Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-09-17
SCHOOLS START
NEXT MONDAY
Modern Equipment Installed. Few
Changes in Faculty.
OBLIGATORY EXER-
CISES POSTPONED

Everything is being rapidly
put in shape for the opening of
the Roanoke Rapids Graded
Schools Monday. With the new
building at Rosemary and the
addition to the central building
there will be ample room to make
adequate provisions for all the
children in the district. There
are now eleven class rooms and
an office and library in the Cen
tral building, together with a
spacious auditorium. The seats
are now being placed in this hall
and when completed it will seat
more people than any other
school auditorium in the county.
There are five class rooms equip
ped in the Rosemary School and
four more which can be fitted up
as the need arises. These build
ings will provide room for sever
al years to come and do credit to
a town of 10000 people or more.
Private water works and sew
erage is being provided at both
buildings. There will be drink
ing fountains in all the halls and
easements and all modern toilet
equipment. There are few
other schools in a district of this
size which compare favorably
with these in this respect.
Few changes have been made
in the teaching force this year.
The following faculty will serve;
Miss Clara Hearne, Bynum, N.
c., Miss Myrtle Baine, Roanoke
Rapids, N. c., Miss Sue Watkins,
Manson, N. c., Miss Josephine
Tlllery, Scotland Neck, N. c.,
Miss Sarah Waller, Kinston, N
c., Miss Mabel Byrd, Smithfeld
N. c., Miss Nita Boyce, Rich
Square, N. c., Miss Irma Boyce,
Rich Square, N. c., Miss Lucille
Edwards, Seaboard, N. c., Miss
Hildah Johnson, Ahoskie, N. c.,
Miss Nina Gatlin, Fayettevill, N.
c., Miss Kate Atkinson, Enfield,
N. c., Miss Minnie Hopkins, Ok.
ford, N. c., Miss Bessie Lee Ais
ton, Henderson, N. C. Mr.. A.
M. Proctor, Mount Olive N. c.,
Superintendent. Miss Irma
Boyce will be Principal of the
Central school and Miss Minnie
Hopkins Principal of the Rose
mary school.
Parents are requested to buy
no books until after the children
have been given the complete
lists of the books that will be
used in the respective grades
The Hancock-H House Company
will keep a complete supply of al
the books that will be used in the
schools. As the State sets the
price of these books and allows
only a bare margin of profit tt
the dealers, schoolbooks will bt
sold for cash only.
School will open promptly al
nine O'Clock Monday. Children
will please bring their promotion
cards and those who have never
attended these schools before
will be required to furnish a vac
cination certificate. Only fiv,
grades will be taught at Rose
mary this year. These will b.
for the children from the Patter
son Mills village and Rosemary
All children in these places whit
belong in the sixth grade o.
above will report at the Centra
school. Parents and friends o
the school are requested to b'
present at the opening exercise;
in the auditorium of the Contra
school but because there win b
more or less confusion in enroll
ing the pupils and starting of
they will not be invited to th'
rooms until later when the schoc
is in good running order.
Sometime in October, a defnit
date to be announced later, ther
| will be held a formal dedicator
servicer State. Superintendent
J. Y. Joyner, will be the princip;
speaker of the occasion. Til
Juniors will take part in thes
exercises thus showing their we
known interest in education an
patriotism.