Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1921-01-20
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COM M U NIFTY

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will try to answer the letter thai
was in last weeks Herald, headed
"Cookeville," and signed, "a Friend
to the Children" the writer OF
which was afraid to put her real
name to the same.
Now, Of course we have the best
community in the South We know
this. Everybody else knows it, too
from Bristol to Memphis. in Tennes
see, and every agricultural school in
the South, We have done something
we feel proud of for the last four
years. We have the only community
club in our county, which was form.
ed four years ago, and have char
ter from the University of Tennes-
see showing same. We have had
three fairs, the best and the largest
free fairs ever in Tennessee. Why
should we not feel proud and blow
our horn a little? Our people are
the best in the world. We haven't
had lawsuit originate in Holiday
Community in fifteen years. You
don't see the men in our community
hanging about the courthouse. They
stay at home, work. and attend to
their business, and when they want
to do something, they do it. Now,
we know we have just few knock
ers, but they don't hurt us; they
help us to do things. When they go
to knocking, everybody seems to do
more for our community; so we
have just about decided that our
community gets more advertisement
from our knockers than from the
boosters.
Now, in regard to our school, we
know we have as good, If not the
best, in our county; and there is no
other community that feels prouder
of it's school than we do. Our school
was built about six years ago by the
community and the Board of Educa-
tion. We have had the best teach
ers in the state to teach our school
since our house was built, and have
had the best school, as the county
books will show. We have an enroll
ment of 145 o155 for the last six
months. We have had two or three
teachers, and one to three wagons
We have had seventeen to graduate
from our school; no other school in
our county has this kind OF record
for six terms. We have done some
thing to blow about, have we not?
Now. in regard to Prof. Hatfield,
we think, and most every one else
thinks, he was the best County
Superintendent of any county in the
state. Prof. Hatfield did his duty as
an official should. He never did
anything in our community except
what he had right to do in an Of
fetal way. OF course he helped us
to do things, but we have always
met his halfway in anything he has
undertaken He would have done the
same thing for any other school or
tat was willing and anx-
ious to be helped.
Now, the Club bought window cur
tains, coolers, cups and other things
for our school, and one-half of the
pump. the County not paying one
cent for these. We paid for them.
So, the writer who signs her name
"A Friend to the Children" does not
know what she is talking about. She
has never given penny TO anything
for our community since our club was
organized.
Now, in regard to the present Su-
perintendent Of Education. he Is my
friend, and believe friend to ev-
cry school in the county He is a fine
man, and we are behind him, and be-
lieve he will make us q good superin-
tendent
Now, know. that the writer of the
article of last week never helped our
in any way. She never
gave anything to our fairs, but al
ways tried to get all she could. We
1ad homecoming celebration and
! big dinner on the ground, and a |
Inc sermon by Brother Walker, of |
Cookeville, for the returned SOL
liers who went to the World War.
We invited this Friend to the Child
'en" to come and bring basket Of
,ats, but she never showed up. Then
We had a big fight on for public |
health nurse for the county, for the
Red Cross nurse. Our community |
vas called on; SO we put our. shoul-
lers to the wheel and went "over the
op", winning the flag offered by the
Ted Cross to the community that got
lp the largest amount OF money for
he Red Cross nurse. We won the
lag, but the Friend to the Children
lid not help or give q penny.
Last Thanksgiving day we gave
Ove feast and social to our friend,
J. s. Bellar, who was leaving our
ommunity. There was lots to eat,
nd big time, but the Friend to
he Children" was not there, and did
ot furnish anything to eat.
Now, we had Christmas box
upper and a good old time, Christ
las eve, but the Friend to the /,
,hi1dran0 Twas MT tharp She has