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Of the Farm Life School. Dr. J. Y. Joyner, Superintendent of
Education, Also Approves Support by the State
A Monument to the Enthusiasm and Devoted Care of the Women's Auxiliary in
its Effort to Establish a Broad System of Country Education
THE LADIES of the
Sandhills, organized for
homo defence, anions:
whom many of the most
helpful are the residents
of Pinehurst, have estab
a neighborhood board
ing school at Eureka,
seven miles from here.
known as the Sandhill Farm Life School.
This notable endeavor for local im
j Movement has met the approval and sup
port of one of the great National agents
for the encouragement of education, and
the executive committee of the Fhelps
Stokcs Fund have given $250 to help
along. It is easy to realize how material
this assistance is in view of the fact that a
scholar's entire board and tuition is only
$7 a month.
It is in the country a new and ample
High School building, a simple, comfort
able dormitory for girls with a kitchen,
and another lesser building, quarters for
boys; a hundred acres of land, a small
farm, and the beginnings of the live stock
needed. A simple, frugal beginning in
material equipment. But in education so
remarkably well planned, and of so vital
to the eager life of the country children,
that it has elicited the enthusiasm audi
wonder of all that have seen it.
AVliat has been done has been thorough
ly done. The Academic course is in the
hands of aide and experienced teachers,
who would be a credit to any school, car
rying the instruction to the 11th grade.
Miss Cressnell gives piano-forte lessons
and brings the children up familiar
with the old songs and the simpler music
which is their birthright.
This much one may take for granted,
although a pretty good school is a monu
ment anywhere. But it is only the be
ginning. From first to last, with the most
I'M 'Mistaking care, the girls are taught
I'ight living the conduct of a home upon
modern hygienic lines. Cooking is not
"dy a matter of theory, but daily prac
tice. The girls prepare every meal eaten
'a the place not after their manner, but
"Iter the fashion of a master of the art.
besides this each day they assemble in
the great kitchen, a model of method and
cleanliness, and are given a course from
biscuits to biscuit tortoni.
Domestic science in all its branches are
required, and practiced. The day I visited
the place to see two friends of mine, they
were not inclined to parley. They were
housekeepers for the week, and were earn
estly bent upon making a record for the
neatness and attractiveness of all quarters.
Every single particle of the work about
the school is done by the scholars. The
,,(ys plow the land and learn by dint of
hard work to be real farmers. They cut
the wood, and mend the blinds, and grade
the road, and tend the furnace, and paint
the shed, and cultivate the garden. They
drive the bay team to town and come
singing back of an evening with a load
of provender, doing and learning and see
ing life at the same time.
The school is full. The children are all
from the neighborhood and intend to
remain there and are seeking what very
few can ever find, a place to fit them for
the life they anticipate. Elementary edu
cation, fellowship, a glimpse of art and
music and philosophy, an echo from the
myriad wonders and ambitions and
dreams of the ages and the wide world,
combined with the proper ordering of
their daily lives exactly as they are or
dained to lead them hereafter, are here
provided.
The Training Camp
A conscientious effort has been made
by the Sandhill Board of Trade, and Mr.
Roger Derby, to obtain the location at
Pinchurst of the Winter Military Train
ing Camp to be started this season in the
South. Mr. Derby spent the week end
with General Wood and Captain Gordon
Johnson on Governor's Island, and con-
ulted with them frankly upon the advan
tages and disadvantages of this and other
possible situations. Of course the main
purpose is for the South to have the best
.ossible site for the training camp, and
for all hands to join in with the utmost
enthusiasm for its success. It appeared
upon final thought to be wiser to hold the
training school at an established military
post, and it was so decided.
However the spirit and the co-operation
of this community was a source of satis
faction to the general and the depart
ment, and we are assured our outfit for
our own military company, and the officers
to train it, and every reasonable oppor
tunity to join in manoevers with the
regular army.
Comprehensive plans are on foot for
recuiting for the coming encampment and
we are expected to lead in the movement,
as the community led the South in attend
ance at Plattsburg. As soon as they are
complete we will present them to the
public.
II r. ,T. Y. Joyner
Superintendent of Education of North
Carolina, spent a short time at the Caro
lina while inspecting the Farm Life
School and the Derby Memorial School
at the Drowning Creek Plantation. " By
his creommendation the State is to pro
vide $2,500 to the former, on the condi
tion that the neighborhood supply an
equal amount. It will.
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H. W. PRIEST, Manager Pinehurst N. C.
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