Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-10-27
Friday, toctober 27, 1922.

Superintendent Rodney Love of Beth
any school and rode with him on his
fifteen mile route, collecting children
of the Dixie neighborhood who are
now carried to school at Bethany in
big truck purchased for the purpose
since the Dixie and Bethany school
districts have been consolidated. 1t
was novel trip all right, and one that
was much enjoyed by Mr.. Carroll
after he had rubbed his eyes and
stretched himself since he is unaccus-
toned TO getting up regularly at the
rather early hour of $3.50. Leaving
Yorkville few minutes after 6 o'clock
the two men who were enthusiastic
enough to ride 10 miles to get to take
another ride in school truck, reached
the home Of Mr.. w. B. McGill, where
Mr. Love boards, about o'clock. Mr..
McGill insisted on the couple coming in
for breakfast and at least one of the
two prevaricated prettily about having
had breakfast long time before.
With the Bethany teacher at the
wheel, the truck started on it's seven
and one-half mile journey collecting
school children at about 1880, the
route leading straight down the Kings
Mountain road to a point where turn
was made into the Dixie neighborhood.
Several school children who ride to
school on the truck were waiting on
| the door steps of their residences to
| be picked up on the return trip no {
passengers being taken until the ter
minal is reached at the home of Mr..
George Whitesides. An exception is
made in the case of Elmer Temple
ton, son of ]. L. Templeton for the
reason that the Templeton home is a
little way off the route. So young
Elmer is the first pupil to mount the
truck in the morning.
There is q horn on the truck. Love
says it is just a sort Of a horn
a Chevrolet but really it is not needed.
School children with smiling faces
were waiting to be picked up at every
There were seventeen when the home
Of r. N. Plaxco was reached. The
truck was pretty full then and Su-
perintendent Carroll began looking
toward the top of the vehicle evidently
contemplating the possibility of his
finding seat on the top of the bus
when two young ladies there came out
to ride. 10 That was the last stop, the
driver going on into Bethany with
nineteen regular passengers and two
dead heads"
Arriving at the school house around
$3.50, the driver opens the single door
of the school bus and his human
freight unloads, all done in most
orderly and well regulated manner.
The ninety-odd other children who at
tend Bethany school begin pouring in
from all directions. School does not
take up, work until o'clock and there
are a few minutes for play. Then
comes 8 o'clock and the bell and work
for the day'begins. At o'clock school
adjourns for the day and the pupils
living afar are carried back to Dixie.
There is only one fault to find with
the truck and that fault lies in the
! fact that 1t is too small. Nineteen
boys and girls take up lot of room
and now that the harvest is about over
there will be others from the neigh
borhood who will be going to school at
Bethany and who of course must ride
There is no problem about seating
| room just now but Mr.. Love sees it
| just ahead. The truck is a one-ton
| Republic chassis with specially de-
signed school body built by a Char
lotte concern. 1t is snug and warm in
side. There is only one door which
opens and shuts by lever control at
the direction of the driver. There are
no big steps or rods on which child
rem might play and get hurt and in
| fact it is about as well arranged and
is as convenient az bus used for the
purpose could be. Good speed can be
made in it and it is driven along at a
rate about equal to the average Ford
and bounces and bumps so familiar to
| drivers Of HIS pride are lacking. 1t
cost the school district about $1,700.
The road route over which the
school truck makes two daily trips for
a distance of about 80 miles is good
road and while it may. be- little bad
this winter, there is little or no prob
ability that it will be unable to go in
any kind of weather. People who do
not care much about keeping up roads
for the convenience of the general
public will do lot for the colven-
fence and comfort of their own child
rem and it is safe bet that the roads
will be kept fit.
1t is rather hard on Superintendent
Love of Bethany school who must haul
the children to school and then teach
them. II he lived in the Dixie section
instead of at Bethany he would find
it necessary to make only one. trip
daily instead of two. But he doesn't
mind that and of course he is COM
pensated for his double duty.
Operation of the school bus in Beth