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EDUC COST OF EDUCATION Iii SOUTH CAROLINA STATE SPENDS $7.92 PER CAPITA ON BOTH RACES WHITE $14.94; NEGRO $1.86 Charleston County Banks First in Amount Spent Per Capita Among Negroes. COLCMUIA, Doc. 19.- Tho State of 8outh Carolina spends ill.ni per cap ita for white, according to enrollment, und ?1.hfi per capita for negroes, ac cording to ligures compiled hy J. E. Swcnrlngon, superintendent of '.(loca tion, and made public today. The ex penditure per capita for both races is $7.92. Barnwell County ranks first in the amount spent on white children for educution, her record being $;?i!.(?X. Beaufort stands second in tho amount per capita spent for white, her rec ord hoing $34.38. Richland slandu third in the white column with $29.09. I lorry stunds al tile bottom of tho list: with only $7.57 per capita for whites. Charleston County ranks first in the umount spent per cupita among ne rtro?s* her record being $G.i)G. Char leston spends $25.31 for whites and stands seventh in that column. Elor nncu stands second in tile per capita ? spent for negroes, being $4.41. Shit spends $21.58 per capita for whites. I Collcton stands at thc foot with cont? per capita for negroes. i Itichland stands first in the per capita expenditure for both races, her record being $14.52. The second place ls held by Charleston with $13.81. Dillon comes third with $13.52. Her-j keley County stands at the foot of the lint with $4.05. Of the big up-country counties, An derson spends $11.67 for white" mid Stands 32d. and $1.32 lor negroes and stands 24th; Greenville spends $9.15 for whites and stands 37th, and $2.C8 for negroes and stands 6th; Spartan burg spends $9.70 for white and stands 86th, and $3.17 for negroes nnd stands 11th. Tho following figures, for each county will bc of great interest in ?lew of the agitation for a compulsory school attendance law: Per capita expenditure according to enrollment. 1913-1914: K?me of county., White. Negro. Abbeville.$12.91 $1.25 Aiken. 21.09 2.27 Anderson .11.67 1.33 Bamberg.21.0t 1.11 Barnwell. 36.68 l.b7 Beaufort.34.38 3.59 Berkeley. 10.08_1.30 PRI OF A J THAT Sai R CATALOGS FOLDERS We will chet ? ' I' I r 1 i ; i 1 , ?j; The A J calhoun . 21.07 1.18 Charleston. 25.31 6.96 Cherokee. 14.15 2.8"? Chester . 18.52 1.23 Cheutergflcld. '?.36 1.35 Clarendon. 17.??5 1.16 Colleton . fl.T .96 ? darlington. 2?.ox i.st Dilon . 27.53 1.231 Dorchester. 16.47 1. Edgefleld .' ... 13.05 Ml I Fairfield . 22.!?:$ l .00 | Florence. 21.58 4.41 Georgetown. 19.85 2.2."? Creen vi H.-. 9.65 2.68 Greenwood. ir?.33 1.47 Hampton . 13.04 1.12 Morry . 7.."?7 1.3S Jasper . 24.78 2.43 Kershaw . 13.04 1.4HJ Laurens . 16.77 1.20 1 l^ee.21.40 1.191 Lexington. 7.74 l.H Marion . 11.80 2.2!?] Marlboro .10 44 1.031 Newberry.17.57 1.' Oconee. 8.75 1.1 Orangebarg. 13.79 1.10 IMckens. 8.45 1.94 Richland .28.0!? 3.43 Saluda. 8.12 .?>7 Spartanburg. 9.70 2.17 Sumter . 25.57 1.07 Cn Son . 10.78 1.33; Williamsburg.15.4? 1.12 York .16?? 1-241 State .$14.ili $1.86 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO o ? o ERSKINE COLLEGE o o o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Erskine CIORCS this Tuesday for tho Christmas holidays. Tho students ?ire st liberty to leave as soon as they hnvo completed examinations. The seniors and sophomores com plete examinations Tuesday morning, .ind the juniors ar.d freshmen Tues day nfternoon. Only a few of the stu dents, those living lu distant stateH, will remain over for thc holidays. All are required to be back Saturday ' vening, January 2. On last Wednesday evening the student body enjoyed the third num ber of the lycoum course. The mini ner was ojecture by Hon. Jos. G. "amp, and was well received. Thc literary societies have held no meetings the past two Fridays1 on ac count of examinations being in prog ress. The senior CIUBS has employed the local photographer, Mr. H. McAdams, lo do the photographic work for thc college annual. Many individual and club pictures have been made during the past week. - The December number of the Ersk Inian is out and presents an attrac tive appearance. Tho number is the 3pccial Christmas issue, and the lit- j orary department is largely of the Christmas character. Basket tall practice has given way during tho past week to examinations, but will bo resumed wltn tho return of the students after tho holidays. A I nice schedule has been arranged for the season. NTIN KIND AND QU SECURES RESULTS *rompi Deliver "isfactory Sen sasonahle Prie BOOKLETS SJ RULING Bil BLANK BOOKS CALL US j T?L?PHONES: 693-L s and 321 gr/ujjy submit designs^ nderson Intel! ? Advertising and Printir Anderson; S. C. NAL F oooooooooooooooo o o a TOWNVILLE SCHOOL - o o o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Tho members of thc Manual Train- j lng < lub have been busy recently. They bave made wood boxes and put | up new desks in the various rooms. They contemplate doing much work on tile grounds after Christmap Tile school baa already beer deco rated for the holidays with arist mas bells, holly, tinsel and various other things. Mrs. H. ll. Price. Mrs. E. C. Aabcll and Mr. ~?dw. Earle were among those ...?.,. ..L.I.^J II... _ i i-i-. >- --; -.n.u*m UM? 1MB JM*?I Week. Those who have been on the sick | list recently nre: Messrs. C. H. Witt. Paul Smith. Harrison Hanks, Rae Me dirle y, Charles Hawkins und Misses j Alllne and Annie Mary Ledbetter. Katya Thrasher and Eura Stevenson. We hope for all a speedy recovery. A letter box has been set up by members of the Manual Training Club. It ls general! full of items. The students of this school are now having examinations for the first part of the session Ilolidav for this school will begin Tluirsdav. December 24, and school will resume work again January 4. Mr. Witt goes to Americus. Ga.; Mlfis Kellet to Fountain Inn. Miss Stuart to I Cabpobello. for the holidays. Mian) Hroyles will he at her home near Townvlile. Miss F'orrie Dunlap, the music teacher, will be at her home in Athens. Ga. All the teachers will re turn to begin work on January I. How I Expect to Spend Christmas. I expect lo spend Christmas at home. I nm not going ofT very far. I expect to have company and am going to have a grand time. The low price of cotton will not keep every body from enjoying Christmas. I well remember three years ago I spent Christmas In Jacksonville, Florida, and visited St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States. In one of the churches they had" Christ in H manger with cattle around Him and everything looked so natural. FLORIDA. CLINKSCALES. A Christmas Gift For Anderson Col lege. At the opening of the college last fall Mr. Spearman very geenrously of fered to give to the college a cabinet Victrola If as much as one hundred dollars worth of records vere pur chased from him. Mr. R. R. King un dertook to collect tho money for the purchase of these recordB and has al ready raised n large part of the necen sary sum. It would be a beautiful Idea to let this come as a Christmas sift to the college, and If there ure any friends who wish to subscribe to this fund they are requested io see Mr. King. Let us have the Victrola at tho college before the girls get back. Red ink and exclamation points may attract attention, but the combination doesn't necessarily make folks think. G ALITY y nee es ATIONERY SIDING and estimates Agencer **??.nwaw?Maai AGE Pol dev ooooooooooooooooo o o o FAIRVIEW SCHOOL o o o ooooooooooooooooo The school at thin place l3 progres sing nicely under the management of Misa Leila Cason, principal, and Miss Nannie O'Neal, assistant. We hope to make more progress this year than we ever have. .Many equipments have been added I already, consisting ot auqtber new-) heater, blackboard, globe end mapa Our enrollment ls splendid, and the I attendance good, considering the bad | weather. We hope that after Christ-j .nub tue cuiuiiuient wiii be nun ll | larger. We are planning a nico exercise fori Christmas. The children have been ! practicing quite a while and enjoy it very much. The children aro always glad for Friday afternoon to come ag we have Bible study, which is of much interest and benefit to the ' children. The teachers take much interest in teach ing it to us. " . . . School closes Wednesday. December | 23. for tho holidays and we ar? plan ning for an enjoyable time. The pupils have been busy for tho | past week with their monthlv tests. News of the Community. Mrs. Laura Mavfleld of Greenville isl visiting ber daughter, Mrs. J. T. Ward. ! Mrs. Wayne Fant and children spent I the week-end with relatives near| Georgia. Mr. Lester Swaney and Miss Sudlc Duncan were happily married at tho bride's home December 13, 1914, by Rev. D. L. Hatcher. We wish them much success and happiness through life. Mrs. J. J. Stewart of Pendleton vis ited her son, Mr. J. H. Stewart, re-1 cently. Mr. Clayton Martin and family of near Anderson are moving hack into our community. We are glad to have him with us again. EVA MCLLIKIN, 9th Grade. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO o o o DOUBLE SPRINGS o o o 000000000 ?,o 000000 Miss Josie Cromer, spent Sunday | with Miss Sudle Presher. Mr. and Mrs. Edna Cromer, Jr., spent Thursday with ?Mr. and Mrs. OBS Mariett near. Anderson, j Miss Florie Sullivan spent the week-end with Mrs. Grete Mariett. Mrs. Lee Mariett waa In this sec-] lion on business Wednesday. Misses Myrtie Cromer and Lucille j Sullivan were, the guests of Mrs. Lindsey Cromer Wednesday. Miss Leila Sullivan and grandmoth er spent Wednesday with Mrs. Prue McAdams, where Mrs. Sullivan cele brated her eighty-fifth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed wm Cromer spent j Monday night at the lome of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Mariett of near Ander son. Miss Clav.".. Sullivan spent Wed nesday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sullivan. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Tribble andi charming sons, Millard and Roy, ?ot \ Fair Play were the guests of Mrs. J. P. Mariett last week. Mr. and Mrs. IL A. Sullivan visited relatives in Anderson Saturday and ] Sunday. It is tiie desire of the school author-1 ities that the parents in the district! make a special effort to have all children enrolled Immediately after j Christmas. This Ia qf great import ance because vjf the fact that the fUnds of the school are in proportion, to Uie enrollment. .. \ . i.... i OOOOOOO000 0000000 o C RAYTON VILLE SCHOOL o ? o 00000 000000000000 Weil Christmas, good old Christ mas, win soon bo here again. And most everybody is looking forward to an enjoyable time. Thara will be musicals, pound suppers and sociables for the young people. There will be a good many people that will not spend Christmas aa they generally do for money ls . scarce most every where. And Uiey cant get their Jugs. But everybody out to remember that oa Christmas day ls Christ's birthday. Old Santa Clans will visit all the little children, rich and poor. Of course they will not get aa much on account of the low price of cot ton. The year 1914 wUl soon be gone. The farmers ha vie made good crops, except those in the hail streak. All the fanners are nearly .done gathering their crop? and will soon be ready to start another one for the new year ot 1913. Our school will close.tor Christmas| December 23. Our enrollment is ?0. DESSIE WILSON. o HAMMOND SCHOOL o o o ooooooooooooooooo Notice te School District. Parents, com? to thu Christmas tree at thc school this sveniug at seven O'clock and bring all Of the boys and girls whether In or out ot Behool. Come with the Christmas spirit and iet's have a good tln?o. dished Every Tuesday in oted to the cause of E ooooooooooooooooo o o o BISHOP'S BRANCH o o o ooooooooooooooooo It might be interesting to the read ers ot The Intelligencer who don't know the loca'/on of the schools to know in what part of the county they are located. Bishop's Branch school is situated about four miles , east of Pendleton. The pupils of the advanced grades spent fast week very pleasantly standing examinations. Our school closed on last Friday for the Chrlstn~.?.c holidays. We expect tn heirtn worlr o tro {rt nn J?niIS?" ith. Our school improvement association met Friday afternoon. Quite a num ber of patrons and friends of the school were present. The following of ficers were elected: Miss Leila Wil son, president; Mrs. E. Lee Owens, vice president and Miss Dede Owens, secretary and treasurer. A number of new members were enrolled. In con nection with this meeting the school gave an interesting program of Christmas exercises consisting of songs, dialogues and recitations. The children performed their parts well, considering the short time we had for preparation. The music, kindly furnished by Miss Leila Wilson, was greatly enjoyed. After the program the pupils of the advanced grades were given Christmas tags bearing their names attached to strings which were woven in a network about the room and to the end of which were at tached bags of fruit concealed from view. They were expected to find the end of the strings without breaking it. The pupils of the primary grades were served fruits of several kinds. Miss Maggie Carlington spent last Wednesday with us. We had expected her the week before but she was un able to get there on account of the weather. We were not quite sure be fore she came whether to look for ward to her visit with pleasure o* a feeling of dread, but we bave experi enced it now and can truthfully nay we greatly enjoyed her visit and are looking forward to her next visit with pleasure. A number of patrons met her there in the morning r.nd she gave them an interesting talk on her work. Misses Dede and Wilma Newton and Lucy Haddon spent Friday night at Pendleton with Mrs. Martin Cren abaw. MIBS Maggie Carlington spent last Tuesday night at the home of Mr. E. L. Owen. Miss Alice Belle Newton is home from the Woman's College of Due West for the Christmas holidays Miss Lucy Haddon is spending the holidays at Donalds. . Mr. and Mrs. Lee Owen spent the first of the week with relatives in Anderson. o o o o o o oooopoooooo o LEBANON HIGH SCHOOL o o' o ooooooooooooo o o o o Patrons and friends, attention! Now keep that position until you are or dered to march and then we. want you to march at double quick until you have reached the school house. When you are there we want yon to help make the evening both pleasant and profitable. Some of the features will be a room for fool and fun in charge of Mr. J. K. Duckworth; a room in which there will be candy and fruit stands presid ed over by young ladles. Ia the primary room there will be a Ash pond and auction, of toys, A prize will be given the one buying .the largest number of 5 cent, pack ages. There will be' coffee and sandwich' es, also cream and cake. Music will be furnished by local talent Let everybody who lovea Lebanon and her people be at the Behool house Saturday, the 26th. .rom 6 to IC o'clock p. m. All the children are looking forward to next Friday for they know old San ta Claus will be good to them. Mr. F. O. Welborn tank Miss BroylcB, Miss Cooner and Mr. Fayroe to Anderson Thursday afternoon. We bad a good society program Fri day afternoon, .Wa had a number ol visitors, Miss vera Harria, Mr. Theo dore Smith. William Robbins, Qui Harris, Ernest Martin and James Wel born. Our ball court hus t ?rn so mudd} this week that wa cant play much. There waa a big crowd at Mr. Wil lie Welborne's last Friday night at t fruit party. Everybody had a gooi time and had plenty ot fruit to cat. We are getting along very well ai school but haven't bat three mon days before Christmas. We wlli al' he glad. , _ oooooooooooooooo-? o _ ? o WEST PELZER ? o ? o o o o oo ooo oooooooc School activities at thia writing arV centered on the play. "Topsy Turvy We anticipate giving lt at t o'closi Tuesday evening. December 2Snd, Th? play consista of three acta, each aol made up of one or more scenes. Than are eight characters. Suspension ot school for th< Chrlstmaat holidays begins Wedna* dav. December 23rd. M this 4?te UH teachers, pupila and patrons will en Joy tbs Christmas tree exercises ba ginning at eleven o'clock. A marr] Christmas and a happy .new yea? fe all. School will open again ca Jan? I?ry ?th. 1816. The Di?y and Semi-Weel duration io Anderson Coui Anderson C Prior to 1883, the writer can not get exact dates as to the founding of White PlainB school, but lt was prob ably founded shortly after the War between the States. In 1883 J. R. Guyton ?aught the White Plains school. The house stood on the left side of the public road leading from Pendleton Pelzen, almost In front of where White Plains church now stands. This school bouse was a one mim log house, about 18 feet wide by 20 feet long. It was built of pine logs hewn out of the old field near the school house. The roof was of oak board split from Joab Clardy's place near the Hurricane creek. Thc seats wero made of pine slabs with two holes bored In each end of the slab, and sweet gum pegs drove in th3 li?les for legB. Thia little house was about seven feet high, and had two doors, one on each side of the house. The chimney was of stick and clay, i-.nd in the winter when the Are was burn ing in the fire place the teacher and most of the large boys we/e kept busy carrying water from the spring ana pouring on the chimney to keep it from burning up. One smaU window was the only means of light,. except through the crack's between the logs. The win dow' was in theback of the house, it was two logs sawed out about IS Inches wide by two feet long; and the shutter was one piece of plank Just to flt the opening in the wall. On windy days the window had to be closed to keep the ffre from burning up the chimney. When this was done, the only means of light was that which came In between the cracks of thc logs and the rough boards of the floor. The enrollment of this ?school wai about 40. The school derived iu name from the white sandy country in which the school was located. Some ot the other teachers of this school were: Dr. X. C. Richardson, Rsv. Jesse Vermilljon, Rev. Patrick Vermillion, William Cason. From this place the school house waa moved to a cross roads about one mile west, where the present school bouse now is. j A frame building was erected lr 1889-16 feet wide by 32 feet long. It had three windows on each side and one door in front. The blackboard extended across the back of the school house. The seats were made of s plank 12 inches wide and extend Inp from one end of the room* to the oth er. It was nailed along the side of the i wall about 18 inches from the floor ?This Just made two long benches in (the school house. The stove was lr '?the back of the room. The room wa? j ceiled with dressed ceiling. Rev. D. 1 Spearman was the first to teach in this school in the year of 1889. At this time this school house was a mod ern school bul'ling. In 1890 J. B. Spearman taught thr school. In 1891 J. B. Harria taught tin school, assisted by J. B. Spearman. The .enrollment at this time war - 106. j In 1892 the school was again taught by J. H. Spearman. In 1893 Rev. P. J. Vermillion taught the school assisted by his wife, Mrs ?oa Wei born Vermillion. In 1896 another1 room was annexed to this building, making a two .room building. This room was placed at. the back of the other room. It war ' about' the same size of the other. " Af thb> time every patron was asked ti maka a. slatted bench to. put in th lt school house. ' " , ?* Some of the other teachers ot,this school were: Miss Jennie Shirley John Majors, Robert Gentry. Dr. "Wil lie Strickland, Mr. Burna and sister. This school house soon became' tor small for the school, so there had, tc be another school 'house built alto Esther new. It ls the present achoo' ouse; with the exception of the twr back rooms Which were built later. This ''no a largo, two room house with lui . h room attached, waa erect ed about 1906. Each room had ? a tove itv the middle of tho room and had ?plenty of light tor the pupils to study 'hy ' Miss Bessie Miller, assisted by Mlsr Minnie Simpson Were the first tr teach in,this new school building. B was In the years of 1908 and 1907. Miss Bessie Miller, assisted by Miar Minnie Webb, taught In 1907 and 1908 At this Urns th? school grow too large for two-teachers -so there had to toe another room added, which was pul at the back of these other rooms, and another teacher waa employed. Tah was the first time in the history of White Plain? school that three teach 1915 Term ] frfrl ii' M. nV-? A special discount is ol arrangements now, and prep ent career. More calls for supply. Catalogue free. kly Intelligencer and Qty and everywhere. ?ounty, S. C. ers had to bc employed. Miss Bessie Miller, assisted by Miss es Webb and Sallie Wright, taught un til Christmas 1908. After Christmas, 1909, the school was taught by D. CV Colson, assisted by Misses Minnie Webb and Sallie Wright Fri 1909 and 1910 the school waa taught by U. C. Colson, assisted by Misses Minnie Webb and Louise Ma haiTey. in I'.UD ana r.'ii me scnool was taught by R. E. L. Smith, assisted by Misses Alma Crrett and Mamie Rog ers. In 1911 and 1912 the school was taught by Misses Alma Garrett and Mae Wigington. At this term the en rollmen has broken the record at White Plains school so far with 206 pupils on roll. in 1912 and 1913 the school wai taught by R. E. L. Smith, assisted by Misses Mae Wigington and Mamie r.ogers. In 1913 and 1914 the school was taught by R. E. Pennell, assisted by Misses Ruth Hayes and Mamie Rog ers. At the present four teachers have been employed for the first time at this school. The three school rooms are being used and the W. O. W. hall, which ls on top of the back room. This school is being taught by .Miss Elisabeth Allgood. assisted by Missen Betty McMahon, Helen Arnold ; and, Lillian Holtxclaw. The enrollment is at present 121. One noticeable thing about this school is that most of the children which come to this school at present are the children of the children which ?ame to the little old log school house 10 years ago. JAME BAGWELL. . 10th Grade. Topsy Tarry. A play entitled "Topsy Turvy" will be presented at the West Pslzer school hoifse Tuesday evening. December 22, r?t 8 o'clock. The public ls cordially invited. Admission 15 and 25 dents. Charleston & Western Carolina Railway To and From the NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST Leaves: No.4 22_6:00 A. M. No[.6_. . 3:35 P. M. 'Arrives: No. 5 . .".".10:50 A; M. No. 21 ,... 4:55 P. M. Information, Schedules, rates, etc., promptly given. E. WILLIAMS, G. P. A., Augusta, Ga, T. B. CURTIS, C A., . Anderson, & C. CH.* FESTON-CHICAGO SLEEPER Through Pullman Sleeping Car Service .ria SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier af the South Effective Sunday, November 22nd, 1914. Sleeper handled on CAROLINA SPECIAL Nos. 27 and 28. Schedule 8 a. m. Lv. Charleston Ar. 9:40 p. m. 12:56 p. m. Lv Columbia Ar 4:45 p. m. 4:80 p. m. Lr Spartanburg Ar 1:46 pm 7:30 p. m. Lv Asheville Ar 9:20 m m. 12:05 a. m. Lv Knoxville Lv 6:10 a. m. 10:56 a. m. Ar Cincinnati Lv 6:35 a m. ' 9?00 p. m. Ar Chicago Lv 8:55 a. m. Passengers from Anderson and Greenville territory wtll make connec tions by leaving on trains Nos. 15 to Greenville and 12 to Spartanburg and connecting there with the Onlca go sleeper. ? In addition to the through sleeper to Chicago, Drawing Room Sleeper. Standard Pullman Blooper, Dining car and through coach, For full and compute information, tickita and pullman reservation call S *J?y ?'i*?1 ?sent, or write ? W. R Ww. T. P. A. Greenville, 8. i?&\*CUCO" Coi a 4 r?red for first week. Make are yourself for an independ competent help than we can Write or call today. > j? anderson b?af aa* Spartaabarff, 8. Ct