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THOUSANDS TO ATTEND COUNTY SCHOOL FAIR BIG EVENT OF YEAR Athletic Contest, Display of Handiwork and Oratory to Claim Attention. EVERY DEPARTMENT TO BE REPRESENTED Four Thousand Children Expected Ii? the Parade. Great Educational Event, for which the County Edu cational Department, the County Teachers and School Children have been Making Preparations, will Take Place next Friday, the 18th. Mam moth Crowd Expected. To the Teachers of Laurens County: It is only one week before Laurens county Is to celebrate its first annual County School Fair. Friday, April 18, Is the date appointed for this event. The slogan for the day Is four thous and school children In Laurens. t?s success depends on you. Never be fore has so great Interest been shown in a county undertaking. So far as we know not a school will fail to be represented. We not only want the school chll-' dren and teachers, but trustees and everybody Interested In the schools? which should mean every person In Laurens county. It Is estimated that there will be ten thousand people in Laurens. Nobody can afford to be absent for the day will bo tilled with interesting features?the literary con tests. ti?*? elementary and high school moots, the grand parade and the ex GEO. L. PITTS Count) Superintendent of Education. hibttS. Mr. Lavender, manager of the | moving picture show has arranged to | have pictures made of the various' scenes of the day. Let none of your I pupils faces he missed when the reel is shown at the opera house. There will be nine llternry contests ?three in each of the following sub jects?read, spelling and arithmetic Ten events have been arranged for tho elementary athletic meet. Each school will l)e lowed one pupil for each contest. very teacher should have representatives In all these con torts. Afhjjr a year's work the pupils should b< l-ncournged to measure their work with that accomplished by other children. The parade will be the greatest feature of the day for here every cl ild can enter. lie sure to have the pupils dress In white and arrang" them in line' according to size. Wo opmostly urge the trustees to march with the children, following Instead of lea< g the line. The exhibits will bo displayed in the court house. They will be received at the county superintendent's office Wednesday, Thursday and until 1<? o'clock Friday morning. Mirk ?acll article by giving child's name, school, nge, and grade. Do not forget to certify to Its prlglnallty. Send the nnme of your school, wrlllon, in large letters to he placed by your exhibit. The County Court House, whore the Children's Exl?blts will i?e held nil dar inir the day. (Scene during the Annual County Fair). PROGRAM 1) 10 O'CLOCK. Literary Contest -City Graded School Building. Heading. (a) First and second grades roc::! No. s Conducted by Miss Emily .Men?:. Miss Lois Et'Vln, and Miss Kiddie Arnold. (b) Third and fourth grades?room No. 1. Conducted by Miss Ella Roland, Miss Genie Aiken and Miss Madge Harris. (C) Fifth and sixth grades?room No. 11. Conducted by Miss Annie Davis. Miss Mae Roper and Miss Mary Martin. Spelling. (a) Fourth and fifth grades?room No. 10. Conducted by Miss Bossle Bamett, Miss Ella Belle Copcland, and Miss Bessie Brown. (b) Sixth and seventh grades?room No. 6. Conducted by Miss May Delle Barre, Miss Nannie Simpson, and Miss Little Young. (C) Eighth, ninth and tenth grades?room No. .">. Conducted by Miss Fannie Creighton, Miss Irene Dlllard, and Miss Mary Cartwrlght. A rilhiuelie. (a) Third and fourth grades?room No. .'!. Conducted by Miss Annette Stover, Miss Ida Turner, and Miss Barnio Wallace. (lit Fifth and sixth grades?room No. 9. Conducted by Miss Dorcas Calmcs, Miss Mary Belle Babb, and Miss Blanche IMnson. (c) Seventh, eighth, and ninth grades?room No. 2 Conducted by Miss Laura Barksdale, Miss Dcssie Stewart and Miss Marie Stoke-. (2) II O'CLOCK. Elementary Athletic Meet -Graded School Grounds. fa) loo.yard dash, (hi Low hurdle, to Running high'jump, (d) Running broad jump, to Poll vault, in 75-yard dash?male teach ers only, (g) 50-yard dash?girls only. <h) Potato race. (i? Shoe race. <ji Three-legged race. Referees?Alllo Lee, Carlos Mosoloy, Jno. Wells Todd, J. J. Adams. i.3) 12:80 O'CLOCK. Picnic dinner on school grounds. (4) 1 O'CLOCK. Grand parade?Children, teachers and trustees. Form at school grounds. (5) 2:30 O'CLOCK. High School Athletic Meet at school park on West Main street. (C) The children's exhibits? the most interesting feature of the day?at the Court Mouse. Doors open from 10 A. M. to ."> P. M. In charge of Mi*. Willie Anderson. Mrs. Mary Copcland, Miss Hannah Tolbert, Miss Wesslc Lee Dial, Miss Sadie Sullivan. The High School Oratorical Contest In graded school auditorium at 8:P.O. Admission, adults 2.r? cents, children 15 cents. Presentation Of odals and trophy cup. After discussing the prize question with many teachers, it has been decid ed to limit the prizes to blue and red ribbons. We trust the teachers will Impress upon tholr children that the honor Is sufficient without any ma terial reward. Think of your school having the best speller, reader, or mathematician in the county. The program of April IS covers ev ery minute of the day. There can he no waiting. The events will begin promptly at the appointed hour. I5e sure to be on time. Yours truly, Cleo. L. Pitts, Supt. of Education. Wli Lou Cray. Supervisor of H. S. on' to Hie Contest Master Hugh Alken will leave Fri day for Greenville where he will rep. resent this county in the Piedmont Oratorical contest which is to be held the same evening. About fifteen BChOOlS Rro represented in the con test and Hit winner of first place must provo himself an orator of no mean ability. The people of this city will watch with interest the outcome of tho contest for they nre sure that their roprosontativo will be among the leaders when the Judges make their decision. WIM. TEACH VOICE IIEIIE, Mr. Bvcrnrd Caltlirop will Organize Class Tomorrow, Friday. Mr. Everard Calthrop, the well known tenor soloist and vocal teach er has decided to organize a class In Laurens. He will come here tomor row, Friday, for the purpose of dis cussing plans and arranging for the immediate beginning of classes. lie wishes to meet all who arc interested in voice training at the residence of Mrs. H. K. Alken on Friday at 1 1 :.".<? a. in. A number of people have al ready signified their intention of join ing the class and others arc expect cd. The coming of Mr. Calthrop will menus a lot to the musical cducntion of Laurent rffjd his decision to arrange a class here will, no doubt, meet with enthusiastic approval. Mr. Calthrop received his early training in New York and later studied under the mofll noted of the English volet teachers in London. Resides possessing a line tenor voice, be is accomplished in ev ery branch of music. He has had re markable success in Greenwood, where he now has a class of over thirty voices and is directing a choral so. clety of nearly seventy-five singers. INSTRUCTIONS TO TEACHERS Superintendent of Education and Rural School Super visor Issue Last Call to the Teachers Telling When and Where to Assemble and Other Information. The long expected and eagerly awlt ed County School Fair is to he held next week. Friday morning will sec the roads leading to the county seit lined with every Imaginable kind of vehicle hearing people to 1 aureus to he present during the excc'ses. Tru ly It will he a day, the like of Which has never before been seen in this county or 111 South Carolin i. Super intendent of Education Qeo. P.'tt8 and Miss Wil Lou Cray, Rural School Supervisor, assisted by Supt. It. L. Jones, of the city schools, have been busy for weeks and weeks nak'ng preparations for the event an i the teachers of the county, with llio chil dren too, have been working Inces santly to make the day a success. From reports from all sections of the county and from the Indications gath ered through letters in this issue and in 'previous issues of The Advertiser, great preparations have been made on every side, the children aro vastly in terested In the occasion and a big crowd will be hero. It Is estimated thai four thousand children alone will i be present to join in the exercises, to take pari in the parade and to get their pictures taken by the motion pic ture man. In addition to the chll dren, over two hundred trustees and about 150 teachers are expected to be present, not to mention the thous ands of gl'OWll-Ups Who will be here to witness the exorcises and to demon strate personally that their hearts are with the teachers in the work they are doing. It is a question which phase of the school fair will receive the greatest amount of attention from the big throng. To the children themselves, doubtless the literary conto ts in the I graded scbol building, begining at 10 o'clock, will bo the osl Interesting event of the day. Tlicso contest i some In reading, some In spelling and some hi arithmetic, will he hold in ?he different 'rocn a of t e school building and will ho pi nticipi led in 1 by children of t il ages, After these literary contests, the elementary athletic meol will bo held on tho school grounds, where buoIi j feats as hurdling, poll vaulting, run i nlng, potato racing, etc., will bo pullod off by the younger boys an 1 girls After this part of the program is finished, about 12:30 o'clock, a bi? picnic, dinner is to be spread upon the j school grounds. For tl -Is mo t lm I portnnt event, the ''public Is cordli I ! ly invite?; to he present mid to bring well filled baskets." This is expected I to bo the biggest dlniK r ever BOl'VOd I in Laurens county. I At one o'clock will tako place the grand parade, in which all t!;< trus tees, teachers and school Chllrcn are to take part. It is thought that at least four thousand school children will he in this parade. This is the crowning event of the day. It will form on the sehol grounds and march I through the public, spnaro. At some point on the way, moviug pictures will be taken of the SCOno and these will be Shown some days later In the picture show here. Miss Wil Lou Gray has issued .special instructions about the program for the day Which will be found in another part of this paper. At 12::*0 o'clock the hlgn school ath letic meet will be held at the new grounds on West Main street, next to | the home of Mr. l>. H. Counts. The ground has been put in splendid condi tion by the city officials and will tie in tine shape for the meet. No ad The day will he brought to n close tests. The day will ho groughl to a close witli the annual high BChol oratorical contest. This Is to bo held in the school auditorium, beginning at s:;>u o'clock. An admission fee of 2f> and , In cents will be Charged for this in order to defray the expense of the mooting. Tho medals und trophios i won during the day will also be pre sented at this time, as will (hi mod i als for oratory, The judges for th!:^ contest have not been announced. All during tho day. in tho county I court room, will bo shewn the child ren's exhibits. This will probably he I the most generally popular feature of the i\ny. Hero the drawings, paint ; Ings an.i articles <<t- handiwork will In1 displayed. The doors will be open all day ami a continuous stream of people is expected. COMMKN('KMV,XT SPK V M KS. Itcv. Ii. Pendlcton Jones to Preach (he Sermon and lie John V. Vines i* t<? Deliver Lltcrnrj Address? Sunt, is. I.. Jones has announced tin speakers for graded school commence ment week. .f:>'".i R. Vinos, of An derson, will deliver tho comlucnoo hii lit nddre in tl e school auditorium Mond y nighl* .littii 2i ri. liov. R. Ih ?.. I Of these ministers are men of distln gtll 1 ability and Mr. Jon? c?nsUl: ere b?r self Pnrlunato in securing them Kxhlhll at Ulohmontl. Miss Wil I .on Gray has been huslly eng) r id for if.*- past few days ai tl Weeks collecting an exhibit from the county schools to bo sent to ti.e Rdu cat'onnl Conference nt fllchmpnd. The conference I a to be held next week ah l prominent pcoplo from all ov< r the south arc expi to;l to bo present, The exhibit from Lnurens county Is a very creditable exposition of the work being dono iure at this time, it was shipped last night'. Among the exhibits Is a copy of this number of LAURENS COUNTY SCENES IN PICTURES "Movy Man" to be Here Day of School Fair. TO TAKE PICTURES OF BIG PARADE For I he First Time in (lie History of Laurens Moving Pictures will lie Talen of Scenes Here. School Chil dren to Have Prominent Place in Picture. Doubl toss no otlli f feature of the day next Friday will rccolvo a larger share of attention than will the mov ing picture ican. This is r. 11 entirely new "wrinkle'' in county fair pro grams ami it promises to furnish ltn part as a drawing feature for the day. Manager I/;vender, of the local mov ing picture llOUIte, as has been before; stated, has secured a moving picture I man to come hero the day of tin* school fair to take scene- along the lino of march during the school parade and to vidi other points of Interest in the cltj to take pictures to he shown here and elsewhere. The School Fair of Laurens county la probably the Hrsl fair in the Kouth to have pictures titkehf pf it in this way. Several days after the fair, tlnio enough being given to develop thi> films, the pictures will he shown in the opera house hen', at Nowborry, Vorkvillo and other places, j One thousand feel of film will he used in the picture, The greater pan. of it will lie taken up with the parade In the afternoon. In this parade the school children, th< trustees aim teachers are expected to take part, Resides these, the military company, the police ''nee. the tire department and oilier local r.HsnelnlionH are in - vited to enter, \ulomohlllHtH of tlm city are expected ?<> bring <mt their , ichlnes and fall In line, with tholr cars decorated, i:- possible, After the pi.rtMle, the picture man will go lo the r.thlet'.e grounds where lie will tftko liicturc'i of ti.e hoys while g'olji;.r ? I ::: :? ? " ! ob: lily !?? Ilm -I up and :? ?? ro :?? plelii <? taken el them at the. ? nie lime, in addition t.. the ??< < i en lalcon In I connection with the rchool fair, tho i nie;".,, man '.'.i'l vlall Hie glass fac tory, probably the cotton mills, tho residence districts and olliei' nlace-. where pictures will Ijo taken showing ? ihe ct)l.:li'er?;..l activities of the c'.t v and her hi riuilful advantages ??>? a place of residence. Mr. Lavender is going lo considera ble expense in having this man here ? the day of ?,'"? fni1', so ho Is expecting I the per;|:!e to co op-rate with him In securing the bosl possible pictures ??od scenes in the city. Unless the people 'ake nn interest in it. Hip pjc ture will not show up the city as well as It should and Its value as nn ad vertisement will not be very great, o ovovybody in urge:! to take a per sonal inter..!', !.i this phase of the day and gol it.to the parade with au tomobiles, carriages and ho rues, LAintKNS CITY SCHOOL (WhWthi Contests ?II! taf;e place.?