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CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE trustees: D. H. Murphy, Henry Farrior- George - Gaylor, W. L, Bryan and O. WV Rouse. , FAISON INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Located at Faison and was organized for colored pedple during the year 1903.The following named persons served as trustees: A. R. Middleton, D. A. Williams,' H. G Wright, I. S. Moore, N.' Mobref, S. C. Carroll, Peter Johnson and R.' A. Spears. . ' " " The foregoing outline of - the county schools 'proves the statement often made, that the calibre j. of the people of Duplin County compares favorably .N ; with any county' in the State. A large number of men who attended school in Duplin became conspic ious in the affairs of the County, State' and Nation. A complete list could not Joe given but only a few now in mind will be mentioned: . Dr. William Dickson, a physician,; who moved . from this neighborhood to Tennessee and became -Speaker of the State House of Representatives and ' three times a member of Congress from that States ! Rev. John Nicholas Stallings, D.D., was an out standing Baptist divine of this State and had prev- iously been an able lawyer, teacher and a very use- ful man in many ways. , -, 1 Prof. Benjamin Franklin Grady- was a well ' known educator and twice a member of Congress ' from this State. - " Colonel Thomas S. Kenan, was a lawyer, legisla tor, Attorney-General of the State, and Clerk of the State Supreme Court for many years. " Rev. John Dickson Stanford, was a lawyer, politi cian, and a Presbyterian minister of this County for many years. 1 ' ' - . - ' - Judge Wade Hampton Kornegay, was a well known lawyer of the State of Oklahoma. " He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention and served a term as an Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court, - r ; Senator F. M. Simmone, a lawyer, political lead er, congressman, and for many years a United States Senator. State Senator Alfred D. Ward, a lawyer of great ability, political leader and State Senator. He was a law partner of Senator Simmons. - Judge Oliver H. Allen, lawyerSolicitor and Su perior Court Judge. He was a school mate of Sim mons at the old Grove Academy near Kenansville. Prof. Samuel W, Clement was their teacher. Judge William R. Allen, a lawyer of great ability, . Superior Court Judge and later, a Justice of the State Supreme Court. He was a pupil of Prof. R. W. - Millard at the old Seminary in Kenansville. Dr. John ML Faison, practicing physician for. many years, politician and a member of the United ... States Congress. He was a pupil in the Faison Male ;? Academy. '" great ability v, io World War. . ' 'k ' James O. C&rr, a lawyer and political leader, of ' .Wflinjngton: United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. . T Miss Mary - jarmanaaugnter oi oaran tuavisj j and McLeridal Jarman of Duplin County, attended - the old Hannah Moore Academy. She married Fur- - nifold G' Simmons of Jones County and they were the parents of Senator Simmons. The Simmons - family lived in Kenansville during the Civil War, : when the Senator was a boy of nine and ten years of . age. The Senator's maternal grandparents are bur ied in an bid family cemetery hear Hebron church.. The Simmons home, in Kenansville is now owned and occupied by Prjof . O. P. Johnson, Superintend- . ent of Duplin Schools. , ;- ., Miss Margaret (Maggie) Monk, daughter of Ann (Maxwell) and James B. B. Monk, attended the old Grove Academy in Kenansville. She was taught . by Dr. James M. Sprunt. She married Dr. Charles " Hooks Harris of Cedartown, Georgia- and they were . the parents of United States Senator , William J. ' Harris, General Peter Charles Harris, and others . equally distinguished The town of Magnolia was ' , named, in honor of Miss Margaret Monk. Dr..Har . ris was a grandson of Col. Charles Hooks of Duplin County. ,,-.' Dr. Frank Porter Graham, erstwhile President ' of the State University and now serving as North Carolina's Junior JJnited States Senator, is a great grandson of Qapt David Sloan, Duplin's first chair- - man of the Board of School Superintendents, - The Dickson Charity Fund, created by the Will -of Cql. Alexander Dickson in 1813, was intended for , the education of the poor children before the pub lic school system started. It was latef managed by . the Board of School Superintendents and the annual " interest on the principal sum was distributed to the several school districts. It is still In existance. 2500 Graduates In Good Jobs More than 2500 graduates of col leges, high Schools and business and commercial schools hare been placed in suitable jobs, most of them from the crop' of May and June graduates, through direct ac tion' by the Ralejgh employment offices of the Employment Secur ity Commission of North Carolina during the first sty months of this year. ' . '. ' Information that placements have been made of 395 four-year col lege graduates, 01 two-year (Jun ior) college graduates, 271 gradu ates of business and commercial colleges and 1761 graduates of high schools, all in North Carolina, is reported by the N. C Employment Service. The report also shows placements have been made of col lege graduates as follows: Univer sity of North Carolina 65; Duke 25; N. C. State College 61; Wake Forest 51; Catawba 20; A & T 19; Elon 16; High Point 11, and from junior colleges: Peace 14, Mitchell and Mars Hill,-10 each. Practically every college,; business and com mercial college and high school in the State is represented among graduates placed. These jobs are the first secure by the young people since their graduation. The work is done by local employment staffs, who work in close harmony with colleges and Placement Bureaus operated' by many of them. Most of the placements were made in the home communities' of the graduates but others were sent i I .el i i l.cep tl.o l... -s n I.;.. Jiata Uate if possible, to give the State the advantage of the training they have received. ' . 'v S!:!2 To Fin::.ce The vocational department at the Pink Hill Consolidated School will be financed largely 'by State funds this year for the first time in the school's history, It was announced Monday by the office of Schools Superintendent H. H. Bullock. The vocational department was established at Pink Hill when the county schools were consolidated. However, for many years one of the State-allotted teachers' taugnt vo cational subjects part time in ad dition to regular duties. The. en rollment at the school was too low to secure a lull-time State-allotted vocational teacher. ,. L Three years ago, a full-time vo cational teacher was secured but the. salary was paid entirely by Lenoir County. Now the -school has sufficient enrollment to entitle it to "a state allotted vocational teacher. Under the State -school program, . two thirds of the vocational teacher's Uncle Sam Says in 1 - I", snt ;.:JhoElII Mary Ann Turne is vocaiuul teacher at Pink Hill. The countv has also been allotted two addiUonal vocational teachers at theXaGrange Negro School- one for agriculture ana one tor home economics, The two .new techers were allotted by the State as the result of the consolidation program at LaGrange. COMEDIES FROM EVERY DAY LIFE V By: Mrs. Howard Joiner, & miniate!-. SllhstitUtinE for B friend in a remote country church, quietly take a fiuy ci i. fore presenting the coUbcj.. -t at the altar rail. After service, he called the old fellow Into the ves try and told, him that his crime was discovered. The old fellow looked puzled and then a sudden light dawned on him. "Why, Sir, you don't mean that old half dollar of mine? 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