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THSIR FIRST DOLLAR The first dollar I ever earned! It seems strange to ima gine the dignified faculty of A. H. S. laboring long hours to earn one round dollar, but, according to man^r of the teachers dollars in the days gone by v;ere not so easy to earn as now, and often they v/ere fev; and far betv/een. The A. H. S. principal, Mr. Arnold, says that he made his first dollar peddling cherries v/hen he was a little boy of nine years. "Hov7 did I earn my first dollar?” asked ¥xr, G-rigg, ”\iHiy, I couldn^t possibly remember - unless it was picking cotton. And tell all who have missed getting up and going out at dawn to pick cotton, that they have missed soniething.” yiT» Kelly says that his daddy told him that if he thresh ed a bushel of sorghum cane seed, he could have them. ”I threshed the bushel and delivered it to a neighbor,” he said, ’’and he gave me a dollar bill! I thought that was all the money I’d ever need in the world, and I didn’t knov/ how to spend it all!” ”1!” said Mr. McDaniel, ’’Well, I guess I made my first dollar by working in an old grocery store in Badin for fifty cents a day. I v/orked a whole summer, and when I stopped, I had saved about tv;enty-six dollars - so I bought a new suit! I v/as about twelve years old then.” ”Eov/ did I make my first dollar!” exclaimed Miss Caughman ”'.vhy, it must have been by teaching school at Greensboro - about sevonty-fivo years ago!” Vfhen I asked Miss l/atson, she suddenly looked very tired. I asked her what was wrong, and she said; ”I was thinking of the first dollar I earned by picking one hundred quarts of dewberries at one cent a quart. I was so tired that I never v/ant to see another dev/berry. Nov/ the very thought of eating dewberry pic gives me indigestion. Miss Hicks said she \;ork3d in a five and ten cent store on Saturdays from 12;00 until 7:00 for one dollar. She vms in high school then. Miss Hipp said her mother gave her ten conts every time she v/ashed dishes, raid there seemed to be an unusuallj?" large number of pots and pans when she washed theii;!. Ivlr. Fry played for a revival for tliree v/eeks , and at the end of the mooting he v;as paid only a dollar; but he says he v/as proud of that. Miss Laws said her brother paid her to deliver notes to and from his girl. She said, ”It was loads of fun to read some of them.” When I went to ask Hiss Menius how she earned her first dollar, some fr>.>slimcn \;ero taking boo]^ reports in her room.
Albemarle High School Student Newspaper
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