The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-02-21
TEACHERS AND TRUSTEES MEETING.
General Needs and Importance of Cons
mon Schools Discussed at Length.

The meeting of the County Teachers
and County Trustees Association held
jointly in the Court House, Saturday
morning, was well attended and full of
interest from first to last. The meet
ing was presided over by Superinten-
dent of Education Nash, president of
both associations. Miss Bessie Hudgens,
secretary of the County Teachers AS
sociation, acted in this capacity for the
joint meeting.
The first question discussed was,
Some Needed Improvements in the Ru-
raj Schools, Trustees j. C. Wasson, j,
ID. Mills, j. L. Peden, j. M. Sum
merell and others making short talks on
the subject. Mr.. Peden spoke of the
success of the Gray Court -Owings In
sitting, which is the result of consolid-
ating two schools in his district and
voting two mills tax for the support
of the school. They have a thousand
dollar school building, we'll furnished,
employ four teachers and the register
shows an enrolment this year of 16C
pupils. Mr.. Peden heartily commended
the plan of consolidation wherever at
all practicable.
The second topic, The Advantages of
Special Tax, was discussed by Trustees
G. l.. Davis, M. G. Langston, Jas. S.
Hill and w. r. Henderson.
All favored special tax and the i'm
mediate need of better school houses,
new furniture and up-to-date equip
ment such as charts, maps, globes, etc.,
in ma districts, was especially en-
pbasized. In order to have these inn
provements so necessary the most feast
BILE plan for raising the funds seemed
to be by voting special tax.
What Should be Done With Pupils
Who Attend School Irregularly? was a
question submitted by one of the teachs
ers and it was discussed at some length
by Profs. w. P. Culbertson, B. Y. Cul-
bertson and others.
AT one o'clock the meeting was ad-
journed. The Teachers Association
will hold it's regular monthly meeting
Saturday, March IL. Supt. Nash will
call the next meeting of the Trustees.
The trustees present Saturday were
Messrs. M. c. Langston, Laurens dis
trict No. a; j. c. Wasson, Sullivan No.
6; H. S. Wallace, Dials No. 8; j. T
Peden, Dials Especially No. 5; j. d
Mills, T. B. Childress and w. T. Sem,
Laurens No. s; o. C. Godfrey, Youngs
No. d; w. r. Henderson, Youngs No.
2; M. A. Riddle, Waterloo No. No. a;
j. M. Summerell, Sullivan No. s; G. l..
Davis, Ora (SpeciaD No. IL; j. S. Hill,
Cross Hill No. a; w. F. Cleveland and
w. M. Myers, Scuffletown, No. 2.
The teachers: Misses Olivia Burnside,
Sandy Springs; Annie Putnam, Daisy
Gray Harris and Carrie Peden, Gray
Court Owings Institute; Gena Henry,
Central Academy; Daisy Philips, Grays
Academy; May Madden, Old Mountville
Ethel Mcdaniel, Oakville; Lille Arms
trong, Hendersonville school; Clara
Welborn and Lula Henderson, Shiloh;
Carrie Lou Dorroh, Harmony; Mamie
Mae Hudgens and Daisy Riddle, Friend
ship; Lucia Barksdale, Trinity; Bessie
E. Hudgens, Chestnut Ridge; Bessie
Byrd, Ora High School; Emma M. Dial,
Bailey High School, Martha w. Hell
lams, Pine Grove; w. P. Culbertson,
Mountville; M. o. Owens, Riddles Old
Field; B. Y. Culbertson, New Prospect;
l.. d, Elledge, Poplar Springs, l.. E.
Reeder, Long View,