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VOL. XL.
TRIP NOTES
( B- D. I’l KCKLi,, c. s. c.)
Monday morning! left.Jesup ou
a visit to the schools in the lower
part of the county. I will try to
give a detailed account of what I
saw and heard.
Most of the schools I wished to
visit beiDg u«ar the lailroad I de
cided to go by rail instead of with
horse and buggy.
I reached Hortense, nineteen
miles from Jesup, at ten o’clock
and spent untill noon with Prof.
A. W. Thomas. This school has
an enrollment of forty-five pupils
but I found only six present. Mr.
Thomas attended the teachers’
"Necting 111 .Jesup Saturday aud
account of the lateness of the
train Monday did not reach his
school at the hour for opening and
some of hi« pupils had grown im
pation and returned home. The
Hortense school had a good at
tendance the first two months,
but has steadily decreased sinco
then aud now has an average at
tendance of a little above ten.
I heard the six pupils present re
cite one lesson each. There’ were
four grades, viz, second, tlnrd,
four and seventh. The best reci
tat ions I listened to was by the
fourth grade, two little girls aged
12 and Sin “Beginners’ History.’’
They read about the battle of
New Orleans and the administra
tion of Jackson as pressdent, aud
were able to tell by topics
point in the lesou. I asked them
to write in ten minutes all
knew about Andrew Jackson and
both hauded me neat,
ed compositions.
After eating dinner with Mr.
W. D. Middleton, I walked two
miles up the A. B. <fe A. Ry.
the Satilla school. Most of
land around Hortense is low
wet, but good old mother
generously provided an
spot for ill's school. Snugly
tled in a luxuriant growth
“black jack” oaks, ou a
saudy hill and in fifty yards of
the railroad stands the
school-house, new, neatly fiuish
ed, aud protected by a
ty fence of woven wire. The peo
Tple here were not willing
school to open in a partly finish
ed house. I thought this fact
as worthy of emulation by many
of our schools now being
in new, but unfinished houses, for
it’s hardtocompletea house when
once occupied. The Satilla school
house is the regulation, one teach
er size, twenty-four by forty feet.
A good black board extends all the
way across the rear ,’end of the
house The chief need now i B
better seats and I believe they
-ill soon be bought Here in
this little oak grove, both nature
and citizens have provided well
for the training of childhood,
This school has an enrollment of
thirty pupils and I found twenty
four present nearly and' every one
rirst, second third readers
clased. Thisis|the second term
, . . and for
tvo years ie ore ,
there was no school in the com
munifcy. D ” The teacher. ’ Miss Alice
Aventt . taught , , here last , year also, .
and only three or four ot her
nils Fast ever attended any school till
year. Miss Averitt is a good
primary teacher aad she is almost
0 Deiittml m
“WE APPLAUD THE BIGHT AND CONDEMN THE WRONG.”
worshiped by her patrons and pu
pils. The trustees would do well
to deed her the school for as long
time a9she will teach it.
Monday night I attended an ice
cream supper at Hortense. Only
a small crowd atteuded and $8.50
' vas raised. Ibis will help to
wards seating and painting the
school-house. The night was
spent at the home of Mr. W. D.
Middleton and I’ll not soon for
get the hospitable manner in
which I was entertained.
Tuesday morning May, 21, I
tried to find a conveyance to take
me on down to the Green Head
school, seven miles from Hortense
undone mite from Ravbon on the
“Short Line R. R.” Being un
able to secure a team I started cut
on foot. I walked the six miles to
Raybon in one and a half hours
reaching there at 8:80 I drove out
one mile to the school in a buggy
kindly furnished by Mr. ohns.
This school has an enrollment
of 54 aud 25 were present. The
teacher, Miss Alice Lewis, secured
most of her training hero as this
is her home. She has a quiet,
hard working band of pupils
they obey her every wish. I spent
an hour and a half with Miss Lew
i » and was well pleased with hex
teaching. The pupils recited well.
The house 13 an eyesore but on the
dingy walla huugsome fine school
motoes. A move is now ou foot
to briug in two small, nearby
schools with this one and build a
large mmas, -building near , tke sta
tion. Enough children could be
brought together here for a three
teacher school and very few would
have to come more than two miles.
I left Raybon at ten o’clock,
on the train, and reached Atkin
son on the A. C. L. Railroad at
eleven. I speDt till noon at the
Atkinson colored school taught by
Rev. D. G. Greer who has taught
in Wayne for more than twenty
years. He had only a few pupils
present. The teach ir said it was
wash day and many of his pupils
were out on that account. His
work vas satisfactory. The
tourth grade consisting of one
girl understood fully the uses of
“is” and “are.” A small boy
j eleven years old was doing seventh
grade work and seemed to be al
! thorough m all the subjects.
j The < eacher 8 ave hlm thl8 P rob ‘
: A man redaced the P rice
a y° ke of ™ 2 ~ 9 tbe orl f^ al
j P™* What alld was 6(dd the thl original ; m for price? * 14 °;
The boy worked it readily and
S a ™ a # ood aua] y 9JS - I gave him
mental Problems in f rac
tions for I thought his work might
1 be mechanical, but he proved that
his reasoning power was trained,
' The white sch ° o1 at Atkinson is
not now in session, Much improve
ment has been made there recen ’
%• The house has just been
j P alnt * d and P atent desks P laced
, inside - The school.opens in June ,
I walked to the Drewry school
dunn §t he noon hour, over the
sandiest road^m Wayne county
This school is three miles
measured it and know-) north of
on,
o’clock I sat and listened
to the P u P. lls , as th ^. re ? lt; ed and
was well pleased , with what , T I saw
1 aDdheard Mr. A. M. Drewery
the teacher, though young m years
I and experiences has thetrue spirit
of the teacher. The most remark
j (Continued on fourth page.)
JESUP, GA., MAY 24th, 1907.
The Sunday School
Picnic
At Morgan Lake
Mr. Editor: Nobodv, not ev
en Uncle Remus, himself, can
write up a Sunday school picnic.
A real Sunday School picnic is
one of those indescribable outings
of young and old together that
cau not be pictured by any pen.
Only those who are present, and
enter fully into the spirit of the
occasion can ever havo any clear
conception of its significance, or
experience the thrilling effects of
its associations. There is no oth
er occasion, perhaps, in the twelve
mouths of a year, in which the
old or middleaged can so nearly
live their childhood's day over
again, in which dignified young
men and queenly maidens can so
fresly and innocently give expres
sion to their boisterous impulses,
oriu which the little children cau
so successfully challenge the au
thoritiy of their seuior3, claim
the right to spend the day as they
please, and command the services
j of every person on the ground to
provide tor their pleasure, as the
annual Sunday School picnic.
It is well worth the arduous la
bors of superintendents aud teach
ers, the careful instruction of
loving parents, aud the home
study of every pupil in preparing
good lessoufcfor a wholo year, to
be permitted to attend this an
nual picnic for one day, withont
the feeling that any could ques
tion your right to be there. It is
worth the supervision, solicitude
and earnest prayers of every faith
ful pastor, for a whole year, to
have his Sunday school workers,
the children aud their parents
open their hearts to him in frank
ness and freedom, and permit
him to be one of the boys for a
single day and save him the ein
barrasment of feeling that he is
I | in the least compromising his
ministeral dignity in yielding to
] that natural impulse which
prompts him to feel natural aud
jolly ou occasion,
But T will not attempt the im
possible, I have already saul that
no one can write up the Sunday
School Picnic. Last Friday was
almost an ideal day. Well for
the Jesup Sunday Schools that it
was such. Announcement had
been made that Friday the 17th,
should be the day, aud Morgan’s
Lake the place for the pic nic.
Committees had beeu appointed
by the several schools to arrange
for the occasion. These on the
committees acted well their part,
Nothing seemed left undone that
could contribute to the comfort
aud P leaHU ™ of old alld * 0 " n S
For several days rain had been
Wlmg, and the prospect seemed
rather goomy, especially to the
children . Thursday evening the
| rain ceased to fall. Friday morn
ing was bright and balmy In
due time a large per cent of Jes
up s population,was at the depot
1 with well DIM bufot. «itb*
for the train, which came on very
S 00 f COa<;h ,
packed with a jolly crowd, bent
Bleasure; aud soon we were at
^ e g k ’ a fine place * for
such an outing. From 9:80 a.m.
to 4:30 p. m. dull care was oan-
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1. Poet and Peasant, Mdnatte.
Germane B< nuett and Miss Coleman.
2. Jolly Brothers’ Galop, Budik.
Essie and Hazel Brigham.
Sister’s Waltz, T
Nellie Cole.
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Brother’s Waltz,
Orlene Buff kin. )
4. “Goin to Meeting, » 1 .Bristol!.
Pauline Parker.
5. Dancing on the Sand, Read.
Louis Ellis.
6. La Pouls, Sturkow.
Madoline Westberry and Eleanor Steele.
7. Bisycle Race, ... Rolst.
Katie McPipkin and Marion Cole.
8. Martha, Dorn.
Dorothy Wilkins.
9. The Robin’s Return ............. Fete her.
Alleeu Poor and Katie McPipkin.
10 Kiss of Spring Waltz,.. Rolfe.
Katie McPipkiu.
11. Light of Heart, E. Ferrati.
May Rawls aud Bertha Morris.
12. Gypsy Polka,
Jo Armstrong, Dorothy Wilkins and Marion Cole,
18. Angel’s Dream Nocturne, .....T. Doeso,
Robbie May Coleman.
14. Witche’s Flight Russell.
Jo Armstrong and Alleen Poer.
15. Lillian Reverie..... Read.
Essie Brigham.
10. II Coericola Chas. Weis
Jo Armstrong and Robbie May Coleman.
17. I’antomiue,............................“The Bridge.”
ished from every mind, and round ing to picnic at Morgans Lake
after round of innocent pleasure on aome bright day in May.
was fully indulged by every heart. One Who was Thebe.
Lemonade was plentiful, the fish Jesup, Ga., May 21st, 1907.
fry most enjoyable, and the diu
ner prepared by the good women JESUP CASH GROCERY
was in quantity and quality suf- The Jesup Cash Grocery has ad
ficient to tempt the appetite of ded and popular feature to
So a new
the most fastidious epicure. their already large stock, by way
far as this scribe could fell, every of a 5 and 10 cent counter. At
one did ample justice to the boun- these counters you can buy the
tiful repast, and we trust that numberless small articles needed
none overestimated their diges- everyday at much less cost than
tive possibilities. The launch at other places, Visit this outer
rides on the lake were among the prising store the next time you
most enjoyable incidents of the are in the city.
day. Thanks to Mr. Broadhnrst Jesup Gash Grocery.
and the club for the use of their *J. L. Hill, Manager.
boats, and to those clever gentle
men who so gracefully guided
them on the water. I once was OVERST OCKED, we have more
young, but now—I do not like to buggies on hand than we have
say am old—for I do not feel so, room in our large warehouses and
but the silver threads begin to for the next sixty days we will
appear among the gold—yet sure- give some special inducements on
ly, if ever, have I had a more a buggy and harness. If you are
pleasant outing with my friends thinking of buying see 11 s at once,
and neighbors. The considerate IT WILL PAY YOU. « Mil I -
j attention has left its shown friendly me on impress every hand on kin – Son.
my heart. All who were there
and enjoyed the day as I did have sale
my most hearty congratulations. A nice si-? roomed dwelling,
Those w-ho were denied this pleas- comparatively . „ new. W.55x200
ure, have my sympathy for them Has nice garden. *1000,
in this privatiou, and my best gam. a bar
wishes for their gcod fortune W. M. Roberson, – Co
when it shall again be announeee I T. B. or
that Jesup Sunday Schools -j Hartig at Sentinel office.
ore go Jesup, Ga.