The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-15
NEWS ABOUT
THE CITY SCHOOLS
PARENT-TEACHE ASSOClA-
TON HOLDS MEETING. RE-
CEPTION PLANNED. COMMIT
TEES APPOINTED-TH FIRST
FOOTBALL GAME OF SEA-
SON.

Yesterday afternoon the first
meeting of the Parent-Teaeher asso'
citation of this session was hid IN
high school building and was well
attended. This meeting was called
mainly for the purpose of perfect
ing plans for the reception to be
rendered the new teachers of the
city schools in the near future. At
tea discussion it was decided to hold
the reception either this Saturday
afternoon or the latter part of next
week. a committee to have charge
of the details of the reception and
this committee will announce, prob
ably tomorrow, the time and place
for the reception. The following
ladies have been appointed to serve
on this committee: Mrs. T. G..
White, chairman, Mrs. J. F. Barn
well, Mrs. R. C. Philson, Mrs. c. H.
McMurray, Mrs. C. A. Milford and
Miss May Robertson.
The association yesterday also
agreed to hold the first regular
business meeting of the association
in the high school building Wednes-
day afternoon, October 9Th, which
will be the time for election of Of
ficers and the appointment of per-
manent committees for the present
session. A plan of work to be under
taken during the session will also be
formulated at this October meeting.
The regular meeting day of the
third Tuesday in eacn month will be
changed after the first meeting in
October.
The members of the Parent-Tea-
cher association wish it to be gener-
ally known that every parent having
children in the city schools and ev-
cry other citizen of Abbeville inter-
ested in the welfare and progress of
the schools is always cordially wei
come to attend any of the meetings
of the association and to participate
in their efforts to make the Able
vile schools the best in the state.
The officers of the association at
preent are; president, Mrs. A. B.
Morse; vice president, Miss May
Robertson; secretary, Miss Annie
Hill, treasurer, Mrs. G. c. Gambrell.
The first game of football will be
played Friday afternoon beginning
at 5 o'clock on the athletic field off
Magazine street when the local high
school team tries out its mettle
with the strong aggregation from
the Elberton high school. Last Fall
Elberton outweighed the Sweten-
burgers by Is pounds but with nine
of last years players again in the
high school Capt. Billy Long says
Elberton won't get near enough to
the Abbeville goal Friday to see it
without telescope.
Mr.. Joe Anderson of Antreville,
county attendance officer was visi-
tor to the schools yesterday, going
over the enrolment with the super
intendent and looking after the
pupils: who come within the bounds
of the compulsory attendance act.
Mr.. Anderson was agreeably sur
prised to find that three pupils who
gave him much trouble last session
on account of irregular attendance
were each found at his post labor
ing with the multiplication tables
and reading about Epaminondas and
the Cyclops.
Mr.. Derbyshire's French class
sounds this week like a company of
Doughboys in France trying to buy
"Du pain ct du fromage." It's Hinky
Dinky Parlez Vous about the High
School now.