Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-06-23
RURAL SCHOOLS
BRINGING BEST
TEACHERS HERE
Outlook For Fall In This
County Exceedingly
Pleasing

A glance at the schools OF the cOun-
ty will show a most wonderful I'M
provement that could scarcely have
been contemplated.
At Plains new $4,000 school
is being erected which it is hoped to
have completed by September. All
of the teachers have been selected
for another year and prospects are
bright for a great consolidated school
there
Union High school at Leslie have
elected all their teachers and Prof.
W. l.. Bridges, the principal, says
next year will be the greatest in the
history of the school.
Thalean Academy few days ago
completed it's faculty of five teach
ers by the selection of Miss 'Suth
Courtney Chappell to teach the fifth,
sixth and seventh grades and Miss
Carter, of Bluffton, to teach the pri-
mary grades. J. 7. Leslie has also
been elected trustee of this school to
take the place of J. L. Glawson, who
resigned from the board. Prof. r.
E. White, the new principal, predicts
a fuller attendance for this school
next year. This school has maintain
ed a highwater mark by securing the
best of teachers at a much better
salary than the average school. By
paying higher salaries it has been
enabled to attract the best of teach
ers, placing this school in the front
rank.
Andersonville has elected as prin-
cipal j. NJ Lanier, who has been
practicing law for several years at
Hawkinsville. Lanier will abandon
the practice of law and move to An
dersonville where he and his wife
will engage in teaching. He comes
to Andefsonville most highly recon-
mended.
Mercer Man Coming.
Rev. E. D. Emory, of Mercer Uni
versity, has been elected to take
charge of the school at Huntington.
Only this week he signified his ac-
ceptance. Just a short time ago he
married the beautiful Miss Solomon,
of Jeffersonville, Ga. The bride is a
sister to Miss Marguerite Solomon,
who teaches music at Thalean Acad-
emy. Miss Williams, who ably taught
the primary grades, will remain an
other year with the Huntington
school.
! Concord has elected Arch Chap
pell as principal. Mr.. Chappell
comes to Sumter county from the
State Normal College at Athens,
where he is now taking special
/ course in pedagogy. He is young
man of exemplary Christian charac-
ter and an honor graduate of Locust
Grove Institute. He comes from a
| family of teachers whose names have
distinguished Georgia.
John Nicholson and Charlie!
Brinkley were in Americas a few
days ago telling of the glorious pros
poets of the Lysion school district.
They have secured an able faculty
for another year. There will be less
changes in the faculty and teachers
than in any other of the schools
This district has not yet consolidated
with Thalean nor Sumter although
the matter is still talked of in some
quarters. 1t is the dream Of a few
to unite all the districts in the south
ern part of the county into one great
consolidaed high school district where
vocational high school can be main
tanned that will reflect the greatest
honor on Sumter county. However
it is now only a dream of the dis
tant future that may never material
iZe.
Pleasant Grove Expands.
The trustees of Pleasant Grove are
most alert, and this school is indeed
on the upward grade. The district
area has been enlarged recently by
adding to this district the farms of
Willims L. Chambliss. Gammage