Special to The State.

Blaney, March 23. – One of the prettiest affairs for the high school set was the Shamrock tea given last Monday evening by Leonardo Andrea and Miss Eulalie Sheely for the senior class. To meet the seniors at the tea, all the former classes were invited for a reunion. As the guests arrived they were invited into the 11th grade room which was decorated in a color scheme of green and white, where from two tables decorated with shamrocks and pot plants Misses Eulalie Sheely, Susie Shannon and Connie Andrea poured tea and served sandwiches. After the tea, the guests went into the main lobby of the school building, where a contest on the school was worked out Miss Mary Rose and Rembert Sanders won the highest score and were presented with Irish caps. The remainder of the evening was spent in conversation and in renewing friendship and old school associations with lots of advice from the former classes to the present class which consists of Rembert Sanders, J. R. Dinkins, Woodrow Ross, Dan Kelly, Clyburn Goff, Arthur Miles and Misses Mary Rose, Mae Belle Moore, Ada Belle Price, Ella Branham, Elizabeth Kelly, Gertrude Brown and Ethel Coleman.

The School Improvement association met last Thursday evening with the new president, Donald Watson, presiding. After the business meeting, a spelling contest to select the county contestants to represent the school in Camden on April 20th. Murris McCombs won first place in the grammar school with Annie Belle Price coming second. Allen Edens won first place in high school with Arthur Miles coming second.

All the teachers are attending the State Teachers’ association this week in Columbia. The school has a holiday until Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Haley Duren and daughter, Tessie, and Mr. and Mrs.Nelson Kirby of New Brookland were the guests of Mrs. C. S. Andrea Sunday.

Mrs. J. E. Outlaw and children of Columbia spent Sunday with Miss Dida Abbott.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dew of Columbia were the guests of Mrs. A. T. Coleman Thursday.

Mrs. T. B. Campbell has returned from Camden, where she visited her father, Rulus Ross.

Last Sunday afternoon the DeKalb Council of the J. O. U. A. M. presented & flag and Bible to the school here.

Mrs. E. H. Ross and children of New Brookland are spending this week with her father, Lawrence Evans.

Mrs. E. o. Horger of Eutawville, Mrs. Eunice Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Owen Smith of Spartanburg, Archie and Sidney Crumpton, Mrs. Era Crumpton and Miss Margaret Crumpton of Sumter, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown and children and Mrs. McIness of Marion, Mrs. Almeade Boykin of Charlotte, N. C., have been guests this week at the home of Mrs. Earl Bowen during the death and funeral of her husband this week.