05/30/2026
Eldon Forum, May 6, 1920--LIBERTY SCHOOL PICNIC SATURDAY. Past School Year Considered Successful From Every Viewpoint.
The annual school picnic of Liberty School, a pleasant trip was held Saturday, May the 1st. The crowd, about fifty in all, gathered about 11 o'clock, and soon a sumptuous dinner was spread. Anyone seeing the bountiful tables would never have dreamed that sugar is 35 cents a pound and potatoes, six dollars a bushel. Yet, at the same time, there was profiteering going on as each one tried to see who could consume the most eats. After dinner a splendid program was given by which they made us know that spring was really coming and that the powerful sun can surely make a beautiful flower garden. The remainder of the day was spent in a social way and it made us all think of our own by-gone school days when we were a couple of kids together. We consider the past school year one of the very best, most profitable and exceedingly pleasant to all concerned, due mostly to the teacher, Miss Anna Strickland, helped greatly by the pupils and patrons. The attendance of the year was extra good, some coming two miles through the storms and over muddy roads. One, Clarance Stewart, was neither absent nor tardy the entire year. How the parents ought to sacrifice to allow their children to go to school and get an education when they are willing, under such conditions, to go. Demonstrations of the work of the year was shown, both in the program and on the walls of the school room. All about you were the maps, compositions, drawings, clay modeling, etc. Let us give due honor to the good country school teachers while they are with us, for they are not to be here always--an improved method is fast taking the place of the little cherished school house. May next year bring us all together again, each one a little older and a little wiser.
