Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
A Visit to Batesburg.

| left Edgeheld on lnvltatlOn OF MISS
Cleo Attaway who is member of the
faculty of the Batesburg Grammar
School, to be present at presenta-
ton of picture of Frances Willard
to that school.
Miss Attaway was the first teach
er in South Carolina school to send
in an account of Frances Willard
Day this fall, and later she had plan
ned to present a picture of this great
prohibition leader to the school. She,
with the fifty pupils of her grade con-
tributed the money with which this
picture was bought, and on the back
of it is written the name of every
child who contributed.
/ was very Hospitality entertained
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Hartley where Miss Attaway boards.
These good friends were very inter-
ested in some Of the Edgefeld peo-
pie and wanted to know all about
Uncle Epps, Aunt Belle and Cousin
Mamie Tillman.
Thursday morning I went over to
the Grammar school just across the
street where l was conducted to the
auditorium. Here three hundred chill
dren, from the first through the sew
enth grades assembled to see the pic
ture and hear and sing something
about the Life of Frances Willard.
On the platform were lovely flow
ers arranged in vases and on the
wall behind the platform picture of
Woodrow Wilson. At the piano pre-
sided Miss May Tarrant, the piano
teacher for the Grammar school, and
leading the singing which was unit
of vociferous juvenile melody, was
Miss Isabel Free the vocal instruc-
tor. She stood near the platform with
her magic wand and every child sang.
One of the facts that would have
been a surprise to me and matter
of great interest, if had not very
recently heard it, was the presence
on the platform of Prof. S. A. Genes,
for the third year principal of the
Batesburg Grammar School. He con-
Quoted devotions and was very inter-
ested in the proceedings. Many of
our young people and older ones res
member him as having been the in
structor in English in the Edgefeld
High School the year after Colonel
Bailey removed to Greenwood. He
was but twenty-one then, and gained
! his first year of experience in Edge
field school. He looks a very little old
er, but has gone through the expert
ment of matrimony since that time,
and Mrs. Genes and the baby are now
beloved citizens of Batesburg. Prof.
Genes is principal of the Grammar
School and must be making good, as
he is in his third year and that under
the espionage of Superintendent W..
F. Scott, than whom South Carolina
| has no more honored educator.
Mr.. Scott was also seated on the
platform to receive the picture of
Frances Willard presented by Miss
Attaway. He very kindly introduced
me to the school, and I told them of
the great life of Frances Willard and
of the many memorials to her men,
ory, for the benefit she brought to
the American people in driving out
Intoxicating liquors.
I visited number of the rooms,
all we'll equipped and conveniently
arranged. Prof. Genes said he
thought he had the finest grade in
school, and they were all Dusy get-
ting ready to enter the Batesburg-
Leesville High School next year, so
they were no doubt greatly stimulat-
ed.
The first grade was in charge if
Winthrop graduate, Miss Wither-
spoon, who seemed to be the apple
of the children's eye. The little folks
were all seated around tables with
little chairs, and their work in front
of them, much on the kindergarten
style, only more advanced.
am debating in my mind as to
whether it was the second or third
grade which I next visited. The rea-
son am in doubt is that as enter
ed the room, saw familiar face in
ora Of +ho dasks and after looking a