Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-09-08
Floydada's Progress Marked and Sure
PROVES RECORD
BUILDING YEAR
Mercantile and Banking Es-
Establishments and Court
House Constructed

By Daily News staff Correspondent.
Floydada. Tex. Sept. - Floy-
dada. the seat OF Floyd county Isl
widely known as "Floydada. the
Fair" on account of the beauty OF
her location and buildings the fair
ness OF her business men and ladies
and the farther flattering fact that
she is the scene of one OF the best
annual county fairs in the Plains or
Panhandle region.
4 Triumphant Twelve Months
Floydadas building record for the
past twelve months has been
triumph alike in progressive public
and private spirit and building beau
ties and values.
Since last October eight mercan-
tile and two bank buildings, all oil
brick. have been erected and occu-
pied in Floydada at an aggregate
construction cost OF approximately
s75. 900 while $4,000 court
house has been practically com
menced and completed within the
same twelve months \ brilliant
building twelve months triumph
this for a town of ,000 people
The Court House.
The new court house constructed
bv l. r. Wright a Co, of Dallas
well merits the descriptive term
MAGNIFICENT II will be iullN
completed by the 18th of November
FLOYD County. by the way. Is thlnk
ing very seriously OF inviting Wood
row Wilson 10 deliver his Inaugural
address as president OF Texas ant
the rest of the United States withI
the walls of her new court house
The County Fair.
Elaborate preparations are belhs
made for the holding OF Floyd Coun
tvs Eighth Annual Fair, the scen'
being Floydada's beautiful city parl
On which $500 have been alread.
additionally expended for this year
fair purposes.
Next year will probably see IN
purchase of extended fair ground
proper and their general improve
ment
schools.
Floydadas educational system
alike comprehensive and eificieh
comprising common and high school
with a total of eleven grades pre-
gressive board of education a facu
~ including a superintendent an
nine teachers. and a commodlou
and imposing brick school buildin
costing $4,000. The Board OF Ed'
cation has lately issued a pamphl'
for 1928 of which the tollo"ln
is an excerpt.
The prospects for a good scho'
were never brighter, and every ettoI
is being made to have one OF u
most successful schools in the M
tory OF Floydada. Reading Is col
sidered very essential, in fact, u
basis of all learning, hence, we hay
.ndeayored TO make it thorough III
courses in History and literatul
have been strengthened. Lati
Science and Mathematics have bee
revised so that It will be possible Il
ms 10 make them elective In the His
school The school Board has bee
diligent and careful in selecting u
corps of teachers. Another teach
has been added To the faculty of q
High school making il possible
give forty-fiye minutes 90 each rec
tation
School opens on the ninth OF So
TENDER 1874. a. nine % clock Eve
patron and AN other Interested
school work are invited 20 he with
on 'be above date
The Tloydada rr-~hytcr an Noa' eu
The ull term |'I--I. oi 2
FioydlIa Presbyterian Acad %
both SEXES. begins DAY after tome
.o. The Introductory to The ia
Academy pamphlet reads a. follow
Tn, -rouud. contain -veu4-i
acre, OF beautiful prair." land U
main building Be- @ handsome -fr.
ur. of pressed arek v.th Dou0r
Trim uu.s containing $50 -'or
aud O. basement The interior {
..H single school desks, hlarauolr