The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-01-31
Schools Of Can1d County Already Up
To A High Standard To Be Ma
terially Improved In The
Near Future.

The cause of education in Garrard
county is receiving an impetus here
tofore unknown in the history of the
county, and which is rapidly bringing
the educational facilities to the at
tention of the outside world, a fact
which tends to bring more people to
the county for the purpose of receiving
the advantages thus offered.
The success of the recently estab-
lished consolidated school at Paint Lick
has aroused the patrons in other parts
OF the county, and now a consolidated
school is to be established in the north
ern end of the county, embracing the
schools of Lindendale, Buena Vista and
Polly's Bend with an aggregate at
tendence of 213 pupils. The County
Board of Education, the body in whom
authority in such matters is vested,
has sanctioned the move, and a suit
able building will be erected at some
centrally located point, most readily
accessible to all points in the new dis
trict. The people of Buckeye and
Bryantsville also have such a move in
contemplation, and it will not be many
years before we will see splendid High
Schools all over the county.
The Board of Education has adopted
a rule for the transferring of pupils
now entered in the local High School to
the newly established outlying schools.
which will enable these pupils to have
the advantage of a good school nearer
to their home, and will also obviate
the necessity of paying board as many
OF these pupils are now compelled to do,
as well as other expenses and discom-
forts which they are now of a necessity
compelled to endure.
The attendance at the Paint Lick
school has far exceeded all expecta-
tons and has reached $50 in number,
which necessitated the employment of
an additional teacher. Miss Minnie
johnson of Lancaster was the latest
addition to their faculty. which brings
their number up to four. However.
the additional expense of the fourth
teacher will be more than paid by the
revenue derived from pupils attending
who live outside the district. Miss
Johnson is one of the leading teachers
OF the county, and the good people of
Paint Lick are to be congratulated on
securing her services.
Too much praise cannot be melted
out to those who are exerting their
every effort for the improvement of
the schools of the county. Nothing is
of more value to a county than good
schools, nothing rebounds more to the
credit of community than an interest
/ IN its educational facilities, nothing
tends more to increase the population
OF county, desirable increase, peo-
pie who take an interest in the well
fare OF county, than good schools;
and We do not believe there is a person
in the county, certainly not one who
reads the Record, but who will ad-
NIT that in the last few years nothing
has been left undone that would as
sist the cause of education in the coun-
ty. Those who are familiar with the
condition of the schools of the county
as compared with their condition ten
years ago will readily see what a mar
ked improvement has been made in
that time,
The example set by those interested
in the cause of education is one that
people interested in other crying needs
of the county would do well to emulate.
The splendid condition now existing is
due to the energy and cooperation of
those interested, and these two power
full agents when working harmoniously
together. never fail in the attainment
of splendid results.