" Confess
your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
--- James 5:16 KJV
Carter Special School was near Emmaus church on Highway 189
south, and John P. Norman was teacher there in the early 1900s. Mr. Norman had
the equivalent of two years of college work due to special examinations, home
study, and correspondence course from Arkansas State Teachers College and the University
of Arkansas. In the fall on 1928 teachers at Carter Special were Frank Rowland
as principal and Miss Mary Helen Catlett as primary teacher. At that time it
had a budget of $322.14. The New Edinburg Band was invited to provide music for
the closing exercises at Carter School in August 1929. Following the exercises,
cake and ice cream were served by teachers Miss Louise Ellise and Miss Idella
Childress. They remained there for the 1929 winter term. In 1930, Carter
district had an enrollment of 65 students. The summer 1930 term was taught by
A. M. Carter as principal and Mrs. Caroline Thompson as assistant. A. M. Carter
was the teacher for the fall and winter term of 1930-31. It was later annexed
by New Edinburg School.
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