The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-29
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Trustees of NewDcrry School District
Make Their Annual Report-Tho
building Must be Enlarged for
tha.BouEdary Street School
Tho Citizens NIeoting
and tho Annual
Election.


columns, the citizens meeting 70 hear
the annual report Of the Board OF Trus-
tees OF the Newberry Graded Schools,
was held in the Mayor Office at the
opera house on Wednesday morning at
10 o'clock.
The attendance at the meeting was
100 small to make it necessary to go
into the opera house, and as the eight
chairs in the Mayors Office would COM
fortably accommodate all those pres
cnt, they were invited into that office,
where the meeting was held.
Sometimes we find ourselves WONDER
ing whether it is indifference, careless
ness, or simply lack of public inter-
est on the part Of the citizens, that
causes them to absent themselves from
meetings which are called to consider
matters of grave Importance to the
whole citizenship of the city. Yet, We
arc forced TO the conclusion that it is
taken for granted by them that the
Graded School is Il fixed institution in
the city, and that their presence are
not necessary.
This we believe is true. We have in
our Graded School one of the best in
the State. The Superintendent is a COM
pctcnt and able educator and good
disciplinarian and he has an efficient
CORDS Of teachers as his assistants. The
Board Of Trustees is composed of men
o. abllity-busincss men Of the city
men who study every interest of the
schools and their welfare, and under
whose guardianship the schools will
continue to grow and prosper; yet they
would appreciate being met on half
way grounds by the citizens so that the
suggestions Of improvements on the
buildings and in the schools might not
fall on deaf ears, by simply reading the
annual report and recommendation TO
empty chairs. We speak for the Trus-
tees on our own account in this matter
Ihcy have no complaint to oilcr us We
know OF, but these meetings should be
attended by somc.citizcns at least, or
called OIL What's the use to make re-
ports aud nobody present TO report to?
What's the use to make recommends
tions and nobody present to act on
them?
We would suggest that these citizens
meetings be done away with. The an
nual report can be published in the pa.
pcrs, and when any one desires further
information, the Roard would gladly
furnish it. Then this matter of hold-
ing an annual election on the question
OF the two-mill tax should be abolished
and the tax made permanent, and we
arc glad to sec that some action on this
line is proposed.
But to the meeting. President Geo.
Is. Crotncr was made chairman and j.
W. Earhurdt, secretary.
Mr. Alan Johnstonc, chairman Of the
Board Of Trustees, stated that the OBJ
Ject of tho meeting was to hear the an
nual report of the Board and read the
following report:
REPORT OF ROARD OF TRU USTEES.
TO the 'Citzcns of Ncwbcrry School
District.
Pursuant to an Act Of the General
Assembly approved December 23d ,.lSS0,
the Board Of Trustees of the Ncwbcrry
School District hereby present their
report for the year ending June 3Oth,
1880.
The City Schools closed their tenth
scholastic year on the second day OF
June, 1899. The enrolment for the year
was as follows:
boundary Street School........,a74
Cotton Mill School.
Total white cnrollmcnt........ IS9
lloge School (colorcd) )...................:3,}l :3,}l
IOtul cnrOllmCnt...........
There WAS an increase in the white
enrolment Of !" over the preceding
year, decrease in the colorcd enroll
mCnt Of A.
The tuition fees collected from nom
residents for the year amounted to
S35l.30; from the Boundary Street
School, $%%5S.5O; from the Hogc School,
$1,000. The collections from the 2-min
special tax and the capportionmentf from
the 3.mill constitutional tax arc shown
III the report Of the County Trcasurer
us are also his expenditures for school
purposes. The receipts and cxpcndi-
lures by the Boards Treasurer are
foInd in tho report Of that officer. Both
reports are hereto appended. The re-
ccipts for the school from all sources