Summerton and Blaney Scholars in Gallery – Welcomed by Hamblin.

Hardly a day passes but pupils of some public school in the state visit the State House, sit in the galleries awhile and see the two houses of the general assembly at work. Many of the visitors seem to be taking notes – whether for a school compositions or to tell the folk back home how their representatives voted on certain bills is unknown.

Yesterday two fine looking groups of boys and girls paid a visit to the general assembly. Speaker John K. Hamblin introduced the pupils from the Blaney school to the house. They came in trucks, about 60 all told, and had their lunches with them. Superintendent Leonardo Andrea, Miss Mable Petersen, teacher of the sixth grade, Miss Connie Andrea, teacher of the seventh grade, and Miss Myrtle Laird, teacher of the eighth grade, accompanied the pupils.

Representative L. M. Jones, Clarendon, introduced the other group of pupils from the high school at Summerton – saying that Summerton had long been famous for its fine boys and pretty girls and citing the visitors as evidence to support his statement.

The Summerton pupils were accompanied by Superintendent C. W. Sprott and Mrs. Sprott; Mrs. J. H. King and Ollie Tindal. The pupils, members of the 11 grade were: Misses Eunice Touchberry, Sara Davis, Virginia Chewning, Alice Walker, Irene King, Mary Glenn Roers, Mary Emma Alsbrook, Agnes Felder, Mary Esther McKnight, Virginia Wilkie, Annie Belle Richbourg, Elizabeth Touchberry, Julia Cantey, Mayzie Belser, Evelyn Coskrey, Annie Louise Richbourg, Elizabeth Coulette, Mary Brown, Margurite Rhame, Emaline Nimmer and James Carson, Benson Fairey, Assid Nimmer, Henry Everett, Charles Plowden, James Joseph, Robert Elliott, John Rowe and William Brunson.

Speaker Hamblin told the visitors the members of the house were glad to have them present and expressed the hop that their visit would prove pleasant and profitable. He spoke of the progress made in South Carolina in education and the opportunity a visit to Columbia afforded for an insight into the government of the state.