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* Thursday, March 7, 1940 TEACHER WALKS 24,000 MILES Surry County Man Has Cov ered That Distance Dur ing Long Career IS STILL GOING STRONG (Mount Airy Times) A person can do a lot of walk ing in 38 years—so says S. P. Jar rell, 60-year-old adult education Instructor of the Stewart's Creek section a few miles northwest of Mount Airy, who has achieved the distinction of having walked more miles during the almost two score years he has taught school in Surry's rural sections than any other person in the county. He has covered more than 24,000 miles afoot—according to his re cent calculation —almost enough miles to circle the globe! Still going strong today, Mr. Jarrell recalled in an interview with a Times reporter this week that he started out in 1902 as a rural public school teacher in the Round Peak section of Surry county' in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, traversing afoot a round trip of approximately six miles each day—rain or shine— from his home to the little one room school in the Ivy Green community, where he taught an average of eight pupils six hours each day in a four-months school term. Paid by the comity school board and, in some instances, by the popular subscription of the patrcns of his school, his salary ranged each month to about $25. The demand for teachers in the public schools of the county was so great at the time Mr. Jarrell was receiving his own education that he was taken from the stu dent body of the Dobson high school and placed in the "mas ter's seat" of the Ivy Green school long before he would have been graduated. The only additional educational instruction he receiv ed after that time was the train ing he received in a summer course at the Appalachian State Teachers College, in- Boone, and from a short course taken in 1929 in the N. C. C. W. College (now dissolved), at Mountain Park. That was 26 years after he started teaching. When the World War claimed many of the young farmers of his foothills community, Teacher Jarrell had to reduce his hours In the classroom to take over some Announcing the Opening of the New ft BON-TON GRILL foA Friday, March Bth In Modern New Quarters Next To Miller-Jones Co. . ITO EVERYONE WE EXTEND A CORDIAL INVITATION TO VISIT »I|/R IJ . IIABJT OI JICK US IN OUR NEW HOME! LARGER, MORE ATTRACTIVE, IT WILL 11 A NAWI FEATURE THE SAME GOOD FOOD, THE SAME COURTEOUS SER- TO HAVE LUNCH VICE, AND THE SAME LOW PRICES THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED Sllllday Dinner VISIT THE TO KNOW AND EXPECT AT THE BON-TON. AT THE BON-TON! BON-TON Sunday is supposed to be a day of ■p , A 1 r W % O T> • ■ FX* • '¥> rest. Make it that for the wife by . pie who must hurry Ask 1 o bee Our r nvate Dming Koom having Sunday dinner with us— through lunch... # - every Sunday. You'll find she Come here for deli- Inspect Our Large, bpotless Kitchen win :>e delighted with our deli cious hot meals cious food —and it will prove a Youlf find 1 a Hariri real saving in money as well as a welcome and you'll MAKE US HEADQUARTERS FOR DELICIOUS MEALS real Sunday vacation from the like our modern new kitchen. Just brine: the entire home. The Bon-Ton is YOUR cafe. And _ family and come along. You'll be we want you to T I"B T W W surprised how many of your sfn- JJ lN "IvJ IN Vl J!\. 1 l~i JLi neighbors you ' n find doin * the cerely appreciated. same thing. 1 ELKIN'S MOST MODERN CAPE GRADE A RATING , These Three Get Free Theatre Tickets B 9 m irMT 11 itffnM' > "' K '^^SJ^EFV j I ,' *^IIB^ Everything was smiles as The Tribune photographer made these candid pictures on Main street the other Saturday. And those pictured will perhaps smile even more when they are presented with two free tickets each, good for admission to the Lyric and Elk theatres. Just call at The Tribune in person for tickets. More pictures will appear next week. of the agricultural work in his neighborhood. However, he still made the six-mile trip to and from school each day, never, in all those years, missing a class— excepting a three-day period in the early 'Twenties, when he con tracted influenza. Only one time since he launch ed his scholastic career has he re sorted to any medium other than his feet for transportation to and from his work. One winter, short ly after the close of the war, he rode a mule to school when the snow lay fourteen Inches deep on the ground. He began his adult education work in 1934 —at the expiration of his state certificate for public sclfbol teaching—and he has at present a total of 50 farmer-pu pils receiving his instruction in how to master the principles of "readin", 'riting and 'rithmetic". Visiting an average of 27 homes each week —spending one-half an hour with each family—he trav els approximately 120 miles each month. He teaches all members THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA of the family who are over 16 and who are inclined toward further educating themselves. In addition to the family class room work, Mr. Jarrell also con ducts projects and contests be tween farm families in the pro duction of bees, swine, poultry and cattle. His students are most ly the heads of the households, hard-working farmers, who labor all day in their fields, coming home at night to ponder over and work out the "school-master's" varied assignments. Aside from his walking and his school teaching, Mr. Jarrell has found the time to rear nine chil dren, all of whom are living in Stewart's Creek township, near the adult educator's own little farm. Employed in a federal adult education project under the su pervision of Mrs. Grace S. James, of Elkin, Mr. Jarrell estimates that, barring all accidents, he is good tor another decade of rural teaching. BENHAM Mrs. Roe Yarboro was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Lodema Harp, also her sister, Mrs. Milt Windsor, and Mr. Windsor, a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Gentry an nounce the birth of a daughter on February 29. Mother and baby are getting along nicely. We have on the sick list this week Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Smith, Mrs. George Curry and Miss Kathleen Hayes. Mr. Paul Cothren, of Camp Jackson, S. C., was the week-end guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cothren. Mr. Warren Burcham was the Sunday guest of Miss Grace Cockerham, of Little Mountain. Mr. Conrad Atkins, of Elkin, was the Sunday guest of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tyra Atkins. Read Tribune Advertisements! Every 25 seconds I Q nsw Chevrolet! £ ML All models priced at Flint, Michigan. Transpor tation based on rail rates, state and local taxes MASTER 85 BUSINESS COUPE O'f any), optional equipment and accessories— Other dknMs slightly high*- extra. Prices subject to change without notice. F-W CHEVROLET CO. Phone 255 Elkin, N. C. Tribune Advertising Gets Results!
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