The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-06-25
PREACHERSVILLE.

a fine boy.
W. c. Cummins and Walter Jordan
have each purchased house and lot Of
W. II. Cummins for $500.
This is proving to be bad year for
the bees, the copius rains and heavy
dews washing out the nectar as soon as
secreted by the flowers, and the cool.
cloudy weather Of early Spring keeping
the bees in their hives too much.
Miss Ella Thompson, of Danville, WIS.,
tied Miss Halle Brown, of Garrard,
and Miss Allie May Cummins here. Miss
Alpha Naylor is visiting at Point Leav-
ell. Clyde Chappell, of indianapolis, is
visiting his grandfather, Mr.. Henry
Blankenship.
The recently enacted school law seems
to be falling short Of its intended pur-
poses. This law. framed after law in
force in adjoining States, will not work
as well here with thinly settled country
and no regular shaped districts or regu-
larity in the roads as is the case in Ohio
and Indiana. There township is d.
vided into districts in the form Of a
square. the school building is centrally
located and easily accessible to all and
not single child is without the priv
ilege of attending school and getting
the advantages Of common school ed
ucation. Our law says not less than 40
pupils will constitute a school. Four
joining districts about this place have
less than the required number. This
will necesstate putting the two white
districts together after this year. These
schools are Preachersville and Whites
Mill districts These two districts will
be allowed to hold school separately
this year by experimenting the salary
of the two teachers out of the school
levy, so Mr.. B. F. Luusford. our trus-
tee, tells us. This was a conclusion
reached by the board at its recent meet |
ing. So we will have school and no
kicks coming on our part On that score.
But the disposition made in the case of
the two colored districts is not a sub
ject for agreeable contemplation. No.
l6, colored, last year, listed 80 pupils,
which was before the boundary lines of
the colored districts were changed to
those of the white districts. This year
only % pupils were listed by our trus-
tee inside of his district. The county
board has put this school with the Wal
nut Flat colored school. which is utter
ly impracticable, the distance from
their school house here to Walnut Flat
is five miles and Crab Orchard is furth-
err. Then Dix River runs between the
two places and only bridged twice in
four miles. air line. Mr.. L., seeing this |
is not practicable. says perhaps they |
can secure a teacher who will teach |
three months at each school house. The |
old adage. "A half a loaf is better than
no bread" is not applicable in the case
of schools, for in many cases a pupil
is then only just beginning to make any
Roadway in their studies. Is there no
provision of law. or can not the board
devise some way whereby these %
children can have the benefits of a
school? Under the strict reading of
the law are they not entitled to SIX
months free school as well as any like
number the State over? Is No. l6 as
much entitled to school as these stwo
white districts with their insufficient
number of pupils and is it beyond the
board to supplement in their case? If
the Hiles' Compulsory Education Law
has not been repealed, and these child
req have no school to attend, how can
they best satisfy the demand of the
law? We believe the board will do
something in their case. in fact we fail
to see how they can do otherwise than
to give them a school. In closing we
will say that the colored people in No.
l6 are peacable. sober citizens and is a
sad day for them if their children can
not have a school.