Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-16
MOUNTAIN view PICNIC
Community Gathering TO Celebrate
Closing Of School.
DAY OF PLEASURE and PROFIT

Audience Addressed by Several Speak
ers-Bounteous Dinner-6is Crowd
In Attendance, One Family Being
Represented by Four Generations.
Addresses by Rev. J. H. Spaulding
John e. Carroll, superintendent OF edu-
cation and Mr.. A. M. McGill featured
the closing exercises of the Mountain
View cchool held last Friday in con-
necticn with. community picnic un-
der the shade of the trees that sur
rounded the modern school house
where the summer term has just come
to close. More than 200 people from
the surrounding community, including
the old and the middle aged and the
young folks left their work for a day
IN order to come to the school house
and enjoy the pleasure of minglins
with their friends and enjoying them
selves generally 1t was q typical York
county picnic crowd and it was n pic
mic, with plenty of fried chicken and
pic and cake at dinner time, cold
drink stand on the grounds where
lemonade and soda pop and other
things could bo bought, we'll trained
and we'll directed orchestra to provide
good music for the occasion, all in a
wholesome atmosphere Of good feel
ing and friendly and sympathetic in
terc5t.
During the morning there were a
number of songs and other exercises
by the children of the school, inter
sperscds., with. good music. Mr.. IA
Campbell White of the board of trus-
htces of Mountain View school presided.
Rev. ]. H. Spaulding, superintendent
of the Economy Home, a nondenomin-
ational orphanage being conducted al
Piedmont Springs. addressed the gath
ering on behalf Of the orphanage and
solicited the financial interest of tho
people not only of Mountain View but
those of the entire county. Piedmont
Springs Is only a short distance from
the school and number of the inmates
of the Economy Home who number
about twenty-three in all enjoyed the
picnic together with their teachers.
Superintendent of Education John
E. Carroll addressed the audience iE
regard to the enforcement Of the COM
pulsory attendance law. Mr.. Carroll
went on to say that the law required
four months attendance on the part
of every white and colored child be-
tween the ages OF and IA years and
that the county educational authorities
intended to rigidly enforce the law
Although parents, and children in some
districts had begun to make excuses
for failure to attend, the majority oil
these excuses being of flimsy chorac-
ter.
He was quite sure, however, that
there would be no difficulty met with
by the attendance officers in Noun
tain View school district because the
modern building there and the inter-
est that the people of the, community
generally manifested by their presence
on the occasion of the closing of the
summer term was conclusive evidence
that they would enforce the law.
Mr.. A. NJ. McGill addressed his re-
marks principally TO the boys and girls
Of the schools, undertaking to point
out to them how they could easily be-
come men and women of power and
influence for good in community in
which they lived and pointed out tc
them the fact that 1t was not necessary
for them to leave the place of their
nativity and seek homes elsewhere in
order to become great men and great
women.
He spoke the fact that 1t was entire
| ly up to them as to their respective
futures and he urged them to make
the most of the educational and reli-
gious training that they enjoy. He
said that hard and persistent work in
the school and on the farm and a
wholesome, intelligent interest in COM
munity problems would result in their
becoming truly great men and women
who would enjoy the love, respect and
veneration of their fellowmen and wo-
men not only at home but abroad. .
Mountain View lis o two-teacher
school conducted in we'll lighted and
ventilated building of the modern type
and large enough for the needs Of the
prosperous community in which it Is
situated for a long while to come. The
building is a two room structure, so
arranged that both rooms can be
thrown into one furnishing a spacious
auditorium. The building is equipped
with large and roomy desks and all
the conveniences of the modern York
county school building. The school
building is used not only as a school
building alone but as a sort Of COM
munity hall where the people from the
surrounding country may conGregate
from time to time for the discussion
of problems OF community interest and
religious services. The building was
erected about five years ago, the re-
suit of agitation created by the most
progressive and far-seeing citizens OF
the school district who realized that
the old house was inadequate and who
were determined that their children
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