The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-10-21
LAX. GRANT PARISH. La SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2l. 1893
Grant Parish School Affairs.

Grant Parish School Affairs.
There being no quorum of the
school board on the 7th, the meet
ing for this quarter goes by de-
fault over to January. The parish
superintendent hands US the fol-
lowing notes relative to schools:
CoLrAx, La, Oct. 2, 1893.
The only members of the school
board present were: G. 81. Starns,
William Smith, F. l.. Craig and
W. L. Richardson, Secretary. No
quorum.
The members present discussed
the enforcing of q rigid compli-
ance with the law in relation to the
collection of the poll tax, and the
following law on the subject was
considered:
School authorities in the parishes
are without authority to grant de-
lays to the tax collectors. 31st
Annual, page 423.
Poll tax shall operate as first
privilege on live and all real or per-
sonal property, rights and credits.
School law.
If the sheriff or tax collector
fails to show cause why the said
poll tax has not been collected he
shall be responsible for and shall
pay the poll taxes he has failed to
collect And shall be held liable
with his sureties on his official
bond for the payment of said tax.
Sec. 8, Act SO of 1883.
PARISH suPERINrENDKNT's RKPoRT.
To the Honorable school board Grant parish
] submit the following as my report
for 1888: Considering the meagre amount
of school funds, and the great want Of in
terest taken in Education BY those that
should be the most interested, I find the
schools fairly we'll conducted and located
at the most available points. The teach
ers generally manifest goodly degree Of
earnestness and industry. This being
the first year that / have been able to
visit the schools OF the parish, I must
confess that / found the children gener-
ally better advanced than I expected,
the shortness Of the school
terms. together with the great scarcity of
books and other paraphernalia, aside
from the great want Of proper houses
and furniture The schools are generally
taught in houses built Tor church purpo-
pes, and church seats are not at ali suita-
BILE for schools. Nearly all have inferior
and unsuitable desks.
In district Noel, we have five schools.
two white and three colored. The Colfax
school has been placed under the control
Of trustees elected by the patrons, and
bids fair to become the first school in
the parish. Paramount has built neat
house and only lacks proper furniture TO
become an excellent school. At each of
the colored schools suitable houses are
needed. Ferenxi and Village schools are
In good church houses, but Union Center
IL only picket shanty, and yet it is the
most important point in the district. Il
District 2 has one white and two col
bred schools. Union is the best colored
school in the parish and is taught by the
most capable and experienced colored
teacher in the parish, Israel Smith, ma
live OF Grant. The pupils in this school
compare well In advancement with q
large majority of the white schools. The
other colored school il rather sickly and |
not permanently located one. The white
school in this district Is the best adj |
vanced country public school in the par
sb. but they need concentration, unity, |
and proper building and furniture.
In district 3, school is taught in the |
Prospect church building, not ct all suit !
able, and has no blackboard. At this
point found ~ pretty and intelligent |
cooking children a. one could wish to !
behold, their teacher being an excellent |
me of the ante bellum kind.
District No. 4, FlagQon-Unfortunat |
he house in this district is school room
IN one side and Nugent depot is in the |
,ther side. II the people could be uni. |
ed and build in the center, q little over |
,ne mile from Nugent station, fine and |
en- months in the year. The house now |
n use lie q small affair, with no suitable |
'eats and no blackboard.
Clear Creek school, district 5, is really |
! line school, taught in q church, with |
In improved blackboard made by the
ady teacher, assisted by the lady she |
boards with.
District 6, Buelah-More turmoil, dis.
and contention here than at |
my other school In the parish. However.
hey have q pretty fair house built for |
'chool purposes alone, and good homo
made desks, bnt not enough by one
bird; also an inferior blackboard. The
ide door should be changed into . win |
low and the rostrum made wider
Oak Grove, District z, has two schools. |
which is suicidal in the extreme, both |
asing church buildings. A proper school
louse in or near the center, with suitable /
lesks, and little judgement in the en-
,l0yment OF teachers, and school could |
,e established here second to mono in the
'arish. The children, although sufficient |
y intelligent, are behind the average in