The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-10-21

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MFR: pabbs Writes From Tryon.
Tsyon. n G. OCT. 1e.-1'er six
| weeks was eps busy at bone in
Salem. Black River. Thursday,
| the 18th, came back to Tryon to
close UP the home for the winter.
and take the family to South Car
olina. On my way up via Union
! stopped a few minutes at Glenn
| Springs. Just to see what sort Of
/; a place my friends from Sumter
! have been coming to for the past
! many years. / was agreeably. sur
prised to find pretty little settle
yment OF nice. homes as well asa big
illetel. From about Glenn Springs
! to Tryon the cotton shows 50 lit
ltle boil weevil damage that it made
me wish for an up-countr4 farm.
The postmaster at Tryon told me
| that on his farm in southeastern
part of Polk. county the weeyils
/ have cut his crop one-tfird. {
!; have seen only one field OF. c5ttos,
| this SIDE of Spartanburg that ]
thought was cut so much as "a
third. $500:
I spent "wednesday night with
Col Alan. Johnstone in sNewberry.
! He told me that county Is cut -
less than IL OF a crop. All
through that county and Unioa 7
saw more people picking peas fh;:n
cotton. This side Of Spar;anhui-4;s
.a1l were picking cotton and some
fields are still white with cotton.
Nearly all the fields dotted xiti,
piles OF cotton where each day :
picking is heaped, suppose until
they haul to a gin. Much cotton
was going to the markets up this
way Twenty-two cents.
Friday. we drove to sInrtanb.ii's-s
to shop and having the time. went
on south 70 the. South Carolina
school for the deaf and blind. W.e
were there at The noon: hour and
saw the kitchens, dining rooms and
the students at dinner. 1t is q Won
derful work the state is dong
there Three generations OF Walk
ers have been superiRtendents
Col. Walker, the second superin
tendent. is; sort of OH the retired
list, but has some general saper
vision. His son, the active super
intendenf is an enthusiast over
the WORK. and made our hour a
very interesting one. We asked to
see and meet the Misses DuBose
from Sardinia. They are very
bright girls and seemed to appre-
c:ate our asking fer them.
Mr.. Walker says it takes five
years to get deaf mute to the
place where a blind child starts
in its education. One of the blind
students from this institute is a.
junior at the University at Coiun-
bia aud is leading his classes.
Others are doing similar stunts ut
other colleges. l thought the
books for the blind have raised
letters. Mr.. Walker says raised
letters have been superseded many
years by raised dots. It is a
short hand system, and they. learn
to read about as fast as an ordinary
seeing reader. | mean they ,speal,
the words that they feel with the
finger tips.
The state oN-ns 154 ceres Of land
on the east side of the main high
way from Spartanburg to Union,
one mile freIn tie Southern Rail
way at Cedar Springs station. Tbs
spring flows GS gallons of water per
minute. and supplies al the build
ings There is . negro building, !.
primary building and the main
building where the administrative
Offices are located and the inter
mediate and advanced students are
housed. Then there is Il machine
shop. u dairy barn and other OUT
buildings Mr.. Walker stated that
no pupils arc made to work cx-
ccpt as Il part OF an education sys-
| tenn to fit them for self support.
They are not worked for the sake
OF reducing the cost. hut for the
training it gives them. wish
| more OF us could see this good
work.
Yesterday we attended preach
| ing at the Presbyterian church 1T
Columbus The new minister cali
cd 10 the Tryon-Colunbus field.
| The county is building a concrete
road from the South Caroline line
south Of Tryon Ia the court house
at Columbus. Just beyond Lynn
there is I, fill or 70 feet high
and three or foas hundred yards
/ long made with rock. They have
| blasted thousands OF tons Of roc',
In places TO cut down grades and
to use as fills .A'id VIII shorten
the distance between the TWO places.