The Taylor County Herald

Volume XIX, Number 44    Perry, Florida, Friday May 26, 1922

Teachers off for the Summer

              Faculty of Perry School to Spend Vacation in Various Ways

              The last school bell has been rung the last class has been heard for the school year 1921-22 and the faculty and several teachers are hurriedly packing their suit cases and trunks preparatory to going to their various homes throughout the southern states.

            Chas. M. Jones, Supervising Principal of the Taylor County High School, accompanied by Mrs. Jones and Master Charles Jones Jr., will leave Saturday morning for Arlington, Ky., where Prof. Jones will spend a short time before leaving for Chicago, where he will enter the University of Chicago to work on his Doctorate. Mrs. Jones and son will join Mr. Jones in Chicago after a month’s visit at their former Kentucky home and the family will spend the summer in Chicago.

            E. R. Spence, Department of Latin, left today for his old home at Atoka, Tenn., where he will visit his parents for a short time before taking a special course at Peabody College.

            M. A. Dix, Commercial Department leaves Saturday and will visit home folks at Abbeville, Ga.

            Miss Mary Francis Sever, Department of Mathematics, is leaving this week for Jacksonville and St. Augustine, after which she will visit friends at Washington, D. C., before going to her home at Indianapolis, Ind., where she will spend the summer.

            Miss Elfrieda Colwell, Department of Science, will go Saturday to her home at Palatka, for a short stay with homefolks before entering the University of Virginia for a summer special course.

            Miss Patti Martin, Department of English, leaves Sunday for her home at Kokeilia, where she will spend the summer with her parents.

            Miss Agnes Reams, Department of History, left today for Nashville, Tenn., spending her vacation at home in that city.

            Mrs. Bertha T. Saunders, Eighth Grade, leaves this week for Lake City to spend the summer at home.

            Miss Ophie Maney, Fifth Grade, is spending her vacation at her home in Tampa.

            Mrs. W. O. Owens, nee Miss Marguerite Milton, Sixth Grade is making her home at St Cloud, having been married at the close of the Grammar Department term.

            Miss Eddie Mae Jackson, Fourth Grade, left immediately after the closing of the Grammar School grades, and will spend the summer at her home in Greenville.

            W. E. Inman, Seventh Grade, Miss Gladys Morse and May Thomas, Third Grade, Mrs. W. P. Stevens, Second Grade, Mrs. C. P. Diamond, Mrs. L. P. Dees and Mrs. H. A. Miller, First Grade, and Mrs. C. L. Cone, Primary Principal, and who also taught classes in first four grades, are all residents of Perry and will spend the majority of their vacation at home.

            The teachers have made many friends during their residence here who wish for each and every one a pleasant vacation after their faithful and hard work of the term just ended.

Local and Personal News Items

Mrs. H. B. McFarlan of Carbur, was in the city Wednesday shopping and visiting friends for a short time.

W. P. Stevens went to Live Oak Wednesday, where he spent the time between trains attending to business.

C. E. Clemons is back on his old job at Bruton-Swartz Mercantile Co., and is hustling out groceries from his department.

W. W. Edenfield left Thursday morning for Ocala and Jacksonville where he went to spend until Saturday on business.

R. B. Young, who is now making his headquarters at his home town of Quitman, Ga., is in town today transacting business.

Miss Agnes Smith is home from Lake City, where she had been to attend the graduation exercises of the Lake City high school.

Mrs. J. D. L. Houck and children left Friday for Live Oak where they went to spend two weeks on a visit to relatives and friends.

Miss Pansy McClollister, who closed a successful term of school near Cross City last Monday, spent the week end the guest of friends.

R. P. Hopkins, Traffic Manager of the L. O. P. & G. railroad, was in town Thursday, boosting for the first excursion to Mandalay, which takes place next Wednesday.

Mrs. Ida Robinette closed a successful term of school at Hampton Springs Friday and  has accepted a summer term, which she will begin on the first of the month at Bee Tree Pond.

The many friends of Miss Ruby Adams will be pleased to learn that she is expected to arrive home Sunday from Shreveport, La., where she has been teaching for the past nine months.

Miss Sadie Mae Adams and mother, Mrs. M. L. Adams, returned home Tuesday from Adams Beach where they had been for several days enjoying the bathing and other pleasures found there.

R. L. Williams, former County Commissioner from the Shady Grove district, came in town Thursday to attend to business and to take in the political speaking at the Court House. Mr. Williams reported crop conditions as good in his section.

Mr. and Mrs. Barney O’Quinn and children, Mrs. H. A. O’Quinn, mother of Mr. O’Quinn and Mrs. S. Cheek, returned home Wednesday night from the mouth of the Steinhatchee, where they had been since Monday enjoying the fishing, boating and bathing and having an outing.

H. S. Hodges, from Athena, was in town Tuesday and reported a good soaking rain in his section of the county. Mr. Hodges said he has good prospects for one of the finest watermelon crops he has ever produced and he would have melons on the market by the first of next week.

Miss Sara Lovelace accompanied by the full cast of “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” as presented at the Temple Theater in this city, went to Carbur Thursday night and put on the show to a good sized and appreciative audience. Several from Perry motored down to enjoy the play.

The Springdale Schools closed Friday night with an excellent literary program and entertainment by the pupils, which was much enjoyed by a large crowd of patrons and friends of the school. Principal M. L. Smith and Mrs. W. R. Lamb, assistant, report having had a successful term with one of the largest enrollments in the history of the school.