More pages from Delphia Hall's Chapel Notes. Several pages were posted on July 10th and today I continue with several more pages for your enjoyment.

Chapel in 1926-7 in the public school in Salemburg, NC appears to have taken place every week. Some weeks there were Chapel Notes for every day, other times only a couple of days. I think there must have been much flexibility in what the school choose to do.  The program usually consisted of some singing, Bible readings, poetry readings, and discussions. All seemed to be uplifting and positive themes. The follow poem by James. W. Riley is a good example from the program on Sept. 15, 1926.

Many programs were aimed at promoting good citizenship, love of mankind, and respect for all. On Oct. 1, 1926 the page outlines instructions as to the proper way to stand before the flag and pledge allegiance. 

Other programs were on prevention of fires and accidents. From time to time there were dramatizations on for example:   safety, Hiawatha’s Wooing, The Courtship of Miles Standish. If students traveled away they were invited to tell about there trip. Murphy Royal presented about his trip on Oct., 20^th, 1926.

On Nov. 15, 1926, the following poem especially caught my eye. I have included it as it was written in Delphia Hall’s notes and also as I found it on line. If Delphia was writing from memory she did very well.

The pages above are Delphia's. Below, for your interest, I have copied the entire poem as I found it on a web page on line. Wonderful, wonderful :>)) 

Editor notes

It seems that "Moo Cow Moo" appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on November 21, 1903 (which sold for 5 cents at the time). The words above are those remembered by a few generations of reciters but unfortunately we don't have a hard copy to check their accuracy

Moo Cow Moo by Edmund Vance Cooke

My papa held me up to the Moo Cow Moo
So close I could almost touch,
And I fed him a couple of times or so,
And I wasn't a fraidy-cat, much.

But if my papa goes in the house,
And my mamma she goes in too,
I keep still like a little mouse
For the Moo Cow Moo might Moo.

The Moo Cow's tail is a piece of rope
All ravelled out where it grows;
And it's just like feeling a piece of soap
All over the Moo Cow's nose.

And the Moo Cow Moo has lots of fun
Just switching his tail about,
But if he opens his mouth, why then I run,
For that's where the Moo comes out.

The Moo Cow Moo has deers on his head,
And his eyes stick out of their place,
And the nose of the Moo Cow Moo is spread
All over the Moo Cow's face.

And his feet are nothing but fingernails,
And his mamma don't keep them cut,
And he gives folks milk in water pails,
When he don't keep his handles shut.

But if you or I pull his handles, why
The Moo Cow Moo says it hurts,
But the hired man sits down close by
And squirts, and squirts, and squirts.




Prayers were important. Nov. 3, 1926, provides us a window as they learned to give thanks.

White Hall: built in 1919 and used as a clinic. It was the first hospital in Sampson County. In the summer of 1935 the building was renovated by Pineland College and named White Hall (housing and schooling girls grades 5th – 8th) In 1967 it was renamed The Fraternity House. It was next to the last of the schools early buildings to be destroyed in 1986.

On February 23, 1986 the Sampson Independent ran a picture and story of the razing of White Hall. Salemburg mayor Bobby Strickland is pictured standing on the porch of White Hall.

When the final day arrived Crotia and Jack Blanchard sat across the street and watch as the building being torn down. Crotia wrote the sweetest and the sadness account of the memories that returned to her as they viewed its destruction. In Sandspurs on page 278, this story is recounted. Unfortunately she did not date this account. 

According to Mayor Strickland this building could not be salvaged as the roof had deteriorated over time and the building was just too damaged to be repaired.  Jr. Barracks was referred to as ‘The Alamo’ so one is led to surmise that it was actually the last of the large dorm buildings (July 1987) to have been razed. The five large dormitory buildings still standing in 1974 before the entrance of the Justice Academy were: Pineland, EMI, White Hall, Jr. Barracks, and Little Women. However, before the closing of Southwood College, the Little Women building  had been remodeled and moved across the Autryville Rd. where it stands today. Pineland and EMI were burned early on.