Large Increase in
Hickory Schools
With an enrollment of 1,079 children, the Hickory public
schools began the fall term yesterday with prospects for 1,200 before the end
of two weeks. The North school was most crowded of any of the buildings, the
fifth and third grades being the largest, the fifth having 53 students and the
third 49.
The colored school has 180 enrolled, about the same as last
year, but the 899 enrolled at the white schools is about 50 more than on the
first day last year. Superintendent Carver will prepare for the Record a table
of the children by grades and schools, but this will not be done before Friday
or Saturday, when more of the pupils are at their desks.
The third grades in the white schools prevented over-crowding
in these rooms, the third at the high school taking care of a number of
children.
Rev. W.W. Rowe delivered the talk at chapel exercises at the
high school at 10:15 this morning.
Recitations already have begun and the students will not
lose three or four hours of the first day, as has been the custom everywhere in
the past.
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