The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-08-03

d in a meeting at Longsville, KY, whe
i Prof. B. G. Hull told that vast audienc
Of over thousand people what W
i were doing at Rural Hill and he sal
4 If we were doing half the things MI
e Hull said we were doing that we wer
e a great people. We were glad to NEE
. Mr.. Calhoun as he promised to hell
) us out in our Rural Hill affairs. TIL,
: next speaker was Prof Ellis, Super
. intendent of the city schools Of Co
lumbus, and his address was we'll de.
livered and received most cordially by
our people. We also are very proud
to meet Prof. Ellis, who rendered his
services at any time he could serve u.s.
We congratulated Columbus on having
secured this man at the head Of her
school system and we predict great
things for Columbus schools under his
supervision. Prof. Broome our able
assistant State Superintendent Of
Education was the last speaker, but
not the least. His address was force
full, logical and convincing and our
people / think were largely brought
over by these timely arguments for |
know the writer was. You know they
made me think of trip | took over
across the line few weeks ago with
Mr.. Glenn Henry as chauffeur, tire
only way could tell the bad places
Mr.. Huury seemed to get faster and
/ was on the back seat and sometimes
the other man and myself were both
in the middle and then both on his side
and then on mine, and then we would
scatter and go up in the air and then
the same performance over and over
again until we neared the state lire
and Mr.. Henry and his Ford had
shook all the high road tax kick out
of us and the same. way with these
gentlemen. When they got through
with us we were ready to go to work
for the county wide levy of che mill
and we are very much gratified with
our people. More than so per cent Of
them signed the petition which is a
large per cent Of our voters and l did
not get to see them all. Now good
friends hope you will think seriously
over this before you go to vote. If
our school term is cut down to four or
five months our property will de-
crease in value 40 or so per cent or
worse to say nothing of our children's
welfare.
We wish to especially thank those
parties who live out side of our COM
munity for their donations towards
our school building. Our people are
not rich and as many of you know our
community or large part of it was
torn all to pieces by storm this
spring this and the extreme shortage
of money makes US doubly thankful
to you all and to any one who may
give to our worthy cause.
Mrs. T. w. Stinson's father, Mr..
McCrary, of Reform, spent the past
week with her.
Hr. Gunter, of Pickens is visiting
friends and relatives just across the
line.
Mr.. Henry Vaughn made a visit to
the home of Mrs. Ora Duncan last
Mr.. Joe Odum, of Steens, and Mr..
J. W. Eubanks, of Rural Hill are off
to the Delta this week looking over
this great country.
Our second baseball nine crossed |
bats last Saturday with Sunnyside,
which resulted in a score of 8 to 4 in /
our favor and then with a score of
Is to Is in our favor with Liberty. 1
Sunnyside and Mt. Vernon started a
game Dut II Was SoOi' Odiieu a. IL was 4
too late to play. We wish to express
our thanks to all who donated to our
base ball club SO as to enable our boys +
to CONE out in their new suits, es-
pecially do we wish 10 mention Mrs. 4
Josie Vaughn and Mrs. Essie Lofts,
Of Steens in their efforts in securing
funds for our club, and we hope soon
to have our our first team meet Mt.
Vernon and Caledonia on the Colum
bus diamond and show you city folks
some of our country ball playing. We
noticed several new tents going up
at the camp ground.
"RURALITE."