The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-24
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RUSSELLyILLE CAN NOW JOIN HER SISTERS IN THE ESTAB- BASEMENT OF A GRAND
 SCHOOL ENTERPRISE.

ab le.ss5r1-ss-- oPpoFtuHity lor thc es ttaDIishment of school of high grade in our midst.
 In furtherance of the project, {
 mass meeting was held at the court
 house on last Monday night, which
 was address:sesi by the Hon. R. B
 Wilson and Rev. T. H. Ware, agent of Hendrix college. The addresses of these gentlemen launched well the enterprise in our midst They were full of the logic both of rhetor- ic and of fact, and were spoken by men of enterprise to a people of the same stuff. As we caught the proj ect, it is to plant here training school under the auspices of our Methodist folks, for all this section of the State,--a school without the high sounding pretensions of col lege, but yet working in curricu- lum below few schools in the State. The kind of school to meet the wants of about nine-te -tenths of the people, and the kind to attract the people to us as school center. Let few things be written right here. Russellville understands her interests, and she has the progress in her bones to compass them. She wants this school. She must have this school. She can't afford to let it pass, and she won't. If she needed examples of the advantages of school, we could name Conway with two, cost ing over $100,000. Look at Conway before this investment and look at her now. Ask her if that was good investment. Look at Searcy. She has two, costing about $S0, ,000 and at Philadelphia with two, Baptist and Methodist, costing about ESQ., GOO. On the effort to locate Hen drix, the little town of Stuttgart, came into the ring with her $55, ,00O bid. Does this sort of grit pay them, and won't it pay us? And is this sort of grit there, and is it not here? Are our people behind in this sort of progressiveness? Let him say it who dares to. As we understand it, Russellyille is only asked for a subscription in money or real estate of $5,000 With this the church will put $l0,000 plant on the ground, and that in short order.
 When this school is certainty, imagine if you will, the music of the hammer and the saw and the ring of the woodman's ax as he begins to clear away for the planting ofan en- tire new addition to our little queen city of the prairie. Of the l26 lots set apart as the purchasing fund, al ready less than one and one-half dozen remain untaken, and this al most without an effort to place them It is safe to say it will add one
 third to our population in less than twenty months, and these will be of the best as is always the case with people who value education and go to hunt it, and when this sort ot population comes it brings social culture and wealth with it. Think for moment and you will see prol- ect like this means everything for town. It means increased popula- tion and increased wealth, for man must have means to pay school ex- penses. It means increased culture, for that follows schools as natural consequence. It means more value for real estate and increased activity in business circles for all this can not go on without turning loose mon ey for lots, money for lumber, mon
 ey for labor, for goods, and for board. It was stated by MT. Ware, and cor roborated by Prof Smyth, who had charge of the school at the time, that at Bellville while the District High school was located there, there was over $6000 per annum turned loose in that little town, If that was the case there, what may we ex- pect here. Say the school brings in l50 pupils. These will spend $50 each, or the sum of $22, 800. But this is not all. It will be saving to our people who are now obliged to send off to get 2 higher grade of education than the public school gives. If Rus sellville should send off only ten boys at $250 per year, she would send $2500, half of which would be saved by staying at home. And if she should send off 10 girls at $400 each for expenses, she would send away S4,000. Why not keep this money at home, and thus get some of the prosperity and money too, that Bell Buckle and other schools now enjoy. But some say why not col lege. Well, for this reason, as col lege it would cost four times as much money and thus put it out of ouI reach. As training school it will attract three times as much patron age, while the curriculum will be all that the great bulk of the youth ol our country will be able to take
 But now to close with. This is Rus 1 sellville's last chance. 1t is strange
 we have not put our commands up
 on something in this line before. Il
 will be stranger still, if we do not
 put them upon this. Arrangements
 have been made for another mass meeting at the court house next
 Monday night, at which Messrs
 Lawrence Russell, R. B. Wilson ane
 Judge |. w. Davis are expected t'
 make addresses, sand such other stepl
 taken as may be thought necessary
 to advance the interests of the move
 ment. Let everybody attend on tha
 occasion. Meantime let the matte
 be thoroughly canvassed among thu