Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-06-20
THE SCHOOL FUND.

nishes the BANNER the follow
ing figures Last year there
was a deficiency in the school
fund for the city public free
schools of $3.50. This year the
trustees will be enabled to carry
over for the coming scholastic
year SI5o after having paid last
years deficiency, and also eX-
pended some $500 in improve
mcnts and payment on school
property. 1t is Calculated by
the trustees that if the state
fund amounts to only $1,000
and the city taxes $4,000 to-
gether with he.Peabody fund
-of $1,000 the schools can be
maintained for the coming scho-
lastic year with ease.
The success attending the
BRENNAN public free schools
since their Inauguration has
been marked. Those who were
so fSrtunate as to visit the
schools during the past few
days had ocular demonstration
of the efficiency of the system.
The public free schools of Bren-
ham have become an institution
and have given her an enviable
reputation, not only throughout
the state of Texas, but abroad.
Denison, BRENNAN, Houston,
San Antonio and New Braun
fels are the only cities in the
state in which efficient free
schools have been regularly
maintained for the full scholas-
tic year of ten months. There
IS at present an air of thrift and
prosperity about Brennan that
is witnessed in few other places
and it is at once remarked by
strangers; to such of us as stay
at home it is not so palpable.
The first remark of a stranger
is, "You have beautiful and
very thrifty little city" For
the past three or fur years i'm
provements have been going
steadily on, and it has as a gem
eral thing been difficult mat
ter for the new corners to OBJ
tain suitable houses. Hundreds
of new dwellings have been
erected and in almost every in
stance tenants have been
found before the houses were
completed. 1t is even so now
and quite a number OF new
houses are going up, some of
them quite pretentious and of a
size and style that will be an
ornament to the city.
BRENNAN has no manufactor-
les of any consequence and is
not in any sense manufacture
ing town. She is dependent
almost exclusively upon the
agricultural resources of the
surro lnding country and has
grown fully as fast if not faster
than the country. In looking
for a cause for this rapid growth
we can find nothing which to
to attribute it to unless it be
the public free schools. There
are many families of means who
have come to Brenham and
bought homesteads for the sole
purpose of enjoying the bene-
fits of the schools. People who
have enterprise enough to come
to a town to educate their chill
drcn are generally educated
people themselves and under
stand the value and benefit to
be derived from good schools. |
When it vas first proposed to
establish these schools no in
opposition was
manifested-the system of gra- |
ded schools was new in Texas
here it was an experiment. |
It has been tried and found to
De success, in fact each year
t is more successful than the
preceding year. Those most
opposed the schools
lave become convinced of their
error and many of them are
low ardent supporters of the
'ame. We think it is conceded
beyond question that our free
schools have done more than
my other one thing to build up
3renham and make her what
he to-day is. The question of
heir continuance is one of vital
interest to every citizen of the
lace and we have no doubt
hey will be kept up at all haz-
rds. ,----.s-