Some of His Pupils
Getting Drunk, Teacher Quits. . . After Expelling the Intoxicated ones, Mr.
Lemmond Tendered His Resignation
Mr. Robert W. Lemmond, veteran Union county school teacher,
who has been in charge of the Pleasant Hill school, has given up his
profession, temporarily at least. He resigned on day last week when some of his
older boy pupils came to school drunk.
The boys, it is said, found a quantity of sorghum. To this
they added vinegar and corn meal, making mash, which was then boiled. The crude
mixture highly intoxicated them, reports say, and in this condition they went
to school on that particular day. The antics they played are not known, but it
is claimed that they were exceedingly gay.
On learning of their condition, Mr. Lemmond expelled every one
of them who had partaken of enough of the drink to affect their deportment.
That night he summoned the school committeemen and forthwith tendered his
resignation. His successor has not been learned.
Mr. Lemmond is past 60 years old, and is one of the county’s
best known teachers. The affair has created much interest in Monroe as well as
in Pleasant Hill section. The names of the boys who were expelled are not
known.
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