Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-03-24
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN
Highland Farm Consolidated School.
NJ. N. ROBERTS. EDITOR.


1t is now six months that TIE
Highland Farm school has been in
session and Is the school year will
soon close take this occasion to re-
view the work accomplished during
this time.
When The Brown and Highland
schools ia Greene county, and q
part OF Rocky Greek in George coun
ty were being consolidated INTO a
new countyline school, applied for
the pnncipalship, preferlng TO teach
in my own county of Greene rather
than go to other places. was elect
ed as princpa, with Mss Nellie
Eubanks as first assistant, Miss
lydia Vice second assistant, and
Miss Bette Hlllman Primary.
Now that the teachers we're elect
ed aud consolidation finally complet
ed, Highland Farm school consist
ing of two rooms. had to be enlarged
and an additional wing OF three rooms
were planned TO join the original
building. There were no funds TO
meet this expense; time was short
before the beginning of the school
term and only with the kind assist
ance of Mr. M. L. DAVIS, Oak Grove,
Ala. and the wholehearted coopera-
tion of the community were we ena'
bled to successfully accomplish the
task of having the building ready in
time. Lumber and material was
sent out from Oak Grove over the
Davis logging road to point near
by. A large force of the patrons OF
the school came to help in the cree
tion of the building and in the short
time of three weeks all was ready for
the opening of school.
The building is OF the winged. one
tory type so popular in school ar
chitecture; is located on four acre
tract, well fenced on an elevated
point commanding a fine view of the
surrounding country.
On October 3. we opened the doors
10 the bright boys and girls of this
district. The whole community, a.
most TO man was there to witness
the opening exercises which were
short but impressive. Thus our
work began with the best of pros
poets.
We celebrated Thanksgiving Day
with fitting program. The exercis-
es began at ten o'clock and were car
RED for an hour by the pupils. At
eleven o'clock Bro. Hardy of Leakes-
vile, began the devotional service in
which he gave US several reasons
Why we Should be thankful for this
special day. Promptly at twelve
the good ladies' spread the Thanks
giving dinner and invited everyone
10 partake. There was turkey and
chicken and other viands in pleEty.
There were cakes and pies to suit all
tastes. To cut short a long descrlp-
lion, the table was simply groaning
3 under It's load of good eats. In the
Afternoon the basketball team
played winning game with Brushy
Creek our neigh Boring school,
On the 3rd. and 4th. Sundays of
each month we have preaching servi-
ces at the school building by Bros.
Hardy and Johnson respectively
We have maintained good union
SUNDAY school every since school be-
gan.
We have set as our special task
this year a coat OF paint for the
school building, deep well on the
ground and sanitary drinking foun-
tainssin each room. and complete
equipment for the whole school. To
make all these Improvements we are
floating $1,000 worth of bonds,
1t is our purpose TO make High
land Farm one of the best CONSOLE
dated schools in the county
MARVIN II. BALL,
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