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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Mr. W.A. Bailey and Mr. Biyant Little having filed a tie bid on the
Mason Route No. 3, the same was left open for bids at the next regular
meeting, at which time the Boards will receive and consider bids for the

afore said route.

On August 4, 1925 the School Board accepted a bid from Shelton Feagle

to furnish labor and posts to fence the 4-acre school lot at Mason.

Five schools were consolidated to form Mason School. Live Oak school

was near the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Desoto School was across the
road from the Callahan place where former Columbia County sheriff

Ralph Witt was reared. Famell School was at Ellisville. Mt. Tabor
School was beside the road that is now called Myrtis Road, east of

Myrtis, Florida. Avery school was on the Wood property about 5 miles
east of Mason.

Mrs. Cloree Bailey a 1930 graduate of Mason High School, and later a
teacher at the school, says that the school had only 10 grades the first

year. The next year the school had 11 grades. The next year, 1929, the
school had the first graduating class from grade 12. Her brother Jacob

Sheely Witt was in the first graduating class.

Mason School had four large classrooms, two small rooms and the

auditorium.

The Home Economics building was built on the north side of the schools

around 1931.

Two new classrooms were added on the west comer of the auditorium.

During the time I attended school at Mason, the Agriculture building
with shop and classroom was built on the south side of the schoolyard

near the basketball courts.

A large auditorium was built onto the south end of the school building.
The old auditorium was made into a classroom and another classroom

was put on the west end of the auditorium.

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