Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-01-19
COUNTY COURT llDoRS
New Road Supervisors Elected ana
Other Busiasss Transacted

The quarterly term of the Count,
Court convened Monday of last week
and completed its labors before moor
Tuesday. All Justices were present.
The quarterly report of Judge S. N
Smith shows the county to be in the
worst shape for many years, which is
due to two things: First. the delay in
deciding upon the state rae Of taxes
delayed the Hate of receiving taxes
from October to December and as a
result less money came into the hands
of the trustee. The tax rate and valu-
ations were not sufficiently high to
raise funds necessary to meet the in
creased expenses the county had to
bear because of inflated prices. There
were outstanding warrants as fol-
lows: County, $76oIeo; Schooi$3,i32.-
IS High School, $40; making total
Of $s5s44s- Besides this the accounts
of the Trustee are shown to be over
drawn for the following amounts:
County, $2,s5I.64; Court House, ,S2ao.I7,
High School, 23I.22; Pike Bonds,
$26o.27; making a total of $3,263.3o.
Judge Smith was authorized to bor-
row sufficient money to take care Of
the outstanding county warrants.
SCHOOL CONDITION
Superintendent A. J. Aibertson
made his annual report, from which
we Gull few items that are very un-
favorable to the schools and should
be remedied:
The total scholastic population of
the county, taken in 1919 was 1873;
II of these being colored. Of this
number only 2,2Io were in daily atten-
dance, making about one-third who
did not attend regularly. In the
Crossville City School there was an
of 332 and daily atten-
lance of 2o2, which shows that con-
iitions are as bad in Crossville as in
he rural districts so far as attendance
S concehned. 1t simply shows that
he compulsory attendance law has
,een ignored and practically no effort
made to enforce it. That truant Of
icer is badly needed in our couty is
90 plain to admit of dispute.
An effort was made to increase the
alary of the County Superintendent (
# Schools from 500 to $1,000, but the
notion was lost and the salary was
hen fixed at $780, the same as last
ear.
+. A. Loshbough was elected, with
ut opposition, to be Road Supervisor i
f the Graded Roads; Jere Morrow {
or the First District Willie Mccoy {
Or the Second District. !. l.. Burgess J
or the Third District; Arthur Wat /.
on for the Fourth District: ! "A Flynn ,
,r he Fifth District l.,
The term of G.. A. Haley and n. d.
Walker having expired as members
{ the High School Board, G. P. Bur
ett and F. J. Upham were chosen to
,e vacancies for the next two years. II
G. P. Burnett was elected Poor
ouse Commissioner.
COMMITTEES fl
The following standing committees a
ere elected for the next two years: r.
AK Levy, R. A. Powell, D. w. Lunoy, "
. S. Rose: Jail, Thos. Selby, J. l.. An
.rson, J. F. Brown; Poor House, c. d
. Mccoy, o. B. Rector. J. D. Brewer. h
G.. A. Haley rendered his resigna- II
On as a member of the revenue COM s,
ittec and Jas. Anderson was elected
his place. II
Mrs. Dave Brown was allowed $50 "
r the quarter ending March 81. ST
1t was ordered that Dick Burgess be h;
lowed ten dollars for the quarter
ding March 81. if found to be legal. iii
Alonzo Hyder was released from re
ad work and poll tax for this year.
W Loden was released for the peri "
of three years. pa
Mary Hubbard was allowed $500
NTH for this quarter Mr.. Cook, OF pr
fly, was allowed $500 month for
S quarter. Lawson Burgess was al to
we'd $1,000 month for this quarter. ci,
Bill Williams was permanently re- Or