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Devoted to the Agricultural, Commercial am| Industrial Interests o! White County
v 7 OL. XXVU 1 I, No. 16.
Mouatain School Offered
$50,000 By Rockefeller
Capitalist Pledges lllis Slim 11
.Matched by Rouble
Amount Iroiu Others.
Two Institutions to be Con
solidatetl.
Rabun (tap School and Na
eooehee Institute Will Have
New Plant at Rabun Gap
John IX Rockefeller, Jr,, has
pledged a maximum contribution ol
$50,000 to the.Rabun Gap, Gar.
part of a fund of $150,000 now "be¬
ing raised to effect a merger of that
school with Nacoochee institute.
Both* schools were visited by fires a
few months ago which destroyed
their principal buildings. Both are
farm schools for boys and girls of
very "limited means and serve the
same mountain region of rrortheast
Gaorgia uncr-contiguous territory.
Terms of a merger have been
agreed upon by wbifeh- the two in
stitVtipns will be consol dated and
rebuilt as . Rabun Ggp-Naepocliee
schooNu Rifoun Gap. \
Mr. Rockefellers gift will be
made in the proportion ol one dol
lar for every two dollars secured
from other contribution sources
until his part is $50,000, officials
said Tufsday in announcing
offer of the capitalist. In order to
obtain this maximum pledge a total
of $150,000 must be raised before
July 1. 1927.
Mr, Rockefeller’s representative,
'lliomas B. , Appleget, . , letter , to .
1 111 a
A. •’ f. Richie, head of . the , Rabun ,, ,
Gap 1 school, stated , that the gilt
made because ol Mr. ,. ,
was
fellers faith in the , unique
worthwhile work which , has . been
carried on at Rabun Gap and be
cause of his belief that the succe-s
ful completion of the campaign by
which the two schoo's are to be
united will establish the institution
on a firm financial basis. *
Agon! Inspects Situation
Mr. Rockefeller had made a
pledge of $10,000 as a part of
$100,000 for the Rabun Gap scltool
before the two schools were wreck¬
ed by fire, After 'the fires the
general education board sent its
field agent to Rabun Gap to
a study of the educational situation
in this territory. This agent made
a favorable report on the work at
Rabun Gap and also approved the
plan of combining the two schools
and budding at Rabun .Gap one
institution that will do work of a
higher standard.
The appeal thus made to Mr.
Rockefeller for his aid 111 rebuild¬
ing the two schools destroyed by
fire and the good it would do this
mountain region as a whole result¬
ed in his making an offer five limes
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Roth Want You. If is p to on.
SUNDAY’S LESSON
11 February, 27, 1927
MIN S BROTIIKRUOOI) CLASS
10 to 11 A. M.
MASONIC HALL
Cleveland, Ga. |
Men arc Invited
Especially Strangers
Si Mi
,:jie B i ill SalHstei Hftmtj, T W| *. Hill . i' •H'ln Ltitlt" i Li,ltHn,!is3 la
as large as ttie one lie had made to
Rabun Gap alone.
One of the features in the Rabun
Gap pian that appeals most strong
ly to Mr. Rockefeller and others
who have investigated ^it is the
plan of educating whole mountain
j families in rotating groups. Large
families are .brought to the 1.500
acre farm and given a five-year
term of residence as tenant-pupils.
They are taught how to farm, how
to diversify, how to save, and thus
to become economically indepen¬
dent. In the meantime, the chil¬
dren attend a nine months school.
About fifty families have taken ad¬
vantage of this plan since it was
inaugurated.
The second feature on which
Mr. Rockefeller’s pledge is based is
the plan of cooperation with the
day school of the community.
With the aid of the Rabun Gap
school, an excellent school building
has been constructed for the sur¬
rounding valley. The Rabun Gap
Corporation has an investment of
•$154)00 in this day sch.oo! building
as tlie'basis of a plan of' coopera¬
tion wrtlT the public scltool trustees
of the local district and the county
board of education. The school
fund , have been supplemented and
the school term lengthened. People
of the community have been en
jeouraged to greater effort and the
school is now supported in part by
local taxation.
To Raise Standards
j Moving of the-Nacoochee school
j to this community will bring high¬
er standards of educational ■ work
| and a greater operating income. It
|..... will ‘ establish ^ ......... a first class high
school and , probably , ., junior . . coL ,
a,,
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for teachers lor .. this . .
i ! iege training
! mountain . region. . It , also . will ... es
| tabltsh a,plan ot extension work by
conducting ,, buiiday , schools , , as well ,,
1
1 as day , schools , , 111 outlying .. . sections,
l ' liU combination of the strong
!> oims of b " 11 ' Jsd ' bols W,H l’ roduCe
j «>l-round; harmonious and vigor
oils program of education for all
this Blue Ridge section, leaders
state.
j Supporters , • of , ,, the two schools
declare they are determined to se¬
cure the maximum benefit of Mr.
Rockefeller’s generous offer and
three committees representing the
i two schools are already at work to
raise the fund required before July
t. About $60,000 is yet to be
The character of the new ilisti
tution as Rabun Gup-Naaoochee
; school is being secured in Rabun
! county. The corporation will be
1 organized about March 1. Elans
and layout of buildings are being
prepared by architects and the con¬
tract for the first building will be
let in the next few weeks.
Mr. J. Marvin Bell and Mr.
Richardson, of Gainesville, were
in town Thursday.
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CLEVELAND, GEQHGIA, FEBRUARY 25 1927
SHOAL CREEK NEWS
Snowed, didn’t it f Well, it was
not a deep snow but tolerable wide
s *
Talk at,
about ground getting wet,
that’s just what happened the other
day, and was so soft iUftiad a long
legged rooster to stick up^Po his
craw in the front ytual. * ^
Miss Mary Ruth Edwards was
entertained by her many friend of
Shoal Creek one night lust week,
it being her birthday. B. L. Mc¬
Gee, Jr., and family gave it pound
supper and the house would hardly
dold the crowd. The occasion was
highly enjoyed by all present.
Mr. Albert Barnes has moved to
the Clem Adams place.
Mr. John Kanadav had a -w»o<t
chopping last week and got quite
a lot of wood cut. Mighty uice to
help "Uncle John.”
We have been thinking of mak¬
ing application to the highway de¬
partment for a highway ncross
Walka mountain. Think about a
mountain so high you have to look
down to see the moon.
Oh, great goodness! Think of
wliat they are preaching now. We
failed to get anything for cotton
last crop and the cry was, Oh, you
made too much, but now they say,
buy costlier fertilizer and use it on
less ground and make as much as
you did last yeur.
The idea with the guano com¬
panies is to sell guano and after.it
is sold ‘Old Rube’ may go to the
devij. We got awfully tired of
being dunned for what qweff
for guano while we were cutting
cross ties our best to pay for it.
We got some sort of paper from
the government t lie other day
wanting to knofv how many cotton
bloom we had in the field last yeur
and whether we raied Irish pota¬
toes that had strong eyes or should
they have glasses for weak eyes.
Well, it*looks like everybody look¬
ing after the farmer’s little dab of
business he would come out whole¬
footed pretty soon. Of course, the
ok! farmer is in a hole but it’s not
him they care for, lie’s got the
bread sack.
Well,i^his old chunk of
they ciin the world is a
funny place anyhow.
OAKES CHAPEL
Mr. R. I). McCoilujn is on the
sick list this week.
Miss Maude Henson spent
week-end with Miss Ruth
near Clermont.
Little Miss Ossie Bell Wike
taken sick at school last week and
had to be carried home. We are
glad to say she is able to be back
in school.
School is progressing nicely here
under the management of
Oga Ilopper and Maude Henson.
We are proud to say that the
er’s have been doing real
work ever since school started.
Rlue Ridge Dots
The mountains were white with
ice here last Monday, but sve
seen them white with tee ihe first
I day of J une.
We took our first trip to
! vilje last week with Messrs.
Davidson and S. E. Reece.
enjoyed the trip fine and got
j location-of many friends,
| Mr.-Abner Nix bas moved
the old Blake property to the
derson property.
Mr. F. M. Shuler has
back to Union county to one of
fatlier’s fauns.
I
ASBESTOS BUZZING
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Mr. j Barnett Blalock returned
fromJElorida last Tuesday and re
-port *that the boom is about over
dowtv there. ■’Sr
Mr. fiffl Mrs. J- H- Brown, of
South Carolina, were visiting in
this section last Sunday.
Mr. Welboru Ilelton,of Roberis
town, was in this part a few days
ago ‘ t Ztif
Mf. Struts, general manager of
the Heled acid plant, passed this
way recently. His name pro¬
nounces the same tiling if you spell
it euI k-^ backward or forward.
Mrs. mid Suggs, who has been
suffering of heart dropsy, fftr some
ti.ihe'tsjjot anyffietier irt Ipfesent.
Mr. S. B, Logan, our efficient
ordinary, who will sell you a mar¬
riage license as cheap ns anybody,
still believes in taking plenty of
exercise. He travels ao miles a
day in bis ‘‘John Henry,”
Twcj gentlemen were here some
few da^s ago trying to buy cattle.
Yearlings are getting almost as
hen’s teeth.
Mr. Lfiandcr Rogers, of Mossy
Creek, passed through recently
trying to buy swine,
Mr. Fiddier, manager of the saw
mill at Heleu, was down this way
recently. IBs name may leave the
impression that he is a great fiddler
but he is riot. However, lie is some
musician fpr lie wits for several
years in Uncle Sam’s Marine band
uiffu "brass horn on
which he plays,‘‘H(ft iMri-A in the
old town to-night,'’ and on the
Fourth of July, plaos, “Yankee
Doodle,” and “Dixie.”
The spring llovters have bloomed
and the birds have been singing
but the snow storm came Saturday
night. They now read, Whittier’s
“Snowbound” and Hawthorne’s
“Snow Image” and the spring
poet can’t be found. The ground
bog, the owl, the brown thrasher
and the whip-poor-will are not say¬
ing much, but in due time will an¬
nounce the advent of vernal spring.
February is the month in which
the duck begins to lay and is llie
birthday of the Empire State of
the South and last but not least is
the birthday of General George
Washington. There has been
much said about him tor his praises
will forever ring down through the
ages but his character is still on
trial for there lias never been a man
yet but what somebody could dig
up some evidence against him.
Some fellow has found probably
in China and India during the
Fourth Dynasty thst Washington
made home brew and was a good
bootlegger. Whether this be true
or not. you don’t care a rap for
brew was not outlawed then. II
you had some of the Washington
brand in these latter days you could
sell it at $ioo a gill to smell of
when tiiey have the flu in its light¬
er form.
Mr. Frank Bower, son of Rev.
W. R. Bower, died Thursday Feb.
io of iieart (ruble at his home iti
McAllister, Okia., after an illness
of a shot t duration.
Frank was a railway mail clerk
in Oklahoma and was held in high
esteem by all his associates and
postal officials. He was a Mason
and a Sliriner, and his fraternal
brethern sent splendid floral of
fering along with the corpse.
lie married Miss Luada Colley,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs G. N.
Colley, formerly of White county.
He was interred at Ilapeville,
the home of Mrs. Power’s mother,
with Masonic honors Monday.
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CIRCUIT NO TES
There will be preaching
L 'tidsville Saturday n A. M„
lowed by a church conference.
written report will be
from all the officials of the
Breaching at Cleveland
morning. Again at Loudsville
B. M., Mt. Pleasant 3:30 P.
and Cleveland 7 : 3 ° P. M.
,\ili he a church conference at
Pleasant Sunday at 3:30 P. M.
We were very sorry trt
missed our appointments hist
day but we could not control
weather.
Dear collaborators let’s plan
pray for and expect a great
good day Sunday. We hope
have a large congregation at
appointment.
Mr. J. U. Jarrard, of
town, was t town on
Thursday.
California is suffering from an
entirely new plague—that of mire.
They are migrating in counties
thousands, eating up everything
they come across, and even ki t
sheep and lambs. This discount's
somewhat the story of the plague
of Egypt. The mice invasion i-,
however, at ribuled to the rainv
season, which has driven them
from the swamps back to the liigi .
er grounds. -
The Quitman Five Press s;n s
that men and women bath togetlu r
in Russia without a stitch of cloth¬
ing on. and think nothing ol ir.
Had thought of moving to the sea¬
shore but will get the steamer rates
to Russia. They haven’t much , u
over here, about a quarter of a laid
of cloth, but still we tire curious.—
B.tinbt idge Post-Searchlight.
|
Frank Dorsey, colored, is as Kr t
to the Rabun countv cli'iiu g 1 ,j»
Monday.
