The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-19
WARES SCHOOL ELECTION.
PenurIousness May Defeat Law for
hotter COutry Schools.

SchOOth.
wayoross, Ga, Feb. 1S.-Hon. Lem
uel Johnson. senator from the Fifth
district, expresses the opinion that the
recent discussion of educational mat
tiers in this county by State School
Commissioner Glenn, Prof. Evans and
others, will accomplish a great deal
of good The matter of common school
education was discussed in a very thor
ough manner. both in a general way
and particularly as II related to this
county.
He says that there is some opposi-
ton to the measure originating from a
few who are not in favor of pensioning
any money unless they can see an i'm
mediate return of dollars and cents.
One of the main arguments used
against the measure is, that the chill
dren cannot be spared from the farm
Capt. johnson says that this argument
was met, by showing that il the chill
tren We're only put in school from be-
tween the ages of and -. for not
less than six months in each year,
making in all six years of schooling,
they then could be employed for their
whole time in the farm, and have
common school education.
Mr.. Johnston says further, that the
property outside of Waycross. is re-
turned for less than one million dollars
The rate for public school purposes is
two and one-tenth mills, which would
give a little less than two thousand
dollars tax The poll tax is about eight
hundred dollars making a total of
less than $4,000 paid for education
Ware county receives from the state
for educational purposes, $1,000. You
can readily see from this. said Mr..
Johnson. that we are drawing a good
deal more from the state than we pay
in; and yet some of our people are not
willing to do anything towards raising
money for the education of the children
of the county.
The registrars have completed their
work of revising the list of voters, and
there are in the neighborhood of 1,200
voters who will be entitled to partici-
pate in the election Friday on the
school question. 800 voters will be re-
quired to ratify the law.
Wnycross District institute.
Rev. j. w. Weston, Presiding Elder,
Rev. A. NJ. Williams, Pastor First
Methodist church and Rev. ]. H.
Mather, Pastor of Trinity church left
this morning for Blackshear, where the
district preachers meeting and mission
airy institute for the Waycross district
is to be held.
1t is said that the Bell Telephone
Company, will not erect its lines
through the city of Waycross, but VIII
run on the outskirts Of the city on the
south side. A station for long distance
messages will probably be opened in
town. The Bell Company, expect to
operate a branch line from Waycross
to Jacksonville.
There is some talk of the Postal
telegraph company running their lines
through Waycross. 1t may be that this
line will come through Waycross over
the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad
Prof: s. p. Settle, who Is principal OF
the duBignon Institute at bonneville,
reports that school in a most fiorish-
ing condition. The board Of directors
have decided to employ an assistant
teacher at salary of $S5 per month
and board
Crates of fruit are iced almost every
day in this city. The object in iceing
the cars in South Georgia during win
ter season. is to get the fruit at a low
temperature when first loaded so that
the sudden changes TO the extreme cold
of the north Will not effect it.