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PAPE tbb BjnmBit-ffinaLP. Athens, Georgia SUNDAY, MAY 27,1923. Interesting History of State Normal School Written By Prof. E. • S. Sell Traces Origin and Growth of Athens’ Institution and Collects Much Data For History to Be Presented to Trustee Board. A1000 per cent Investment That’s the way .to look at painting—as an investment, not an expense. Look around you at the houses going to rack and ruin. What is doing it? The weather. There is only one defense against weather and that is faint. But paint, like weather, Is of many kinds. Beware of the fair weather paint. It docs not protect, it only deceives. Buy a paint that has proved its staying.power. SWP(Sherwin-Williams House Paint, Prepared) has a fifty-year record. Its ingredients are what experience lias proved to he most efficient In protecting property. It nuts an armor between your buildings and the elements and alio adds beauty and cleanliness. Hardy Hardware Co. Clayton Street «Two sure ways to get bigger ’ : milk checks Make more milk—save more milk. Make more milk by supplying what is lacking in the ordinary, ration. Save more milk by feeding less to your calyes. Feed by the Purina System We ore making the home-grown feeds around here bring better results. How about yours? Why not get all that’s coming to you? Phone 247 Phone Us H. L. COFER & CO. . —Seedsmen— v 269 North Lumpkin St. Reroofing This Year? I F you Are, make it a permanent me; put on a roof that will last ns long as the house itself 1 Kor durability and serviceability, John8-Manville roofing Is un equalled. It can be easily applied right _ over your old roof thus saving muss and inconvenience. : We sell Johns-Manville roof ing in its various forms, let us supply you! CARTER-MOSS LUMBER COMPANY ■ ft nee AN* YARD 111' i S FULTON STREETS * g Im'lJL BROAD,ATHENS. CA. -.PHONE Banner-Herald Want Ads By CHAS. E. MARTIN The Hoard of Trustee* of the State Nrirrnal School, hint year au thorized Prof. E. S. Sell, a mem ber of the faculty, to write a hlwtorj of the institution and haVe it ready by the next meeting of the hoard, which will be next Tuesday May 29th. Prof. Sell has devoted much time and study In gathering the facts foi the history and has established i wealth of data relative to the early history and struggle of the stntes only strictly normal school where teachers for the common school system are taught. The early history of the Normal School dates back to February 4, I860 when the University of Geor gia trustees' purchased the lanf where the school Is situated from Charles M. Reese, paying $2,500.01 for ninety three acres. Later a number of lots were sold from thi property which reduced the size of the plat, which is new the campui proper, to about thirty acres. From port of tho funds that were real ized from these sales a building wa? erected on the remnfnlng land and called the “University -fllgh School’ later called “nock Coplegef 'and now known ns “Qllmer Hall.** WAS “UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL" This was the Initlaf building ol the school and its corner stone wai laid on July 4, 1860 and the name “Rock College" was arrived at thn the tact that the building was con- structed out of jintive stone fount* on tho land nearby. Dy January 1862 the building was completed nufflclently to warrant classes be* Ing held and tho University High School opened with I»rof. R. R. Car roll in- chnrge and Prof. L. H. Char- bonnier as assistant. During tht war many youths were taught I,' the tactics of war here by Prof C’hnrbonnler, who was a gradual• Of St. Cyr ami * military teacher but at the clou of the war and, folloplng the occupation of th. country by Union soldiers It war taken over ne a xarrluon by north- ern troops and uard until 1S«( ' v j len , Pr “ f - B«n l Hunter again opened the iichoot. The school existed for a time on ati appropriation of 1100.00 from the elate and rehabilitation work wne done for crippled Confederate Veteran, but when General Pope wne military governor of Georgia under Union regime he ordered tht achool cloeed becauee the etudente returned wounded Southern eol. hot * «"<> aavi P'-ref Dlxte. However, .General Mead run r mm T ,n *"<■ nt the Interceeelon of Chnncolloi echMl' m wn, 0f n J. , I e the .I*// “f 01 " »»»« «nd from gifts of teachers over the state, the ITeaidet’s «/ottagc the old auditorium, the Muscogee Ele mentary school, the Winnie Davit Memorial hall, erected by funds subscribed and raised by the Daughters of the Confederacy ;ip a memorial to the daughter of President Davis of the Confederacy, the Smith Building, erected through gifts from James M. Smith nnd George Foster Peabody, the Rural school building, the- Dining hall, the infirmary, the Practice h Miller Hull and the Pound Audi torium. These two buildings were completed from appropriations made by the state. . Rut even with those building! and the rapid growth of the school. President Jerre M. Pound stuteu that hardly half enough fUclUtlei nre available to care for the stu dents who would come to thlr school* of they could be accommo dated. Hundreds are yearly de nied admission because there is not room and teaching , facilities tot them. • • Presidents of the school have been Prof. Lawton II. Evans Captain 8 D. Hradwell, Dr. E. C. Branson and Dr. Jerre M. Pound, tfie present head'of the schost. Th^ Normal School exists now on an annual appropriation of $63.- 000.00 from the state and during Its thirty years of existence but a mil lion and eighty five thousand dol lars have been appropriated for its maintenance. During the same length of time but $189,874.75 has been appropriated for building purposes, A dairy farm of 214 acres has been acquired owned by the school without to the state. and PRIVATE DONATION8 But the school has not been with* out'Its friends In an Individual way and has had given to It by private donations $197,000.00, one of Iti •best friends >belng George Foster Peabody who has given about $30,- 000,00 to the school. The city oi Athens and'the County of Clarkr helped the school In n small way In Its Infancy while the D. A. R*s and U. D. C/s have helped wonder fully. Alumni of the school and other Individuals have contributed to Its support and if the state would come to its rescue and ap propriate money for the needd im provements Georgia would have a training school for teachers sec ond to none In the South. Tho school Is in reality a part of the common school system of the state and the suggestion has been advanced that it should share In ...... kbuii, uiwniHi nnri mn ., — — — 1»«S when the lexUnrat? ?* con,mon • ch “®l fund and nol Sterner » 88 CUre dCOend on ■ rtn/. 1st n nnennelfi I In.. took nwoy the meakly TbpronriJ! ?* P * na °" * pccUI appropriation, lion It wne giving it '-inn WENT INTO AQ COLLEGE Prom a University High Bchooi for Ita aupport. Thl? probably len’t n had Idea. It would at lean Ineure tho Inetltutlon life without nn ahqual tight before the Irxl.la- lure. which I. eulclde to tho 6om- mon schools of ths state because It Is only from the state Notmnl the building passed. Into „ ..... , on,y from tb® State Normal Of th. Stato ColC ot ^fcuuilX Tr* ‘“ Ch T ,h *‘ '■ ,he lure nnd Mechanical Arte to lift f h,m - can *“ »° when the agricultural branch wai i organised -and Its beginning a]T r !,- Th ® re “ r0 , ni “ ny Interesting chnp- normal school dates back to-last ? l rof - Sell's history and the Burin, this year Governor WUlZL '* <* Inter- J> . Morthern, a successful tench.. ...ahUshlmt of . ^r^h Thle recommendation followed much personal Work dons In the same field by MrS.'M. A. Llpsrom’ state'* 1 *"" * n<l ° th * r wom,n of th- , — — ». Inter test to the thousands of people over tho state who nr. Interested In the achool. He Is to bo com- tnsndsd on ths completeness nnd accurateness of the ddta gathered to thle sale end thus assist a worth}' cause. * THE ATHENS HARDWARE Co., is the oldest establishment in'thai line in Geurgiu, and the Weed Co. in Savannah ranks second. It wa established soon after the close of the war between the states Messrs. A. K v Child, oifd -Reuben Nickerson, two of os fide and hon orable men as our city overroast ed of. # .. THERE ARE NOW In attend ance In our Colleges 4C0 Rehab* and they receive from ^the Govern*" ment from $12 to $200* per month This monejp is spent among our merchants and It greatly helpi trade. MADISON COUNTY HAS Itf force now at work smoothing ovei the road from Ha to the Clarke oounty line. This is an Important highway and It needs work badly We learn that the next work wil be on the section of road from Col bert to Comer. A PARTY WHO H}kS RECENT LY travelled over Mudison counts says boll weevils have already ap peared but farmers hre using poi son and* hope to keep. down, the!' ravages. Cotton has not been mucl killed out nnd farmers nre now planting corn. The county nevej hnd finer oat crops nnd wheat «I not much hurt by rust. Farmer? in the Free State will plant larg« food crops. MR. W.‘ I. ABNEY says he pu< poison on his cotton but a rnln came and washed it off. He is putting more!on. Mr. Abney say* weevils have already appeared it his cotton In countless numbers, nnd they eat out the bud of th* plants nnd this kills it. H# ha< hands now replanting. IT IS NOT TOO LATE to plant cotton If you use poison early often. A farmer says last year h> planted his cotton the 3rd of Jum nnd made a good crop. nut ht used calcium arsenate. He says you can plant cotton early in Jun* nnd make a crop. TIIE OGLETHORPE SEED nn^ Stock Farm, below Lexington Is shipping Porto Rica potato slips tc Athens and they are In great de mand. The ,Cofer Seed Co., myr they are selling theso rllps by the thousands every day. Thin seed fdrm is nn Important enterprise and owned by Athenians. IP THE WEATIIF.lt hnlrt. up about two weeks grading of Mad ison avenue, beyond tho River street bridge to Rnrbcrvllle will be completed nnd ready for the con crete and.finishing touches. ARRANGEMENTS SHOULD be made tQ help farmers to find a market for their produce, after supplying the local demand. The trucking business Is assuming con siderable importance nnd our cjiri market yily takes a limited quan tity. AN OLD FARMER 87 YEARP of age says he never knew so much nnd almost constant rain ns we have had since* the New Year set in, or ns cold spells the latter par' of May. MR. EDVfARD BANCROFT who moved from Clmrleaton, 8. C. to Athens shortly after the close of the war, was tho /lest man to be-i Kin Intensive farming In this sec tion, nnd made some wonderful crop yields. He had a farm on the outskirts of Athens and another on the Tallnssee road. MR. DORRS HAS AN ARTICLE showing how a colored professor at Tuskegee has discovered 144 dif ferent articles that can be made from the pennut^-food, dyes, medi cine etc. Every part of the nut l* utilised. Such an act was passed an) signed by the Governor on Ocl. 21st, 1891 and the University gave as a start for the achool “Old ltoc< College** and ten acres of land, agreeing to sell the balance to th* school With this gift also went what U known ns the “Qllmer fund.** A fund amounting to $18,000 nn) left by Governor Gilmer with th provision that the sum was to bi employed to train teachers In the elementary branches of an English education only. This, net on the part .of Govemoi Gl’lmer, the state leglsalture and th< trustees of the University was tht beginning of the Normal achoo* proper although it was many year* later before terms of any length were held at the Institution. For two or Ihre years summer sessioni were held, being maintained partly by tl$e appropriation* from the Clarke county Grand Juries. Prof Lawton B. Evans now of Augusta was president of the achool during tho- time the aumer session com prised the only term. THE LADIES OF Emmanuel church have put on a Rummage Salo In the Boley-Ltpscomb build ing on Broad street. Those of OUr citizen* who have clothing or any thing they can spare should send it APPROPRIATION IN 1894 The first real appropriation from the state came In 1894 when $10,- 000.00 waa appropriated. Captain 8. D. Bradwell, one of the atate*s leading educators ,waa named first president of the school and the first regular session opened on April 17 1808 and the Brat graduating das* finished on November 26. 1*9$ Nineteen students were awarded diplomas. Mlaa Mamie Mathews ol Ogletborpa county waa tha first student to register for tha first peaslon. From this beginnlhng the school has grown until last year It grad uated 200 students apd has an en rollment annually of nearly a thou sand regular students nnd is th? only school In the state that train? its graduates to be first sacherr riithdr than chposlprf any other from Gilmer hal lhe buildings' on the campus * have increased from time to time until now there are, Bradwell Hall erected parttly Arcund Athens With Col. T. Larry Gantt '-MR. FLORENCE, a merchant ni tho Normal Retinol ototlon, to one of our moit_enterprl.lns cittern. Ho oold hln valuable farm In Wilke, county and biveotsd largely \|a Athena. Mr. Florence . oaya he hai great faith In Athena nnd a mnn cannot make a mlatnke In Inveatlnt In real eatato in and around the city. A NEW FLORIST of wldo ex- &lLfcep$'BMvr pimples! Spring is the “nidi season” for pinpies. Keep them from com ing, and stop them quickly when they do come, by using the king of all Blood-Cleansers, S. S. S. Pimple* nth the tint think onono- Uces In another perton'a face, world looks at pimples eldownyg It Is too often ton cruel Miss Ida Wilson, Harrisvlllc, VT. Vn., writes: “1 mu in a run-down condition. Hod pirn- pies and ofci* eruptions—wai ntruous. 1 tooki & S. S. It buOt mo tip until / fool Itko an- other person. I am much stronger and hotter in every perlence, will begin bualnees In Athens early next full, and estab lish one of the most up-to-tyite floral plants in Georgia. r^RTIES FROM OOLETHORI'I say that Dr. Soule nnd his college are doing good work in sending over the country, where lumber 1* being cut, expert* to teach land- pwners how to conserve their tim ber, that In a few years ttyejr can have another crop of trees com ing on. Their timbers have helped farmers 1n this section to weathei the storm until they can ^et an other start. TAXI SERVICE . Day and Night * GEORGIAN BAGGAGE TRANSFER CO. iPhone feC. Office Georgian Hotel gg m One and One-hulf Billion Miles of Satisfaction Studebaker Special-Six ownen have driven their cart a total of more than one and one-half billion miles! . This enormous mifeage has been piled up in everyday service over every conceivable kind of road and under every condition of weather throughout the world. And no Special-Six has ever worn out. 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