PAGE TWELVE
SOCIETY NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Meyers and
children of Hampton, Va., spent the
week-end visiting Mrs. Meyers' moth
er, Mrs. Charles F. Bussell.
Mias Madelyn Russell is visiting her
brotfoer-ili-law and sister, Mr. and
Mia. Vernon Meyers, in Hampton, Va.
Mias Faye Haste is visiting her
trade and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Craig
Haste, in Hampton, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. David Jones and two
daughters of Portsmouth, Va., spent
the week-end visiting Mr. Jones’
mother, Mrs. Herman Edwards.
Miatoa Dorothy Bufflap, Diana Buff
lap and Haney Bufflap spent a few
days at Virginia Beach the first part
of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Carr and
Miss Clara Wheeler have returned
from Nags Head, where they have
been vacationing with a party of
friends at the Parkerson Hotel.
Col. and Mrs. David C. Burke of
San Antonio, Texas, spent th e week
end with Mr. and Mrs. C. O. [Letcher.
Mrs. Burke is Mr. Letcher’s sister.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Allen and
daughter, Mrs. Murray P. Whichard,
Jr., and son Murray 111 and Ann Gra
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ham and Allen were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. George P. ißyrum and other
relatives over-the week-end..
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Garrett and
daughter, Patsy, and Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Hughes and daughter, Gladys,
returned to their home in Pottsvßle
Friday after spending a week with
Mr. Garrett’s mother, Mrs. John Gar
rett
Mrs. James Dail of Norfolk, Va..
arrived Thursday to spend a vacation
with her mother, Mrs. John Garrett.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bufflap and
two daughters, Nancy and Dianne,
of York, Pa., arrived 'Friday to spend
a vacation with Mr. Bufflap’s brother,
J. Edwin Bufflap and Mrs. Bufflap.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Crenshaw
announce - the engagement of their
daughter, Hilda Lee of Saint Paul’s,
N. C., to Millard Norfleet Ward, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Ward.
The wedding will take place in Avg
ust in the St Paul’s Methodist Church.
Well arranged time is the surest
mark of a well arranged mind.
—Sir Isaac Pitman.
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Paving Completed
1101.3 Miles~Road Work
Done In First Divi
sion In June
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The State Highway Commission
completed 8.5 miles of paving in Cho
’ wan County during the month of June,
1 Commissioner H. G. Shelton reports.
The newly graded and paved roads
1 are:
IFrom Cannan Ferry south to N. C.
32 for 4.3 miles; from Byrum’s Cross
Roads west to N. C. 32 for 2J2 miles.
Both road projects were financed by
the secondary road bond program.
The First Highway Division brought
a total of 101.8 miles of road work
, to completion during June, Chairman
Jordan revealed.
Evangelistic Meetings
Held In North Edenton
Evangelistic services are now being
held at 1025 North Broad Street with
Evangelist C. S. Parker of Norfolk
doing the preaching. He is being as
sisted by Prof. E. V. Sanders and his
wife. .
Services are held nightly except
Monday at 8 o’clock and- Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock.
Featuring the services are musi
cians and singers from Pawnee, Illi
nois, with Mrs. Evelyn White at the
Hammond organ. James Edward
Taylor is manager of the meeting.
Public Schools Make
Tremendous Progress
(Continued from Page Seven)
answer. A tax on the gross earn
ings of railroad was one answer; and
here, too, he cited practices in other
states in order to show how $700,000
could be raised in this State from this
source.
Another source was through local
taxation. This method of raising
funds was cited by Mebane as one
way by which the brotherhood of man
is forcibly brought before the public:
“Look at the cities and towns,” he
said, “where local tax has been the
means of opening the schools alike to
the poor and thoße of means.” Me
bane saw that here was the means of
making the .public schools truly demo
cratic. Then, too, an interest in the
scly>ols on the part of,parents would
be created by a special tax.
The first -100,000 appropriated to
The first SIOO,OOO appropriated to
the public schools by the Legisla
dent Mebane as an act that “gives
hope and encouragement to the friends
of public education.” “I recommend,”
he said, “that the Legislature of 1901
add another Hundred Thousand Dol
lars, thus making an annual appro
priation of Two Hundred Thousand
Dollars direct to public schools.”
Compulsory Education
Mebane minced no words in his re
marks on compulsory attendance. We
quote:
“I am slow to advise a compulsory
attendance of our public schools under
our present condition, and especially
when I remember the character of
work done in some of our public
1 schools, but when I call to mind that
in many cases the children are kept
from schools by careless, indifferent
parents, and sometimes by lazy par
ents, who compel them to work in
cotton mills, while their fathers sit
around the stores, talk politics, and
discuss ways and means of preserving
the government; when I think of these
cases, I am compelled to conclude that
the State ought to come to the res
cue of these helpless children.”
Mebane gave three reasons for the
poor school attendance.
“First, and that which is most
alarming, is careless, indifferent par
ents.
poor teachers in the pub
lic schools.
“Third, bad management on the
part -of school officials. Merit has
had very little encouragement in so
many instances. The powers that be
have been more concerned for the con
tinuance of said powers, than they
have been for the progress and ad
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a percentage of 86 for Caro-1
tins, 23 per cent for the white pop- I
ulation alone, which was next to New
. Mexico with 43 per cept. Mebane
' points out that states having compul
sory attendance laws hive lean il
literacy. Not a single Southern State
is to be found among the list “I be
-1 lieve,” he said, “thal it is right to
force the people to pay taxes for
schools, and that it is ala© right to
force the children to receive the bene
fit of these taxes.”
Mebane called attention to the
growth in the establishment of graded
schools, mentioning High Point, Wash
ington, Kinston, New Bern, Albemarle,
Waynesville, Mount Airy, and Monroe
as having been established during this
period.
And finally, Mebane advocated a
minimum age of at least eighteen
years before a person could become
a public school teacher. He didn’t
like for children to be employed as
teachers.
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