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Kemper Teftcherage.
In the summer of 1919 the Kemp>
er school district voted on a 6 mill
levy and purchased an old unfinished
i riilnniriatoH rpciHpnrp in front of the
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school building an^ transformed it
into the most attractive looking
teacherage in Dillon County. It has
been painted on the outside, and
three rooms and the pantry ceiled. At
present the house looks as if it were
newly built. It is a large six room
house (fireplace in each room) with
pantry, large hallway and a porch extending
over half way around ' the
house. A sitting room and bed room
have been furnished by the school.
This is the hest equipped teacherage
in the county, but still it lacks a
great many conveniences.
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Kemper School.
Five years ago Kemper school
building was a small two room house.
Since that time it has been remodeled
twice and painted inside and outside.
It is now an attractive, well
ventilated building.
About three years ago a music
room and one cloak room were add'
ed. The following year a room for
the primary department and two
cloak rooms were built. The primary
room is 28x31 1-2 ft, with forty six
feet of blackboard. It has five large
windows. The building is equipped
with modern desks and recitation
benches.
The rooms are separated by folding
rinnra and car, easilv he thrown into
one large hall for an entertainment.
This is an advantage as it saves
building an auditorium for the present.
In the future should they decide
to ad another teacher the music room
can be used by the higher grades.
The building and number of pupils
H Are amply large enough for a four
^ teacher school now. *
There is only one district in the
county that has voted on more mills
for school purposes than Kemper.
The tax levy for Kemper district is
39 3-4 mills.
Much credit is due the efficient
board of trustees who faithfully use
their efforts for the welfare of the
school.
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Kemper School Improvement Association.
The Kemper School Improvement
Asosciation has held nine monthly
meetings the past year. It has given
two entertainments this year and
rained SIRfi.KJt. The aim adoDted bv
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tbis association last (all is as follows:
To improve the school yard
and the yard around the teacherage,
to light the school building, to enlarge
the library and buy pictures
^ (or the school room walls. ,
^ Up to the present time the only
part of this aim that has been realized
is that the yar^ around the teacherage
has been cleaned off. A Bummer
house over the school pump is
being planned to be built in the near
.1 future. The Association has raised
enough money to fully carry out its
aim.
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Kemper Closing Exercises.
Kemper, a three teacher rural graded
school closed a most successful
year on May 7th. On the evening of
May 6th at 8:30 P. M. the following
program was rendered:
Opening and prayer?Rev. A.
Finch.
Song?We hope you've brought
your smiles along?School Primary
Department.
T> <u>Ho Inn P-ronHna'a anfvt n nl a A?
Elavese Ford.
Dialogue?Five Little Buds?Five
Little Girls.
Recitation?My Troubles?Rosalee
Robbins.
Recitation?I want a Piece of Calico?Flora
Elvington.
Dialogue?Where are you going
my Pretty Maid?Lydelle Hayes and
Dora Scott.
Recitation ? My Horse ? Oscar
Ford.
j Recitation? A Queer Little House
Dora Scott.
M Dialogue?What a Little Girl is
.Good For?Three Little Girls.
Recitation?The Daisy ? Larue
Sparkmon.
Song?Kentucky Babe ? Higher
grades.
Recitation?The Lost Doll ?Theodosia
Hayes.
Recitation, The Lightening change
?Augusta Ford.
Dialogue?The Golden Bucket ?
4 children.
Recitation ?Bob's Penny ?Flora
Elvington.
Recitation ? Mary's Opinion of
the Baby? Mildred Hayes.
Intermediate and Higher Grades:
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Recitation ? The Second Table ?
Ralph Barfleld.
Chorus ? The Robin Song ?In
termediate grades.
Dialogue ? Waiting for the trail
?Higher Grades.
Recitation ? Rosa Scott.
Nature Play, Intermediate grades.
Recitation ? The.Raggedy ManSarah,
Francea Finch.
Song?Blowing Bubbles ? Inter
mediates.
Dialogue ? The Cute Family ?
Higher Grades.
Closing Song ? Vacation SongSchool.
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Specimens of the Manual Traininf
Drawing and Writing of the first and
second grades were on exhibit.
Honor Roil For the Year.
1st grade? Edna Hayes, Mildred
Hayes, Odell Bryant, Augusta Ford
E. B. Ford.
2nd grade?Rosalee Robbins, Levi
Dew, Eloise Ford, Theodosia Hayes
3rd grade ? Leona Elvington.
4th grade ? Elva Hayes.
5th grade ? Victoria Bryant.
Perfect Attendance Roll.
2nd grade ? Rosalee Robbins.
4th grade ? Elva Hayes.
Enrollment for the Year.
Primary Room ?girls, 28; Boys,
40; total 68; Intermediate, girls 25;
jboys, 12; total 37; higher grades,
'girls 11-64 boys, 15-67, tota 1 26j
131. Manna Ray.
A Student of the New Holly Adult
School.
School Improvement Work in Dillon
County.
In practically every state the
school workers advocate some sort
of community organization centering
around the school house. Each state
has its own name for this oreaulza
tion and pursues its 0^n policies In
promoting the work.
In South Carolina this organization
has been for years the School Improvement
Association, supported as
It Is by th6 state legislature and connected
as It is with the state department
of education, it has had an opporunity
to do a type of community
work that no other agency does or
can possess.
No other county in the state baa
accomplished more comparatively
than Dillon County through the activities
of the School Improvement
Associations. Some of the larger
counties have a larger number of
local associations and the sum total
of their activities show greater results
but Dillon is the only county in
the state that has a local school lmptovement
organization connected
with every school in the county and
these 28 local associations in proportion
to population and to the
number of schools in the county have
accomplished more than the local
associations in any other county in
the state.
The chief reason for the success of
these associations has been the fact
that in every Instance they have set
for themselves a definite aim and
have worked for the accomplishment
of this aim.
The following statement summer!ize
the several line3 of activity of
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- these associations in Dillon County e
'and their accomplishments.
-I The County Federation of Clubs fi
I is compose^ largely of School 1mi
provement Associations, the support 1
| of these associations enabled the 1
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ty nurse for the schools of the coun*
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Further the School Improvement
- Associations supported the movement
to secure septic tanks for sewerage c
- disposal in every school in the coun\Y
Through the activities and interest
of these associations libraries and|c
supplementary readers have been se;
cured for every school, some improve-' ,
I ment has been made to all school
grounds and some play ground equipment
added, pianos have been placed
I in every school but one, cooking1
, equipment for teaching domestic
science has been added to thirteen
i schools. r
During the encumbrancy of the
present president the following ^
amounts have been raised by the as- t
sociations and spent for school bet- .
terment. . t
1916-17, $1000.00; 1917-18, 1
$2500.21; 1818-19, $3212.43; 1919April
1, 1920, $6,057.65.
The Executive Committee of the
Association has awarder to the .
.[schools of Dillon County the following
prizes for the splendid work ^
I shown.
I 1916-17, $100 as a County Prize
J to the County doing the best Im- *
provement work, $50 to the school .
making the best showing awarded to .
j Dothan, $25 to Mintum and $25 to
(Bermuda for next greatest improvement.
Total $200.
1917-18, Building Prize $50 Floy- 1
dale; for raising the greatest amount
of money in the county, Fork; to
the County for the best showing in
Improvement work $25; to each association
holding and reporting twelve
monthly meetings, $5; these being
Bingham, Carolina, Dothan, High
Hill, Kemper, Little Rock, Minturn.
Total $120.
1918-19 Building Prize $50 each
to Hamer-Kentyre, Hillsboro, Sellers,
for raising the most money in the
county, Pleasant Hill $10; for holding
and reporting regular monthly
meetings $5 each to Little Rock, Minturn,
Dillon, Dothan, New Holly, Hamer-Kentyre,
Union, Floydale, Latta,
Oak Grove Sellers. Total, $215.
1919-20, The Major Prize for
Health and Sanitation for the best
showing in the entire state, $50 to
|Dalcho.
$10 for Growth, up keep, efficiency
to Harlee for the best in Dillon County
and $5 to Kemper for the next
best.
$10 to Pleasant Hill for raising
and depositing the greatest amount
of money; $5 to each association
holdign and reporting twelve regular
monthly meetings, Carolina. Oakland,
Minturn, Little Rock Hamer,
Floydale, Dalcho, Oak rGove High
Hill, Fork, Sellers, Pleasant Hill
Total $135.00.
Madeleine Spigener.
President South Carolina School
. Improvement Association.
,' In the fall, the school clubs in Dillon
County take a definite aim for
I their efTorts, thus stresing the mat1
terial side of such organizations. In
this way much equipment has been
added and added in such a way that
1 It brought about community spirit 1
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bdg interest in mc uuuci lamugi
' These alms ere reported at the Fall
'meeting of the Dillon County Feder'
atlon of Women's Clubs, the results
' of the alms at the Spring meeting. {
1 The following are the alms that were'j
' (taken for the year 1919-1920: L
I Pee Dee School Improvement As- g
soclation?The purchase of single f
desks.
Carolina School Improvement As-,
soclation?Beautify school grounds j {
| and the purchase of play ground c
.equipment |l
' j Harlee School Improvement As- (
soclation?Beautify school grounds,jj
, (purchase or equipment. n
i Little Rock School Improvement '?
lAssociation?Beautify school grounds i
'purchase of play ground equipment. |s
I Oakland School Improvement As- t
isociation ?Purchase of auditorium'j
seats for new building. |t
| Dothan School Improvement Asso-(
' elation?Beautify school grounds. ;l
'l New Holly School Improvement t
11 Minturn School Improvement As- 1
sociation?Build flue for Domestics s
.Science room, purchase of globes, :d
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( Dillon Parent Teacher Association r
?Remodel school auditorium. It
i Dillon Community Club?Purchase i
* piano. ii
.Asociation?Beautify school grounds, t
Bingham School Improvement As- c
sedation?Purchase piano. i:
Haraer-Kentyre School Improve- e
nent Asosciation?Beautify school
jrounds.
Union School Improvement Assoiation?Purchase
of oil stove, library
>ooks, and the boring of an artegian
veil. |
L/ake View School Improvement
Association?Purchase more school
iquipment.
Mt. Calvary School Improvement
Association?Purchase piano, D.aper
umuea,
Kemper School Improvement Asociati#n?Beautify
school grounds,
urchase pictures, globe lamps,
ooks.
Bermuda School Improvement Asociation?Purchase
lamps, globe,
ingle desks.
Manning School Improvement Asociation?Purchase
single desks.
Floydale School Improvement Asociation?Furnish
the fourth school
oom. ,
Latta Parent Ttacher Association
?Improve school grounds,
Sardis School Improvement Assoiation?Purchase
of more equipnent.
Dalcho School Improve ;ent Assoiation?Beautify
scwo grounds,
urchase of more school equipment.
Oak Grove School Improvement Asociation?Purchase
Draper Shades
or new building.
Hill8boro School Improveemnt Asociation?Beautify
school grounds.
High Hill School Improvement Asociation?Purchase
piano.
Pleasant Hill School Improvement
Association ? More furniture for
eachers' home, play ground equipnent.
Fork School Improvement Assoiation?Remodel
school building,
leautlfy school grounds.
Sellers School Improvement Assoiation?^Purchase
piano.
Five hundred and sixty one wouen
are enrolled in these clubs. Two
iundred and six meetings were held
luring the past year.
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Mt. Calvary School Improvement
Association has made many improvenents
during the past scholastic year
vhich have proved advantageous.
Our aim for the year was to seure
Drape shades for the*windows
The sufficient funds to do this were
ippointed, but seeing the greater
iced of music in our school, we used
his money in purchasing a piano,
vhich has been a wonderful help to
he school. Septic tanks have been
nstalled on the grounds, improving
he Sanitary Conditions.
We have also tried to beauty our
chool ground, althq no school ground
equipment has been secured, we have
iquipment has been secured. We have
n time to come, may allow us to
ay: "a thing of beauty is a joy foriver."
Last, but not leastt among our Improvements
is that our membership
pf the Improvement Association has
ncreased, and everyone seems to
tavo taken new interest in the welare
of the school and community.
Alyrtle Stubbes,
rin'cipal Mt. Calvary School., Sec.
Improvement Asociation.
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Dalcho School.
Years ago Dalcho _was one of the
)est known schools In the surroundng
country. He star rose and bejan
to descend, but before that star
;et, community pride awoke and bejan
to draw it back to its original
josition.
In nineteen hundred eighteen, the
jatrons and trustees became so thor>ughly
dissatisfied with the limited
ot and inadequate old building that
leflnite stepe were taken toward the
)urchase of a new lot and the erecion
of a new building. Owing to
icarclty of material and lack of labor
vork progressed slowly, but the
ipring of nineteen hundred and nine
een iouna leacners aim yuyua w
g the best district rural school
>uildig In Dillon County.
The slate covered building is
>rick veneer with all exterior woodvork
white. Broad concrete steps
ead upon a porch adorned with four
tately white columns. Wide double
loors open into a spacious hall from
vhich one has access to three class
ooms, the principal's office, the liirary
and two side porches. Followng
the way the steps lead and turnng
to the right, one enters an atractvie
auditorium with a seating
apacity of four hundred. The stage
3 furnished with a crex rug, quarterd
oak table and chairs, while the
auditorium proper is furnished with
oak seats and heated by a jacketed
stove. Opposite the auditorium is a
room built for a class room when
growth demands another, but now
fitted with tables and dishes to be
used at entertainments.
The interior wood work throughout
the entire building is stained
green. This blends pleasingly with
walls that shade from chocolate
brown through tan to a canary ceiling
Each recitation room is furnished
nrHh oirt crl _ Hoalra VivHnnla ta hnarria
globe, maps, heater, and the best
tan draper shades procurable.
For two winters, night schools have
been held for adults. The first school
was taught by the day school teachers,
but last winter a special teacher
was employed. The enrollment
was twenty-five, an increase of ten
pupils over the'former year. When
commencement was held, twenty-five
dollars was awarder to several fortunate
contestants.
Miss Sellers and Mr. Epps have
thriving clubs in their respective
lines of work. One of Dalcho's pupils,
won the trip to Winthrop this
summer for creditable work in canning.
The school Improvement Association
has been very active for the past
two years. Last year it was awarded
prizes by the state for new building,
raising greatest amount of money in
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; meetings. This year it was awarded
two?one 'or regular meetings and
jthe other a major prize of fifty dollars
for sanitary improvement. This
, means that Dalcho is the only school'
in the state that in one year installed
j Septic tanks, had children examined
by nurse, kept floors oiled, and provided
outdoor games for children.
| Dalcho fosters school efficiency,
mmmiinltv nnirit. flnd lOValtV tO
county schopl officers. As she is now
better equipped for service than ever
before, may she render service unequalled.
Let her fulfil the mission
of a real school for the most progressive
wide-awake people of Dillon
County.
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