Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-10-10
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Plans are being made for a School
Rally for the entire public school
system of Madison county to be held
here in Richmond on Friday, Oct.
oath. At this time, the deed of
transfer from the trustees Of old
Madison Institute to the new Madi-
SON High School property will be
formally rendered to the Board Of
Education by Hon. w. B. Smith, and
accepted by Hon. John holland, as
chairman Of the local board. H
County Superintendent Of Schools
Ben F. Edwards, City Superintendent
John Howard Payne and Mr.. holland
as chairman Of the Board, held
meeting Tuesday and went over
plans for the rally. A number of adj
dresses will be made and the school
children will be on the program with
music. County school teachers will
be expected to head delegation of
their pupils and patrons to event,
which will be notable affair in the
educational life of the city and coun-
ty. %,
County Supt. Edwards is sending
out the following letter to teachers
and trustees, giving details Of the
big rally:
Richmond, Ky.
Oct. 10, 1919
On Friday, October Oath, the form
al opening of the new Madison High
School, fomerly Madison Institute,
will be held on the campus of the
high school at 10 a. m. The Madi-
son High School will be part of the
county school SYSTEM in that the
County Board has arranged for pupils
to attend, free of tuition provided
they are more conveniently located
to Richmond than to any other county
high school. \
It he's been decided to make October
Gath great school rally day for all
of Madison county. The purpose of
this school rally will be to focus at
tention upon the schools, to increase
the attendance, to educate sentiment
toward legislative reforms in our
school system and to arouse. more en-
thusiasm and interest on the part of
the public.
It. has been agreed that we have
competitive parade of all the schools
of the county on the morning of Oc-
tober Gath at 10 a. mi This parade
will start the days exercises.
Each school will be considered q
unit in the parade. Three prizes will
be given: the first prize to the school
making the best showing; the second
prize to the school making the
second best showing and the third
prize to the school making the third
best showing The Judges will take
three things into consideration in
awarding the prizes, namely the per-
centage of attendance based on en-
rollment, the general appearance from
the standpoint of military order in
the march and the originality of the
teacher in the artistic decoration Of
her school in an Inexpensive way.
The parade is scheduled to start at
the Caldwell school builing on Second
street at 10 a. m. sharp. All teach
ers should report at the Caldwell
building with their schools by that
time. This school rally will take
the place of the regular teachers
meeting on the last Saturday in the
month. All schools which take part
in the parade will be given holi-
day on Friday, October Oath and the
teachers will not be asked to attend
any teachers meeting on Saturday,
October 25th.
Teachers, if you are in favor Of
better schools, better salaries and
longer terms, get behind thik toYe-
ment and bring your whole
and every patron to Richmo1
tober oath for the para
presence or absence in til
will be an index to the SCI
in your community.
Write me at once for AM
particulars that you may
know. / shall look for you
school in the parade on Octoh
Yours for better schod