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THE EN iERPRbE
ESTABLISHED 1863
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■Covington, Ga Aug. 21, 1908.
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“Democrat” Replies to “Tom
Watson’s Claims „
.Editor the Enterprise: —
I beg space to reply to an erii
torial which you published in the
July 8ht issue of the Enterprise
cider heading, Xom Watson’s
claims,” in which you used an ed
ttonal from the Jacksonville 1 mes
Union at the request of one of your
4 I good friend?.”
This is true that air. Watson is
the ot to
compliment him with Georgia s
electoral vote. And it reports
of his speech are correct he also
said that he intended to dominate
th% politics of Georgia for the next
teu years. What I would like to
know is why should Mr. Whitson
be blamed for this?
Let’s look at th6 history of
Georgia Politics for the past two
years and see if he is not, in a
measure, justified in. his request
and statement.
In the campaign for Governor
of Georgia in 1906 Mr. Pope Brown
wa3 among the first to enter as a
cat didate in a democratic nomiua
tion.
If I remember correctly when he
Lad written out his platform, he
takes it down to Mr. Watson to
get his approval.
Later it was decided to have Mr.
Fmith, a Cleveland democrat, to
make the race, and if I remem
tier correctly, Mr. Smith made an
apology to Mr. Watson for saying
that was a hired tool of the R j pub
Lean party in the campaign for
president in 1900 and further stat¬
ed that he would like to see his
(Smith’s) and Watson’s pictuie
hung side by side in every school
room in Georgia,
When Mr.Howell, National Dem
ocratic Committeeman from Geor¬
gia, decided it was time for him
announce his candidacy, he
down and wrote that “Dear Tom”
letter, which practically
believes was a bid for M«\
son’s support.
Now if it is so necessary
Democrats to beg Mr. Watson
his support in state campaigns
should not hi be allowed to
for their support in a
Campaign?
And why should he not
nate the politics of Georgia
Democrats make it necessary
bow the knee to him in order to
successful.
There is one Notable
(
in Georgia, who for the past
years has quietly ignored Mr.
Watson and I commend his
pie to other prominent
and to Democrat Editors, also,
.he is such a Judas as the
in question, would have us to
lieve.
Oh! Democracy how art
fallen.” A Democrat.
Mails Barredj To Liquor Men
The liquor dealers who have
been run out of the state can no
longer use the n ails to solid
orders in Georgia. The court oi
appeals has decided that it is
illegal to use' the mails for this
purpose, Judge R. B. Russel'
writing the opinion of the court
The case went up from Bartow
county and was against R. M.
Rose. The court holds that when
■a man receives a letter soliciting
mu order for whiskey it is the same
«s if a person were on the spot
•doing the soliciting.
Now, how about a newspaper iu
* the soliciting business for a liquor
bouse through its advertising col¬
umns.
The question is a pertinent and
a vital one—Gainesville Eagle.
THE ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON, GA
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Paper read before ths Newton Gounty Teachers’ Associate
^ i Article be continued each week. ♦
and published by request. to _i
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! THE NEED FOR CONSOLIDATING 3 |
i RURAL SCHOOLS. <
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HARRY H. STONE, ♦
I President Board'of Education Newton County. ♦ ^ |
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not selected as the s.te tor the consolidated school, refused to have j
any couuectiou with the new school and opened n private school in
the middle school building.
Tho e patrons who believed ir. consolidation went ahead and with
some financial help from the county board or education purchased lout
acres or ground and erected on it a neat, su 1 stantiai frame school home
having Fur rooms, each twenty by thirty feet, with two vestibules,
each eight by twenty feet. Each class room is well ventilated and
lighted by six large windows and is well heated in winter by a stove.
The windows are so arranged that the light comes in from the side and
rear 0 f th e room. There ,e space for some thirty linear feet of
board in each room. The rooms are ceiled ou the aide and overhead
with matched plank, At the end of the school session the entire
i 1 diug can be converted into a temporary auditorium of forty by six
t ^ r y eet) by removing the blackboards and planks from the partitions
j. Q a ] )e jght of nine or ten feet. Four teachers were placed in tills
school and as the territory to be served was a large one it was decided
to employ four wagons in transporting the pupils. The board had no
experience in this work, but after carefully considering the matter, it
was decided to 'urnish only the covered wagon bodies, requiring the
contractors to furnish the rolling stock as well as the mules, harness
and driver.
These wagon bodies were thirteen feet long-, made to fit on the bed
of au ordinary two-h-rse wagdn and were provided with springs and
brakes. Two seats running almost the length of the body provided
accommodations for twenty-six pupils. A short seat across the front
would accommodate the driver and one or two additional pupils. The
covering employed was twelve-ounce ducking. There were side and
end curtains for bad weather and adjustable steps at idle rear. This
equipment cost the board of education about twenty-five dollars, jjgfc
One section of the verritcry did not seem to offer a sufficient num¬
ber of pupils for a two-horse wagon, so a body ten feet long, capable
of carrying twelve pupils, was provided to fit the bed of a one-horse
wagon.
The contracts were let, the board of education furnishing the
bodies before described, the contractors furnishing rolling stock,
driver, mules and harness at from 825 to $1 0 per school mouth for two
h'rse wagons and for $17.50 per school month for one-horse wagons.
The wagons made their round each morning on schedule, reaching the
school some ten minutes before opening time. Again in the afternoon
they are at the school building when school is dismissed and the chil¬
dren are soon delivered, without accident or delay, at their homes if
they live on the route or at the point nearest their homes if they live
back from the route.
It was found impracticable, without great cost, to take up each
pupil at his own door and return him to the same each day. In the
handling of the pupils the board made use of the plan used for the dis¬
tribution of mail on the rural free delivery,routes. In this the gov¬
ernment requires those who live off the road traversed by the mail car¬
rier, to put his mail box on the road if he wishes the cairier to deliver
his mail; so the board of education had to require those living off the
road traveled by the school wagon to walk out to that road and board
the wagon at the point nearest his home.
A comparison of the Mixcn School two years after consolidation
with the three schools which had been merged into it, at a time two
years before that consolidation might be of interest.
In 1902 the enrollment at Pleasant Grove was 47, and the average
attendance was 48 per cent, of enrollment, at a cost to the public fund
of six cents per pupil per day; at Stewart the enrollment was 70, with
an average attendance of 43 per cent, of enrollment, at a cost of six
and twe-thirds cents per pupil per day; at Alcova the enrollment was
54, with an average attendance of 44 per cent, of enrollment, at a cost
of eight and three tenths cents per pupil per day.
In 1906 the enrollment at Mixon School was 184, with an average
attendance of 66 seven-tenths per cent, cf enrollment, at a cost of six
and two thirds cents per pupil per day. This last figure includes the
cost of transportation.
The attendance at the three single schools had been sufficient t 0
warrant an assistant teacher at but one of them, and that for only
twenty-seven days of the free term, the schools not being able to keep
up an attendance which would allow them to continue but ninety-one
one hundred and one, and one hundred and three days respectively_
the board of education having a rule that when a school fails to make
a certain attendance average it is discontinued as a public school for
the balance of the free term. On account of the poor attendance
jeopardizing the principal’s salary under a rule of the board of educa
tion, which scaled the salary when the attendance fell below a certain
standard, it was more or less difficult to secure principals having first
grade license for these three individual schools. Iu 1002 one princi¬
pal held second grade license and the only assistant a third grade li¬
cense. Iu 1903 two of the principals held second grade license aTd“e
principal a third grade license; there was no assistant teacher that year.
In 1906 at the Mixon School there were four teachers, each hold¬
ing first grade license and being college trained—two at PeabodyNor
such tnal School, to Nashville, assistant and two at Wesleyan. The attendance* was
as warraut one the entire free term of hundred
and thirty days, seemd one
a assistant for eighty days and a third assist
ant lor seventy-five days—the number of assistant teachers Lein-de
te mimed by attendance of pupils according to a fixed rule of the board
of education. In addition to this the patrons w-re so eflthusiasMc
the school that they additional over
ran an term of forty days, iu which
they met all expense of salaries and transportation and which
attendance, 104.2. at the
average was
At the same time a private school of some fifty echo; being
taught mile and third fr,.m Mixon ars was
a a School.
As to the wotk done by this consolidated school, let hear
tie testimony from some of its us a lit
patrons.
Mr. A. C. Heard, a farmer and one of th, f,.re,„ ci izsns
Newton county, who Itve, the Mt , of
-mar consolidated (Mine,,) 9cbool a „ d
who has been a patron of Alcova school before co, solidatio-, write,
under date of September 28, 1907:
"Yoa ask me for my opinion as to the work done by Mixon School
par«J to that of the achools whose pUc« it took. as com •
(two ye&ra; of Mixon School ww worth more to the children*thao* 1 ‘en j'ear-i term of *
(To be continued next woe*
Notice Of, Eleciion
To the qualified voters of
the city of Covington:
Notice is hereby given by
the Mayor and Council of the
city of Covington persuant to
an ordinance duly adopted on
the fourth day of August 1908,
t p at on t j ie tenth day Gt Sep
tember 190S, an election wlil
be held in said city, at which
will be submitted to the quali*
fied voters of said city, for
their detiemulation, the ques*
q on whether Bonds shall be
,; 5Sue q sa j c | c [ tv> j n the agv
t amount ‘' of sixty thous
&
and dollars principal . . . to. . _ tae j
purpose of procurin'/ O func.5 to
be applied as follows:
Thirty eioht thousand dol
j « j
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 citv.
Said Bonds to bear date on
the first day of November
1908, to be issuedHn 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 foters of 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 therefor 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 1908, Sun
days excepted, between the
hours of nine a. m. and four
p. m. each day.
Separate ballots will be cast
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 o 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
proposed 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 mast do so by casting
@ s@ @©d®
NEW RACKET STOR
New goods in season amving
f days and marked eV(
cash ew are at lowest S!
prices which we are willing f or
to compare with the b Q^f values offer
either .i . this , . other
1 in or any market; call
by any name, cut prices, special b ar gai
or any other name. We think th
have 0
reason you not bought m more an
of us you have not tried u rn .
Yours very truly
§ J.LGUIK
NO FXCUS
For doing without a Piano Ion
when we offer you Pianos sue
the Schulz, Walworth, Werner I
Irwin at the prices now hoi
forth in our warerooms §75.01
$100.00 Saved. Cal! and sei
today.
R, l
FURNITURE STORE
Dr! Tully U. Smith
DENTIST
Covington, Ga. Office 9 and 11 Star
Office Phone 211
Risidence Phone 210
Dr. W. M. Taylor
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
COVINGTON. GA.
Office 11-13 Star Bldg. Residence with Will McDonal
Office Phone 211 Residence Phone 233
Galls Attanded at all Hours
LAND WANTED
I have several parties wanting farms from 5 °
ares, also six parties wanting homes in Covington, possible.
have any real estate to sell see me ars soon as
H. T. HUSON
EARNEST PARKE
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE.
Lnfe, Fire, Health and Accident Insui
Written. Farm Lands ann city property 1
and sold.
Office 21 Star Building.
ballots having written or print¬
ed upon them the words.
“Against Sewerage Bonds.”
Dated this 5th day of Au¬
gust 1908.
S. P. Thompson, Mayor.
C. C. Brooks, Councilman.
L D. Adams, “
J. R. Stephenson Harwell,
C. A.
J. H. Echols,
Edward Heard,
YV. T. Milner, Clerk,
For Rent-5 room ho
Midway. Possession can (x
at once. Apply t0 ' V. Si
Mrs. ' H.