The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-01
BULLOCK PROSPERS
PROGRESSIVE COUNTY WITH
GROWING COUNTY SEAT.
IMPRESSED Mr.. ASHMORE.
WHO HAS BEEN MAKING AID
DRESSES AT TEACHERS ~
STITUTE.

County Has More Than Doubled Its
Population in Ten Years and
StatesbOrO Is on "A steady Boom.
Farmers Raise Their own Food
Stuffs and Are Making Money.
Three-FOurths of Long staple Cot
Recent improvements at the Coun-
ty seat-EducatiOnaI Exhibit at
The State Fair.
Superintendent of Schools Otis Ashmore
has been making trips to Statesboro,
where teachers institute for the coun-
ties of Bulloch, Screven, Effinsham and
Bryan has been in progress for the last
week.
Mr.. Ashmore made some talks to the
teachers on educational subjects and the
science of teaching and had thoroughly
enjoyable time whenever he went. lie
found Bulloch one of the most prosper
Gus counties in the state, and it's people
among the most hospitable and delight
full
THE county has more than doubled it's
population in the last ten years, and
Statesboro is rapidly increasing in size
and rapidly improving in every way and
along every line" said Mr. Ashmore
The town contains number of credita-
Die buildings and evidences of it's pros
perity are everywhere apparent.
The farmers in Bullodh, though they
are small farmers for the greater part
are happy and contented and prosperous
The crops, as far as could see. were in
hrst-elass condition. They have solved
one of the problems of country life out
there, most of the meat and other sup
plies used by the families being raised
on the place
Il was told that three-fourths of the
entire crop of long staple cotton was
grown in Bulloch, and this means three
fourths of the crop of the world, as this
cotton is only raised in a few localities
along the coasts of Georgia and South
Carolina.
In Statesboro they are erecting a mod
ern school building, which will be com
pleted and ready for use in the fall which
will be credit to the town. In the coun-
ty there are twice as many whites as ne
groes, and l don't know when or where
I've seen a happier or more prosperous
people,"
Mr.. Ashmore pronounced the institute
that has been in progress at Statesboro
interesting and valuable. There was a
large attendance from each of the four
counties represented at the institute and
the teachers seemed to be enthusiastic
and anxious to learn the best methods
and the most modern of conducting their
work
He himself delivered talks on school
Management and Discipline" How to
Conduct Recitations," Primary Artih-
metic Work and Primary Geography
Work Ja ole iy,f all,
number of other subjects of educational
interest.
His visits to Statesboro were made
Tuesday and Thursday. Each time he
spent the day with the teachers and re-
turned to the city on night train.
Supt. Ashmore was in conference
yesterday with Mr.. A. B. Moore,
chairman of the Committee on
Grounds and Buildings of the
Georgia State Fair. The conference re-
lated to the proposed educational exhibit
from the city and county schools, and
Supt. Ashmore placed Mr. Moore in pos
session of the facts needed by his COM
mittee in order to assign space for the
exhibit.
Mr.. Moore is vice chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners as well as vice
president of the Savannah Fair Associa-
ton. The recent experience of the County
Commissioners with the Board of Educl-
ton, when the latter succeeded in getting
the grand jury to increase the appropria-
ton for education by something more
than $4,000 over that made by the former,
must have been fresh in his mind, when
he was asked if the school authorities
we're going to get what they wanted in
the matter of space at the fair.
'Oh, yes" he answered, with a smile
in which there was no trace of petulance
or resentment; they generally do"