Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-06-03
CLASS AS USUAL IS
GOING TO GET DIPS.
Changes in Programme Not
Contemplated.
PLENTY MONEY FOR EXPENSES
And. Graduating Class of High School
viii Participate in Usual Exercises
Council Owes No Money to
School Fund, tbs Said.

There is money in the till of the
Board of Education-more than sufi-
cient for all Indebtedness outstanding
and SO far as finances cut any figure,
the members say, there will be no
change from the usual elaborate pro-
gram of commencement exercises.
The sweet girl graduate Will be given
full swing as usual.
The band will play, flowers will be
showered upon her, and the multitude
will applaud her essay, so careful y
and laboriously prepared, and she will
be the idol of the hour.
Published statements yesterday indi-
Gated that the commencement exercis-
es might be annulIed for lack of mon
ey to defray expenses, but so far from
this being true there is plenty of mon
ely on hand, and the last dollar is at
the disposal of the fair graduate.
The city council does not owe the
school fund any more money, it is true,
but the Board of Education has plenty
cash at Its disposal, derived from the
state school fund.
AS the statements published yester-
day might be misleading, Mayor
Hawkins and Alderman Hudson gave
the Times Recorder these figures:
Under the city charter one half of one
per cent can be Levied by council for
school purposes, but the last council
levied only four-tenths of one per cent
for the maintenance of the schools for
the term beginning Sept. 10Th, 1902,
and ending June 10Th, two weeks
hence,
This rate, it IS said, should have
raised the amount of $40, 500. 81 for the
public schools, besides the amount paid
from the state fund,
The city paid, for the half month
of September, last year, 1894. q.
For the months of October, Novem-
Der, December, January and Febru-
airy the city has paid the schools ST.
692 05 monthly, and for the current
month of June it has paid $1,000, max
ing grand total of $40, 394.52
The amount appropriated to the city
schools by the state for the current
year 1903 was 81 1926.
The amount in the hands of the
treasurer of the Board of Education
according to his last report made, it is
said was 81, 270,77. The three items
foot up total of $16, 400 80.
The amount of salaries for the nine
months of school term is $15, 228 45,
which should leave balance of 81, 261.
"a. Add to this, tuition (estimatedl
$3.50, also the balance due by the city
from taxes yet $1,000, and
the sum of 81, $50 SO, is obtainedi
And this sum, $50 53-aocording to
the figures of Alderman Hudson, is the
balance in the hands of the Board of
Education for other expenses CT run
ming the schools.
And this sum will pay the expenses
of the commencement exercises doz-
en- times over.
These gentlemen show in the above
statement that the council has paid
the schools even little more than is
already due them, and under the char
ter can pay no more at present. But,
aside from this, all salaries will be
paid, and commencement bills as well.
The Times Recorder thus gives the
statement of these gentlemen in full,
in justice to all parties, that their po'
s1tion may be made plain.