Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-05-21
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Charleston, W Va, May 20
The report of the secretary of stats
for the month OF April which has
just been issued shows that there
was turned over 10 the state audi
tor the sum of ST,52S.5O. of this
sum $3,732.75 was for charters and
Sl,S57.T5 for fees that formerly went
into the pocket of the secretary OF
state. The report also shows that
Al corporations were dissolved. This
large number is accounted for from
the fact that April was the last
month in the old charter year and
many corporations that had gone
out of existence during the year OF
course gave notice of dissolution be
fore the next corporation year began.
There were AZ resident or domestic
corporation charters issued and 21
nonresident. The aggregate total
capitalizations of the former was
$2,4l4,50O and OF the latter So
10000, or total for the month
OF $ll,57l,5O0. The banner months
in the history OF the secretary OF
states Office since that official was
placed on a salary were May 19OCl
when that department turned over
to the state auditor $15,219.4O, and
the next largest was March 1907
when 1t amounted to $1O,O145O.
According to the department OF
the state superintendent of schools
the West Virginia Colored Institute
will have the most elaborate dis
play that will be seen at jamestown
from this state Everything sent
there will be in duplicate and ex-
hibited in the Educational and Negro
buildings. The exhibited filled an
METRE car and was started on its way
to jamestown today.
Clerk VIM. b. Mathews of the
state supreme court has complied the
docket for the Wheeling term which
begins there June 5. 1t contains O.
cases, an exceedingly large num-
Der. Twenty-six cases are set to be
argued from the fifteenth district
composed of Taylor, Randolph, Bar
bour and Preston counties.
A revised history of education I'm
West Virginia is now being com
piled by State superintendent of
Schools Miller and will be ready fol
the public in a few weeks. It was|
intended to have the books at James
town for the opening hut other work
prevented, The book will contain
about $50 pages and will shw I'm on
illustrative way the advancement OF
education in West Virginia, from
the old log cabin to the modern mi
versity.
Superintendent Miller Is devoting
much time to the educational cam
paign he has lnaugurated through
out the state. He is of the opinion
that this plan Will create the de
sired interest to place the education
of the young TO a plane of equal
rank with the development OF the
state. OF the $4,000 youths emu
merated in 1906 enc average atten
dance was but 1913 or about 81
per cent OF the children of schooI
age were in school The failure to
get schools taught during the regu-
lar school period doubtless had much
TO do with the low percentage. and
here the question of salary enters
which is giving the educators OF the
state so much concern The average
per capita pSr population in the
United states is S3.49 and I'm West
Virginia 1929. but the average sal
airy paid TO teachers IN this state Is
only 5000 against Si7OS for TN,
whole country. In Massachusetts, II
is almost three times the amount
paid in this state. West Virginia
has about $7OOO,OOU in public school
properties, divided into 6,342 houses
or 1880 rooms The low salary
paid teachers has always caused a
scarcity OF them, those who have
taught a year or two have gone TO
other places or taken up other occu-
pations that were more remunera-
tive and which gave employment for
longer periods The large increase
of volums added to the Libraries
in the public schools has beer most