WOODKOW WILSON SCHOOL W**4rew >*;:?? r. $*ke*L In the rjccmcr of 1S50 a small num ber of bare-footed boys and girls as sembled, for Instruction. gCven by Mr. F. P. Pranks. In a tenant house own ?4 at that time by Maj. V. W. W:nn. which cow belongs to Mr. C T. Crad doek. A few years later a school room was built about two hundred yards from this p'.ace and called Ne? Lterty. Here ?he schooi flourished for many years. Prom 1*70 till 1**< there wa* no. school In this neighborhood. After tfce school house went down a short ses sion '?'as taught near Mrs. Cannes'?. A Httle l*t*r another schc-o*. was taught [t. a :r. Mr. Brat='.ett 5 olace. owned noi by Mr. Mitohel Oe ings. In 1890 the school hoase. R/>cky Pord. was t j'.:*. or. the lani ;irch?j. ed from Mr. V. C Hellams. and was taught for several years by Miss Bes sie Walker. In a few years this school was aben-fenei iL i i 5~all h:.se wi< built near the site of New Uterty school house, an i ?as known as Pice< Grore. In l'*!2 a !?-?. was ;-archased nearer the center of the school district, about; one-hi'' mi':-: i n- :ie r^zii. and a unique ?ir w? v-e*-.:e-2 ?zi named Wood row Wilson This ssh oo 1 won first ; nze-i from to:'-- State a-3 coti't f:r the gre-a-.e-i: : ? 7roTementj during tse year. This school; no? has an enrollnaeit of fifty ; j- ':15 and tw0 teachers Mir-ses J e - - . e Stew art and j.'.i> Nelson C pristine Miller. Sixth Graie. Yosar SrfceoL In I?:: Y; ;tz ?::.?;vi< er-.ab'.rsh ed. and rlnce that time it has t^en taught by the fve following teachers: Miss Miliar, ? -:rr.? ' '- - M:ss Nell Watscr.. ?:. * Mi? Margaret Par rott. 1907-/?: Mis* Neil Boyd lrf*-10: Miss Blanche Plnson, 1S10-13. Por the first two or three years the term was seven months, later it became eight, and r.o^ i: is nine. There are fifteen pupite enrolled? every child fa the district. All haTe been present more than forty days Poor boys have joined the Toys' Corn clnb: James Williams, Alsey Grant. William Dickert, and Charles WUHami Rthel Williams has joined the Toma to clnb. One child from each family takes :':.e School Journal. Nine or ten coildren will get the library reading certificates Heretofore, the attendance has been exceptionally good, but it is not up to the usual standard this session be cause so many have had mumps. Vir ginia Boyd will get a perfect attend ance button. In December, a School Improvement association was organUed with the following officers: president, Mrs. D. M. Williams. viee-pre-?:ient. Mrs J. L. Dickert: secretary. Mrs. D. R. Craw, ford; treasurer. Mrs. J. J. Young. In November the pupils and teach ers of Wadsworth and Young schools gave a play by which each school made |C.7S. Young school used 15 to increase the library, and the remain der for erasers, scissors, etc. Blanche F. Pinsoo. Teacher. Friendship School. Tie tr%: school ions* for Friend s':::;'. Sul'.-.vans s:r.v.r: was built of logs at^t Int. Since ties sever al bending? 1?t? been used as school, hoaxes The preeent building ha? b*ec ballt about 1? years and anctier roots was added about f years later. Oar school *cn a prize for linprove rne:* in VJ-UV Tie Improvement Association his been doing splendid ?ort They hare purchased globes, dictionary," pictures etc., for lie school room, izi had tie building painted outside. Mri. Deila Mhddea is presi dent of Associaton no*. Ne*w desk ?were tough: ia the spring of 1*11. Miss Magtie Gar'.ington tauget here daring sessions of '(?S-'W, and 10. The next session a_s taught by Mies M'r.n:e k- assisted ":> M:ss Fran, kie Cult-ertion. Miss Wallace has ': ?.???-??':..z: here f:r tie two rears tin':* withe" an asssirtant as the enrollment has not been as large. We Live on rc'.i now forty 7u;i!s. tirougt tie eighth, rraie. Nene of our pup?s, w;:: get perfect attendance buttons.' tat ab? heran :eaciir.z !C-i'l and taught for four years. While here he Improved tie grounds got ; a:en:ed de-sks. som e ticture* and a --':.'- and cr.air Ad*er tiis Mis? Mc Kenzie was our teacher for two year*. While she was teaching a library """as tained. During the next five ye:-s we ha-d four teachers. Some Improve, m-nts *ere made, tie building was enlarge! ceiled and recovered. Our present teacher is Miss Gar ret:. ?e hive tiirty-six pupils en. rolled In eight grades. Our school ?term is only seven mountbs this year. Our school Improvement Association, witn Beatrice Teague president. F.oyd Cr.-he*. Vice president. Josephine Young Secretary, and Earnest Madden Treasurer, has raised $14.JO witi which we have secured an addition for c:r library, bought shades and helped to have the building painted. Keven of our pupils are subscribers to the School Journal which places I It in almost all of the homes. Lyles Jack3 and Earnest Madden are meca bers of the Boy's Corn club. Julia Your.?. Pearl Corbet. Myrtle and Be atrice Teague are membersof the To mato club. T-?o of our pupils i are aspiring to get library certificates. I five have attended school every day and expect to receive perfect attend ance buttons. We hope to have an ideal schcol seme day. Beatrice Teague. 8th Grade. Rkldle'? Old Field School. We have one of the oldest schools in the county. This school was erect ed about I860. We have never had a very comfortable butlding until re cently. My father it now seventy years old and he went to school here 0BAY8 SCHOOL. when he tu quite a bor. In lttM.10 Smith J. Martin taught this school for a salary of $44-0* per month and enrolled CO pupil*, term five months. Miss Nora Cannot taught 1*10-11 for a salary of HO 00 per month for five months. Miss Sadie Keller taught 1911-12 for a salary of *45.? per month for four months. Smith J. Mar tin taught 1*12-13 for a salary of ISO. for four and a half months, enrolled forty-three pupiis. We hare eight grades in our school this term rang, ing from the Cm to the eighth. We hare a club of ten children tak ing the School Journal. We haTe one bey belonging to the corn club. Samuel Green, one girl be 'cngisg to the Tomato Club. Annie May Brown. We haTen't any library in our school and of course, we are not expecting *&y one :c gen a certifi cate. There will he about seven or eight who will get the perfect attendance turt.-n. Our present hoard of trustee* are P. A. Riddle. Berry Taylor and Draty Garrett. Central SrkeeL My teacher has asked me to wri'.e something of the improvements that have teen cade in our scool within" the last five years. The first improve ment was t-ade on the building, which' was beautifully ;-ni-ted on the outside and nicely ceiled inside. The trus tees then purchase! new desks for :.-.e building, also a teacher's ie*k The patrons and children raised money, and bought an organ wnJch we all ap preciate Tery much. As we had no library Miss Gena Henry, one of our most successful teachers, and her pu pils west to work to get a library. The amount was scon ratsed and now we have a library which contains shout cr.e hundred volumes The money raised this year will be ex pended for apparatus- Miss Annie O. Putnam Ls cur teacher. She has twen ?.y-nir.e pupil* :n r.l -r.d ha* from Use first grade to the sixth. Our school will run seven months. There are three children in this district who have no: attended school this session. The School Journal has tee^n placed in the home of every chili In school Two of us will get the attendance buttons as we have not been absent. :ardy nor excused from school this ses sion Albert Clark. Toaar? SchooL Youngs school house was built in j the year 1904 on what WAt er.*e the Youngs estate. It 1* caar the oid1 Youngs store. Tha school wa? reoved from :he Wallace Lodge building, where K was knows as Young* blgi school. Tnls school had two teache.-s for the fir*: time in the year 1;-'"*. The teachers were Prof. F. E. Dibble and Miss Emma Dial. Since t/.at time the school ha3 had at leant a dozen principals. A number of the former pupils are n ow college grad uates. In the year 1906 it was decided that the school needed a be:ter build ing and one more centrally located, so the present house was built, wiu : ning the one hundred dollar prixe for : greatest improvement. Miss Wll Lou i Gray was principal at that time. ? Ojr present teachers are Mis? Madge Harris and Miss Addison. We > have the largest attendance that the school has ever had. Eight grades, and a six months' term. Miss Gray wishes this school to es tablish a trial Industrial department and a room for the purpose has been begun which we hope to see finished In the near future. We have a School Improvement association which has made 3bout twenty dollars. The of. fleers are as follows: president. Mrs. A. Abercromble: vice-president. Mrs. W. Y. W.I'.iams: secretary. Mrs. Aus \ tin Abercrcmbie; treasurer, Mrs. W. j O. Button. Gaston Abercromble. Lan??ton SehooL We have until recently bad an old weather stained school building, one tha: had been here for many years, the roofing was all decayed. Of course, this old building didn't look so invit ing. So they decided to build a new one. Well we now have a nice new building, new heater, black-board, teacher's desk and cfiai.r Sanitary drinking cup* etc. Also have flower* and little trees planted out. Such a contrast now. We got the third prixe offered by the county for the greatest Improvement. We have an "Improve ment Association." with Mrs. F. L. Donnan. Pre. Mrs. R. L. Holland. Vice Pres.. Mrs. C. A. Owens. Sec. Mrs Mattie Clark Trea*.. They have the four officers and on ly two members. Mis* Pauline Byrd end Mrs. C. B. Cooper. Though a few ?in number they have done a great deal for the school. They gave as a "Thanksgiving Offering" $5.50. And had planned many tb'.ngs to do this spring, but our school will last only three week* longer. We have only eleven pupil*. They hare such a nice little school here. Hare one girl who ! hopes to get tee juteniaoce button. L&ll four of the pairons and Mis* Byrd \oo. take the Schoo" Jouaral. We have' tup to the seventh grade. We expect I to taae a part im tie Schee! Fair. Our' teacher is Miss Pauline fcy/d of Bige-! field county. We a'.i lore her Tery dearly and hope to ba-se her ?:>a a?, ag-_;n another term. Minnie Lee Donnan, Fifth Grade. nine grades and forty pupils. We bare two subscriptions for The Journal. Annie Mae Armstrong will receive an attendance button, and Al pha Martin is our contestant in the Tomato Club. Fiae Blaff SebooL The Pine Bluff school house was moved to its present situation from a pine bluff on Banks Creek one half WATTS MILL SCHOOL BUILDING. Edea SebeoL * .he Eden school ?:< organized in 1*92. taking Its name from the prst cmce. Prior to this time the children of the community were sent either to Green Pond or Rabun. The first school session was held in a tenant house rented from Mr. Belton Owings and was taught by Mr. McMillan- Be fore the next tercn :l.e tru?te*-s. Messrs Gray. Nash and Martin Mahaffey pur chased a ;lct of ground from Mr. Ed ward Gray and erected a rude frame building which today would be inade quate to meet the educational demands The standard of study, however, was gocd. and i:'.end.d tea:ber5 who made a success in their profess-ion taught bere. They were: Messrs Nabors, Blackwell, Alexander. Madden. Mc Millan. Brooks. Clardy and Kennedy. In 1901 the Woodrille and Eden schools united, purchased a centrally located site from Mr. Luther Arm strong and the present building was erected. Miss Nettie Jenes was the first teacher. She was followed by Misses Sarah Cop-eland. L-llian Smith. Lillian Armstrong. Ella Be'le Cope land and Messrs Palmer and Babb. Our school runs seven months, has mile away In IS CS. This was a very good school house, but not built on the modem plan. It was destroyed by fire supposed to have been caused from a defective flue la the spring of 1911. During the summer of the same year the present building was erected. Our teacher is Miss Blossom Shu man. She has fifteen pupils enrolled. Her work covert the firs:, second, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The school term is seven months. The officers of the School Improve, men: association are as f-'.lows: presi dent, Mrs. Lillian Hill: vice-president, Mrs R. W. Brown; secretary. Mrs. W. G. Boazman: treasurer. Miss Eloise Brown. The association has raisei $:?!.2,". This sum was used to improve the-grounds and building. Only one of us Is a member of the BoyV Corn club?Alec T. Brown. On ly one can get the perfect attendance button. Three library certificates are: being worked for. Six children take the School Journal. Alec Brown. Green Pond SchooL The school bullding which now stands at Green Pond was constructed in the year 1907, with three spacious recitation rooms, one library room and two cloak rooms. Two years later the building was painted which made it much more at tractive. This school now employs three teachers. Miss Nina Henry, principal. Misses Peden and Sims, as sistants. One hundred and eight pu pils have teen enrolled. There are tea grades and a seven months school. As yet no Improvement association has been organized, but have raised twenty-four dollarr which will be us ed for the improvement of the school. Fourteen of our pupils take tte School Journal and are anxious to re ceive every copy to read the interest ing stories written by the pupils of different schools. The boys of this school have not joined the Corn club, neither have the girls joined the Tomato club. There are six pupils in school striving to win the perfect attendance buttons Nellie Babb and Mollle Knight. Tenth Grade. RALEIGH. 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