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Educational Progress Among Augusta Negroes
By SILAS X. FLOYD.
Ih an educational way the Augusta
colored people are striving daily to
take advantage of the opportunities
afforded ‘them in well-conducted pub
lic and private schools to equip them
selves for the duties of life.
I do not hestitate to say that our
public schools for colored children in
this town —all six of them —are far
above the colored schools found in the
various cities of this country. This
is largely due to the fact that we have
here in our town ofie of the best city
superintendents of any city in the
United States, and it is also due some
what to the fact that the colored teach
ers in our schools here are a loyal and
well-equipped body of public ser
vants. |
Professor P. H. Craig at the First
Ward School, Professor Levi E. White
at Weed Academy, Professor M. J.
Uryscoll at the Fifth Ward School.
Professor G. W. I.ogan at Colored In
dustrial School, and Mrs. Ursula E.
White at NellieviUe School, are all
capable and competent individuals,
and each is working hard to make the
public school system of this city and
county equal to the best to be found
anywhere. I do not speak of the
Mange Street School, our largest pub-
DR. L. K. HARPER
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Dr. L. H. Harper, associat
ed with Dr. G. S Burras, of
the Burras Sanatorium 1203
Ninth Street, is one of the best
educated and most efficient
colored physicians in Augusta.
He was born in Augusta
September 24, 1876, and after
completing his studies in the
common schools here was
graduated from Haines Insti
tute, Lincoln University, and
the Physicians’ and Surgeons’
College of Boston. He has
been practicing his profession
in Augusta for the past ten
years.
MT. ZION CHURCH
1320 TWIGGS STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
H. PHILBERT LANGFORD, PASTOR
This church works for the evangelization ot ne
groes and was organized in New York City in 1796,
and is the oldest church in America among negroes.
It has an interesting and unique history. The record
of the activities of this church south is not only inter
esting but has proven to be highly inspirational in the
sum total of negro accomplishments.
All the various Church Societies are accom
plishing Great Success in their work for the
MT. ZION CHURCH
lie school, because its principal is
writing this article.
The greatest advance in the work of
our colored schools has been made in
the recent past in the matter of in
dustrial training and training in
household economics. Within the past
five years, in connection with the reg
ular literary work at our four largest
public schools, regular courses in sew
ing and in laundering and in cooking
have been introduced and a course in
carpentry has been introduced for ttie
boys. Two teachers at each of the
schools (and at the First Ward school
and Mauge Street school one addition
al teacher in each instance) give their
exclusive time to the teaching of these
branches. The equipment for this
kind of work is complete, and it is a
real Joy and inspiration to the citizen
and tax payer when he sees (o what
good purpose the public money is
being spent for the education of the
coming men and women.
Mauge Street school has seventeen
rooms, including the principal’s office,
and sixteen teachers, with an enroll
ment of 850; First Ward school has
■eleven rooms, ten teachers and an en
rollment of 450; Weed Academy has
five rooms, five teachers, and 300 chil
dren; Nellieville School has five rooms,
five teachers, and 250 children; Fifth
Ward school has two rooms, two
teachers, and 110 children. The color
ed industrial school which is taught in
the building at the corner of Walton
and Twiggs streets, receives its pupils
(boys only) from the other schols of
the city and has a complete enroll
ment of 65 pupils.
In addition to our colored pub
lic schools, there are four other
schools here (private or church
schools) for the education of the mem
bers of our race. The oldest of these
schools, and in many respects the best
of these schools, is the Haines Normal
and Industrial Institute, better known
as the Lucy Lanev Institute, conduct
ed by Lucy ('. Laney, Mary C. Jack
son and a corps of some fifteen or
twenty teachers. This school is un
der the direction of the Home Mission
Hoard of the Presbyterian church
(North) with headquarters at Pitts
burgh. Pa.
Next is the Paine College, a school
conducted by the Southern White
Methodist church in union with the
Colored Methodist Episcopal church.
This school was founded by the late
Dr. Morgan Calloway and the late
late George Williams Walker. Its
present president is Dr. John D. Ham
mond, who was for two terms at the
head of the educational work of the
Southern (White) Methodist church,
and who was afterwards connected
with the great normal training work
of Vanderbilt University at Nashville,
Tenn. Dr. Hammond has a large fac
ulty of mixed white and colored teach
ers, and a large .number of students.
Paine college is'doing a good work.
Walker Baptist institute is the
school here which is owned and oper
ated by the negro Baptists with a
small annual appropriation from the
American Baptist Home Mission of
New York city. Rev. Samuel C. Wal
ker is president of this institution and
Professor A. C. Curtright is principal.
The faculty Is composed of some ten
or fifteen bright young men and wo
men teachers, and the student body is
made up oi some 300 or 400 earnest
students.
These three schools teach nnything
and almost everything from the kin
dergarten to the college and univer
versity courses, even including music,
theology, and agriculture.
A fourth school but recently estab
lished here and which entered a new
brick home at the corner of Kollock
and Gwinnett streets about the first of
January, is the Immaculate Conception
school, better known as the Catholic
school. This school is one of a chain
of schools throughout the South es
tablished by tlm Society of African
Missions, an organization of the
Church of Rome, which has at its dis
posal some $5,000,000, or so I have
seen it stated in the papers, for the
promotion of the work of education
and evangelization of the colored peo
ple of the United States. I do not
know how many teachers or how many
children this school has, hut I hear
that Father Laube, the head of the
school, has a number of Catholic “sis
ters” and one colored young woman
assisting him in the work, and that he
is well pleased with the progress thus
far made by this new school.
Those who have attended the schools
of this city, whether they have re
mained home or have gone away from
home to live, have ‘“made good.” Some
are ministers, some are farmers, some
are doctors, some are In the Govern
ment Service at Washington, some
are teachers in this and other cities,
and some are in business. Not to men
tion others, I might say that Profes
sor N, W. Collier, president of Florida
Baptist College, Professor John Nope,
president, Atlanta Baptist College, Pro
fessor William E. llolmes, president
Central City College, and Major R. R.
Wright, president of Georgia State
College, and Professor John W. Gil
bert, president of Miles Memorial Uni
versity, Birmingham, Ala., are all Au
gusta people.
“I think, father, that you do Ar
thur a great injustice when you say
that he is penurious ”
Precocious Brother. —What’s peun
rious, father?"
Father —Why, penurious means
close.
Precocious Brother —Then you’re
right. That young man is awfully
penurious when he conies to see Sis!”
—Exchange.
Dr. J. C. Collier
Born in Augusta, Ga.,
attended and graduated
from City Public Schools,
Florida Baptist Academy,
Jacksonville, Fla.. Pain Col
lege, Augusta, Ga,, and
Leonard School of Medicine,
Shaw University, Raleigh,
N. 0„ in the spring of 1908.
Began his professional
career in the fall. Xlis suc
ees professionally is beyond
doubt. lie is one of the
home hoys who has made
made good. A member of
local and State Medical So
cieties; local examiner of
several secret organizations
and of the North Carolina
Mutual and Provident In
surance Co., of Durham, N.
O. Grand Medical Exami
ner of I ndependent Order of
(1 ood Samar ita n s and
Daughters of Samaria; Pro
prietor of a Drug Store
which hears his name—Col
lier’s Pharmacy, 35 13th
street.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA.
Old Paper Preserved Since Day
of Garfield's Murder
An interesting old paper is in the
possession of Mr. Wm. Roche, of this
city. This is an EXTRA! issued by
The Augusta Evening News, at 11
o’clock in the morning of Saturday,
the second of July, in the year 1881.
Those who know their history will
know the reason for this extra. It
conveyed to the public the news of
Garfield’s assassination.
The first news which reached Au
gusta was a telegram to Mr. J. A
Brenner, which read:
Washington, July 2, 10 a. m.
President Garfield was shot this
morning at the depot. He is said
to be killed, which is probably
true. Particulars as soon as can
get them.
. (Signed) WHITNEY, Tel. Mgr.
This dispatch is printed in the old
extra without comment, lu fact the
whole sheet is Tilled with nothing hut
the printed dispatches which came in
between the hours of 10 and 11 on
that fateful morning.
Second Dispatch.
(Special to the Evening News.)
Washington, July 2, 10:30 a. m.
President Garfield was assassinat
ed about 9:30 o’clock this morning.
He was iat the Baltimore & Potomac
Railroad depot, ready to leave the
city, when a man named Gitto, of
Chicago, whom the president has dis
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JOHN N. McEACHERN, President.
R.-++VDOBBS, First Vice-President.
“S. C. McEACHERN, Second Vice-President.
I. M. SHEFFIELD, Secretary.
The Springfield Baptist Church
f 12th and Reynolds Sts., Augusta, Ga.
JAMES M, NABRIT, A. B. A. M., D. D., Pastor
One of the Leading Colored Churches in the world, Organized in
1790, by the Rev. Jesse Peter.
This Church has an unbroken record in the Religious world for 124
Years. Is the oldest Negro Church in the world, with an undisputed
Record. Ten Ministers have served in its Pastorate.
Membership i 400. Property Value $50,000
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SERVICES:
SUNDAYS: 11:30 and 8:30
SUNDAY SCHOOL:.. 3:30
placed as consul, shot twice from be
hind the president. The first ball
grazed the right cheek, the second
entered from the hack of the right
side.
The president is not dead, but spit
ting blood.
Gitto, the assassin, is under arrest
and in great danger of being lynched.
The city is in great excitement.
Gitto loitered around the executive
mansion all yesterday, to carry out
his design, but was not suspected
M. E. THORNTON.
Third Dispatch.
Washington, July 2, 11 a. m.
President Garfield was shot this
morning by Guyton, ex-Consul to Mar
seilles, and is expected to die.
J. H. HOUSTON.
This old extra is not a newspaper,
such as we are accustomed to see. It
is a modest little slip of pa: er, about
the size of a small hand-bill. But It
gives the news! And it is more valu
able now than a whole edition of a
modern extras.
“What kind of a present shall I
bring you Tor your birthday?” asked
a father of his 5-year-old daughter.
“Oh.” she replied, “bring me some
boles for my ears so I can wear ear
rings.”
The Woman’s Mission, B. Y. P. U., Daniel’s Band, Neheuiiahs,
Ushers, Choir, Senior and Junior Trustees and Deacons, are all active
in their work for the church.
TRUSTEES—II. B. Sweet, Chin; C. C. Green, Treas; W. D.
Thomas. Clerk; G. S. Morris, L. H. Wynier, "Win. Schneider, P. A.
Pitts. Caesar Curry and Joe Thomas.
DEACONS—Chas. C. Green, Chin; S. K.Coles, Asst. Chm; Taylor
Summerfield, Jas. Calhoun, John Hughes, J. W. Grant, W. 1). Thomas,
R. H. Moss, H. B. Sweet, Joe Thomas, B. T. Hardwick, S. W. Williams,
L. H. Wyner, A. McGuider. Jack Golpliin and Win. Murray.
ROSA GRIPON, C. C. GREEN, S. W. WILLIAMS,
Organist. Treasurer. Sexton.
Assistant Postmasters
Spoilsmen never cease from trying to
spoil. Their latest attempt at a flank
march on tire classified service is em
bodied in the Moon bill, which requires
assistant postmasters to take competi
tive examinations for the retention of
the protection they now enjoy. Civil
service reformers are wide awake to
the menace to the merit system involv
ed In this measure, which Is now before
the house. They ought to receive the
support of the business community, for
w'hat is a postoffice without an irre
movable assistant postmaster? So long
as potsmasterships are political plums,
there will be peed of constant vigilance
to keep the assistants free from the
efficiency-destroying touch of spoilstsm.
An efficient assistant postmaster is the
life and sottl of every big office.—Bos
ton Transcript.
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
(Formerly Atlanta Baptist College)
ATLANTA, GA.
An institution operated by the American
Baptist Home Mission Society for the Christian
education of Negro young men.
A school famous within recent years for
its emphasis on all sides of manly development.
The only institution in the far South devot
ed solely to the training of Negro men and hoys.
Graduates given high ranking by greatest
Northern universities. Debating, Y. M. 0. A.,
athletics, orchestra, glee club, all live features.
For catalogue or other information address
JOHN HOPE, President.
“AUGUSTA IN 1914”
CRUST AROUND CRATER
A crust of sulphur from one to four
inches deep was found on the rocks
around the new crater near the summit
of Mount Lassen by Professor Diller. th 6
geologist, who was sent by the United
States government to Investigate the re
cent activities of the old volcano.
Professor Diller said that the large
•rater appeared to be about 400 feet long
and 200 feet wide in the shape of an
irregular oval, and that it apparently
was enlarging toward the north peak of
tliemountain —Redding tCal.) Dispatch to
New York Sun.
3t. Peter—What was your occupa
tion on earth?
Spirit—Robber.
’ st. Peter —Ice, coal or gas !—Phila
delphia Ledger.