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History Of School Presented
Gifted and Talented students of Bethware School provided a 1
nostalgic evening for parents and teachers attending the recent P-TO :
meeting.
Under the direction of Norma Cloninger, instructor, the young peo-
ple presented a “History of Bethware School - 1925-84” and illustrated
the program with a skit and with pictures of “the good ole days” which
members of the community had supplied.
Before 1925, Bethware students had attended Ware School and El
Bethel School, 1913-25. Both these two-roomed schools were a part of
the Cleveland County System and housed grades 1-7. Hal Morris, a
former student, said the teachers came early to build the fires. At El
Bethel, kids brought their lunches in paper bags and drank water from
the same dipper from the water bucket. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Harrelson
were the teachers and each child was called up to sit on a bench at the
T i. front of the room for lessons. Myers Hambright recalled a story his i By
w : ? mother told about an April Fool’s trick played at El Bethel. The older Lib S tewart
boys arrived at school early that day and boarded up the door of the
MR. AND MRS. CHARLES EUGENE _ school. When the younger children arrived they thought school was i y=
SHORT closed and walked back home. As soon as the younger kids had gone,
(Loretta Lynn Roper) the older group took the boards down and went inside to wait for Mrs.
Hambright. No one knew what happened until the next day.
In the early days Lizzie Lee Randall Etters and Thelma Rawlings
taught at Ware School. Sissy Cloninger recalled that students at Ware
learned quickly to behave. Talkers were smacked on their hands with a
ruler. Odessa McSwain, also a former student at Ware, remembers be-
ing sent to the spring to fetch water in an old wooden bucket.
By 1924 there was much talk in the community about consolida-
tion. Both Ware School and El Bethel School were crowded and a
Social
Notes
Shorts Exchange Vows
In Gaffney Ceremony
Charles Eugene Short and
Loretta Lynn Roper were united
in marriage Feb. 25th at 2:50
p.m. by Probate Judge W.R.
Douglas in Gaffney, S.C.
The bridegroom is the son of
Charles and Linda Short of
Kings Mountain. The bride is
the daughter of Johnny Roper
and. Mildred Warner of Kings
Mountain.
A reception was hosted in his
father’s home.
After a trip to the mountains,
they will reside in the Oak Grove
Community near Kings Moun-
tain.
Engagement Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny W.
Smith, Sr. of Grover have an-
nounced the engagement of her
daughter, Lisa Jane Davis, and
Gregory Carson Huffman.
Miss Davis, who is also the
daughter of Roger Dale Davis of
Shelby, is a junior at Crest High
School.
Huffman is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Huffman of Earl. A
senior at Crest High School, he is
employed at Ingle’s in Gaffney,
S:C.
committee was formed to study the problem. Citizens of the communi-
ty came by horse and buggy to Odessa McSwain’s house (across from
Bethware School) to register to vote. Although there was some objec-
tion, the vote passed to build a new school and two acres of land was
purchased from Perry McSwain. By 1925, students attended Bethware
School for the first time. The El Bethel School was sold for $200 in
1925. Ware School was sold in 1939 for $100.
In 1934 Oak Grove and Bethlehem became a part of Bethware. In
1936 Bethware School graduated its first class and commencement ex-
ercises were held at El Bethel Methodist Church. In 1937 the first com-
mencement was held in the new auditorium at Bethware. In 1947 the
first 12th grade class graduated from Bethware. There was no
graduating class in 1946. The Board of Education had attempted to get
the graduating class of 1945 to return for another year and graduate
with the 12th grade but they declined. Ms. Sissy Cloninger and
Cameron Ware were in this 11th grade group. Mrs. Peggy Baird was in
the 1947 12th grade class. In 1955 Claude Harmon of the Bethware
Community was chairman of the board. His son, Jack, was among
graduates.
In 1957 Patterson Grove became a part of Bethware School. The
Breakfast March 10
Judith H. Hendrixson, Kings Church in Gastonia.
Mountain author and lecturer, Local Methodist congrega-
will speak on “I Am Woman”, at tions will attend the event.
a prayer breakfast sponsored by Breakfast will be served to arriv-
Gastonia District United ing members at 8:45 a.m. and
Methodist Women Sat., March the program will beconcluded by
10th, at Maylo Methodist 11:30.
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building is still standing near Patterson Grove Baptist Church.
Consolidation with KM District Schools came in 1961-62 and
Bethware grades 9-12 were relocated at the Kings Mountain plant. In
1965, with opening of the new high school, Bethware became grades
1-6. At the beginning of the 1974-75 year, the sixth grade was transfer
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Engagement
Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ingram
of Charlotte, N.C. announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Gwendolyn Ingram, to Robert
LL. ‘White Jr.
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert L. White Sr. of
Kings Mtn., N.C:
A June 2 wedding is planned
at Greater Galilee Baptist
Church in Charlotte.
Fitts
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After a wedding trip to
Florida, the newlyweds will be at
home in Shelby.
Mr. and Mrs. Creighton
* David Griggs, Jr. of Piedmont,
S.C. are parents of the bride who
attended Greenville Technical
College and is an Accounting
Clerk at The School District of
Greenville County in Greenville,
S.C. She is the granddaughter of
Mrs. Creighton David Griggs,
Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. James
Clare Bledsoe.
The bridegroom is the son of
the Rev. and Mrs. James Russell
Fitts, Sr. of Lawndale, formerly
of Kings Mountain. He attended
Kings Mountain schools and
Western Carolina University. He
is a sales representative at
Bourne Toyota, Inc. of Shelby.
He is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. William R. Fitts, Sr.
Leistey
Celebrated
Birthday
Leistey Elise Tindall, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Tin-
dall, Jr. of Route 5, celebrated
‘her second birthday Feb. 6th at a
Big Bird birthday party.
Family and friends helped her
celebrate the occasion on Sun-
day, Feb. Sth, and they cut a bir-
thday cake.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas D. Tindall, Sr. and
Mrs. Betty P. Jones, all of Kings
Mountain. Great-grandparents
are Mrs. D.W. Barker, Mrs.
AU. Tindall and Mrs. Wayne
Putnam; all of Kings Mountain,
and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clements
of Forest City.
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