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The issue of The Covington
NEWS of September 5 carried
an account of the opening and
enrollment of the Newton Coun
ty White School and the enroll
ment of the colored schools.
The names of the white
schools are as follows: Newton
County High School, Coving
ton, 781; E. L. Ficquett Elemen
tary School, Covington, 712-
Porterdale, 579; Palmer-Stone’
Oxford 410; Livingston, 241;
Mansfield. 152; Heard-Mixon^
94; total 2969. Total negro en-
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NEWTON
MEMORIES
BY
J. O. MARTIN
rollment, 1653.
The length of the school term
in Georgia now is nine months.
There is a State Board of Edu
cation and a State School Sup
erintendent. In every county
there is a County Board of Ed
ucation, composed of 5 mem
bers and a County School Sup
erintendent, Mr. Whitlow Ric
hardson being the Newton Coun
ty Superintendent. This system
of education in Georgia was
instituted about 75 years ago.
Prior to that time every com
munity built its own school
house, hired its teacher or teach
ers and set the length of term.
The teacher went from home to
home where there were child
ren to attend and got parents
to assign them as “scholars”
with a pledge to pay a given
amount each month per “scho
lar” as tuition.
One of the best known teach
ers in Newton was Prof. Ro
bert Guinn of the Flint Hill and
Macedonia Community in north
Newton County.
He persuaded patrons (pro
nounced in those days PAT
RONS) to build the Flint Hill
school house which still stands
and is used as a “community
house.” Otherwise it and the
five acres of land on which it
stands would have reverted
back to the Cook family, who
gave it with htat provision in
the deed.
Prof. Gwinn named the
school “Flint Hill’ ’on account
of the many flint rocks there
and he taught the first school
there.
While I was County Schol
Superintendent I held a school
rally there and had as the
“guest speaker” Mr. Bob Guinn
of Atlanta, chairman of the
State Board of Education. He
was a distinguished son of Prof.
Guinn and had brought with
i him several of the petitions with
the “scholars” names on them
that his father had used. One
or two contained the names of
the Flint Hill scholars and it
happened most of them had
children or grandchildren pre
sent. He handed these papers
to his cousin, Mrs. Nannie
Guinn Boggus, and asked her to
keep them. Mr. Robert Bost
wick, in his 9Q’s who still lives
in the original Bostwick home
Covington Junior
High School News
MRS. SWANN’S
First Grade
1 There are 31 pupils in our
group. The boys are Jimmy
I Anglin, Freddy Adams, Terry
; Burney, Jimmy Bledsoe, No
! lan Cain, Bobby Gunnells,
। Paul Hackett, Tony Harris,
' Danny Hodges, Leon Hughes,
David Jernigan, Wey ma n
Lumsden, Wendell Myers, Ter
ry McCuller, Clark McDaniel,
Kenneth Seabolt and Rufus
Yarbrough.
The girls are Judy Brown,
Cindy Corley, Jane Corry,
Julia Ellis, Sheila Head, Jill
Heard, Bonnie Johnson, Caro
lyn Johnson, Debbie Lott, Rose
Merry Duke, Emily Morgan,
Connie McElreath, Gayle Pur
cell and Ivy Summers. We are
enjoying our lovely new school
building and our pretty class
rooms.
Until our playground is fin
ished, we shall play down in
cool woods below the swim
ming pool. We have had fun
playing there on the slides,
swings and merry-go-round.
Some of us had visits over
the weekend. Jane Corry visit
ed in Greensboro, Emily Mor
gan visited in Stone Mountain
and Sheila Head in Monroe.
Nolan Cain and Weyman
Lumsden will both be six years
old on September 16th.
David Jernigan brought us
a variety of wild, dried grasses
which we have in a container
was one of his “scholars” and
was present that day.
Some of the other schools
that were built during that
ear were Going east
and clockwise, Alcova, New
born, Mansfield, Hayton, Starrs
ville, four that composed the
Mixon Consolidated School, Le-
Guinn, High Point, Livingston,
South River, Porterdale, Salem,
Mt. Zion, Gum Creek and per
haps others.
When Prof. G. C. Adams was
elected by the County Board of
Education as County School
Commissioner, succeeding Prof.
W. C. Wright, he found that
schools were being taught at all
of these places. Most of them
were one and two-teacher
schools. Therefore. He and its
County Board of Education,
Prof Harry V. Stone of Oxford,
chairman, consolidated a num
ber of the one-teacher schools
with larger ones and had the
children hauled in covered wag
ons.
The Mixon School of four
classrooms, named by A. C.
Mixon, a celebrated local teach
er and minister, was said to be
the first school in the south built
as a consolidation where the
children were hauled to it.
Later Rocky Plains, a four
room building and others were
built. Now listen, the patrons
whose schools were abolished,
except those in Mixon and
Rocky Plains, created such
rows that the Board of Educa
tion gave all the schools back to
the patrons. They were kept at
Mixon and Rocky Plains. I
taught an unexpired term at
both of these schools and wag
ons were still being used to
transport a majority of the pu
pils.
Now what has happened. Prof
E. L. Ficquett, County School
Superintendent and his County
Board of Education, abolished
every school in the county ex
cept those mentioned above.
They are sending the lower
grades and perhaps one high
school grade to Oxford, Cov
ington, Mansfield, Heard-Mixon,
Livingston and Porterdale, and
all of the high school to Newton
County High.
They also induced the Cov
ington City Board to come into
the County System and that is
why they were able to consoli
date into such a perfect system.
No other County in Georgia
has done so well as far as I
know and I say all glory to
Prof. Ficquett and his County
Board of Education, whose
memebers are: Henry Ander
son, chairman, Nat S. Turner,
W. R. Porter, W. B. Corry and
I Wiley Allgood.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
on our Science Shelf. Emily
Morgan brought some sea
shells and peafowl feathers.
We hope our boys and girls
will stay well and that we
can come to school every day.
So far, we have had only two
absences.
Thirty pupils are drinking
milk each day.
Every child has his package
of work materials and “The
Weekly Reader.” We feel that
we are off to a good start.
MRS. THOMPSON’S
FIRST GRADE
We have been having fun
in our First Grade even though
it has been hot and dusty.
There are 30 boys and girls in
our class.
The girls are Earlene Bel
lew, June Brown, Sherry Cari
thers, Elsie Cawthon, Barbara
Harper, Joan Lasseter, Regina
Morton, Mary Gregg, Mary
Esther Murrill, Lynn Parker,
Fran Tuck, Lynn Pignolet,
Ganell Tilson and Barbara
Taylor.
The boys are Jim Allen,
Fred Alexander, Pete Carter,
Ricky Colquitt, Mark Davis,
Steve Hall, Andy Howell,
Glenn Hudson, Ronnie Jones,
William Lawson, Glenn Par
ker, Terry Savage, Joe Schell,
Mike Smith. Charles Spratlin
and Bruce McCullough.
We had Ganell Tilson and
Lynn Pignolet to celebrate
birthdays September 6 and
Steve Hall on September 12.
We like our pretty room and
have had some lovely flowers
brought by Fred Alexander
and Ganell Tilson.
Mark Davis brought a frog
in a jar to school for us to
study. We all looked at him
and talked about how frogs
help us.
We have been writing, draw
ing, singing, coloring and read- i
ing our new Readiness Book
“Here We Go.”
At playtime we all go up
to the Lions Club playground
and play on the equinment
under the pine trees. This is
fun and is well worth the long
walk.
Palmer Stone
School News
Mrs. Ellington's
Second Grade
In our room we are making
books about ourselves. On each
page there will be a sentence
and a picture about us, our fam
ilies, our homes, things we like,
things we dislike, our pets and
other thing that tell something
about us. When we finish them,
each of us will have a book
let about himself.
We have started a collection
of seashells. We are bringing
some we found when had a trip
to the ocean. Melba Jean Atha,
Carol Dobbs and Philip Owens
brought some lovely ones.
Frankie Moss brought a sand
dollar. We have shells of many
sizes, colors and shapes.
Randy Dunagan brought a
potted plant to help make our
room pretty. Because he was
the first one to bring a plant,
we chose him to take care of
the flowers this week.
Miss Brown's
Fifth Grade
We have 26 pupils in our
room. Two new pupils have
joined our group this year. They
are Eugene Beal of Buena Vista
and William Rooks of Porter
dale.
Twenty-five of our 26 pupils
had perfect attendance for a
week.
We have elected these pupils
for our class officers: president,
Richard Allgood; vice president,
Jeffrey Hinton; secretary, Di
anne Holmes.
Our class chose Ronny Ger- i
Jackson's Fourth Industrial
Day Schedule Next Wednesday
JACKSON, Ga.—Enthusiasm |
for Butte county’s fourth In
dustrial Day reached a high
here this week as the county
stood on the threshold of an
anticipated industrial expan
sion.
Word that Gateway Luggage
Co., employing 200 persons, had
made a definite decision to lo
cate in Jackson boosted the
spirits of Industrial Day spon
sors and gave new impetus to
the celebration.
Senator Herman Talmadge
will deliver the main address
at this year’s fete on Wednes
day, September 18. He will
speak at 2 p.m., although there
will be a list of events both be
fore and after his address.
The program, which will in
clude 12 hours of celebration,
will get under way at 12 o’-
clock noon when the Butts
County Junior Chamber of
raid for Fire Inuspector and
William Rooks assistant.
Miss Mask's
Eighth Grade
The Bth grade at Palmer-
Stone has 43 on roll this year.
Miss Mask has 33 in her home
room. Each day is a full day of
study with math, English,
American histoy, reading, spell
ing, science, health and physical
education. James Bohannon
teaches the math and directs
the physical education and Miss
Mask has the other classes. The
7th and Bth grades began a
music period last Friday and
enjoyed it.
By next week, work will be
gin on the school paper “The
Hawk,” which is published
monthly by the Bth grades un
der the supervision of Miss
Mask and Mr. Bohannon.
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Commerce, the sponsoring or
ganization, will serve a barbe
cue dinner on the court house
lawn.
Beauties from Butts, Lamar,
Henry, Newton, Jasper, and
Monroe counties will vie for
Miss Industry 1958 in the beau
ty pagent.
At 1 pm. the beauty contes
tants will make their first en
trance, being judged in the'
evening gown competition.
Following this display of
beauty, the Hon. Herman Tai-;
madge will deliver his address 1
and other speakers will make
brief appearances.
Beginning at p.m. the beau
ty contestants will appear in
bathing suits for the final phase
of their contest.
At 4 p.m. the Industrial Day
parade through the business
district will be staged, com
plete with several high school
bands, floats from industries
and business houses and beauti
ful girls.
A three-hour recess will fol
low, after which festivities
will resume at 8 p.m. in the
National Guard Armory where
a dance will be held until mid
night. The Sheiks, a Macon
dance band with a large local
following, will play for the
dance.
At 9 p.m. the Jaycees will
award an automatic shotgun
and case of shells to some lucky
winner.
Miss Industry of 1958 will
then be crowned by Miss Ann
Ewing, ot Walton county, who
reigned as last year’s queen.
Among the prizes to be
shared by the beauty contes
tants are a SIOO Savings Bond
for the winner, SSO bond for
the runner up and three $25
bonds for the next three win- ,
ners.
Joe Brown and W. A. Duke
Jr. are' co-chairmen of the Jay
cee Industrial Day committee
making all arrangements for
the county’s annual tribute to
industry. David Ridgeway is
president of the Butts County
Jaycees.
Members of the Jaycees are
growing whiskers as interest
stimilators to boost the event
and are succeeding in attract
ing much attention.
Among the committees ap
pointed to plan this year’s In
dustrial Day, with the chair
men listed first, are:
Master of Ceremonies —Ennis
| O’Neal.
। Concessions — Billy Sutton,
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Floats—R. H. Pickney, Clyde
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Hall and Rooms — Marion
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Entertainment — Robert
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