Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-08-05

where our party took dinner or
luncheon which was served cafeteria
style. We marched 10 at the large
double door and filed along side the
wall TO where there was line of
counters or tables over which we
were first handed plates and knives,
forks, spoons, napkins, etc. and then
as we moved along those pleasant
smiling boys and girls dipped up for
us generous helpings of anything
that we saw that appealed to us in
the way of nicely cooked and appe-
tlzing fresh vegetables, fresh meats,
cereals, pies. cakes, etc. in abundant
quantities. Then we were seated by
the lady ushers at round tables
where we ate as the band played
and speeches and cheers and songs
were INDUCED in by the combined
body of guests, student body, faculty
and visiting citizens. This school is
situated right in the beart of Lake
County which we have been touring
today by autos and the lake which
the school ground borders is Lake
Florence which skirts the campus
and also the great lake OF Apopka,
said to be second largest body of wa
ter inHFlorida. A booklet tells us
that there are l, 400 lakes in this
county and there are scads OF them
alright for we have past numbers
and numbers of them in ranges of
sizes from small ponds up to good
sized lakes, big enough to accommo-
date fair size launches. This school
is NOT a reformatory. We visited
that when in West Florida and have
already written of it. But this is
merely an industrial school some
thing like the s. & M. College in
Mississippi, only it takes boys and
girls of good character from IA wears
up and had a student enrolment
this year of about 500. These boys
and girls are required to work out
half of their school expenses. They
pay around $3.50 for the balance.
The students raises nearly all the
vegetables used in the school and
the girls do all the cooking and the
boys con struct the buildings and a
large part of the furniture. We are
shown their work in having built
the mess shall in which we ate and
they did fairly good work, and some
of 1t concrete blocking. They boast
that they have no hired persons on
the place, the student, teachers and
directors doing all the work. The
school has concrete plant, canning
factory, electric lights. electric laun
dry, garage, deep water, concrete
silo, sanitary bathrooms and sewer
age, dairy, citrus nursery, 10 acre
orange-grove, belgian hares, pigeons,
chickens. hogs, horses, motor power
wood cutter and splitter and other
equipment being added, so you can
see there is lots for the boys and
girls to do that is helpful in keeping
the school going and adding to their
training useful vocational knowledge,
and this school stands out here in
tie bald piney woods on nice level
above the lakes making fine site
for it and much has been done TO
create a great plant for turning out
useful boys and girls into a world
needing trained workers and not
untaught loafers.
we got back on the special train
| late that afternoon and made the run
down to
LAKELAND
travelling in two sections, and arriv-
ing about nightfall, where we were
Hospitality received at the depot and
steered by the committee to their
nearby square where from the band
stand music was being pumped out
on the vibrant air for our benefit.
After the band had subsidized speech
making came on aud we were given
warm words of welcome and directi-
ons as to how to split ND into groups
and 90 to the different hotels for
supper at the expense of their city,
and right glad we were to get to the
generous feeds as hunger had seized
us as we rode, despite the bountlful
dinner served at Montverde. Lake