Jos K Brick agricultural, industrial and normal school . wo childrento the are respectedin the communityand can get creditwhen they need illustrationbelow is of a man and his wife who were bought and soldto several successive owners of the farm before the war. He sayswhen Mr. Linkum sent him word that he was free that he decidedto stay, as ho had dug all the ditches and planted all the trees aboutthe big house. He is yet our neighbor. Recently he bought him-self a home. With few exceptions, all the school work is done by have hauled the material for the bui
Jos K Brick agricultural, industrial and normal school . wo childrento the are respectedin the communityand can get creditwhen they need illustrationbelow is of a man and his wife who were bought and soldto several successive owners of the farm before the war. He sayswhen Mr. Linkum sent him word that he was free that he decidedto stay, as ho had dug all the ditches and planted all the trees aboutthe big house. He is yet our neighbor. Recently he bought him-self a home. With few exceptions, all the school work is done by have hauled the material for the buildings, raised all the cornconsumed, and other feed forthe farm animals. They pro-vide the wood, haul the coal,do the janitoring, cultivate alarge garden, care for thecows, do all the washing andhouse-cleaning, and do thecooking. From two to fivethousand pounds of pork arekilled yearly. Molasses caneand sweet potatoes form avery important part of thedaily menu of the school;they are raised in greatabundance. Peas and whitepotatoes are also raised. From. TWO OLD SETTLERS. JOS. K. BRICK A., I. AND N. SCHOOL. two to four hundred gallons of canned fruit are put up every of the mattresses now in use were made by the students. Inthe sewing-room about thirty-five dresses have been made by dailyclasses, besides other the manual training shop agood deal of practice work hasbeen done in the way of mak-ing dormitory tables and keep-ing up ordinary repairs. Thisis done aside from the regularclass-work. More recently there hasbeen added an aermotor powermill for pumping water for thevarious buildings. A side track has been builtfor the school freight. We hopesoon to have local accommoda-tion bj the passenger trains. The enrollment of the schoolfor the present year is 209, withover 100 in the boarding depart-ment. Most of our students are very poox, and were it not for the oppor-tunities here to work their way they would not be in any undergo all sorts of
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