The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-08-04

two nice, comfortable school rooms.
Desks, blackboards, heating appara-
tus and other necessary furniture has
! been placed therein at cost of $500.
/ The Board OF Trustees found it neces-
sary to bring this dwelling into use
in the above stated way because the
community had outgrown the capac-
tiles Of the original school building,
and being unwilling to ask that more
bonds be issued by the citizenship
of the town until the bonds were paid
which were provided for the building
and, equipment OF the original school
outfit, they had recourse to this
method of carrying on the school.
We are glad to be able to state
that we have on hand an amount ap-
proximating $4,000, for the purpose
OF retiring these original school,
bonds, besides the payment prior to
! this date Of an amount approNlnla-
| ting $1,000.
As this, perhaps, is the last report
which will be made by this Board.
,, we ask its careful reading and con-
s;deration by those of the School
District whose servants we have at
tempted to be for nearly sixteen
years. 3egar'i:ng this as a full ac-
counting OF Our stewardship, we hope
that we may be pardoned in saying
that we look with some degree OF
satisfaction upon the achievements
Of the pasr, because in them we see
the intellectual and educational train
ing of the young people of the COM
munity, many of whom are filling
useful positions in life, and all Of
whom, so far as we know, are in
telligent citizens. We take some de-
gree Of comfort in the accomplish
ment of the present, because in it
we can point to the property of the
school in good condition to its
scholarship ranking among the best
of its kind in the state, to a corps
Of teachers morally sound and high
and intellectual, to financial sound
ness with all outstanding current
Obligations met, part of the original
! indebtedness of the school paid, and
a fund on hand as already stated,
equalling in amount So 900. We look
hopefully to the future because We
trust that the schools for whose sue
cess we have honestly labored and
hoped will be placed in the future
in competent and public-splrted
hands, and we promise, so far as in
us the capacity resides. to give to
this new Board of Trustees our help
and support and sympathy in the ar
duous tasks that will be before them,
in whatever measure our help is
wished.
AS the years go by, and the period
OF time allotted for the payment of
the original twenty-year bonds nears
conclusion, we confess to a growing
! desire on our part to see the orlgi-
nal purposes and aspirations Of the
board carried out But as that work
must be entrusted to other hands,
| We must content ourselves by saying
that when we had succeeded in pay
ing the original school debt, OF near
ly so. when the time of its maturity
was reached Our purpose was to
ask the citizenship of the town to
renew their issue for a new set of
twenty-year bonds. which money by
their consent and approval was to
be used in the erection and equip
ment Of another modern school
! building in some other sect'on of the
town where such building was much
needed, thereby keeping up with the
ever-increasing necessities of the
community for more adequate school
buildings with no more burdens Of
taxation than the citizenship origi-
nally and voluntarily took upon them
selves.