Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-01-07

Iucation ]. e. Swearingen said:
Several years ago the patrons of
Trinity school and Ridge school, in
Laurens county, rolled their two old
houses together to establish the con-
solidated Trinity-Rdige school. In
creased attendance made growing
demands on the school so that J. ID.
w. Watts led in the movement to
erect an adequate modern school
building. This house has just been
completed and is universally recog-
| nized as one OF the best country
| schools in the State. The commu-
nifty have voted the necessary local
| tax to maintain strong teaching
| corps. The district is recognized by
the State Board Of Education as a
rural high school. The teacher this
session is Miss Laura Aull.
Not far from Swansea the people
of Athens district have erected one
of the best two-room buildings in the
county Of Lexington. The patrons
and trustees are planning to estab-
lish a rural graded school with State
aid.
The new building at Pomaria,
Newberry county, is the first link in
chain of fine school houses stretch
ing across the county from Broad
river to Saluda river. The trustees
have already enrolled 20 per cent
more pupils than ever before. The
plan Of the house is one OF the most
serviceable and popular in the State
when the south-bound railroad
from Columbia to Savannah was built
some 20 years ago critics declared
that the country traversed by the
ter than waste. Among the pro-
gressve towns now dotted along the
railroad Norway is one of the best.
The new $4,000 school building
holds more than 100 pupils under the
instruction OF five teachers. Though
the population Of the town is only
315. the community can boast of bet
ter school facilities than are offered
in many larger towns of the State.
f. G. Chitty is the energetic principal
and has already shown the value of
enthusiastic leadership in his school.
AT Dalzell, in Sumter county,
Misses Pearle and Dorothy Napier are
showing what valuable service is rem
dered by Lander College in training
efficient teachers. The new building
| IS only one evidence Of their practi-
cal Judgment and successful work.
Pupils and patrons have co-operated
gladly in the sewing and cooking
| classes which make this school one
of the leaders in industrial training
| for rural communities. With the
stalled larger enrolment will ne
cessitate the employment of a third
teacher.
AT Rome, on the boundary be-
tween Williamsburg and Georgetown
counties, r. B. Gambler, with the CO.
| operation OF the trustees, had the
| good judgment to employ an to re-
tain trained principal. The super
intendent Of the school is o. NJ. Nit
chell, graduate Of Wofford College,
and an educator whose service has
reau of education at Washington.
The dairy at this school is the only
experiment in live stock training now
being conducted in South Carolina.
group Of consolidated schools has
grown up in the neighborhood of
Rome. The community is giving an
object lesson in agricultural educa-
ton and educational efficiency.
Three years ago the teacher in
Catawba township, near Rock Hill,
decided to consolidate four neighbor-
hood schools. Miss Minnie Garrison,
who has just published the york
County Cook Book for Tomato Club
Girls" has also given her school dis
trict one Of the best consolidated
rural graded schools in the State.
Miss Mary E. Hite has given busy
days and wakeful nights to her work
and the cooperation she has enlisted
from 81 of the A counties shows
what might be accomplished If the
president Of the Rural School I'm
provement Association were in posi-
ton to devote her energies solely to
the upbuilding of the country
schools"