The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-10-15

The County Boosters on lss, Tnursday
and Friday visited the western and
southern parts of the county in the in.
tere Of the Fair and were p essantls
re eived everywhere, but responses
were not OF the liberal kind that the
Boosters have met in form year, re-.
fiecting the present close condition of
money matters in' the county On
Tuesday of this week the Boos ers W mt
on the tour of The northwestern pprt Of
the county. and in thes, tips and the
liberal gifts from Som ryille an viein Y
there has been raised ampe funds to
meet the premium lists and expenses of
of he Fair tn y, ar an 4 thos i cha &c
of the matter a'e gratifed at seeing a
success of the mon y end of the Fair
Gifts of more than $500 have been made
by citizen, to meet these things.
Among other business transact d
Mo day by the Count, Board of Educa
ton, that body pissed resolution rat.
ify ing an arrangement made by the
COlrty Superintendent last week with
SomerVille Bank & Trust Company by
which the bank will cash school warrants
for teachers and janitors salaries uutil
the taxes are being collected in Deem
Der. Under the old law taxes were due
and btgan being collected October |,
while unier toe new la y thy ave not
due till December l. The school funds
were found to be exhausted at the end
of the quarter, October |, and with tn
string ncy in money matter. the banks
were beginning to urn warrant, duwn.
Under the arrangement made ~itn the
Somerville Bank & T ust Co npany that
institute will cash all of the scho 4
warrants issued for sa aries, so that no
teacher will b. put to inconvenience for
non-payment of salary,
When this issue of The Falcon goes
to press Thursday afte noon the Fayett4
Cou ty Fair will he we'll on in its pro-
gress. tegnning Thursday morning.
The ia con has long believed in the
good of fairs and particularly county
a and has advocated the hold ny of
such fair here always, The faith s
inc eased as the yea have passed and
W ook for much good to come of the
an u exhi it this week. 1t mas berh
& tten up at considerable sacrif e. 1t
is tn work of very small group of
men this year. may believing that be-
eau e of the stringent times the fair
shou d called off this time. Somer-
vile business men have given four fiflhs
OF the mo ely decided for the premiums
and expenses, and they have covered
thems ives with hon for their liberia :
ity. We believe the carrying on Of the
work d holding the fair wise and The
Falcon md its editor have done their
pr ia the work gladly for the public
good We confidently look for g cd TO
CO he of 1t.
A member of the cosrt asked We
editor st week if we did not have
Rural School Supervisor in this county,
or as he put il. an assistant to the
County Superintendent. For the
information Of the public it is stated
here that we have no such, official for
t white schools, Marsaret Ware SER
wing tn tcapacity for the colored schools
as GU lined elsewhere in this issue and
is paid mostly ( ON out.ide funds. The
law authorizes such an official and the
County Board fixed the salary at 1920
per year AMI authorized the County
Su erintendent to appoint one, but no
su appoi tment has been made and
no salary ever paid out on this auth
GRITTY. he place was offered to two
diffe ent tie CHI RS last year but was
not accepted by them and since then
n thing has been done about it and
{ ounty superintendent has visited
nea ~ a ! the schools since they opened
in August and will comp The rounds
by the end of this mountn. Ifs ,ch APP
pointm mt had been made the state
wo aid have paid one half the sa airy,
the county half.