The Adair County news., 1908-08-26

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fund with which to pay the interest on
the bonds issued for the purpose of bor-
rowing money to erect the building and
to retire these bonds as they mature,
and this tax will not be collected any
longer than may be necessary to re-
tire these bonds, which will be only a
few years.
The school until this year has been
divided into ten grades, and, since 1906,
has been for term of eight months,
with eight teachers. This session will
open the last Monday in this month for
a term of nine months, with ten teach
ers, and twelve grades-two years high
school course of study having been add
ed by the trustees at recent meeting.
Heretofore, nine grades embraced the
common school branches, the tenth be-
ing an addition to the common school
course. Hereafter, we will have three
grades embracing a course of study
higher than the course taught in the
common schools. All the teacher are
paid $40 per month, except the teacher
in the primary grade and the principal,
and they are paid $50 and $1OO respect
lively.
You will observe that we have al
ready said that the district contained
about three hundred pupils when estab-
lished in 1902, and for the. present year
713. Until the graded school was es-
tablished, the district school here re-
tanned its number Of pupils, without
very much change from year to year,
as is common in rural districts, but
since the graded school has Ceen estab-
lished, the increase from year to year
in the number of pupils has been re-
markable. This results from the fact
that many people from this county and
the adjoining counties have moved here
and purchased property to avail them
selves of our graded school. Some of
the best families in this and the adjoin-
ing counties nave purchased property.
moved their families here and remain
during the school season, and then re-
turn to their homes until time for school
the following year, while others have
made their permanent home on account
of schools.
From what we have said of our graded
school, it doubtless will appear to you
that Liberty College has been on a
stand-still, and that the graded school
has suppressed it. This is not the case
AS the graded school has increased and
enlarged itself in the last six years SO
has Liberty College. She has during
the same period of time so increased in
pupils that her buildings and faculty
had to be enlarged and increased. From
the small number she then had in at
tendance, she has increased to more
than two hundred. To accommodate her
pupils, the citizens of this town within
the last two year, have freely con-
tributed of their own means, more than
SIG, 900, 90 for the purpose of charging
her buildings, notwithstanding they
have during the same time, paid with.
out a murmur, the tax necessary to
maintain the graded school as we have
described. Consequently, Liberty Col
lege now has a building as large and as
well equipped for school purposes as any
other institution in this section of the
State. She together with our graded
school are the highest excellence Of oul
town and the hope and the pride of all
our people.
The graded school not only has in.
creased the interest in education, but
it serves well as a supplement to Liber
ty College. Withal, it affords to the
unfortunate children of the community
and to the children of a poor man ar
opportunity hitherto unknown to the
lovers. of better educated citizenship.
If any one will visit our town, and al
the close of some bright sunshine after.
noon, behold from five to six hundred
small boys and girls depart from oul
graded school building and see them
leap and run and yell with that degree
of supreme delight that one enjoys only
when a school child, or observe more
than two hundred uniformed. jolly, hap
Ply school girls stroll out of Liberty