and
the principal of the school Mr.. E. H.
Aull made talk reviewing the his
tory which led up to the movement
for the establishment of the rural
graded sctool in that community He
gave credit to Miss Lizzie Hawkins
for the work which she did in help
ing the people of the community to
discover the school house and in
creating tle school spirit and in show
ing the people what they could C
complisa. superintendent Brown, also
made talk.
This is now one of the best rura1
graded c.ools in the county and the
only one of the rural schools with
three teachers and it has grown 1T
two years from little crowded un-
comfortable building with one teach
er to a commodious two-story four
room building, with cloak rooms and
all modern conveniences and three
tear ers. This school will prove a
great factor in tae growth and deVel-
epment and uplit of this community.
There are now enrolled about 100
children The teac ers are Mr.. D. L.
Wedaman, principal, Misses Mae
Amick and Lottie Lee Halfacre, assist
ants
The school spirit has taken posses
sion OF the people and greater inter-
est may be expected in the future:
In connection with the school the
district cwns two acres of land, the
gil of DR.. 6. Y. Hunter and his wife,
O. Prosperity, and has tie use Of sew
eral acres throug. the generosity OF
the same people, for farm demonstra-
ten WORT. 1t was the pleasure of the
eii{cr in company with Miss Fannie
Holloway, tie tomato club organizer
for the county, to be present and en-
j3y and take part in the exercises
last Friday. We wish the people o4s
this community even greater success
and at all times STAN, ready to help,
aid and encourage them in ter sooc
work