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Covington, Ga , Aug. 12, 1908.
PUBLISH PROCEEDINGS.
We believe that the City Coun
c 1 ^should publish the full pro¬
ceedings of their business meet¬
ings, and a report of the accounts
Daid, the initiates of action for
b irrowieg money, the payment of
a’! indebtedness of the city, and
the fines imposed, and all doings
of tbs council in which the tax¬
payers cf the c;ty are integested.
Acting as agents for the tax-pay
e-s. handling their moneys, we be¬
lieve that the square thing to do is
to report promptly and completely
eTery transaction involving the
cash of the tax-payera.
The managers, president and'
other officers of public concern
make reports m detail of the work
done. The stockholders of these
concerns are entitled to a full and
prompt knowledge of what is be¬
ing done in their business.
Several terms agothe grand jury
of Newton county recommended
that a full and complete report of
the County Commissioners be pub
lished. So far no report lias been
made public. In most counties
the Commissioners publish the
proceedings of each meeting. It
is not done in .Newton county. The
Commissioners expend every dol¬
lar piactically that the county
puts out, and yet not a half dozen
people in the county who know
just how much and where the
county funds are applied.
Newton's commissioners are an
honest and honorable body. For
that very reason they will be glad
to report to the tax-payers whose
money they handle just how it is
spent. They will be glad to make
public the proceedings of their de¬
cisions on bridges, roads, public
property and such other matters
as they administer.
Now let the authorities take this
matte; up at once. Let’s have a
full report from the Cou icil ui d
the Commissioners of Roads aud
Revenues, Let the people know
what is being done. The tax-pay
ers have a right to this informa¬
tion. Aud the proceedings of ev¬
ery meeting of the Commissioners
and every business meeting ol the
City Council, with a statement of
the financial condition of both the
city and county ought to be pub¬
lished monthly. This will place
the confidence of the tax-payers in
officers, and make Covington and
Newton county a better and more
prosperous community.
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THE ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON, GA
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• read belore tha Newton County Teachers' Association |
$ Paper Article be continued each week ^ ♦ 1
and published by request. to I
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! THE NEED FOR CONSOLIDATING 5 I
* RURAL SCHOOLS. 1
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♦ HARRY H. STONE, ♦
9 Education Newton County. ♦
♦ President Board of 9
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without anv disadrant ige to the latter. W ita the graii ig of the school and
the larger number of pupils have come teachers of a more highly educated
class. Higher branches ot study are taught, the teachers are more conver
-ant with the needs of their profession. I he salaries aie higher; the health of
the pupils is preserved be ause they are not compelled to walk to school in
slush, snow and rain, to sit with damp and perhaps wet feet, in ill-ventilated
buildings. Nor is there any lounging by the wayside. As the use of inde¬
cent and obscene language is prohibited in the wagons all opportunities for
quarreling or improper conduct on the way to and from scho >1 are removed.
The attendance is larger and in the sub districts w’hich have taken advantage
of the plan it has Increased from 5U to 150 per cent in some cases; truancy is
unknown. It has lengthened the school years ‘or some of the sub-districts:
it has increased the demands for farms in those sub districts which have
adopted the plan, and real estate therein is reported more salable. All parts
of the township have been brought into closer touch and sympathy. The cost
of maintenance is less than that of the choo's under the sub district plan; the
township has had no school houses to build; it has paid less for repair and
fuel. Since the schools were consolidated the incidental expenses have de¬
creased from $800.00 to $1100-00 per year to from $100.00 to $600.00 per
year. In the first three years following its adoption Kingsville township ae
tnally s^ved $1000 00.”
In October, 1900, Supt. O. J. Kern, of Winnebago County, III.,
in company with State Superintendent Bagliss, visited some of the
coasolidated schools of Ohio. I quote from his report the following
concerning the centralized school of Gustavus township, Trumball
County, “where there was no village or village school, a place where
country life was being preserved:”
“The school building is located in the center of the township, The school
has been in operation for two years. It is a four room school having a prin¬
cipal and three assistants. All the children of the township are brought to
this central school and nine wagons are employed in transportation. The wu
gons are provided with curtains, lap-robes, soap-stones, etc., tor severe weath¬
er, The Board of Education exercises as much care in the selection of drivers
as they do in teachers. The contract lor each route is let out to the lowest
responsible bidder who is under bond to fulfill Lis obligations, The drivers
are required to have the children on the school grounds at 8:45 a. m-, which
d >es away with tardiness, and to leave for home at 3:45 p. m. The wagons
call at every farm house where there are school children, the children thus
stepping into the wagons at the roadside and are set dofcm upon the school
grounds. There is no Damping through the snow and mud and the attend¬
ance is much increased and far more regular. V-ith the fchildren under the
control of responsible drivers, there is no opportunity for vicious conversation
or the terrorizing of the little ones by some bully as they trudge homeward
through the snow and mud from the district school During the school year
1398-99, there were enrolled in the grades below the high school eighty-two
boys and fifty-two girls; in the high school room seventeen boys and thirty-five
girls; making a total in the building of 186 pupils. The average monthly en¬
rollment for the entire school the past year was 163, while the average daily
atteudance was 77.4 per cent of the total enrollment. This is a fact'of great
significance. The children are regular and are getting the benefit of such a
course. Keep in mind that thisjsehool is not in a village, and the children^ 25
are scattered over twenty-five square miles of territory. The children are not““
H tardy. Ho v do they do it? you ask- Well, they do it, and that is enough for J*
me. Any one who stands in that building and looks at tho.se children and
wagons must be convinced that here is the solution of the country school
problem. Because this problem is being solved in the eouutry over six
miles from the nearest railroad. There is an organ m every room and the
walls are being decorated with pictures. They have started a library, In the
high-school room were fifty-two enrolled, witTi fifty present. Here was an op¬
portunity for the big boys on every farm to get higher education and still be
at home evenings secure from the temptations and dissipations of city life.
They rode home in the wagons with the children of the lower rooms; and thus
were able to he of service on the farm. The building is a frame structure
erected at a cost of $3000.00. It is heated by steam. The principal gets $80
per month, while his assistants each received $37.50 per month. The wa^es
of the assistants should be larger. The drivers receive respectively $22 i” q
$ 18, $25, 130, $32, $16, $30, and $17 per month making an average of $1 25
per day. Before the adoption of the centralization the average daily attend
ance was 125 pupils. It has increased to 144 at the end of the second
and the principal told that the attendance is year
fore the schools us increasing all the time. Be¬
were centralized, the cost for the entire township was $2,900.
Now it is $ 3 , 156 . 00 , being an increase of only $256.00 annually. And to
tl character of the school, who as
e will claim that the nine scattered schools were
doing the work of a well graded four-room school? There is absolutely ro
comparison.”
But these illustrations have been confined to Northern latitudes
The problem which concerns ub mere vitally is, ‘Will consolidation
and transportation work in Georgia’s rural schools?’
In the 34th Annual Report of the Department of Education, State
of Georgia, County School Commissioner Dennis thus describes the
condition of , the , country schools in Putnam County, Georgia before
and after consolidation:
“Nothing was taught beyond the three R s and that very imperfectly. The
pa' Tons as a rule , thought , nothing about the school, and eared nothin- U
except-perhaps to consider the position ~ tor 1
of teacher a gift of charity
stowed upon some worthy person in the community. Only abouMialf
children of school were enrolled, and the
age ever not half of these attended
ularly. No progress made trom re
was year to year, for the children actually for
got during the long vacation O' seven or eight months more than they learned
at school, and it required no special effort Oil their part.
“About s xtten years ago our County Board of Education decided
semdate the schools Tins reduction in the to con
Board number of schools enabled the
to offer better salaries. In consequence, a corps ot teachers
cured that compare favorably with was se
any county in the State. When needed
two and three teachers were placed in the schools- Better building ‘ Z
beSat ‘ t0 oe erected The character of at on
the work has improved to such
tent that pupils leaving schools an ex
our country enter Sophomore Class in the
ferent Colleges m the State and acquit themselves dit
became with distinction The n.
trons interested in the schools and in the education of their
to a degree before unknown. The enrollment and children 1
increased. In one
gressive modern village dwellings with a pretty church',"n^up^o date «om,7ndUe™l !■ ha^d' t
some The school has ‘
h», liven in two tescher* the i.-mc', t u
fil.ee,, consecutive jeer, ,„d the
resigned, for nine consecutive years. The nast term a „j , • -
;han the average for past, child " Wtt<?r
years every of school thesetad a-e i n the rt'
attended school regularly, except tour. Two of
pleted the and others, D wTonX
course, two large boys, had stopped to
still nearer home, let us take some examples of
datiou and transportation from the schools of consoli
In 1903 the Board Newton Co unty. Georgia.
of Education of this (Newton) decided
to consolidate three small schools in Brewers county
.ch.ol. The territory district into a single
served by these echonls was » long
between t«ro river, and the school, „ arroir one
th® were almost in , |j„, At first
patrons in the entire territory favored iockdTml the idea of ’ ‘if? ,
„f“ „ . .
the schools, but when th, new school was
of th, two lower eehools, dis.pp.,luted th„ the middle
sch 0o |
(To be continued next week )
CD CZTJi UU CD
To the qualified voters of
the city of Covington:
Notice is hereby given by
the Mayor and Council of the
city of Covington pursuant to
an ordinance duly adopted on
the fourth day of August 1908,
that on the tenth day of Sep
tember 190S, an election wlil
be he’d in said city, at which
will be submitted to the quali¬
fied voters of said city, for
their detremination, the
tion whether Bonds shall be
issued by said city, in the ag
oTPaate amount of sixty thous
and dollars principal for the
purpose of procuring funds to
be applied as follows:
Thirty eight thousand dol¬
lars thereof to the purpose of
establishing, erecting and
equipping a system of water¬
works for said city. Twenty
two thousand dollars thereof
to the purpose of establishing
erecting and equipping a sys¬
tem of sewerage for said city.
Said Bonds to bear date on
the first day of November
1908, to be issuedjin denomi¬
nations of one thousand dol¬
lars each, to bear interest at
the rate of five percentum per
annum, from date payable an¬
nually on first day of Novem¬
ber in each year, principal as
well as interest of said Bonds
to be payable at some Bank¬
ing House in New York City,
and the principal of said Bonds
to be payable in thirty years
from their date, to wit.Novem¬
ber the first 1938, and at the
end of thirty years from the
date of said Bonds, they shall
be fully paid off and dis¬
charged.
All qualified voters' ol the
city of Covington, desiring to
vote in said election, and who
have not already registered,
for the last.general election, in
said city for officers thereof,
must register therelor in the
book opened for that purpose
by the clerk of the city of
Covington at Lunsford and
Milner’s store in Covington,
and said book will be kept op¬
en from the fifth day of August
1908 to the twenty seventh
day of August 190S, Sun¬
days excepted, between the
hours of nine a. m. and four
p. m. each day.
Separate ballots will be east
for the separate bond issues
above proposed, as follows:
All those desiring to vote in
favor of the issue of the Bonds
proposed to be issued for the
purpose of procuring funds
with which to establish, erect
and equip a system of Water¬
works for said city, will do so
by casting bollots having writ¬
ten or printed upon them the
words “For W aterworks
Bonds,” and those desiring to
vote against said issue must do
so by casting ballots having
written or printed upon them
the words, “Against Water¬
works Bonds.’’
All those desiring to vote in
favor of the issue of the Bonds
to be issued for the
purpose, ot procuring funds
with which to establish, erect
and equip a system of sewer¬
age for said city, will do so by
casting ballots having written
or printed upon them, “For
Sewerage Bonds," and those
desiring to vote against said
issue must do so by casting
,
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^ Yours very truly,
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NC FXCUS
For doing without a Piano |J
when we offer you Pianos such!
the Schulz, Walworth, Werner ai
Irwin at the prices now hold
forth in our warerooms $75.00
$100.00 Saved. Call and t/J e
today.
R, E. EVER1T
FURNITURE STORE
Dr. Tully U. Smith
DENTIST
Covington, Ga. Office 9 and 11 Star Bi
Office Phone 211
Residence Phone 210
Dr. W. M. Taylor
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
COVINGTON, GA.
Office 11-13 Star Bldg. Residence with Will McDonald
Office Phone 211 Residence Phone 236
Galls Attanded at all Hours
HAND WANTED
ares, I also have six several parties parties wanting wanting homes farms in Covington. trom 5 ° j? 4
have any real estate to sell see me ars soon as possible.
H. T. HUSON
EARNEST PARKE
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE
Lute, Fire, Health and Accident in^ r ‘
Written. Farm Lands ann ci ity property bo
and sold.
Office 21 Star Building.
ballots having written or print¬
ed upon them the words.
“Against Sewerage Bonds."
Dated this 5 th day of Au¬
1908.
S. P. Thompson, May or.
C. (... Brooks, Councilm an.
L. D. Adams, •«
J. R. Stephenson Harwell, (
C. A. (
J. H. Echols, ((
Edward Heard,
W. T. Milner, Clerk,
Rent .-5 room boos'
For J bol
Midway. Poises ^ 03 c*
at once. Apply t!l vJ H.V> t
Mrs