The Robesonian., 1917-09-20
LoMBERToN NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1917
AUsPICIoUs SCHOOL OPENING

der Most Favorable Circumstances
with 4O5 Pupils-Opening Exer-
c,ses tuesday Attended BY Number
of Visitors - Additional Teacher
Viii be Employed for Second
Grade
With 4O5 pupils, one more than
the number last year, the Lumberton
graded and high school began its
eleventh session Tuesday morning at
. o'clock under circumstances more
favorable than have attended the be-
ginning OF any previous session. The
two buildings are in coed condition,
the equipment is better throughout
than 1T has ever been before, and |
faculty and pupils enter upon the
years work confident that this will
be the best year in the history of the
school to this date.
Opening exercises in the high
school building auditorium We're at
tended by quite numbers of visi-
tors, more, perhaps, than ever at
tended an opening exercise of any
session in the past. Devotional ex-
ercises were conducted by Rev. DR..
W. B. North, pastor of Chestnut
Street Methodist church. He read
the 23rd Psalm.
After the prayer, Supt. R. E. Sem
year, as follows:
/ ter and Lillian Nance.
Second-Miss Pennie Rowland.
ThirdAMiss Wmifred Rowland. .
Fourth-Miss Elizabeth Breeze.
Fifth-Miss Lille Barker.
! Seventh-M1ss Anna Neal Fuller.
Miss Fuller takes the place Of Prof.
| eagle, who was caught in the army
draft and is now in the training camp
at Greenville. S. C.
High School
English-Miss Mildred Williams,
with eighth grade under her care.
Mathema atics-Miss Mabel Jetton
of Shelby, in charge of ninth grade.
This is Miss Jetton's first year with
the school.
Latin and French-Miss May Sea-
bolt, in charge Of tenth grade.
Science-Prof. R. H. Taylor, 18th
grade and principal.
Prof. Sentelle stated that a teach:
ers' meeting was held Monday after:
noon and that all the teachers had
enlisted with the determination tC
do the best work this year they have
ever done.
Mr.. R. D. Caldwell, chairman o1
the board of school trustees, was call
ed on for a few remarks. Mr.. Cald
we'll said the trustees expect this tt
be the best year in the history o:
the school up to this time. Th'
equipment is better. Last year the!
h were handicapped by lack of an aud
itorium. A faculty has been select
ed that will be loyal to the school
and great things are expected. Ap
plication has been made to the boaro
Mr. Caldwell said, by some who pa
large taxes and have no children t
send and therefore claim that the
do not receive any direct benefi
t. from the school, to allow some on
outside the town to attend free /
place of the children they Nigh
send if they had them. But tn
board has decided that all pupil
from outside the school limits wi
have to pay tuition. 1t is not th
purpose, however, to allow any grad
that is full to be imposed upon. M
Caldwell said that no better sta1
had been made in the history of tn
school.
Mr.. J. A. Sharpe, editor of Tt
Robesonian, responding to an inv
tation to have something to say G
the subject Of the school and tt
Sc hometown paper, spoke briefly
is the effect that schools have caugl
vo vision in recent years Of renderin
greater service to their communitit
ne ard one way torender that service is k
,le proper use of the hometown pap,
he in keeping the public informed abo7
n school news and about the aims al
*, purposes of the school.
s. Mr.. C. V. Brown, a member of tt
ar school board, spoke briefly of the ir
rs, portance of encouraging athletics.
Iff Mr. K. M. Barnes was at the ope
ing of a session Of the school for II
Vn first time and he was delighted. +
ee, was proud to mention the high sta
he the school has taken, as evidenc
at by the fact that graduates of ttf
IN, school readily meet entrance requir
'p ments of the best colleges.
eet Supt. Sentelle asked Rev. DR..
Ar. L. Greaves, pastor Of the First Ba
he fist church, to saw "Howdy". [
'or Greaves said if that was all he W
de, expected to say. he could say tn
Of mighty quick; but being assured tn
ted that was just way Of inviting h
gu to make some remarks, he made
es, most happy brief speech. Sitti
the there, he said, looking into the ea
ZEN or faces Of so many children, II
Is his mind there came picture of
big spider web, with threads runni
ind from many homes to this cent
ent point. "But don't get ahead of m
ade he cautioned, "and think that | me
wo Supt. Sentell le is a great big spid
and all you children are little sp
as ers." Anyway, it was a good W
low if you please, or you might char
my the figure and call it a system
uc- telegraph wires. And every {
ade along every one of those lines fr
the homes of the community to
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