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H * i i "" <r> ? ~ TFome Interestii About Nei Y _ v ^ ANNUAL KmiKI Of , COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT' j MANY DISTRICTS HAVE VOTED "SPiECIAL TAX ' Gain in Enrolment?Over $9,006 in i W?^TPral Bktrirti^how W?X ? Overdraft "Former County Superintendent G. D. Brown so^ne time ago'"finished bis annual report to the State superintendent cf education on the condition and so I". U - N^on pf tke schools of dewberry county. Some figures from Uiis report are | I v t, always interesting, and it has been th? custom of The Herald and News to print certain statistics from these annual reports so that the people may have an idea of the condition of the 1 1 ~ TCU ~ rnool* fflr tjlPTTl tyC?COib. i. lie uguics aw* ? selves. The cash balance to the credit cf tie general school fund is less at tae close of'the last school year than it has been for a number of years. And several hundred dollars in war rants were issued before the close of the school year, but which were not paid by the treasurer until after the SOtfn of June, and therefore do not appear in this report, but which will j make the cash balance carried forward , to this year less than it appears. They iha~?e been paid since the close of tfce j *?hocl year and will come up against the cash reported on hand at the close of the year. If the money can be-wisely used for the benefit of tfee schools and the children there is no use to accu 1 Ululate a Dig oaiance. | ^ There are more districts that show a deficit than in many years, but if fey so doing the schools have been benefited and the children helped, better tf) use some of this fund that'js acj cumulating than that any school sfcould suffer. The half mill tax that was levied by the legislature in 1913 for the county board fund, we understand, was api om.-\ncr t>io ?^"hool9! the same fclWJM u vuv as tbe three mill tax, but t':e county board bad a pretty good balance from the dispensary. That has been exhausted and the board fund, which is inade up from five per cent of tfte 'three mill tax, shows a deficit. The county beard allowed Mr. Brown a retainer fcr legal advice of $100 a year for the two years that he held the office. This was never allowed before, bat that may '.ave been a wise expenditure. Mr. Brown secured more State aid than any other superintendent ever received for the schools of the county. The report shows something over ^$9,000 lor the last school year. In iQi* ?y< o/->+ tp?? hv thA Tpins X{J11 ail UV/l TTV >~v --C3 . I ' lature providing - " *** the hands I of Hhe State hoard by which it "r-u'd | aid weak and needy schools, and Mr | ^Brown was able to draw ivc:r well ^.from it. But there are counties, that receive more State aid tf:an Newberry in proportion. There is much interest and activity among the schools and a number of the districts have voted a special ix and | tie enrollment Has Deen materially m[ creased, but unless Mr. Barre can succeed in getting considerable aid from the State there are going to be districts tfrat will suffer during the present school year. We have given many of the statistics in detail, but we hope in such shape that the people may understand the condition of the schools. The report n.airfiR aeood showing: and the school authorities are to be commended for their zeal and earnestness and enthusiasm, and it is hoped that it will be ''kept up. UnlessNsome of the districts deceive some outside aid during tibe coming year the danger is that some of the school spirit may be lost from discouragement. The following facts and figures ar^ taken from the official report of Former Superintendent Brown to the State " ? -1 JLl superintendent or eaucauon: ? { Balances. Total balance July 1, 1913...$10,360.30 Total balance July 1, 1914... .$9,719.01 Total balance, July I 1 1915 $5,189.68 ^Less deficit July 1, 1915 2,162.84 13,026.84 Net balance, July 1, 1915 3,026,84 Board Fund. * Bal. Co. board fund July 1, 1914 $2,165.32 T-1 Atr1 qq -j<; Pjuiy x, . Receipts x>ll tax, 1914-15 $ 4,662.00 I mill tax, 1914-15 20,935.87 log tax, 1914-16.:.... 1,309.00 *? wtesi IK lg Figu res wberry Schools I poses) 18,193.88 j $45,181.03 I f ...... State High Schools? Newberry (1) voi0.00 Prosperity, 14 550.00 Pomaria (R.G. S.).. 200.00 Little Mountain 540.00 Trinity (R.G.S.).... 200.00 Jalapa (R. G. S.) 200.00 Whitmire 440.00 Silveratrwt (R. Q. 8.) 200.Ctt $2,&4&00 TfT3* Extension, J Newberry 110^.00 Long Lane 40.08 McCollough 147,00 Cromer 50.00 Hartford 235.00 JoLnstone 184.00 St. Luke 244.00 Saluda 181.00 O'Neall 160.00 Monticello 58.00 Fairview 175.00 ! Swilton 200.00 Big Creek 200.00 St. Phillips 200.00 Rutherford 100.00 Pomaria 150.00 Little Mountain 250.00 Wheeland : 303.00 Union 47.00 Hunter-De Walt'.... 5.00 St. Paul 111.00 Mt. Pilgrim 20.00 Vaughnville 25.00 Chappells 130.00 .Dominick 100.00 Independence 20.00 Bush River 100.00 Smyrna 35U.UU trinity 25.00 Kinirds 100.00 Flint Hill *39.00 Fork 50.00 Zion 150.00 Belfast 116.00 Silverstreet 50.00 Presstey 100.00 $4,9(37.00 -Libraries. Newberry $ 10.00 McCrary 5.00 St. Luke 10.00 Prosperity 5.00 Saluda 5.00 iM'onticello 5.00 Swilton 5.00 St. Phillip 10.00 Rutherford 5.00 Hunter-DeWalt 5.00 St. Paul 5.00 Mt. Pilgrim 5.00 Vaughnville .... 10.00 Chappells 5.00 Dominick 5.00 Tolor?o _ 5 00 i uuxuj^a ?t . Kinards 10.00 i Tabernacle 10.00 " Wl:itmirv 5.00 Pressby 5.00 130.00 Buildings. St: Luke $400.00 Saluda 100.00 1 Wheeland 200.00 Hunter-DeWalt 250.00 Smyrna j.. 300.00 1,250.00 Total State appropriation. .$9,157.00 Recapitulation. High schools, including rural graded schools $2,840.00 Term extension, which evidently includes State aid to weak and needy schools... 4,937.00 Libraries 130.00 Buildings 1,250.00 \ ' Total ...$9,157.00 Other Sources. Total receipts from all other sources (including private subscriptions): Newberry $ 910.00 Long Lane 73.70 McCullouglh 69.00 McCrary 33.00 Dead Fall 5.00 St. Luke 5.00 Prosperity ^. 396.39 22.65 uaiuuM Monticello 5.00 Swilton 11.55 St. Phillips 30.00 Rutherford 10.00 Pomaria 270.93 Little Mountain 96.13 WViDQlonfl 25.00 ff U^VIUUU Hunter-DeWalt 208.05 St. Paul 26.00 Mt. Pilgrim ,15.69 Vaughnville '.. 10.00 Chappells 5.00 Dominick 5.00 Independence 20.00 Smyrna 400.00 Trinity 108.91 JalaDa 10.00 Kinard ? 20.00 Tabernacle 10.00 Whitmire 5.00 Beth Eden 10.50 Fork 26.00 Zion 79, 1 Belfast 72.00 Silverstreet. 105.00 | Tot* Recapitulation. Total revenue $69,927.25 Total expenditure 66,900.41 Balance July 1, 1915 $ 3,026.84 Deficit. The following districts show a deficit and ti-e amount of each: Newberry $ 323.7Ch McCrary 'b2.61 Reagin ..: 32.52 Johnstone 20.44 St. Luke 10.90 Central 18.00 Pomaria 56.60 Helena 48.70 Little Mountain 96.35 Union 62.13 H'unter-DeWalt 315.46 Paul 3.99 "Mudlic 6.09 Independence 29.07 ? - * nn fto Trinity < o Tabernacle 34.59 Whitmire 949.81 Fork 29.95 Board fund 68.15 Total deficit $2,162.84 Total deficit for the year ending June 30, 1914, was $796.05. Total amount paid to white male teachers for the year ending June 30, 1914 was $9,232.02. Total amount paid to wUte women teachers for the same year was $35,592.87. TLis makes a total paid to white teachers in this county of $44,824.90. Total paid negro men teachers, $2,636.70. Total paid negro women teachers, $4,753.24. This makes a total paid to negro teachers of this county, $7,389.94. Total salaries for both races, $52,214.84. Total paid for furniture for white schools, $1,079.23. Nothing spent for furniture for negro schools. Total for fuel and incidentals for white schools, $2,576.95. Under this head for negro schools only one dollar was expended, and that at Helena. For repairs for white schools, $528.34 was expended. For negro schools $1.80 was expended. Under the head of rent $156.60 was expended, and of this amount $151.60 was spent in Silverstreet district, which was for transporting children. For grounds and buildings for white For negro schools, $136.02, For libraries, a total of $735.33. Under the head of interest on bonds, only $164.94 appears on the report. Of course that does not include all that was paid 6n school bonds, but under the law no record is kept In the superintendent's office of tine bonded indebtedness of the county or of interest payments. Enrollment. Town schools: Boys 787 Girls 804 1,567 Country schools: Boys 923 Girls 804 1,727 Total white enrollment 3,294 Town schools (negro): Boys 464 Girls 539 1,003 Country schools (negro): Boys 2,180 Girls 2,540 4,720 Total negro enrollment .... 5,723 .. Total enrollment for Co. fh/ith 9.017 Average Attendance. Out of a total enrollment of 1,567 white children in tke town schools the average attendance was 1,252. In the country schools the total enrollment was 1,727 and the average attendance 1,194. The negro schools in town, the average attendance was 744 in an enrollment of 1,003. In the country schools the average attendance was 2,656 in an enrollment of 4,720. Value of School Buildings. The report shows that there are seven brick and fifty-two wooden buildings, with a total of 112 class rooms, valued at $135,725. The county owns 91 3-4 acres, upon which the buildings are erected, and the buildings and land are valued at $148,680. School furniture valued at $22,512. The lvalue of negro school houses j and ^rounds $14,250. ' Length of Term. The average length of the scfcool term for white children in town, 167 days, and in the country 139 days. For the county, 143 days. For the negro schools, the average in town is 94 days; country, 65 days; for tf:e county, 67. Salaries. The average salary paid to wmte men teachers, $593.69; to the women teachers, f349,19; \o 6exe$, > The average M&ry to men teachers, $259.76; to the women, $101.13; to both sexes. $109.71. Miss Sadie Goggans, supervising i teacher for rural schools, $675 and $150 I i for traveling expenses. S> e made 118 I TTieitc U. S. Gallman, colored supervisor, i $245. He made 150 visits. Buildings. New buildings were erected in the following districts during the year: St. Lukes, Saluda, Wheeland, Jolly Street, Smyrna. . Special Tax.% Special tax was voted during the year in the following districts: Wheeland, 2 mills additional; Old Town, 4 mills; Kinards, 4 mills; Whitmire, 2 mills additional; Fork, 2 mills: Belfast, 2 mills; Newberry, 1 taill addi tiona': Rutherford, 2 mills; Garmany, 2 mills. Compulsory Attendance. The following districts are put down as having compulsory school attendance: Chappells, Hunter-DeWalt. Long Lane. St. Philips. Big Creek, Utopia, Wheeland, Kinards. i r ^ & <$> THE IDLER <S> <S> $> $><$>#><$><$>$>$><$><&<$><?>$><?><$> I notice that the Observer and the 17" r\ Z c* s\-? VirvfVi 'r\y*/\T\'n nc*-rr fT"? -q + noo/?fl in naioci uv/Lii pi v^uv^oj c- ?-*.i, xu Europe will come along about October. I hope they know what they are talking about. I suppose they know the fate of the false prophet. England is about to declare tftat cotton is contraband of war. Well, it won't make much difference anyway, because she has not been permitting any of it to go to Germany, and has been sitting down and telling the neutral nations how/- much they shall have, and we just sit over r3ere and take it and say nothing about it. I think it was only the other day that I ^ead in some paper that Secretary Lansing was conferring with the ambassador of Great Britain, a Mr. some kind of Rice, as to the nature and contents of the note fnie />ftiintrv ie tn SPnri to I ^w vv/""v*J ? ~ ~ 0 " ~ I-Great Britain. Of course, if we are Just going to sit down and let Englani say what we shall write, why England will go on and say that the enemy shall have no cotton, and that she will not be able to fire those big guns. It seems to me tfcat I heard some Dutchman say tnat Germany nad some twenty million bales of cotton that she had been storing away for several years in her game of preparedness to meet just such a condition. If that is true, why Germany can go on a w^ile yet firing big guns and making the explosives. Well, I had just as well tell the truth, and that is that I do not krnu- anvthirff much about the war. or W at is the right thing to do, only I do hope that the whole blasted thing (will soon come to an end and that we may have some better times in this country. The people are getting too war away from the straight and narrow patfa and that is the reason there is so much strife and turmoil and wrangling among the people who are at war and those who claim to be at peace. Times would be better over here if tfce peop'e would be just a little more considerate of each other. Here's hoping they may. Since writing Ihe above I nave ;*'st found that press dispatch from Washington about that British note and the conference that was to be velo vith Mr. Lansing by the ambassador from Great Britain. Here it is: "Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British * >TT? 21. J ambassador, accompanied oy a lunuea States secret service guard, is due here early next week from his summer home in Massachusetts, to go over tine note with iSecretary Lansing." Th* note in Question is the note this government is preparing to send to England in rega^l to the making of cotton contraband of war. Well, I guess they will fix it up all right to suit the British. Then I see from the pa pers that IMT. Congressman Lever has had a conference with the president and the president has satisfied Mr. Lever that he will take care of our cotton down T:ere and t hat everything will be fixed up all rigl.t. iWtell, these fellows the people al.jcted to do the job I reckon will turn the trick. And turn it better than I could. At least I am not going to give them any ad vice, because I don't reckon they would j take it, and I "ate to have my good j offices ignored. "Wfaat we need is some cheap money and on long time. And at a reasonable price for a basis for the lean. I have heard that Mr. Matthews of the National bank has made an ar- 1 rangement to lend every farmer in .XTa-rtrVmtrir />/Mintv CrtTTIA TTinnftV flTI his cotton. That's all rigfct and good if he will let them have it at a low rate of interest and on fair basts of value for the cotton and . on long time. None of us down tore can affor<fto pay interest" charges ' that have been in | vogue, and I reckon tfbe "banks and I No More T Perspi How many times have due to the fact that you \ cessive perspiration? Y< ty gown, or that delicate you admire and have ; through perspiration odo tion Deodorant" for Per; Delightful, soothing, an that you will never want have used it. 25 cents ?\ Newberry those who have money to let feel that they can not let it for less than they now charge. But all these things will adjust themselves and all will end | well. I never did know anything about business or money and I don't know i why I got to writing about this sort of think. All I know about money is ; I to spend it, and I have had so little that I did not learn very much along' that line. In fact, somehow I seem ( to have formed the opinion in my j youth, which now has been many years ' ago, that money was meant to spend and the faster you spent it tf:e more Jr\r>Yr T + fVCCll'+ QT1V I UtMJIS xi wv/uxu yaj xi w , one any good to keep it tied up in a stocking or locked up in a bank vault. But I am going to quote a paragraph from an article I read in a Richmond naner?the article written by A. B. 'Williams, who has been studying commission form of government and writing his impressions for the people of , Richmond. T':is paragraph gives a I little idea of some of the characteristics of the American ivoter. Read it: ?o? - "Senator Swansonina speech intfae Southwest once said of Bascomb Slemp "hohit nf starting his j Lii<Xt- lie uau v* vv. ? ? o mouth to working and then going off and leaving it. The average good 'American citizen helps to start the machinery of government working and then goes off and leaves it. He persists in hoHernricr it will run itself. It won't, j He sticks to tfcat old, old theory that j the American voter is a virtuous and intelligent person who, of his own motion, will use his vote carefully and with full sense of his responsibilities, j He won't do it. Where She votes, She i won't lo it. Tbe best of us won't do j it unless somebody is after us all the | time. The average leading business man of the average American cny pci-1 haps is the most careless and ignorant voter we bave, when left to his own devices, and frequently one of the most useless members of a city council. His mind is on his business or social af! lairs or on possibilities of domestic commotions if he lingers too long at ' committee or council meetings; and | he is apt as not to ask and take advice on how he shall vote from the very men he was elected to oppose? j the men who made a trade of public affairs and who for reasons of their' own are entirely familiar with rules and persons and propositions and are ? ?-roil o-Vi nr interested in geiujj.5 tmo iuivu6Ja j Don't Fail to Atti A Caldwell & i Portier Goods worth $ Price, yard I Portier Goods worth $1 Price, yard Comes in beautiful floral French Repp, fast colors, Qoln nripp varH IJU1V Jk/X j v> .. Big stock of Cretons all g in all fancy shades, 15c 10c values, sale price, ya: i mmmmmmm i i mmmmmmmm n urn n n We say come and look t ders filled ral^well &. ~Pb?c40 Jo*. T. Hut " ' - " i " in * < <r I rouble From Wation you felt uncomfortable were worried about exou can -put on that damshade of silk gloves that no fear of soiling them rs if you use "Perspirasprration Troubles. < tiseptic, toilet accessory to be without; once you i, per box. t Drug (Jo. holding tftat up. I have heard of such actual situations and occurrences in Richmond. "Tho A-mpriran vnter psnpfiallv in his municipal politics, is ready to follow good leadership in which he i:as confidence.. It is so everywhere. But the leadership must be there and must stay there. It must continue at least until tfce success of any new method has been demonstrated too clearly for - - . doubt or question ana tne toxin 01 oia habits and prejudices has been worked out of the community's system. Even then there always will be everywhere a certain number of people wanting easy jobs or special favors and a certain number of the chronically or specially dissatisfied, all waiting for the slightest prtext to jump in and take charge of things and upset the whole kettle of beans." lA. lot of us start .our mout-s to i working and then go off and leave them, and, believe me, they do some fine work sometimes. Those of us who ; vote do not always vote for the best fitted men. That is too often the last consideration, if considered at all. We too often are moved by prejudice or personal feelings or some cause other tlian fitness for the job. It too often happens that fitness is the last thing we think about. But what do I know about this subject. I feel that I have just turned -by machine loose and gone off and left it and it just kept on grinding. They tell me that the city council has built some fine concrete bridges, and I want to commend them for that. That is what I have been contending for all tl:ese years that I have been < writing. That sort of work will last. That is what they should do for the streets. Build some that will last, if only a small bit each year, and then they are done with that part. By the way, a lady away down in Columbia sent me a name for the park. And she says there is no otfaer name that would be at all appropriate. I wouldn't tell for the world what she gays it should be named. I was just wondering why it had not been named. Just call it The Park, and wf^n we get another one we will call it The Park, Second. And so on. THE IDLER. " nw/1 flin Riff Qolfl UllU lilt JLPlg UCUV T Haltiwanger's 1.75, Special Sale 98c 1.25, Special Sale 79c designs, red, green, etc. values up to 65c, 33c :o in the big sale, 1 ft. : values, price, yard rd 6 l-2c hem over. All mail orpromptly. Haiti wanger * * ioAi if.:. & ^ I 1 * '