The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-05-20

The Little Rock Graded School is
going to keep abreast in the advance
ment that is taking place in schools
generally over the state.
The past year has been a highly
successful one in the history OF the
school and although on account OF
the prevalece of the Influenza Epi-
demic, attention has been confined
largely to the regular routine of
school activities, the year has been
one OF the best in the history Of the
school.
One hundred ten pupils have been
enrolled and large per cent. OF
these have been in regular attend
ance, with the assistance rendered
under the new compulsory attendance
law.
A tenth grade was added to the
regular school work and hereafter
the school course will cover ten
grades instead of nine.
An excellent literary society. meet
ing every two weeks and conducted
by the pupils, has given fine results
in training the pupils in reading, re-
citing and the proper forms of pro-
cedure.
The larger girls have an hour and
a half each week for domestic science
and the whole school has from time
to time enjoyed delicacies prepared
in the cooking room by this class.
An enthusiastic sewing class COM
posed of the girls from the interme-
diate grades has met at the same
time that the cooking class was in
session and these junior seamstress-
es have Wed with the cooking class
in the excellence Of their work.
While the girls have been cooking
and sewing the larger boys, under the
Supervision of the principal, have had
q regular weekly cleanup Of the
grounds and attended to keeping the
desks and other parts of the building
in repair. In addition to this the
boys have taken turns keeping water
in the septic tanks and once each
week formed bucket brigade and
given these tanks thorough flushing
out.
Athletics occupies the greater part
of the noon recess and the basket
ball court and athletic field have
been used throughout the year as
much as weather conditions permit
ted.
The largest SOCIAL gathering of
the year at the school building was
held just preceding the Christmas
Holidays and was featured by a
Christmas tree for the schol children
and an oyster supper and cake walk.
The cooperation of the community
was shown only by the crowded au-
ditorium but by the financial success
that attended this entertainment. In
a voting contest for the most popular
lady in the community, one cake
brought about four hundred seventy
five dollars. This together with the
proceeds of the oyster supper and
the sale of homemade candy by the
girls of the cooking class, made quite
a nice sum to be used in improving
Ythe grounds. Several hundred dollars
worth of additional playground
equipment has already been ordered
and will soon be installed. Improve
ment of the grounds has been the
! aim set by the School Improvement
Association for this year.
Previous to the Christmas enter
tainment drawing was held in each
class room among the pupils. each
pupil was to put present on the
Christmas tree for the one whose
name was drawn. The names drawn
were not to be disclosed and while
each pupil was thus insured of get
ting present, the uncertainty as to
whom the present was to come from
added greatly to the zest and pleas
ure that attended the occasion.
The colored school here has been
making great progress also and the
attendance, by far the largest in the
history Of the school, has been 80
large that the trustees have decided
to erect nice new building before
the opening Of the next session. Great
credit Is due the colored citizens of
this community for the efforts that
they have put forth in getting this
movement for new building under
way and over fifteen hundred dollars
has been raised by the friends and
patrons of the school. This supple,
mented by state and county aid in,
sures the erection Of as fine colored
school building as can be found in
the county.
The Boardof Trustees of the Little
Rock School District, which board is
comnosed NJ three Of the most prO
gressive young men Of the state, is
planning for great forward steps fol
next year. The splendidly, equipped