The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-05-27
SCHOOL NOTES.

The closing recitals of Miss Gilt !:
,ner's classes in music will be given
in the Auditorium of the City School
at Paris, Kentucky, Monday evening,
May 30th, at 8 o'clock and Tuesday
evening, May 81, at same hour. The
public is cordially invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Walls, of
Little Rock entertained the gradual
ing class of the Little Rock Graded
School, with a dining. About TWEEN
ty-five guests were present for the
occasion The 1921 graduating class
is composed of Misses Elizabeth Bur-
ris and Lillian Crump, and Clark
Wells.
Miss Mabel Templin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Templin, of
South Main street, Paris, has been
reelected to the position of teacher
of expression at the Little Rock
Graded School, Miss Templin is 4
graduate of the Paris High School,
where she attained high honors. She
is an accomplished musician and
gifted in other lines of san educa-
tional nature.
Among the Bourbon county diplo-
ma graduates, examined in Bourbon
county DIl MAY ~ anu q, WCiS IuO
following, who led the list:
Miss Mary Ewalt Clay, aged thir-
teen, of the school at Baskerville,
KY, achieved an average of "a. She
is a daughter of Henry Clay, of
Spencer county, formerly of Paris.
Miss Lillian Donaldson, R. F. D. 4.
Paris, student at the Millersburg
Public School, achieved an average
of "a. Miss Dorothy Pepper, student
at the Paris City School, received an
average of "a.
AS a result of the recent eighth
grade examination lgures show that
the average mark for girl students
was S4.S per cent, while the average
for boys was 821a per cent. The re-
port shows that out of the eighty
three white children who took the ex-
animation; there were forty-nlne
Eleven pupils, or 1914 per cent. OF
girls fifty-nine per cent. of the class
Eleven pupils, of 1919 per cent. .oi
the class of eighty-three had averages
above ninety per cent. Out OF the
eleven, eight were girls and three
boys. Among the sixteen negro pu
pills who took the examination there
were eight girls and eight boys
Only one of these received an average
above ninety per cent. and this wa:
one of the boys. The average MARI
of the white children was eighty-fOu1
per cent. and for the colOred children
SO 1916 per cent.
The honor pupils were: Alice
, Burton. IL, Paris, 81; Mary Ewal
Clay, 10, Baskerville, "a; Dude!
/ nric
| aIdson, Is, Paris, 90; William Judy
II 13, Paris. 81; Dorothy Pepper, IA
( Paris, "a; Mary Spears, -, Paris
SO; Anne Caywood Talbot, II
Paris. go; William Hinton, IA, Paris
90; Alma Tabor, IA, Peacock PIKE
90: Florence Thomas, IA, Paris, 9O
John Finch, Is, (colored) Paris, g.
4 Prof. Lee Kirkpatrick, superln
tendent of the Paris Public Schools
3 who for the past year has been pres
e ident of the Southern Club at tn
: Columbia University, in New York
4 is now arranging for group 2
Southern students, who will leav
Lexington on Sunday, July 3, arrlV
!, ing i'm New York on Monday, Jul
q A. in time to register for the openin
of Columbia College, on July 3.
S All Bourbon county children WIN
: have taken the county diploma eH
e animation, during the past yea
I are requested to be present at tn
o High School auditorium this CIT
day) afternoon, May q, at fou
9 o'clock. to arrange for county con
e mencement. All Bourbon count
;. teachers interested in the Bourbo
y county summer school are requisite
to be present at the same time an
y place.