The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 21, 1907, Image 6
NEW HIGH SCHOOL !
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I FULL TEXT OF THE ACT GIVING FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS TO HELP
HIGH SCHOOLS.
The most important act pass
ed at the late session ot the
General Assembly in reference
to schools was the one appro |
priating fifteen thousand dollars
for a system of high schools.
This was introduced in the
senate by Senator T M Ravsor
Iot Orangeburg, for years a member
of the State board 01 education
and in his legislative career
the champion of compulsory
education and other movements.
This act is intended to provide
a system of schools that will
help poor boys to prepare for
college. An act to provide
high schools for the state.
"Be it enacted by the general
assembly of the State of South
Carolina:
"Section 1. That it shall be j
lawful for any county, or for
any township, or any aggregation
of adjoining townships, or
for any aggregation of adjoining
6. hool districts, or any incorp
rated town or city within
the State, of not more than
1 1,000 inhabitants to establish a
high school in the manner and
with the privileges herein given,
t "Sec. 2. That any high school
territorial unit mentioned in
section 1 of this act may
establish a high school by an
election to be held in said proposed
high school district upon
the question of establishing the
same; said election to be conducted
in all other respects,
including the requirements of
those who are allowed to vote
therein, as elections are now
conducted under section 1208 of
the civil code of 1902, in reference
to special levies for school
purposes.. If a majority of the
votes cast shall be 'for high
school,'and not'against high,'
' the high school shall be established.
and become a body cor
Iporate under the name and style
of high school district No. blank
Of blank county (the State board
$0 insert the number in order of
its establishment in the particular
county, and also the name
of the proper county), whereupon
the county board of education
shall appoint for said high
school a board of trustees composed
of fire regular members:
Provided, That the five trustees
for said high school shall be
appointed for six years, one of
Kfewhom shall serve for only two
f "years, two for only four years,
and two for six years, lhe tenure
of each to be determined by lot;
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rTOViaea, iuruicr, uiai uic
chairman of each school district
board within the high school
territory be ex officio a member
of the high school board: Provided,
further. That the trustees
F of any special district in any
incorporated town or city operating
under a special act of the
general assembly, shall be exofiicio
trustees of the high school
in that town or city, every
vacancy by expiration of tenure
& to be filled for six years and all
unexpired terms to be filled by
appointment of said county
board, except in special districts
owerwise pruviucu.
t? "Sec. 3. That the board of
trustees of everv high school so
established is hereby authorized
to levy annually for the support
of such high school, not exceed
ing two mills on the dollar in
j? , addition to the levy now allow%
ed by law, of all taxable propery
within such high school district,
| the tax to be collected in the
same manner as special levies
H are now collected under section
v 1208 of said code: Provided,
That the right to make it a levy
merely for conducting the high
school tor the then next cnrrent
I* scholastic year as now defined
\ in section 1232 of said code may
H . b* voted down for that year in
the same manner as now provid-1
ed for in said section 1208 with
reference to voting upon special
levies for school district purposes.
"Sec. 4. That any public
high school already established,
or any number of high school
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gracies inapuouvo*-wwia.i.^?v.,
established?provided it shall
be organized and adopted as a
high school by special election
as prescribed in section 2 of
this act?in any high school
territory above described may
claim the privilege of this act:
Provided, it conforms to the
provisions thereof: Provided,
further, That nothing in this act
shall be construed as a repeal of
anv of the privileges granted
them in the special acts of the
general assembly.
"Sec. 5. That a high school
maintaining a four years'course
of study beyond the branches of
learning prescribed to be taught
in the common schools of the
State, and embracing not fewer
than seven grades or school
years, shall be known as a fouryear
high school; a high school
maintaining a three years' course
beyond the common school
course, shall be known as a
three-year high school; and one
maintaining a two years' course
beyond the common school
course, shall be known as a twoyear
high school; Provided,
That any and all high schools
so established shall include in
the course of study instruction
in manual training, especially in
respect to agriculture and
domestic science.
"Sec. 6. That The State
high school board shall provide
for the inspection and classification
of high schools under this
act. In doing this, it may invite
the assistance of such members
r?+ faculties of the University
of South Carolina, Clemson college,
Winthrop college, and the
South Carolina Mil'tary academy
as they may select, and
their actual expenses shall be
paid out of the fund hereafter
appropriated from year to year
while actually engaged in the
duties devolving upon them.
"Sec. 7? That the State board
of education as now constituted
shall constitute the State high
school board. The State high
school board shall provide rules
fnr th#? jirmortionment and dis
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bursement of the State aid to the
high schools, giving due recognition
to the number of years
of high school work, to
the number of courses of study
offered, to the enrollment of
pupils, and to such other matters
of local merit as may appear
to the board after a careful
examination of each high school:
Provided, That no school shall
receive more than 50 per cent,
of the amount raised annually
by taxation, subscription or
otherwise; Provided, further.
That no school shall receive aid
unless it has at least 25 pupils
and two teachers in the high
school department: Provided,
also, That no school receive
more than $1,200 annually from
the appropriation provided in
this act: Provided, further,
That no county shall receive
more than 5 * per cent, of the
annual appropriation provided
tor under this act.
"Sec. 8. The funds raised in
the various counties by taxation,
subscription, or otherwise,
for high school purposes shall
be placed in the county treas
ury, together with any appropriation
received from the State
board of education, and shall
be paid out only upon the order
ot the board of high school trustees,
duly approved by the
county superintendent of education.
Both the treasurer and
the county superintendent of
education shall keep accurate
accounts of this fund, as is provided
for other public school
funds.
"Sec. 9. That each of the
high school districts so established
is hereby authorized to
receive and use gifts, transfer,
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bequests or devises of property
for corporate purposes, whe ther
they be otherwise conditional,
or whether absolute in r.heir
terms; and also to issue coupon
bonds within the constitutional
limit, and to dispose of the
same to raise money for the
purpose of purchasing sites and
th*? #?rf?rtion of buildings there
on, or for the purpose of purchasing
improved property,
suitable for school, or dormitory,
or mess hall purposes:
Provided, That the question of
amount of issue, and the rate of
interest, and the time or t ines
of payment of the principal,
shall first be submitted to the
qualified electors within the
said high school district whoreturn
real or personal property
for taxation, at an election to
be held in the same manner as
elections for special levies for
school district purposes are now
required to be submitted under
section 1208 of said code: and
Provided, further, That an annual
interest on said issue shall
not exceed 6 per cent., and :bat
4-Via cola cliall Tint- Kp fnr 1 PSK
cu*_ oaiv ouu&t uv?. w
than par and accrued interest.
"Sec. 10. That the suui of
$50,000, or so much thereol as
may be necessary, for each of
the school years, beginning July
1, 1907, be, and the same is
hereby, appropriated to carry
out the provisions of this act,
and the comptroller general is
hereby authorized to draw warrants,
upon the Slate treasurer
for such amounts, upon the order
of the State board of education,
duly signed by the governor,
as chairman, and the State
superintendent of education, as
secretary: Provided, That tuition
shall be free in every
school receiving aid under this
act to all pupils in the county
where the school is located:
Provided, further, That nothing
in this act shall be constructed
to mean that pupils of different
races shall attend the same
school./
"Approved Feb. 19, 1907."
The Alligator's Sleep.
A man who passed himself off a?
an animal keeper at a zoo had one
spring an experience with an alligator
which cost the concern dear.
The alligator had not awakened
' from his winter nap when the keeper
appeared on the scene at the
park. He could not understand
why the saurian slept and thought
it whs siplr. Hp nunehed the alii
gator and tried in many ways to
wake it up. He also noticed that
the creature did not eat. Finally,
growing desperate for fear that he
would have a death on his hands,
the keeper bought ten pounds of
beef, pried open the saurian's huge
jaws and poked the meat down his
throat with a fence rail. A few
days later the thick skinned creature
died. The keeper later explained
thaLhe did not know that
alligators slept in the winter and
did not eat anything during their
long naps.
Vary Mueh Haaviar.
Chureh?At a recent church fair
in England one of the means used
for increasing the receipts was a
guessing contest as to the weight of
the pastor.
Gotham?Before or after?
Church?Before or after what ?
Gotham?Before or after preaching.
Church?What difference would
that make ?
Gotham?A good deal. Some pastors
are much heavier when preaching.?Yonkers
Statesman.
Baeomaa a Littla Rabat.
That there is a startling difference
between the temper of the riling
generation and that of the
youth whose young ideas shot up
according to the teachings of Mrs.
Hannah More and Sanford and
Merton has recently been proved
by a little seven-year-old girl, who
was laboriously spelling her way
through a reading lesson.
"Always 6peak the truth,'V she
6aid, "and obey your parents.
"lie gentle and quiet. JNe?-er
6lam the door and Bhout and scream
a-bout the house.
"At the ta-ble eat 6lowly, not in
a greed-y man-ner, like a pig/'
Suddenly the little girl shut the
book with a portentous bang and
announced with firmness and decision
:
"Fm not going to let any old
Third Reader boss me like that 1"?
Rochester Herald.
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IMPROVING THE ATTIC.
SuggMtionii That Will Halp In Making
It Habitabla.
In addition to those familiar uses
of attics which iro so vivid when it
rains or when one is cynical or
moody or incline i to be witty at the
expense of bedposts and warming
pans, there are improved uses an attic
can be put to and still remain an
attic. The feeling of attics?that
sense they give of a friendly alienation
from the world below 6tairs?
must not, of course, be lost. If one
desires no more than a place in
which to tell fairy tales at twilight
t,fte lighting 01 a canuie migm
be change enough in the usual unplastered
and left over space. But
that is too simple. Besides, the
taste for fairy tales is not universal,
and it is, moreover, a taste more
natural in the nursery than in the
attic. But a habitable attic must
be anything but dingy. A glass
trapdoor, such as one too often sees,
is not enough. There should be a
great dormer window, built low
enough for window seats, and ample
seats at that, large enough to
lounge in. There should be wide
sills, too, for flowers, for an attic
without flowers would be unimaginable.
As for the body of the room
the chief thing to do where there
are gables would be to insert a
wainscot ail around of, say, five or
six feet in height. Along this could
be put shelves for books or odds
and ends of whatever kind. A carpet
would be improper, for it is traditional
that an attic is bare. Inexpensive
rugs and skins suggest
themselves mechanically, like easy
chairs, a work table and a lounge.
The fancy includes a piano, pictures,
glorious andirons, vonces,
while the imagination leaps to armor
and cabinets. Yet in a proper
attic the furniture should be a little
commonplace with a discarded look,
if you will, to be in keeping. Things
half broken down are fit for a
quaint utility there, and as clothes
once decent on Sunday come to be
so only on Saturday and then on
Friday, and so on, so odds and ends
as they grow familiar and worn in
other parts of the house have a last
use?as old companions in an attic,
?Wallace Stevens in Indoors and
Out.
Diplomatic.
"Mr. Gidsraorc," l>egan the young
man, "when you proposed to youi
wife, or to the estimable lady who
is now Mrs. Gidsmore, did she tell
x _ _ _1_ 1 J.ll fJW
you to asx xier iatuer r
"She did, my boy," affably replied
Mr. Gidsm^re.
"And did you .try to shirk the
job?*
"Well, come to think of it, I did,
I?I believe I tried to get her to dc
the asking, 'pon my soul. Ha, ha!'1
"And whan you did ask him?ol
course you had to speak to him
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anauy ?
"Of course I did. Of course/'
"And when you did ask him did
your knees shake, and was youi
tongue dry, and did you have stage
bright generally ?"
"I was scared to death."
"Well, that's the way I feel. I
told Gladys I knew I could find
some mutual bond of sympathy between
us when I came to tell you
that she has promised to marry
me."?Life.
Took Him Down a Pog.
The young doctor to whom the
iEsculapian oath was Greek looked
cbntemptuously at the old woman
who had come to the uptown hospital
where he was an interne to inquire
about her son.
"He has cerebro neurosis, I told
you once," he said.
"Oh, dear," said the woman, for
she was not as ornately educated as
the young physician, "is it as bad as
that ? New?what do you call it ?"
"Neurosis,"' said the surgeon.
"Don't I talk plain, enough for
you?"
"Is it anything like nervous prostration
?" inquired the woman.
"You will pardon me, sir. My education
was along literary rather
than scientific lines."
'That's wTiat some call it," said
th 3 young physician as he got ready
l ? -L- ? nwknl Onna ef
kU 11UI&C a ruu 1U1 luc aiuumauuv n>
th*j door.?New York Telegram.
F*?ling Ov*rcrewd*d.
It was doubtless Mrs. Howe's
"sympathetic nature/' to which she
constantly referred, that made her
carry so many burdens which did
not belong to her. Her sufferings
were many, but the statement of
them often roused her family to
mirth.
"How's your head this morning,
my dear?" inquired Mr. Howe one
morning in a properly solicitous
tone. '
"It's no better," came in a hollow
voice from behind the teapot.
"It won't be any better while I
can't get Cousin John's lungs and
Mary's china and mother's eyes and
Harriet's wisdom teeth out of it for
one minute."
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High Priced BumbUbm.
Many years ago the farmers of
Australia imported bumblebees from
England and set them free in their
clover fields. Before the arrival of
the bees clover did not flourish in
Australia, but after their coming
the farmers had no.more difficulty
on that score. Mr. Darwin had
shown that bumblebees were the
only insects fond of clover nectar
which possessed a proboscis sufficiently
long to reach the bottom of
the long, tubelike flowers and at
the same time a body heavy enough
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to Dena aown me ciover ueau bo
that the polleif would fall on the insect's
back and thus be carried off
to fertilize other flowers of the
same species. The bumblebees sent
! to Australia cost the farmers there
! about half a dollar apiece, but they
i proved to be worth the price.
The Very Earliest CoirXo
one knows exactly when or,
where the original coin was
"struck" cr what metai was used.
Certain passages in Homer would
lead to the inference that brass was
coined as early as the year 1184
B. C. Tradition affirms that the
Chinese had bronze coins as early
as the year 1120 B. C., but Herodotus,
the acknowledged "father of
history," is of the opinion that the
Lydians "invented" coins some time
during the ninth century B. C. One
of the oldest coins now known is
a gold daric, coined by the Persians
during the reign of Darius. On
one side of this coin is a bust of
Darius and on the other side a
^ figure or a kneeling arcner.
Mugwump.
"Mugwump" was an old Algonquin
word for a chief, which waa
used In a seventeenth century Indian
Bible to translate "centurion,"
'"captain" or "duke" in the English
i version. It was borrowed by the
, New Englanders as a nickname for
i most superior persons, very like the
English "great panjandrum," and
i first applied in its special political
i sense to Republicans who desert. 1
i their party on grounds of principle
i at tilt presidential election of 1884.
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Gum 8Koa Work.
"James!" she said severely.
[ The butler looked up- with a
guilty flush.
"James," she asked, "how is it
that whenever I come into the pan;
try I find your work at sixes and
sevens and you sprawled out reading
? the news?"
I "Well, ma'am," the butler answered,
"I should say it was on ac- j
count of them old rubber soled tennis
shoes you're always weana*
i nl>out the house."
Talking to tho Wrong Mam
| While Judge Dooly was holding
? court in Washington county, Ga., a
( certain General Hanson who was1
. famed as a blowhard came in and
sat down at the side of the judge
and began to tell him about the
vast amounts of property he owned.
"Stop just a moment, general/'
( said Judge Dooly. "Mr. Sheriff,
call in Jones, the receiver of tax
returns."
In a few momenta that worthy
appeared.
"Mr. Receiver," said the judge,
t "come up here and make an inven,
tory of General Hanson's property.
He has mistaken me for you."
A Million Botwoon Thom.
"Yes," said Lassitudinous Luke
' as he traded his battered tomato
can for a nice fresh one from the
dump, "dey wuz once when me an'
a New York copper had a million
dollars between us."
?nrv.iy> ?11-J T?
"" wnai: jreiicu x iimvio.
Fact/' said Laaaitudinoua Luke
as he fastened the string securely to
hia new carryall. "Y' see, I wui
1 in de alley on one aide uv,a savings
' bank, an' he wuz lookm* fer me in
de alley bevont"?Judge.
"A dollar
is a dolli
There is no better way
dealing with
J. L. Stuckey, the ol
man.
I have a splendid line c
Bibs, Win
that in view of the hard times
above cost.
A nice bunch of HORSES
at prices to suit.
J. L. Stui
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Alcohol
not needed A
Aycr's Sarsaparilla is not a
strong drink. As now made,
there is not a drop of alcohol <
in it. It is a non-alcoholic tonic
and alterative. Ask your own
doctor about your taking this
medicine for thin, impure
blood. Follow his advice
every time. He knows.
M We publish oar formulas
SW _ We banish alcohol
0mM r from our medicines
fiyers
Ask your doctor, "What is the first great
rule of health?" Nine doctors out or
ten will quickly reply,44 Keep the bowels
regular." Then ask him another question,
44 What do you think of Ayer's
Pills for constipation?"
? Mede by th?J. C. Ajar Co., Lowell, Kern ?? .
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dtally tnvited^U) come
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s. -W f' Kingstree Lodge
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WttR Knights of Pythias
* ^ ^ Regular Conventions Every
2nd mad 4th?W ednemday flights.
Visiting: brethren alwnys welcome,
Castle Hall 3rd story Gourd in Building.
F W FA TREY, c. c.
THOS Mr CUTCHEN, K. R. A 8.
Everyone knows that Spring is
the season of the year when the sye ?
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tem neeas cleansing. ijjxusuo
LITTLE LIVER PILLS are highly
recommended. Try them.?Sold
bv W L Wallace.
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