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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1891)
♦ c. |T /X 1 ./ . 4 <9> ! . /sg 'T m VOTE! ) TO THE ESTABLIS HMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE: “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL MEN AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE. z Number 28 ksCE°° lL SYSTEM. DISCI eed and law rEV r SUGGESTIVE questions. XV. That hereafter each IQS shall ery county in the State one sc bool district, and shall ise .control and tfided to the man nt of a county board of educa trios XX That the county L Lb-school shall lay off their counties districts, in each of gu b school districts they SHALL Lb Le one common school each for and colored races where jopulation of the ’two races is [erif, which schools shall sub-school be as the center of the Las can be conveniently ar¬ id, reference being had to any I house already erected and Lion of said sub-school districts, jo the location of white contiguity. and color tools Ed, with regard to however, that in such sub I district where owing to density pulation, more than one school is hided, then they may establish f more additional schools in such pool district; provided, that no additional school or schools shall fowed to exist unless it or they have an enrollment of not less | twenty-five scholars, and provi¬ so, that whenever it becomes tr to lay off new sub school dis Icts or {alter the boundaries of t already laid off’, the said board have full power to make such [eg as the public necessities I require. The said county Board |lso empowered to employ teach in the manner herein after point rat to serve in tne schools under rjurisdiction, and 'he contracts Paid service shall be in writing, edin duplicate by the teacher on dwd behalf, and by the County do! Commissioner on behalf of the htion XNI. That the 'county M of Education shall have power §rarcbase, lease or rent school sites, ■uild, repair or rent school houses; Pu-base maps, globes and school to make all other ar PLuents of this kind necessary to PmciHT opekation of the schools j their care, and the said Board r a ‘ so and are hereby invested f tIie Die, care and custody of all M hhouses, sites, school librarian Natns, or other property belong f P c Ai sub-district, as bow defined, may hereafter be defined, in f uY SeTeral unties, with all power same in &uch manner as p t ink will best subsend the in Ms of common schools, and when t£e opinion of the board school lsp site has become any unnecessary oi N the *key may sell and same in the name of the Bn t v Beard of Education, such 1T qance to be J executed by the ect or Secretary of said Board, to the order of the Board. • 8 * ave power to receive J grat,t Nation any h or device made fc use common schools 11 respective within ccs of counties, and all con real estate which may be e ksaid Board L shall vest the in said Board of Fdueation Mm successors in office, and Y in t0 building of the school ■it!"* - aenUoned b this section, the Ration may provide the on ^ 01 ? 16 Bub district k> served, cr J a *** their * on P r oper * Leafter provided. Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, August 15, L891- Section 1257 Code: It shall be the duty of the county Board of Educa¬ tion of the several counties, at their first meeting after notice of this law, to appoint three intelligent, upright citizens of each sub-district of their respective counties, to act as school trustees for their sub-districts, nam¬ ing one of the appointees to serve for one year from date of his appoint¬ ment, one to serve for two, and one far three years, and whenever school trustees are chosen as herein provided the fact shall be recorded in the min¬ utes of the county board, and the appointees shall receive certificates of their appointment from the county s school commissioner and three certifi¬ cates shall be their sufficient warrant for entering upon and performing the duties of their office. It will be observed, by reference to Section 15 of the acts of 1887, that Rockdale county composes one school district and under Section 20 of same acts ihe first duty of the Board of Education of this county is to lay off the county into sub-school districts placing house as near* center of dis¬ trict as is convenient reference being had to school house or houses already erected, that Section 21 gives them power to purchase, lease, refd, build and repair school houses, and Section 1257 of Code makes it their duty to appoint a local board of trustees for each sub-district. If you will read above acts you will see that the lan¬ guage is they shall do these things and require the county school commis¬ sioner to make a minute of all their acts. The first question. How many sub school districts have we in Rockdale county? 2nd. How many school houses does the board of education own or control either by purchase, lease or rent? 3d. How many of these sub- school districts have local boards of trustees? “4 th. How many of these imperative duties has the board of education performed? 5th. If men qualify as members of the boar d of education is it not their duty to obey and inforce the law as they find it? 6th. If you had the county land off into sub-school districts and school houses permanently established in each district and all the pupels in the district required to go to school in that district, as is now provided by law, would not the people always be assured of a school for their children? 7th. Is it not both the letter and spirit of the law for the board of edu cation and local board of trustees to control the selection of all the teachers, and all the school property where common school schools are taught and where the pupils partici pate in the common school fund? 8th. Is it not the duty of the board of education to see to it that the coun ty school commissioner collects all the school funds for common schools from whatever sources desired? Has he collected all the funds from the state? Has he collected all the pol taxes? Has he caused the clei k to collect fines out of Ordinary for issu ing licenes where ladies live out of county or where they are under 18 year s of age without consent of par ents? If there has been in such cases, and out of Judges, Justices of the peace or ministers for marrying parties without authority of law, and to collect from every other source of fines and forfeitures, where school fund is derived. 9th. Would it not be a very good idea for the grand jury to look into these matters a little at their next court and se^ if the law is earned out? If not, why not 10th. Perhaps there are a great many people that are opposed to the school law. That is no question for the board of Education. It is suffi¬ cient for them to find out what the law is, and to enforce it. Perhaps the grand jury as a body may be opposed to the law. It is alike their duty to see that the laws is inforced. 11th. It is claimed by many that every man should educate his own children. This view may be right. It may be wrong to tax one man to edu< care another man’s children. That’s not the question now before the peo¬ ple. The question is will the board of educatidb enforce the law. If not voluntarily will the grand jury look after them. 12th. It is thought by many, and so declared, that the money appropri ated by the state to common schodi purposes is almost, if not entirely worthless as heretofore expended. Let Rockdale county in the future enter into the spirit of the law and expend the money a while according to the Spirit of the law and see what the results will be. The board of ed ucation and the county school com¬ missioner have the ability to do the work if they will. I contribute my prorata share to the common school fund. I w ish to see the law given a fair trial and if it will not work (how ever I believe it will) let us change or gel rid of it. Geo- W. Gleaton. Smyrna Locals. Misses Alice and Emma Hollings worth of Atlanta, are visiting relatives in this section. Mr. Tom Maddox and wife, of the Gate city, have been with us too. Come again. Miss. Mary Smith, of Atlanta, has been visiting friends here. Miss Jennie Summers of Atlanta, •formerly of this county, is visiting the family of Mr. Simp Sims. Mr. Joe Walcott and daughter, of Griffin, Mr Joe Plunkett of Jackson, Messrs Tom Butler, Aaron Young and Filmore Plunkett of D&atur, and many other relatives and friends honored us with their presence last week. The school here is in a very flourish ing condition. The campmeeting closed Thursday night. By great diligence the new tabernacle was ready for the meeting, but better still, the Christians were ready, and as the result we had a glorious meeting. There were thirty two additions to the church, and the members were greatly edified. Dr. Qhigg, assisted by Rev. Hemphill, of Griffin and Rev. Dozier, of Mcnticello, labored faithfully and tbeir efforts were honored. We are glad to learn that Miss Mattie Brisendine, who has been very sick several days, is some better. Miss Elbe Hollingsworth is sick this week. Mr. Greene Pyle, e of Colorado, is here on a visit to relatives, after an absence of six years. Glad to have you with us Greene, and hope you will visit us oftener. Alpha. _____ « The large bridge of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern road over the Oconee river at Athens is completed. It is one of the most.imposing struc¬ tures of its kind in Georgia being 887 feet long and eighty-five feet high. _______ Ricbardsrille and Conyers played ball yesterday evening with a score of 2-1 to 0 ‘in favor of Richardson. per Year, $1,00 TEE STAY LAW. IT HAS AT LAST BEEN INTRODUCED— WHAT ABOUT IT. From Atlanta Constitution. The long-talked-of and wide¬ ly-discussed stay law has* at last been introduced in the house. The measure was introduced yesterday by Mr. Montgomery, of Taylor county. Mr. ^Montgomery introduced tha measure at the request of liis constituents, most of whom are allianceme'n in other parts of the state. This provides for a suspension of the collection of all debts within the state from the first of-October next, until the first day of November, 1892. This is the measure which is expected to relieve the depress¬ ed financial condition of the fanners, and the country gener¬ ally. It provides that no real or personal shall he levied on for debt during that period, and under no consideration is the airest or imprisonment of any person allowed during that time for failing to meet obligations, even though they may be able to do so. In fact, it relieves all indebted persons for that time, and they will not be required to meet any obligations whatsoev¬ er except money due for taxes. The bill also provides that the statute of limitation shall cease to run against such debts. Tlie bill is a measure which the farmers advocate, as they expect it to give them that long sought relief from a depressed financial condition under which they have been suffering. Several members of the house were seen in regard to the bill, and the sentiments expressed by them will be found else¬ where. The alliance members will probably consider the measure but it is understood that many of them are opposed to it, as they say it is clear that it will make money matters tighter. Mr. Montgomery said he in¬ troduced Hie hill in the interest of the county alliance of liis county, which was unanimous¬ ly in favor of it. “We will probably hold the bill off in the committee until the comity alliance meets,” said Mr. Montgomery, “so that they may send a resolution concern¬ ing it” “Do you think it unconstitu¬ tional?” “If the constitution is not in the interest of the people we will elect a supreme court and change it. “I shall favor the measure in the interest of the people who want and demand the law. We fought the bagging that success¬ fully, and if such a measure really be necessary, and tlie it people say it is, we will pass in spite of the opinions of a few monopolists and moneyed men.” By Sept. 1 Brunswick will have received nearly 200,000 bales, for the present year, rn 2 2-9 per cent, of ttie entire crop, and the Times thinks there i3 nothing to brevent Bruns¬ wick from getting 250,000 bales of the growing crop. The northern syndicates are making a strong fight on the Richmond Ter minal, so as to injure southern devel opments. The fruit festival at Oakland last Sat¬ urday wa a grand success. TEE DIRECTORS MEET. MR. TILLEY IS DEFEATK!> FORSTPER INTENDENT AND MR. II. L. SMITH IS ELECTED. Last Tuesday the directors of Conyers Oil and Ferti'izer Com¬ pany met for the purpose elec J - ing a treasurer and supci ndent. Mr. Luther Aim and was elected treasurer .instead of Mr. D. M. Almand who has been in this position since the mill was star¬ ted. Mr Z. T. Almand tendered his resignation as a direr,tor. His resignation was accepted and Mr. G. P. Flliott was elected to till his place. Mr. Elliott how¬ ever refused to serve and the board adjourned to meet Thurs¬ day morning 7 o’clock. At this meeting Mr. W. B. Reagan was elected as director to fill the place of Mr. Almand. The next business before the directors was the election of a superintendent. There were two applicants for this position Mr. J. P. Tilley and- Mr. H. L. Smith. Mr. Smith was elected on a salary of $000 per annum. We know nothing of Mr. Smith’s qualifications to run an oil mill. He is a graduate of the Techno¬ logical school and should he skilled as a machinist. The defeat of Mr. Tilley will he something of a surprise to the stockholders who only a couple of weeks ago endorsed his ad¬ ministration at the milQior the season just closed. » Mr. Tilley was elected super¬ intendent of the mill at the an¬ nual fneeting in 1888 and has been in that position since until the recent election. Under his managemsnt the mill has about doubled its capital in placing jin new and improved machinery. The mill has also paid off all indebtedness and is now in the best condition financially and otherwise that it 1ms ever been. Mr. Tilley was personally inter¬ ested in the upbuilding of the mill as he is the largest individ¬ ual stockholder in the company, owning about one-eight of the entire stock. His best efforts were expended in pushing tlie mill and making it a success, There is no doubt but if the election of superi itendont had have come before the stockhold¬ ers Mr. Tilley would have been re-elected by an overwhelming majority. This resolution pass¬ ed by the convention endorsing the administration of the mill was a sufficient guarantee that the stockholders were well pleas¬ ed with the work of the officers. It is likely the entire stock rep¬ resented by the votes against Mr. Tilley in the directors meet¬ ing did not amount to over twenty shares. We have said this much in simple justice to Mr. Tilley that the people might understand thg situation. We do not know tlie reason assign¬ ed by the board for their action. We do not think it could have been because of any dereliction of duty on the part of Mr. Tilley. Hence we cannot tell the reason for such actions after tlie stock¬ holders expressed themselves in the maimer in which they did. Some of tne best fanning lands in Geornia, are in Oconee county, and upon these hands are exceedingly flue crops Tne <m m crap is eimp ! y magnified) ,,wbile cent >n is at hast breast high to a six ton man. Both crops are excellently fruited.
