Friday night the people of Smith’s school section took a step forward when they organized a community club which includes men, women, boys and girls. A large crowd gathered at the school house and Miss Emily Smith was chairman of the meeting. She turned the first few minutes of the program over to the teachers who called on some of the boys and girls for songs and recitations. Miss Minnie Lee garrison, County Home Agent, then took charge, and officers of the club were elected. Mrs. Marshall Lassiter was chosen president; Mr. Walter Hobbs, vice-president; Miss Emily Smith, secretary-treasurer. The teachers of the school, Misses Thelma Flowers and Lucy Johnson, were named as additional members of the executive committee.
A program of work will e outlined at an early date and it is the purpose to have two meetings a month. There will be one general meeting at which matters pertaining to the community will be discussed and one meeting a month planned with the teachers of the school to talk particularly of school affairs. At present, interest centers around the school and already some very good work has been done. Before the opening of school, patrons and friends met and cleaned thoroughly the school building and the grounds. Plans are underway to finish ceiling the school house and to paint it. At the meeting Friday night $42.50 was raised toward painting the building. The county is cooperating in making the needed improvements. After the business was disposed of Friday night a number of contests and stunts were engaged in, and the occasion took a social term. String music added to the enjoyment of the evening.
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From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1924
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