The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-06-17
Board of Trustees Made Its Annual
Report, Which Was Excellent SNOW
ing-Urgent Need for der" Room IN
the school Bonds Have
Not Been Sold.

was held. after due nollEe D? ""NeA
tisements in the city papers, III the
courthouse Friday afternoon at hve
o'clock. There was the usual small
attendance of citiZens-leSS than tWo
dozen men. and no women at all.
w. H. Wallace was called 70 NC
chair and p. D. Johnson acted as sec
retary.
The annual report Of the trustees
was read by Superintendent Oln L.
Cannon. 1t showed the schools 10 De
in good shape except THAI there IS not
room enough at the high school ana
the negro school is too croWded-So
crowded that additional room has TO
be rented.
Bonds were voted by the school dis
trict some time ago, but the interest
was fixed at five per cent on the bonds,
and, though there have been several
INQUIRIES, no reasonable offer has been
made for the bonds.
The colored people Of NeWb@rry
have accumulated fund CT more than
a thousand dollars towards new
schoolhouse, and there is prospect ol
having fifteen hundred added to that
bv the state; but that is not enough.
The trustees contemplate selling the
property on Caldwell street, IN GRAY
elton and building a large schooi-
house of wood in another part OF town
AS soon as sufficient funds can be OBJ
tanned.
AS to the high school. no definite
plans have been decided upon; bit the
trustees are considering the plan OF
building four-room wooden building
close to the high school, SO construct
ed that the partitions can be taken out
later and the building be used as
gymnasium, as soon as brick addl-
ton can be added to the high school.
But no definite plan has been decided
aDon, though it is very important that
something be done before the school
opening next fall.
Following is the annual report OF
the board of trustees Of the years
work:
Trustees Annual Report.
To the Citizens OF the NeWDerrv
School District:
The Newberry city schools began
the session 1920-1921 on September
18th with the largest enrolment IN the
history of the schools. and on May
3lst was ended one Of the most sue
eessful sessions.
Many classes were too f&ii. especial
ly was this true in the negro schools,
where each class was large: thar the
school laws allow. We were not able
to remedy this crowded condition,
owing to the fact that We were unable
to- sell the bonds voted last year for
school improvements. Because OF the
fact that these bonds were limited to
rate of five per cent, We succeeded III
getting only one bid, and it was Tor
about IT; which, in our opinion, was
too low to net the scho S the sum OF
money necessary to carry out the
building program outlined by your
committee appointed last year to re-
commend such building improvements
as are needed in the schools.
In the high school we have suffered
for lack of room. One class has been
reciting in the auditorium, while at the
same time another class or section IS
observing study period in the same
lplace. The class in agriculture could
not be provided with a room in the
high school, and therefore has had to
meet in room fitted up in the base
ment of Boundary Street school. We
are still striving to get g decent bid
on the bonds and are at the same time
trying to borrow, in anticipation of
the sale of the bonds. sum of money
sufficient to enable us to begin build
ing.
We are glad to report to You that
our schools were not closed this SeS-
sion on account Of epidemics. The su-
perintendent' monthly reports indi-
cate that there were. at times. numer-
Gus absences due to influenza, oop-
ing cough, chicken poX and measles.
1t is very gratifying to report to
you that the state high school inspec-
tor made visit to our high school,
and was well pleased with the course
of study offered and also with the
quality cf teaching done by our tea>n-
ers. We are proud OF the fact that our
high school is classified as class A,
and We are asking you to cooperate
with us and the teachers in striving
to keep it in the front rank among the
high schools of the state.
We wish to commend our teachers
for the faithful service they rendered
during the session. and to express our
appreciation of the loyalty they mani
tested towards our schools in accept
ing their places in our schools for
next session, in the face OF more re-
munerative offers from other schools.
We have had to elect only four new
teachers for next session out Of a to-
tai of thirty-five white teacherS-a
record which We believe could not be
duplicated in the state
We wish to go on record as favoring
compulsory education for the entire
school session instead OF d period OF
only four months, as the school law