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New Sc4%I A edt EXCELLENT E QUIPMENT Ic INGENTIVE TO WORIK ti 01 HISO1Y OF WHITMIRE GRAD- f, ED SOHOOL. ti - ii] Prof. C. R. Olvor, oi Spartanburg, Superintendent-$6,000.00 Brick Building Rccutly Erected. By R. C. Oliver. i Fcrtenit years ago when Whitmire was cihly a village with one store, to Wilich the far-mers (-f the district as sembled e (;:' r twice a month to dis cuss the affairs, li)otical or other wise, of. the day, and incidentally, to buy their supplies, there was built a g small log cabin, which was to servo its a sh1l house for the community. This "(ol filN school'' was taught bY Ars. ;nie LYles Sims. There WerV only 1 (-.'n pupils ('i11olled, butitil thI Xt lked i'aitilhilly for two Tl-he cabiv uA ien ,-eplaced b., a small frame h'i <''mr. This wasl the vnd step mid by the citizens e gtile III] o th hu le- vail-i.:- i ' N the ad v: -" -1 I n. m .J iir 'lheir eliil- (01 drveI C,I tw)tr:.-;.! . Hlarper. Or -1 ',w a cin t:--a.ccessful1 Chiey corner there. -O )unnml,: ne wits followed by. Mr. lioberl Pcrrin, of .\l I.: ounty, who tau.-.ht . :. " II Then followed a period of growth p for the school. Mr. S. A. Merchant acte(d as principal for eight years, witi an average enrolment of forty pupils, each year showing a distinct advancement in the school,not in un hers, but in interest, which, after all, is the greatest incentive to a teacher a for reinewedi eniergy and spirit ini his 0or her worik. ei In tile last year (of Mr. Merchant's bi1 work the schoiIol had grown go in num- f, hers that another teacher was secured fi for thle primary grades. 1! Duing 1'e intervening period be- pl tweeni Iie erecting of. the first school r< huili ng' and1( thle (close of1 Mr. Mver- tr chiant 's termi, t he village -had grown V to be~ a thirivinig mill t own, andl with ci t his gro'Iwth Iof tihe popiulationi of tile ei toiwn. t here was an advancement in si lie school wrol. It may he addoed here fi dl ______________________________________________ hI h h h r R. C. OLIVER.a si that the one frame building was not A adequate to hold the increasing num-i her of pupils, and the school was di- e vided into twvo sections-one section f going to a small house in another part i of the town; .of course this was very s unfortunate, for, with a division such s as this, there must necessarily be some d bad results. At this period in' the school's life, the town council met and decided to erect a seh9ol building that would a be a credit. to the place, so now we have a $0000.00 brick building which C would be a credit to any city. There s' TWhitmire e three hirge, well heated school ('Ills, and a spacious hall on the wer floor. In each room are patent f the latest. type ; on the see id floor, there is a large assembly ill, fitted with opera -chairs. A trnace supplies the heat for the en re building and electric lights are every rocn. Prof. J. H1. Dye, of Chester, S. C., superintedent, with Mrs. Dye and rs. W. A. Andrews as assistants, nrail the first work in the new tilding in the fall of 1905. There Lrl enrolled then sixty pupils. Prof. Dye, ha;ing resigned the Sup intendency to go into another field Work, Prof. R. C. Oliver, of Spar nburg,- S. C., was elected his sue ssor. Mrs. Dye and Miss Child, of )artanburg, S. C., are assistants. A fine building-comfortable idi dual desks-and comfortable rooms e incentives to good work, and the ipils are showing a great iiterest in e sellcol, mid by doing hard, earnest nrk. Besides fihe town scholars, there are tite a number of children from the untry, who are boarding in the town d re taking advantage of the op HOL. rtuni1t afforded them for an edu Such is a brie t' .-istory ofl the Whit re Graded School. THE TEACHERS. rof. Oliver And His Assistants In The Witmire Graded School. Prof. R. C. Oliver, superintendent. MI's. J. R. Dye, first assistant. Miss Elizabeth Child, second -assist Prof. R. C. Oliver, the superintend it of the schools, is from Spartan ir He graduated first from Wof rtd .Fitting -school and afterwards oam Wofford1 College. HIe taught 05-06 near Fayetteville, N. C., as inciplal of a graded school and wvas elected to this posit ion, b)ut declined accept the superinitendency of the Thitmire graded school. Prof. Oliv ~, though still (1iite a young man, is ithiusiast ic in his work and had the rongest. endhorsemnentIs from his pro ssors at Worf'ord College as a stu mt and a gent lemnan and was very xbly esteemed as a teacher at FPay teville. He is energietic, p)ains-tak ig and1( accurate and enuthusiastic in is work. HIis specialty is English 'id thle deadl lainguages and in these has showni renmarkable strength. Mirs. Dyev, thle first. assistant, taught .st yea r in thle Whit t ire graded 'hools and has experience in othii -hools b)efore comning to Whitmire, uring the last session her husband ref. J. R. Dye, was superintendent E the Wliitmire graded schools, and ithi his wife, had been re-elected for uis year, but decided to go into an their business at Chester, and asked be released. The board.reluetantly aleased Prof. Dye, bnut ..would not yhsenlt. that both'of them should go, ad therefore, Mrs. Dye is teaching rain this year. This in itself, is ~rong testimony to her worth and bility as a teacher. Miss Elizabeth Child, the second as. stant, is a daughter of the Rev. R. .Child, D. D., of Spartanburg, whc a member of the Methodist confer ce of this state. She graduated -om Wesleyan Female College, ai [aeon, G1a., and taught one year at eneca before coming to Whitmire, le is a young lady of culture and is ischarging her duties in the Whit. ire school with signal ability. Whitmire not only has a first class id up1-to-date school building, but is a faculty of teachers, wvh6 will mparo favorably with those of any ~hool in the state. Mr. Thadl W. Coleman, who is p3 bqbly one of the younges't mill sup intendents in the state, is a native oj Gienshore, N. C., though his parenti have lived in Asheillo for quite i muu'r (1 y2ai-s. has so t.: spcak "Wwn n') with the Glenn-.,owr3 M:mre - C ;::y. i; can with tl:e O many whe.n it. was firsi 01*anzud Iad was active an'd inter ested in thle building of the plant anm ,;illce the milii las beenl inl operatiol has tu(die( and familiarized hiimsell THAI). W. COLEMAN. with all the departmeits of the busi ness and is therefore thioomahly equip pod for the respoi)sibie position,whic: he. now holds. le is a first cousin.tc Mr. William Coleman and also v hr(,hAer-in-law., Mr. Coleman having married his sister. *He has filled (he p sition as superintendent for th( pa,;t year, and( is very popular, not onl ly wi!h lihe Afficials and room bosses but wit all the operatives of tlie mill in wI in and in wh1(se wel are In 1111niftests Ilhe 1cst lively inlterevs( aln is yready and willinlt toel, an.1 Ynmpatlize with them. J. V. Thom son.. :dr. J . l h mila', ovi* ersee.ir of ti w*:ie n a d I i assistant -lperil teident of the Olenni-Lowry Manu factul-rinl. CI 11pany, came to Whit mire fr-om Spat abur. 1e has ha( tlolt"i gh tiraining. in the mill businles, a~niun ha'n 1)1a (nneeter wiith ( J. V. THLOMASON. Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Comn p)any for the past two years. E. E. Child. Mr*. E. E. Child, v'ice-p)resilet 0 the IFirst National Bank of WVhitmirt is a 5(on omf the ev D)r. lt. A. (Child, o lhe hothI CaIrolina Met hoi(hst conit E. E. CHILD. once and is a native of Piekens count where he was born in 1880. He can to Whitmire from Greenwvood resigi ing his position of cashier of the Firn Natignal Bank of Greenwood in orde to accept the position, which ho no holds at Whitmiire. -1i-- -i_5_J_R T A LONE APPLE TREE TELLS O' THE PAST. After All Agriculture Is the Backbone Of Our Industrial Growth-An Old Man Meditates On These Ohanges, By J. W. S. How absolutely unknown is the fu ture. If two decades ago some one had told me that I would be occupying a residence on the spot Where the town of Whitmire is now located, I would have *called him a fit subject for the asylum, but such is life and after thirty-five years of active farm life I am living in the town of Whitmire with my family. As I sit in my room and look out of the front door, I see about forty yards away a magnificent brick build ing all lighted up at night with elec tric lights. It is beautiful to beholl. It is the National Bank building just Completed and oculpied. On my left a:4 I look out of my window about fifty yards away I see a beauttifl brick iiuldit, whicli is the graded -m-houl butildin:x, w%hichi is presided over by three efficient teachers. As I look out of my back door about two hundred yards away, I behold stand iig erect, beai tiful andIjurable the . NO. W.% scoT. -WGliln-LowryN Cotton Mllill. MonIIey, h-rains and '.-up1 have tranisflo-i t the bridle pathi dow-n thie'spring and up over (lhe .hils ,and gul1lies and -t.WkQ--pinles into.gr-aded streets; Do,wn by the spring- twenty years agco ,stood an1 humnble log cabin oeccupied by whlite people. Today it is replaced by a laogo cotton mill, -and as a souvenir, one old apple tree is left standing erect and green, whicl: lemilinds some Of its of other days when stea and electricity were un. known in tis section of the county But, with all these eniterprises and this progress that have been- made ir the last fifteen years where does th< st.ructure rest. I answer, the: mudsil: upon wvhich the whole structure rests is the agricultural interest adjacei to Whitmire. You eense to caus< mlothier earth to yield forth her ried products b)uri ed wvithiln 'her generoun bosom; then it is that electricity wit ease to do its mission; steam wvil not lbe needed ; the graded streets will grow up with grass and weeds. The farming interests adjacent t< the town of Whitmire are controll. ed by a number of energetic, indus - trious and progressive farmers, mnany of whom own their lands and home. I notice a progressive spirit actuating many of thees farmers. They ar< erecting telephone service to theji homes1W out inl thle count ry, so t hey wvil be in imniiediate (ouch with each othe: and the towvn of Whitmire. There will always linger illni my)bo 01m fond recollectelos associate wc iiti farm life. About six miles from th old hiisforie Ninety Six public road, first saw the light of (lay upon land: granted, to some of my ancestors h: the king of England. These anices tars came over from Ireland prior t< the Revolutionary war.' I still have home upon those lands, which is an cessible to me any day. The bray o the mule, the moo of the cow, th squieal of the pigs, the cackle of thi liens, tihe crack of the teamuster's wvhii and the sound of whoa haw gee wil always elia ini.,my ears to remind in of the days thet T spent down n th farm. Thomas H. Paynter, who wvill sue coed Senator Blackburn, of Keni tucky, next March, is a large, muscul ar--looking inan and looks a good den like Secretary Tqft, though taller an y nothing like so ample in circumfor 0 ene He has been a member of th Kentucky Ceut of Appeals, the high est judical tribunal in the Blue Gras v .Stpto, since leaving Congress eight o 'ten years ago. (l' OFFICE ANE General Manager R. R. Jeter. )i. I. R. Jeter, who is general miianager cf the Glenn-Lowry Mann facturing Company, was born in Un iun]) nt near Saintuec. He was edu1 calvd inl (lhe Schlools of this.-eounlty ard afterw,rnds gr11 (aduaed ait the Cita dl eadciny in Charleston and at the Mledical - -liee of South Carolina. After -raduaticn he located at Whit - *. . l.JEER mile n1114 had1 a -.11re anld lueralive practice for- ten %a(r. ie had much t-) dll with the ur-.r ::ati< it the I191Y m Vd'a wII it v.as (;Ir-:):lized he ale u i l .mii ra1c'ievto Ibec00cm an of 11velr inl the comlim".y aind lilts devo".ed his entirt tieliv to tihe mill bninless. Much of the drowth and develop ment -of Wtitinire is due to the en terprise and business foresight of Dr. Jeter. 0. M. Watson. Mr. C .M. Watson, who is private secretary to the generial manager of the Glen i-Lowiry Manufactuinig Comn C. M. WA TSON. to Whiitmire, and is a native of Green wood( county. J. P. JETER, Cotton uye BANK BUILDING. Lloyd Osborne.,', Mr. Lloyd Osborne is a. na4, Charlotte, North Carolina, het present the cashier of the Fire tional Bank of Whitmire, and be accepting the position, had nine yeard of experience as a bank official, hay4' ing been connected with the Chorlott National Bank. THE LATE 01 RO. A Washington Paper Rejoices that The Tomb of the Eminent mjw Gentleman'Ma Been Dis covered." Washington Herald. The tomb of Consul Marcus Tullius Cil!ero, a Roman gentleman 'whosO,i. other names the titles, if he had any seem to have struck a siding as they hurried alon-r the track, of time, hag been brought to light after many years of most undeserved oblivion". We are very glad to hear it. Cicero sIAod Vil"ht at the head of the states men of his day. History has dealt rather unkfhdl , , nt to say gingerly, with Cicero. Very little, in tiuti, is known of hin, ex , "ePt siuch as yOu may find in the boc ks he left behind, and these areA written insuch ri'idly unsinplified lItini that very few peo)le seem dis, Posed to siudy- them. Novertheless, it 7 is ciliefly for (lie things he wrote t1fat he became famous, though it must be ackeowledged that he was also very .a"M us for nany things he djd not' write, as all truly great men are. Oiie' ' of tle beautiful truths gathered fron the fragmentary records of his nobl4 life is the fact that% those -who have'. things to write would do well t6 fol low Cicero 's illustrious example o either not writing them at all, or elsc *' writinz them in apparently unfat'y homable Latin. Only in this way Can one be stire that one 's writings will never afterward confront him to hi embarrassment. Cicero, while not a comnmandin~ power himself, seems t,o have made an in1variable rule of conduct to folj low the* wishies.aud desires of those in power. He .wa net only a great di.. plomat, but quite a lucky man as ivellE Cicero was a great orator, though no. so supjerbly great as- to~ have be' ruthlessly flung down th e ages a, ''the hoy orator'' of anything. By careful and painstaking manipulato of, the wires, lie succeeded at ~~ point in his career in having hin self elected one of the consuls, a 'so4 ilorified Senator. Between yai~U Chautauquia dates lie found tIi~,t address the Senate quite eloqii The most notable of these, ofi1 wa iR attack uponalm~, of P~opul istic p)roeliv'ities ko Lucius 'Sergius Cataline. ,Just exactly which one of the"t suicceeded.( in having Cicero oete thie consulship as aforesaid seo semewhlat hai-d to determine;'bpII unldo'ubtedl ability at miek ,~ couphledl with his brillianch i p)us chaser, stamps him indbl one, of the few statesmen' of: h: tie~ who wvas undoubtedly 'oun tohis o" Ciero never seemed t'o 'gain a great. permanent .political- advaitt from- his numerous epeecbes-and wii' Ings, though. he evidentlNtook al to see that they' were faithftly re ported in the Record for thi benefit s of his admiring constitueney. He was a great'man, and lie had his tisans, but in' the end-he was reitl4. ly cut down, and the coup.try maz1a ed to wabble along fairlyivhl without him. It' is a happy thought to know that Cicero's tomb has been, diepvered. I shocks us to think that the tomb el so fine a statesman could 'have beeati so long lost. (From Judge.) As Christmas nears How times does fly! The days are sh60t0' ; And soaiiL.