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COLORED SCHOOLS.
DOING I.ODD WORK
T, M. Dent, the Earnest Principal, Is
Prominent
AMONG THE MEN OF HIS RACE-
M. C. Parker Is Another of
Rome’s Colored Citizens,
WHO TAKES A HIGH STAND.
Both Are Well Known and Are Leaders* In
All Movements to Benefit the
Negro.
The Rome public school building for
colored children is beautifully situa
ted on a hill overlooking the Etowah
river in the northern section of the
city. It is substantially built of brick
and is a sac simile of the building for
white children, thus showing the good
feeling that exists between the races
in this section of the state, and an
earnest of the firm belief that the
best elements among the whites think
that the negro’s condition will be
ameliorated by pleasant environments
and good education. This structure
was built in 1891, seven years after the
public school system was inaugurated
in this city. It is the finest brick
building in the state except one in
Atlanta. This surely is compliment
ary to Rome, when it is known that
there are only four brick buildings in
tlie state for colored children situated
respectively, at Savannah, Athens,
Atlanta, and Rome.
Prof. T. M. Dent whose cut appears
in this issue has been its able princi
pal since 1891, and the echo >1 has
steadily grown under his administra
tion until the annual enrollment has
reached about 500 pupils. The school
has a splendid and conscientious corps
of teachers who teach grades respect
ively: (Miss) M. E Cothran Ist A,
(Mrs.) C. B. Barrett Ist B, (Miss) F. L.
Taylor. 2nd, (Miss) A. E. Williams 3rd,
(Miss) E L. Ray 4th, (Miss) N E. Tay
lor sth. (Mrs.) L. E. Samuel Oth
Thirty eight have finished the pre
scribed course, and several of them
have taken a higher course, thus fit
ting themselves for the more advanc
ed avocations of life. Every year
there are thirty or forty non resi
dents that come from the county or
adjoining counties, and pay a tuition
according to their respective grades.
This is another indication of the ex
cellency of the system, that was for
many years wisely managed by the
lamented and beloved school veteran
Prof. J. C. Neely, and now conducted
so successfully by the able and brainy
superintendent Prof. J C. Harris.
The board of education has been con
scientious and vigilant in looking
after the welfare of the schools and
will do all they can to increasetheir
efficiency and facilities. The steady
increase of the colored schools shows
the interest the colored population
has in education and their apprecia
tion of whatever is done for them in
this line While the teachers and
school officials have done admirable
work according to the means at their
command, it is a fact that the needs
far exceed the means to properly meet
them. Only about 50 per cent, of the
colored children attend school, not
because they do not care to do so, but
because the room is not sufficient. It
is the devout wish of every one
who desires to see a strong and intel
ligent citizenry hereafter, that this
educational issue of The Tribune
may awaken new life in this line and
make the school system truly the
pride of modern Rome.
The following are the colored teachers
of the districts:
Rosa Taylor, Howell’s district.
W A Robinson, Texas Valley.
Cornelia J Douahoo, Mt. Elmo.
Elvira Bowen, Chulio.
Florence Morris, Brick Yard.
Mattie Pledger, Cedar Grove.
George Kettles, Mountain.
John Evans, Evans.
T H Sheppard, Cimbtowu.
Ida Rice, Daniel’s Chapel.
Huldah Terhune, Rome District.
Yora Harper, Berry’s.
Theressa Higginbotham, Freeman’s
Chapel.
Annie Williams, Blossom Hill.
Hattie Mullen, Shannon.
William Smith, Gaillards.
Estelle Rambo, Pleasant Hill.
G W Riley, Bethel.
Susie Mullins, Summer Hill.
Mattie R Payne, Annie Delle.
R B Chubb, Jones Chapel.
Rosa A Lacy, Summer Hill.
Maria Freeman. O’Briant’s.
Lizzie Blackwell, Mobley Springs.
Alice Pruett, Simm’s.
Maggie L Shepherd, Coosa.
Mary A Berryhill, Pleasant Grove.
William Zuber, Harmony Grove.
Lila Freemen, Tulip
Celia Mann, Mt Zion.
E D Giddens, Slabtown.
Mamie Malcolm, Livingston.
Olive L Ralls, Running Water.
Carrie Brock, New Rome.
Tennessee Duncan. Bryant Chapel.
H C F Kittles, Cave Spring.
Lucy Lewi-, Spring Creek.
Mrs S E Jones, Nannie.
P P Jones. Macedonia.
Agnes B Pentecost, Popskull.
C H Richards, Matthew Chapel.
M C Parker, East Rome Graded.
THE HOME TUI KUNE, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 18H6.
J N Jones, North Rome.
L P Fortune, West Rome.
Laney Rogers, Minnie Hodges, Annie
Hamilton, Eugenia Grant, Lizzie Jones,
Nancy King, Rallsville.
T. M. DENT.
One of the best known colored men
in Georgia is T. M. Dent, principal of
the colored public schools of Rome.
He is a native of Floyd county, but
the greater part of his life has been
spent in Augusta. After graduating
from the Atlanta university with dis
tinction and as valedictorian of his
class, he entered Howard university
to prepare himself for the professional
s.de of life. In 1881 he graduated from
the law department of that institu
tion receiving the degree of LL B,
After leaving college he was com
pelled on account of ill health to give
up the practice of his chosen profes
sion and has since devoted his time
to teaching. He has taught to tha
perfect satisfaction to all in the fol
io wing schools, Hawkinsville, Elber
ton, Milledgeville, Augusta and for
the last few years as principal of the
Rome colored schools For many
years he has been secretary of the
State Teachers Association and chair
man of the committee of state school
system. He has been prominent in all
affairs concerning his race and for its
good in the state of Georgia and
among them ranks high as a writer,
speaker and educator. He was a mem
ber and secretary of the board of
commissioners of the Cotton States
T. M. DENT.
and International Exposition. He is a
prominent republican, is a member of
the state central committee and one
of the delegates elect from the Seventh
district to the republican national
convention. He is prominent in se
cret orders, being W. M. of Kenne
saw Lodge No 79, F. &A. M., R. W.
S. D, of the grand lodge of this juris
diction of .Georgia F, & A, M., and
C. C. of Etowah Lodge No. 28, K. of
P. He is a consistent member of the
Baptist church and takes a prominent
part in its counsels. He has many
friends among the whites and in his
own race there are few such popular
men in the state. His work as princi
pal of the Rome colored public schools
has been excellent and he may well
point to his record with pride. *
M. C. PARKER.
The subject of this sketch is one of
the most prominent colored men of
Georgia, and is well liked by both
white and black. He was born in
Macdonough, Henry county, Georgia,
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M. C. PARKER.
and spent his early life upon the farm.
In 1880 he went to Atlanta and enter
ed the Baptist Seminary where he
soon forged his way to the front and
even before his graduation had at
tained quite a reputation as a speaker
and writer. After finishing his course
at the seminary he taught school suc
cessfully in Henry and then Walker
county. In 1889 he came to Rome and
was elected principal of the East
Rome school where he still teaches.
During that same year he became
editor of the People’s Journal. He
graduated from the law department
of Shaw University, North Carolina,
in 1892 and after a rigid but excellent
examination was admitted to the
Rome bar. He ranks among the first
of his race in the state in that profes
sion. He >s a strong and influential
member of the Baptist church and is
at present secretary of the educa
tional and state Baptist convention
and also holds a similar position in
the North Georgia Baptist association
and Sunday school convention. No
young man in the state wields a
stronger influence than he in the
church counsels. In politics he is a
consistent republican although he
has assisted his friends of a different
political faith in local affairs when his
own party had no candidate, always
putting them on notice, however, that
he was a true blue republican. His
power as a speaker has gained him a
wide reputation and no Colored citi
zen of Georgia can excel him on the
stump. In secret orders he is well
known and he is prominently spoken
of for G. M., I. O. O. F., of the dis
trict of Georgia for the next year. He
is K of R & S. of Etowah lodge K.
of P. and J. W. of Kennesaw lodge
F. &A. M. He has been invited to
deliver the annual address before the
grand lodge F & A. M. which will
meet at Columbus on June 24. He is
also an excellent writer and is editor
of the Mountain Eagle, published in
this city. He wields a powerful in
fluence among his race and has many
friends among the whites.
Drive out the impurities from your
blood with Hood’s Sarsaparilla and
thus avoid that tired, languid feeling
and even serious illness.
Remarkable Fceta About Baldnegg.
A French doctor, who has been stu
aying the subject for many years, says
that out of a hundred people from 20 to
30 years of age, taken at hazard, 27 will
be found to be bald. Women conceal
such a deficiency with great cleverness,
and are not often detected; but while
the loss of hair is not so prevalent among
them as among men, yet, if the propor
tion of the fair sex, whose heads are as
smooth as doorknobs, could be accu
rately learned the results would be un
doubtedly starting. Between the ages
of 30 and 40 the percentage of baldheads
rises to 47 per 100.
The critical period, however, is be
tween 40 and 50 years. Out of a hun
dred chance subjects, only 25 had
fairly good growth of hair; die other
75 being almost destitute entirely of
capillary covering. When the 60th
year is passed, this physician asserts,
it is rare to find a man who has
enough hair on the top of his head to
make parting a possibility.
It is consoling, however, to know
that this annoying affliction can now
be cured, as a wonderful remedy has
been discovered that will positively
produce a luxuriant growth of hair
on the baldest head. It is also an ex
cellent remedy for thin eyebrows and
eyelashes, hair falling, scanty parting
will positively force a growth of whis
kers and mustnehe, on the smoothest
face at at’) age, besides restoring gray
an! faded hair to its original color
Full information is sent absolutely
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of 1005 Petiuyslvauia avenue Balti
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Lorrimer’s generous offer, are now
rejoicing in an abundance of hirsute
adornment which they have hitherto
striven in vain to produce. We
recomme id all sufferers to note this
firm’s name and address and write to
them while the above offer holds
good.
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Yours respectfully,
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17 12 Broad St.
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