All the community gathered at the school on the last day of school each year for "din­ner on the ground", ball games and visiting.

Price basketball teams won many trophies which are in the Swisher County Museum.

The school consolidated with Kress in 1948.

The older students put on a 3 act play every spring. They would show it at other schools. They entered in the interscholastic league meet in Tulia every year.

On snowy days Mr. Robert Grigsby, the teacher, would let the boys move the desks to one side of the room and put up a basketball goal on the wall so the boys could throw goals. The students insisted on spelling or arithmetic matches at times, to get out of a class and the teacher would finally agree.

There was a Methodist and a Baptist Church inin the Whitfield community. Each one had a half-time pastor. The Methodist Church had gospel singing at night every other Sun­day. It was given the school to use as an audi­torium. Then the Baptist Church Building was erected on the highway in Claytonville, Oct. 2, 1962, with an enrollment of 110 in 1978.
By Mrs. Skeet Carter

COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 10 WORD 1919-1921
Containing in all 12,800 acres of 20 square miles. Located 12 miles north and % mile east of Tulia.

Word Trustees were: Josiah Evans, John
Burgess and C. S. Dison.

Teachers were: Ela Aikman and Mrs. H. D.
Crane.

Students were: J. B. Brown, Homer Brown, Chester

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