Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-06-29
WEDNESDAY RALLY
DAY FOR BONDS
Ladies at Mass Meeting Mon
day Outline Campaign
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED
Will Canvass Each Ward Each
- Wednesday for Votes

At meeting Monday afternoon of
about fifty ladies of the city inter-
ested in the success of the S68,000
school bond election, committees
were named to handle the campaign
in each ward Of the city and plans
were made for a vigorous drive to
carry the election for bonds.
Each Wednesday from today un-
til "Wednesday July 2lst, the day be-
fore the registration books close,
will be rally day throughout the city.
The committees of ladies will canvass
from house to house and urge every
man and woman to register and vote
9for bonds.
1t is planned to enlist the Sunday
Schools in the drive and to secure
the assistance of the school children
who attend Sunday School in stimu-
Satlng the interest of the parents in
the school improvements project.
Every effort will be made to put the
bonds over by big majority.
The bond election laws of the
state requires two third favorable
vote of all vtcrs registered in order
to carry bond election, Mrs. R. E.
Lee, general chairman of the cam
paign committee, stresses the fact
that everyone must register especial
ly for this election whether regis
tered previously or not Registration
for previous election does not en-
title any one to vote in the bond
election.
The improvements which are to
be made on the high school are of
larger scope that most people real
ize. The $45,000 of the $4,000 fund
which is to go for additions to the
high school will include the building
of large auditorium completely
equipped and with. an 1882 foot
stage, a gymnasium, and two new
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present study hall will be divided
into two class rooms for the, COM
mercial department. In the new
north wing it is planned to have a
primary department for the fourth
ward and a seventh grade for the
fourth ward The other wing will
care for the over-crowded condition
existing last year in other rooms.
The new improvements VIII give the
high school seventeen c'@ss rooals
instead of ten as at prese.:c, fourteen
rooms for high school use and thr, e
for lower grades. 1t will make he
high school quite as i,npo, rs and
large as any other high school i'll
any town of Fitzgerald's size in
Georgia. An architects drawing of
the proposed improvement will be
placed on display down town during
the week.
The first ward building which is to
cost $4,000 will be similar in con-
struction to the second and third
ward buildings with several improve
ments the others do not have. 1t
will have eight rooms only but the
present congestion will be relieved
to a degree by the additional class
rooms at the high school building.
The new building will be fire proof
and safe, The chief objection to the
present building is that it is veri-
table fire trap, built of wood and
very old.
The lumber from the first ward
building will be used in repairing
a n d enlarging the negro school
building in the third ward. For that
purpose $4,000 has been provided. 1t
is expected that the repairs and an
nexes will make the negro schools
tenable for several years more all
though it is at present in an extreme
ly bad condition.
The committees of ladies who will
conduct the Wednesday rally days
are as follows:
First Ward
Mrs. L. Keim, chairman, Mes
danes: G. w. Turner, Lon Dickey,
C. C. Persons, /. Gelders, J. E. At
kins, J. T. Hendricks, w L. Watson,
Guy Robinson, Harold Beall, and
Miss Hattie Wideman.
Second Ward
Mrs. J. H. Burke, chairman, with
Mesdames Henry Burkhart, William
Howe, Ennis, George Gray, S. Wal
ker, Harry Nelson, Chalker, Give L.
Ware, J. H. Benton, U. J. Bennett
and J. M. J. Luke.
Third Ward
Mrs. o. L. Bradshaw, chairman,
with Mesdames J. E. Turner, J, L.
Frazer, E. J. Dorminey G. A. Jolly,