The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-03
TEACHERS PAY DAY.
Neat Sum of $1,y34 is Distributed in
 Lee County.


 Lee County.
 Opelika, April 2.--(Special.) )-Yester- day was pay day for the teachers of the public schools of the county and Professor D. M. Banks, County Super intendent of Education disbursed $1,734 The schools of Lee County are in flourishing condition and as the people become accustomed to the operation of the new school law, 1t gives more sat- isfaction. Professor Banks has recent ly made a report on the educational condition of Lee County that shows that it Is continually improving. There are now being taught thirty eight white schools and twenty-six colored. There are now thirty-eight school buildings for whites and seventeen for negroes. Fourteen nice school build ings have been erected since the new law went into operation and eleven ad- ditional ones will be erected in the near future. Nearly every district will have a new school house. Three thousand and eighty-five dollars was expended in the erection of school houses last year. The total value of $56,525. School property in Phoenix City is valued at $3,o00, in Auburn. SIG, 900 and in Opelika $35,000. An election will be held this summer to levy a tax of one mill for school pur- poses. The people are taking much interest in education and Lee County will soon have a public school system second to none in the State.
 Yesterday c. H. Moorman, State Sec retary of the Young Mems Christian Association arrived in Opelika for the purpose of organizing a branch of the Association here Assisted by Rev. w nf hn tV,fo ters and business men was held at the Bank of Opelika and 1t was decided that it was an suspicious time for the organization of the Association. MT. Moorman explained the plans and re- quirements for the establishment of the Association After discussion, 1t was unanimously decided that Opelika must have an Association and the following committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the organi- zation, J. L. Dean. chairman; J. B. Greene, T. D. Sanford, w. T. Wear and G. w. Brock. Either a residence, with room back of 1t for a gymnasium will selected or $7,O00 or $S,000 will be raised, lot purchased and the neces- sary buildings erected. Opelika Is badly in need of such an institution.
 Dr. T. J. Beard, rector of the Epis- copal Church, in this city, has returned from months vacation in Texas, where he went on account of his health and occupied the pulpit at his church today.
 Casey Greene. the son of Captain J. B. Greene, vice president of the Bank of Opellka, one of Opelika's brightest young men, left yesterday for Anna polls, where he enters the United States Naval Academy. He obtained the ap- pointment through Hon. II. D. Clayton. His many friends predict for him q brilliant future.
 Rev. Frank K. Sims of Mobile preach ed at the Presbyterian Church in this city today. The Opelika church has been without a pastor since the resig-
 Judge J. B. Lyons and wife went to Montgomery yesterday, where the lat ter entered an infirmary for treatment for throat trouble.
 A little 3-year-old daughter of J. J. Martin of Phoenix City sustained seri- ous injuries yesterday that will proba- bly result fatally. While playing she fell in a ditch ten feet deep and frac- tured her skull
 James l. Madors. Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lee County is seriously i'll at his home in this city.
 Yesterday was quite a busy day in Opelika. There were a large num- Der of wagons and hundreds of people in the city and trade was good. March was an excellent month for work and the farmers have taken advantage of 1t and are fully up with their farming operations.