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GROUP OF STUDENTS, WALLACE SCHOOL, RICEVILLE, TENN.
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Wallace School. Riceville. Tenn.
Rev. W. P. Ware, Principal
WALLACE SCHOOL is one of the schools of the United
Presbyterian Church. There were 3 teachers and 85
students in 1908. The annual expenses, $1,350, arc
secured from the Board of Freedmen's Missions of the United
Presbyterian Church. This work is the outgrowth of a Sabltathschool
inaugurated by the mi.ssion workers at Athens, Tenn.
The school was organi:;;ed at Riceville by Rev. J. H. Tarter, in
1900.
Riceville is a small village of from eight hundred to a thousand
people. About two hundred of the entire population are colored.
The village is located sixty miles west of Knoxville, on the
Southern Railway, in a farming section of ea t Tennessee.
The men find employment on either the farm or the railroad.
A laborer receives fifty to sixty cents per day on the farm, and a
dollar on the railroad.
The farm furnishes employment only about one hundred
fifty or two hundred days a year; the railroad about two hundred
fifty, at most. From this small income a great many support
'families of eight to ten persons the entire year, paying fifteen
cents per pound for bacon and from $5.60 to $8.00 per barrel for
flour. Coarse fare, indeed, the laborer of this section must have.
The students range from four and a half to thirty-nine years
of age. The aim is to give them the best pos ible training in the
subjects taught. from the beginning through the grammar grades,
including a daily Bible study in all grades, placing great stress on
the Ten Commandments and the sins against each, the life of
Chri t, and stories of other leading Bible characters. This is
meeting a great need. Many of the leaders in the variou
churches and Sabbath-schools are not well informed in what
they teach. The evils arising from this condition arc very many.
Preaching service' are had twice a month. The membership
of the church is thirty-two, many of whom are chilrlrell. The
congregation attends regularly. There is a midweek prayer
meeting, a Bible reading. alternating with preaching, Junior and
Senior Chri tian Unions, and a Women's Missionary Societ~·.
The purpose i to intensify and emphasize religious work.
The sewing room doe a great deal to help train the girls
industrially. There is no department which can give indu trial
training to the boys. The outlook for the boy is not good.
If the boys could be trained along industrial line', it would
add very greatly to the future welfare of the race.
