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Show MINERSVILLE IS ACTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE SCHOOLS TAKE LEAD IX LOCAL AMUSEMENTS. Community Club Organized for Social and Educational Pleasure. and Uplift Fully realizing that social uplift must be the correlary of efficient education, ed-ucation, the Minersville schools have successfully organized and launched a winter's program of amusements which bid fair to revolutionize ,the school status. First, with the aid of 'the County Board of Education, the school building is fast becoming equipped to become the community's social center. Electric lights, a library and magazine stand, wholesome whole-some games and a good study room are combining to form a lodestone for the members of the s c hool and community, and are transforming the school premises from the dark object of questionable nocturnal nocturnal visits by the young people, to a well-lighted, cheerful place of social gathering. To these attractions attrac-tions may be added two band practices prac-tices per week, which adds the inspiration in-spiration of music. Nor does the movement stop with the school alone. With the Principal Princi-pal of schools as chairman of an amusement committee whose mission mis-sion it is to represent in the 'fullest manner the varied interests of the entire community at the head the L. D. S. church building and Wood's Hall have been leased. The next step was to secure the co-operation of the heads of all the various church or civic organizations by calling a meeting for that special purpose. Present at that meeting were the following: Steven Hollingshead and Elmer Marshall, representing the Sunday school; Mary Mathews, representing the Primary; Marie Rollins, Lola Dotson and Edith Bradfield, representing repre-senting Home Economics Club; Laura Rollins and Adelpha Jameson, representing Y. L. M. I. A.; George Marshall Sr., representing Bishopric; Bishop-ric; W. A. Joseph. Ernest Eyre and E. N. Larson, representing the Y. M. M. I. A. Through the co-operated efforts of this combined organization there has been outlined a program of purposeful pur-poseful and well-censored social functions. At a previous meeting the details of administration were worked out as per the following quotation: "A Ward-School amusement is constituted to have absolute control of the school building. Wood's Hall, and the Meeting-house. "The committee is to be in control con-trol of all entertainments and the officers of the organization giving the entertainment subject to it. "The committee is to pass upon all forms of entertainment and may reject anything not in line with its general policy. "All income from all forms of entertainment, en-tertainment, except that from suppers sup-pers a n d refreshments given in the basement of meeting-house is to be divided equally between the school and the wnrd. and spent as e;xch see:-, fit; provided that the cost of lease of Wood's Hall and present incurred school expenses shall be paid before any divisions shall take place. "Wnrd nrr;n niza: ion s and school organizations shall apply to their respective funds for whatever financial finan-cial aid they may need." Such improvements as a vestibule of the large number already in the are being added to the Wood hall, and further improvements on the meeting house are being contemplated. contempla-ted. The plan, already well under way was given an increased momentum by the timely lecture of Mr. Darling as the first unmber of the admirable Lyceum Course. With, the stimulus stimu-lus from this and the following and ladies' dressing and rest rooms numbers and the concerted efforts movement heart and soul, it must result in a transition from 'the unorganized, un-organized, inefficient previous system sys-tem to the modern one of Co-operation. |
