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ESTABLISHED 1SG6. 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- PER YEAR NO. zo. PIANO RECITAL —by . :■ —== TTDd® IPooqdEO© odU Guflos© [La [IDegipeptgOQ© QB@Qqimiod ? © (AjOoDSD© ©©(pSKPftDDDSDDft OF TTtrOE JE©QJ)[P [PiGBILOtB OBEKKIDdDIL : ! C©DuQDQDD ^MGOS’–tffilPOOOOOfla fPiPOQflai^s, K/Osljy SDettp. Si'S © P FL KD a 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. 8 . Read. 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.