Hamer Kentyre Graded School Consolidation Progress
The Hamer Kentyre No 12 district formed by consolidating Ha sher No 7 and Kentyre No 12 built a modern brick school with four rooms, a domestic science room, library, and an auditorium for 400. Desks costing 500 were added, improvements include drainage, grounds, and a proposed teachers home. The Hamer Kentyre School Improvement Association spearheaded funds and work despite influenza closures, with nine months of attendance and strong community effort.
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Hamer-Kentyre School
Hasher No. 7
Kentyre No. 12
Hamer-Kentyre
Hamer
Kentyre
Hamer-Kentyre School Improvement Association
J. W. Williamson
Hamer Kentyre School Plans Class Growth and Bus Route Upgrades
The article outlines converting a library room into a classroom and adding a fifth teacher to handle growing grades. Motor trucks carry pupils from Kentyre district on fixed routes with a reliable schedule. The Ford truck remains daily, while an older International will be replaced by a new Ford next term. Agriculture classes for boys and sewing and domestic science for girls are active, led by Mr. Thomas L. Ayers and Miss Flora Carmichael with Miss Harriet McLees supervising domestic science. The plan includes a regular manual training class and a goal to develop Hamer Kentyre into a top county school, with a quoted stanza by Sir Edward Dyer guiding minds toward learning.
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Model International
Ford
Thos
L. Ayers
Dillon
Flora Carmichael
Sewn
Harriet McLees
Civil War Anecdotes in Evening Post Exchange
A fragment recounts a Civil War era exchange where a Northern speaker asks a Southerner about his regiment. The Northerner replies with the Twelfth Virginia and the Rhode Island line retorts, noting Rhode Island’s supposed size. The quotes illustrate wartime banter and regional bravado.
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Yank
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Rhode Island
Hot Lunch Program at Hamer Kentyre School
Domestic science teachers led a weekly hot lunch experiment at Hamer Kentyre, using student trays and a rotating helper system. A butter club and practical cooking lessons supported by Harriet McLees Elizabeth Forney and Roe Carmichael helped prepare soups and simple dishes before noon, with servings during a forty five minute period.
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Harriet McLees
Hamer-Kentyre
Elsbeth Forney
Elswhere
Roe Carmichael
County Ard School Progress and Election Notice
The county library and school have expanded with a new classroom and facilities at Clemson College plans. An improvement association planted trees and shrubs while a late January February night school taught by Miss Mable Watson drew a large audience. Election details specify voting for a levy with yeas and nos. Public figures W C Moore H N Cousar R B Rogers sign the notice.
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Clemson College
Harlee School Improvement Association
Mable Watson
Fiddlers Convention at Union School Nets 125 Dollars
A money making scheme planned a toothless old time fiddlers convention at Union School on April 23. Twelve elderly fiddlers, preferably Confederate veterans, competed for prizes while posters advertised the event. Judges were selected from older men. After the concert ice cream sales boosted net proceeds to 125 dollars.
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Oakland
Eatchy
Union School
Pleasant Hill program raises school funds with plays and dance
A Pleasant Hill event in November featured children performing The Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe and How the Story Grew, followed by oysters, cake sales, candy and punch. Proceeds totaled 303.49 dollars for Dothan School District No 9. An orchestra funded baseball equipment as commemoration, ticket prices ranged from 16 to 35 cents, later raised to one dollar per couple. The program included a Dunbar Jazz orchestra and cake walks. The district reports a net from sales and a 137 dollar sum after expenses, with the Clemson College plan school built and the School Improvement Association raising about 100 dollars for scholastic improvements.
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Pleasant Hill
Dunbar Jazz
Dothan
Clemson
School Improvement Association
Hillsboro One Teacher School Praised for Beauty
Hillsboro School District No 23 features a splendid one teacher school praised by state officials as the most attractive plan seen. The building has single desks a library supplementary readers teacher's desk and chair hylophane boards Draper shades and a piano septic tanks are installed. The School Improvement Association raised thirty dollars to beautify the grounds.
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Hillsboro
Dalcho School Chicken Bog Draws Big Crowd in 1918
In fall 1918 a successful chicken bog at Dalcho school drew a large crowd aided by posters sent to nearby communities. A chicken supper and oyster stew attracted attendees as school girls sold fresh peanuts and ten cent apples with a candy box prize. The event featured piano and violin music and raised about one hundred dollars after expenses.
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Dalcho School
Evontne
Bermuda School District No 17 Modern Two Teacher School
Bermuda School District No 17 reports a modern two teacher school built from Clemson College plans. It lists equipment including desks boards library readers and a piano. An Improvement Association funded 210 dollars via the county treasurer to buy more equipment and plans a teacher's house and nearby school next fall.
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Bermuda
Clemson College
Corresyon
Mleod Anc
Marlee School Marked by Small Beginnings and Growth
Five years ago Harlee was a one teacher school with a new but unnamed building and almost no equipment. Students raised ten dollars by selling peas and potatoes, matching state funds and similar contributions to improve the school.
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Harlee
Womanless Wedding staged by school Improvement Association
A playful school year event titled a Womanless Wedding was held Thursday evening April 20, 2920. About fifty characters appeared in roles cast with men and boys replacing women in costumes. The joke highlighted a spirited community production organized by the Improvement Association.
Election to vote six mill levy for Dothan school home
Notice from Dillon County South Carolina states petitions signed by over one third of qualified voters and resident freeholders ages 21 plus in Dothan school district No 9 demand an election on May 26 at Dothan schoolhouse to approve a six mill levy for building and furnishing a teachers home the levy to be discontinued once the project is completed.
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Dillon
Dothan
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