The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-05-11


Carrollton, as guests in the home 0
Mr. and Mrs. D. d. Patton.
Mr.. w. F. Shirley, of Gordo,
member Of the county board of edu
cation, was in Carrolton last Wed
nesday h attendance upon a specia
meeting of that body.
Mr.. A. S. Bell returned Friday from
ten days stay in st. Louis anC
points in Michigan and Wisconsin
He reports conditions much worse i.
the places visited than they are il
this section Of the country.
DR.. G. Malone and Mr.. w. I. Muir.
ply, of Reform, were among those
transacting business N Carroliton OF
last Wednesday.
The people of the Palmetto section
in the northern part of the county
are looking forward with keen inter
est to a gathering of the citizens of
that prosperous commLnity on May
18th, for the purpose of considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of consolidating the
schools of the beat. The people of the
rural school districts are fast real
izing the Importance of consolidated
schools and it is believed before the
next term of school begins many ap-
plications will be filed for considera-
tion. This county has a few rural
schools that have been consolidated
and the outsider has been watching
their progress with interest and can
easily see that the consolidated
schools are satifying the patrons in
every respect, so much so that they
are willing to give it a fair trial.
Rev. J. M. Wigley, pastor of a
group of churches embracing the Re-
form circuit, was in Carrollton on
Saturday en- route to his appointment
at Marvin Chapel, east of this city.
Mrs. J. M. Pratt and children, ac-
companied by Messrs. w. II. Torbert
and Roscoe Moore, were pleasant
visitors in Columbus Saturday.
At a special meeting of the coun-
ty board of education held in the of
flee of w. II. Storey, county superin-
tendent of education, last Wednes-
day, Prof. H. N. Lee, of Georginia,
was selected by the board as princi-
pal of the Pickens County High
school for the next session, which be-
G insn September. Mr.. Lee is an
A. b. Graduate of the University of
Alabama and since leaving that in
stitution has been quite successful as
teacher in high school work. For
the past two sessions Prof. r. E..
Hodnette has beul principal of the
County High school, who will leave
for other fields at the close cf the
present session.
Pretty weather for farm work pre-
vailed during last week and the
smiling countenance on the farmers
while on the streets of Carrollton
Saturday brought cheer to others who
are depending upon him for a living
the coming year.
Considerable interest is manifested
in the closing of the Carrollton pub
lie school, which begins on May %,
when DR.. w. G. Henry, a noted di-
vine Of one of the leading churches of
Birmingham, will deliver the COM
mencement sermon in the auditor
ium of the school building DR.. Henry
is a Pickens countian by birth and
has built up quite a reputation as an
eloquent and forceful speaker and a
large crowd will greet him when he
appears here on this special occasion.
The graduating exercises will occur
Monday evening, May %, and will be
one of the interesting events of the
closing. Hon. c. b. Veiuer, a promi-
nent attorney of Tuscaloosa, has ac-
cepted an invitation to make he grad
uating address and deliver the diplom-
as to the thirteen graduates The
faculty are planning other events for
the closing and it promises to be
one Of the most interesting in the
history Of the school.
Tor several months good roads en-
tmisiasts Of this county have been
working On some plan whereby a
good road could be constructed from
the Tuscaloosa county line by Gordo,
Reform, Carrollton, having Aliceville
rs the southern terminus for the pres
INT. At a meeting Of representatives
held the latter part Of last week a
Of two was appointed from
zach Of the towns in the county,
Aliceville. Carrollton. Gordo and Re
form, and this committee viii appear
before the commissioners court to-
lay in an effort to have that body APP