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Show PARENTS ANDJEACHERS HEET I Enthusrastlc Oct Together Session On Last Monday Evening. ; W. K. Stoker wns chosen president of tho parents nnd teachers organlsa- . tion perfected in Prico Inst Monday, j evening nt n larcgly attended meet ing of patrons of tho local schools, Prof. C. II. Mndsen is vico president; nnd Miss Mnry Mnthis, secretory nnd treasurer. Tho meeting wan called for tho public school building, but Iho attendance was so largo it wns tnken to tho tnbemnclc. Prof. L. P. Reeves, principal of tho high school, nnd D. C. Woodward, county suiorinlcndcnt, siwko on tho objects nnd purposes of the organization. An oxecutivo committco of five, including in-cluding the president nnd vico president presi-dent nnd Mrs. Oeorgo A. Fnusctt. Mrs. Gomcr P. Peacock nnd Principal Heoves, was elected. C. It, Marcuscn nnd Mrs. J. W. Hammond wcro nnmed dclcgntes to the district meeting to bo held today Friday. C. It. Marcuscn Mar-cuscn briefly addressed, the meeting on tho subject of parent co-opcrnlion, nnd referred to tho big problcmfcon-fronting problcmfcon-fronting tho schools of Cnrlnm county, coun-ty, "forty per cent of our population," popula-tion," Mnrcuscn said, "being illiterate illiter-ate foreigners." He nlso s noko. .of tho "pnrt tlmo" schools for boys re-quired re-quired to work and attend schools somo tlmo between tho hours oC 8 o'clock of tho morning nnd 10 o'clock of tho evening. Grade school children gavo n program pro-gram of readings nnd music. |