The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-05-03
SCHOOLS BUILT BY STATES AID
Chesterfield County Far Outstrips
All Other Counties in the State.

The State department of educa-
tion has completed the examination,
APPROVAL and payment of applications
for State building aid. This policy
was initiated by the act of 1910.
The growth of the last seven years
has brought adequate, modern school
buildings to at least half of the
school districts in the State.
The law provides that any district
supplying one half the cost of n new
school house may be given one-fourth
of the cost from the county building
fund and one fourth from the State
building fund, up to total maximum
expenditure from all three sources Of
$1,000. Any district supplying 5000
either from taxation or from sub
scription, receives $500 from the
county and $500 from the State. If
two or more school houses are con-
solidatcd, or if two or more school
districts are consolidated, the coun-
ty may give bonus Of $50 and the
State bonus of $50. Only one
school house in any one district may
be aided in any one year. Building
plans must be approved by the State
board Of education, and the remod-
cling Of old school houses is not ac-
ccpted by State and county officers as
basis for extra aid.
Progress of the Year
The recent spring payment amount
ed to $i4,397, covered 163 buildings
in 81 counties. For the first time in
recent years the appropriation was
sufficient to 'ay all applications on
file to date. The uncXpcHGcd balance
of S5,603 will probably be more than
called for by the applications for new
buildings TO be erected within the
next six months.
The Improvement in school house
architecture can not escape the no.
ticc of every traveller. Nearly every
town, practically every hamlet and
scores of country communities now
possess well constructed, well equip
ped, well furnished, well lighted
school buildings, many of them sur
rounded by agricultural plots and
possessing kitchens for the girls and
workshops for the boys. The con-
solidated school is rapidly supplant-
ing the onc-room, one teacher school
house, and the erection Of a building
with only one class room is now the
exception.
Tho int IN a,t,>, &C
acknowledges with pleasure it's in.
debtcdness to Prof. Il. f. Lee, of
Clemson college, for his cooperation
in supplying free of charge blue
prints to trustees. Two editions ot
Prof. Lees building bulletin have al
ready been exhausted, making ncces
sary the third revised edition whicl
will be published during the summec
The erection of so many new build
ings accounts, in large measure, fo
the heavy increase in enrolment, tn
increased number of teachers, tn
longer school term, and the CRAFTY
ing growth of rural graded schools
Allotments by Counties.
| iic IiSuicS ny counllcS 1OllOW.
Abbcvillc, $4O0; Aiken, $500; An
derson, $i,35O; Bambcrg, $3.50
Berkeley, $500; Calhoun, $3.50; Ches
ter, $1,070; Chesterfield, $3.50
Clarendon, 500; Collcton, $3.50
Darlington, $500; Dillon, $1,55O
Dorchester, $500; Edgcfcld, 5000
Fairfield, $3.50; Florence, $2,l5O
Grccnvillc, $4,000; Greenwood
$3.50; Hampton, 500; Horny, 81 ,562
kershaw, 500; Lancaster, 81, 1882
$lGO0; Lee, $3.50; Lexington, ST.,
$50; Marion, 5000; Ncwbcrry, $500
Oconcc, $500; Oranccburg, $1,737
Pickcns, 5000; Richiand, $50; Sa.
luda, $3.50; Spartanburg. $2,O5O
Sumter, $500; Union, $500; vii.
liamsburg, $1,0S6; York, 500. The
ihlrtN-Scven counties received SIi