The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-04-09
COUNTY COMMENCEMENT
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OOnClnC0Q lIOul JdSe
Proctor, Redden Britt, Carl Greaves
and Forest McGill. Time 5 minutes.
There was no competition in this con-
test.
Shot put-s2 offered by Mr.. K. NJ.
Biggs-Dewey Maness Of the Row
land school.
Baseball
"A baseball game. between Orrum
and Philadelphus was called after 4
innings had been played. The score
at, the time the game was called was
26' to 6 in favor of Orrum.
DISCLAIMERS and Reciters' Contests
The DISCLAIMERS and recitsrs' con-
auditorium Thursday evening at $3.50.
There were several who entered these
contests and all the contestants de-
claimed and recited splendidly. In
the declaimers contest John Blount
Mcleod of the Lumberton high school
won the prize, a gold medal, offer
ed by The Robesonian, and in the re-
citers' contest Miss Grace Mcmillan
of the Philadelphus school won the
prize, a gold medal, offered byMessrs.
Bell & Jordan. The judges in the
declaimers' contest were Messrs. F..
E. Dixon, R. E. Miller and F. Grover
Britt. The judges in the reciters'
contest were Mesdames L. r. Varser,
J. R. Poole and Miss Ella Smith. The
prizes were delivered by Prof. R. E.
Sentelle.
Splendid Exhibits
Thousands Of people were surpris-
ell at the splendid exhibits Of the va
/ rious schools which were displayed
in the graded school building. The
following schools had exhibits on dis
! play: Philadelphus high and farm
life school, $Buek Horn, Iona, Taber-
nacle, Mt. Tabor, East Lumberton,
Glennwood, Center, Rowland, Saddle
tree and the various grades of the
Lumberton school,.
Perhaps the exhibits which brought
forth the most favorable comment
were those of the Philadelphus high
and farm-life school, the East Lum-
berton school and the art class of the
Lumberton school.
Old-Time Log School House
There were many features about
the East Lumberton exhibit which at
tracted the attention of visitors One
was an old-time model log school
house. The cracks = were fill
ed with clay, there was a stick and
clay chimney at one end and a door
at the other. In the house were
some Of the old model seats-the sort
our forefathers had to sit upon when
in school. At the door of the school
building was laid an old blue-back
speller. This carried the minds of
the older people back to their child
hood days.
A Complete Doll House
A feature of the exhibit of the
East Lumberton school was a doll
house. 1t attracted the Wondering
and admiring attention Of all who
saw it. 1t was astonishingly COM
| plete, furnished THROUGHOUT with the
cunningest homemade furniture YOU
| ever saw, with neat covers on the
furniture and hand-woven rugs upon
the floors. There were beds, dress
ers, buffet, dining-room table set with
tiny dishes, baby crib and chair, rock
! ers-everything you could think of in
a complete home, even to a wood
box filled with wood. A 2-story house
it is, with connecting bed rooms on
the second floor and parlor and din
ing room connected on the first floor.
On the porch were seats and swingand
On the porch were seats and swim and
hammock, yard swing invited re-
pose in the shade, and flowers were
growing in pots beside and on the
porch. This was work of Elwood
Taylor and Daniel Evers of the 18th
grade.
Exl
/ In the exhibit of the Glennwooc
school, besides various articles made
i excellently Of wood, there were bas-
kets, artificial flowers that looked
} natural, drawings, mats, and a vase
covered with powdered glass.
Phlladelphus School Exhibit-Minia
ture Farm
AS all who have seen exhibits from
the Philadelphus school know, it i!
hard to tell how attractive and sug
:, gestive they are. One splendid fea
ture of the Philadelphus exhibit wa
farm on which dozens of differen
, real plants were actually up ant
growing. This exhibit was from tn,
farmlife department, of which Prof
0. O. Dukes is principal. Among tn,
plants growing on this farm wer
I corn, cotton, melon vines, all sorts O
grasses for pasturing purposes, straw
berry plants, peas, soy beans, stocl
beets, rape, vetch and other things
(, These various plant fields were ar
>. ranged in most attractive order. Be
q sides the regular farm, there was an
n other farm In connection showing tn
+ various winter cover crops growing
:, On this farm residence, poultr
LIZARD and everything else that it take
I to make a model farm and a mode
j farm home.
:. Domestic Science Exhibit
= Now for a look on the exhibit from
>. the domestic science department O
the Philadelphus school, of wHicl
l, Miss Lena Rhyme has charge. TIL
% % first thing that attracted ones atten
N ton when he entered this department
, was table laden viii all the goo
- things to eat one could imagine. O.
. this table were beautiful cakes of va
Tious kinds, pies. corn bread, four dill