The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-23
A PROGRESSIVE COUNTY.
Clarke Continues to Build school
Houses and Good Roads.


Athens, Ca, Oct. 22.-The grand jury
of Clarke county has appropriated $3.50 to
erect new school buildings in different
sections of the county during the next six
months. The localities where the new
buildings go up are to furnish an equal
amount Within the past six months the
same sum has been expended. The coun-
ty will keep up this movement, appropriate
Ing $3.50 every six months until every To-
cality in this county needing a school
building Will have one.
The grand jury has ratified the action
of the former grand jury, recommending
the working Of the county convicts on the
public roads. County Surveyor Strachan,
who has already surveyed seventy miles
of the worst roads in the county, VIII have
charge OF the work, and will inaugurate
the new system Jan. ], 1897 The work of
the roads will be of a permanent nature,
and it is estimated that it will require
six years in which to complete it. The
cost will be about $500 per annum, but
when 1t is finished Clarke county will
have magnificent county roads.
Mrs. Jane p. Summey, widow of the
late Peter A. Summey of this city, died
yesterday after a long illness. She had
lived here since 1913, was 50 years of age,
Der of the Methodist church. She will be
especially remembered by the students of
the University of Georgia from 1876 up to
1888, during which time she kept the col
lege dormitory which was known to all
students as the "Summey house." Mrs.
Summey was a lady of refinement and
culture, and numbered her friends by the
hundreds. The remains of Mrs. Summey
were inferred in Oconee cemetery to-day.
Mrs. Sarah Melton, aged Sc years, one
of the oldest citizens of Clarke county,
was stricken with paralysis yesterday, and
it is thought she will die.
Capt. w. 3. Burnett, while in Atlanta,
met an Indiana friend, who told him he
had $500 bet on Mckinley carrying that
state, but wished he had his money back
in his pocket.
The members of the Athens bar are
working with a viii for the election OF
Andrew j. Cobb of Atlanta to a position
on the supreme bench.
The foot ball game, that was to have
been played between Wofford u.s. c. and
the University of Georgia in this city
Saturday, has been declared off. Wof-
ford's team couldn't come to Athens, and
our team couldn't go to their town, and
so the game was Cancelled. Mr. Gordon
Saussy, who has been assisting in the
training of the Varsity team has return
ed to his home in Savannah. Fred Price
lAelS NCNlNCN AAOt " pay Oll the dISlly
foot bah team this fall, and has returned
| To his home in Waynesboro.
Capt. Bradwell, president Of the State
| normal school, also officiates as legal coun.
sci for the students. He has just closed vi
h the legal proceedings necessary to secure
| for one of the teachers attending the nor.
NAL school a legacy of $500 in rich North
| Carolina plantation lands. He will not give
| the name of the young lady, but says she
/ is one of those deserving girls who has
Il battled hard for an education, and who
| despite the factt that she will receive this
| money, intends to complete her course o.
study at the normal school and go righ
| on teaching in the common schools Of
| Georgia.
Miss Mildred Rutherford has returned
| from Macon where she has been attend
ing the state convention of the Daughter
| of the confederacy.