Educational survey of Tattnall County, Georgia

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M. L. DUGGAN, RURAL SCHOOL AGENT
M. L. BRITTAIN
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
1916

EDUCATIONAL SURVEY OF TATTNALL COUNTY GEORGIA
M. L. DUGGAN, Rural School Agent No. ii
Under the Direction of the
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
M. L. BRITTAIN
State Superintendent of Schools 1916

Hon. I. S. Smith, C. S. S. Tattnall County

COUNTY SUPEKINTENDENT AND BOAED OF EDUCATION.

1. Hon. W. H. Yeomans, Member Board of Education; 2,

Hon. I. S. Smith, County Superintendent of Schools; 3, Hon.

M. J. Banks, Member Board of Education; 4, Hon. W. G. Round-

tree, Member Board of Education; 5, Hon. W. Wood, Mem-

ber Board of Education; 6, Hon. T. S. McCall, Chairman Board

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of Education.

BETHEA, Home Economics Demonstrator

O. T. HARPER, Farm Demonstration Agent

TATTNALL COUNTY SCHOOLS
The greatest hindrance to the further development of tlie public schools of Tattnall County is the lack of any satisfactory system of sufficient maintenance.
Depending solely upon the State for any guarantee of regular and permanent source of maintenance not very much more satisfactory progress can reasonably be expected than has already been accomplished. The individual interest of different patrons at different times can not be relied upon for satisfactory and permanent school improvement or adequate maintenance. The educational interests of the county's children ought to be better guaranteed. A county-wide local school tax is the only plan that has universally and permanently succeeded.
At two elections the people of the county have failed to give this measure the requisite two-thirds majority; but here, as everywhere else, a constantly increasing number of voters seems to favor "local taxation" as they become more interested in their schools, and think more of business-like methods of their maintenance. It is, therefore, confidently believed that the people of Tattnall County will soon follow the lead of other progressive counties and put the maintenance of their public schools upon the sure foundation of "local taxation."
It would seem, from a careful investigation, that the schools of the county have now attained about as much of real progress as is possible to them until there is provided a better plan of support.
Administration has been vigorous; supervision has been constant, close, and professional; the teaching is generally as good as can be expected under existing conditions; but results cannot be satisfactory under the prevailing short terms and poor equipments. The exceptional districts in the county furnish ample proofs of the above contentions. For the sake
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of the children it is earnestly hoped that "local taxation" will not much longer be withheld from the public schools.
Hitherto the main efforts have been directed towards the teaching, rather than the conditions under which tlie teaching is being done. As a consequence the teaching force of the county is generally good. But unless better conditions ami longer terms are soon provided strong teachers will leave for better places which are calling for them. The inducement to leave will be constantly before the best teachers, and the difficulty in holding efficient teachers will increase with their increasing efficiency.
The individual and personal efforts of the teachers and patrons at all of the schools have lately resulted in raising, by subscriptions, box suppers, and otherwise, considerable amounts for improving the very meager school equipment, and this is commendable, and in a way, encouraging. But the educational interests of the county's children is of too great concern to be dependent upon individual interest or indifference. The county should take care of its highest interests in a more certain, liberal and permanent way. A county can no more expect individual and local interests and resources to build and maintain any satisfactory and sufficient system of public schools than for similar policies to build and maintain a satisfactory and sufficient system of public roads. It is at least as important to Tattuall County to have permanent and satisfactory public schools as to have permanent and satisfactory public roads. Both are imperative, and the county will not much longer deny herself the benefits of either. Perhaps 110 county is building better public roads than Tattnall, and let this soon be said also of her public schools.
The recent activities at practically all of the schools of the county, which have resulted in repairing and repainting many of the school houses, enclosing school grounds, building toilets, providing a somewhat better school equipment, etc., etc., are most commendable, and encouraging chiefly in that they give evidence of increasing interest in the cause. But let no one be satisfied at this, or deceived into believing that the problem of building better schools can ever be fully or permanently solved in tliis way. By similar spasmodic individual and local efforts we have in the past sometimes seen short pieces

of the public roads greatly unproved; but never all of them made good or any of them made permanently so.
The public spirit and liberality of the county in its cooperation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture in maintaining both the Farm and Home Economics Demonstration work can not be too highly commended. Mr. 0. T. Harper and Miss Maggie Bethea, representing these two educational and economic interests, and both of whom are furnished separate offices in the County Court House, work in perfect harmony and co-operation with the county school authorities.
The well organized and active women's clubs in the county, fully recognized and appreciated by the county school officials, are doing constructive work for the schools. This is particxilarly noticeable at Reidsville and Glennville.
ADULT ILLITERACY WORK.
No survey of the schools of Tattnall County would be complete which overlooked the great work accomplished in the "Moonlight Schools." Under leadership of the coxuity superintendent this was among the first counties in Georgia that undertook systematically to teach adults, and now only about two dozen white adults are left in the entire county who are unable to read and write. These will be reached before the year ends.
Many have been carried as far as the fourth or fiftli grades, and some are ambitious to go farther.
It will be seen in this report that the work is being done at nearly all of the schools of the county. Many of them deserve special mention, but space here forbids. Their story will, however, be written in detail for the inspiration and information of other teachers in other counties. But attention may here be called to one of the largest and most successful "Night Classes" in the State under Prof. J. M. Harvey, at Glennville, Ga., consisting of thirty-six members; and to the class of Miss Thompson, at Mile Hill School, organized three years ago, and now doing foxirth and fifth grade work. We also give the photographs of these two classes made especially for this survey.

RECOMMENDATION.
THE ONE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE WILL MAKE TO THE SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND PEOPLE OF TATTNALL COUNTY IS A COUNTY-WIDE LOCAL SCHOOL TAX FOR THE BETTER SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
A better system of maintenance is at the bottom of the solution of all the other school problems.

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LONG VIEW SCHOOL, (A Standard School.)
Teachers: Miss Berta Stanfield, Principal, Maiiassas, Ga.; Miss Miiita Smith, Assistant, Maiiassas, Ga.
Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in local trustees; yards well fenced; clean and well kept; good playgrounds: no school garden; 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building: Value, $800; 2 class rooms, and library room also used for exhibits; barely enough light; cloak rooms; painted; in good repair, and well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; fairly good blackboards; charts; globe; 13 maps; reference dictionary; good library, 500 volumes; organ; flags; illustrative materials and school exhibits; individual drinking cups.
Organization: Two teachers; 8 grades; 89 pupils; programs posted; sewing, construction work, etc.; school debating society; community debating club; women's school improvement club; school year 32 weeks; moonlight school organized.

COLLINS SCHOOL. (A Standard School.)
Teachers : J. M. Lutes, Principal; Miss Bertie Wood, Miss Pearl Colliiis, Miss Azalia Harris.
Grounds: Large, elevated lot in the town of Colling; titles in the local trustees; large playgrounds; yards well kept; 2 toilets, in good condition; 110 school gardens.
Building: Value, $14,000 (brick) ; 6 good class rooms and auditorium ; well lighted; cloak rooms; building in good repair and well kept.
Equipment: Single patent desks and good teachers' desks; first-class blackboards; sets of maps mounted in case; charts; framed pictures; 110 globe; reference dictionary on stand; 110 library; flags, flowers, etc.; well on lot not good; water from a distance; buckets; dippers.
Organization: Four teachers; 9 grades; 200 pupils; programs posted; literary and domestic science clubs; 36 weeks' school year; splendid moonlight school organized.

LYNN'S BRIDGE SCHOOL. Teacher : Miss Pearl Moseley, Collins, Ga. Location: Pour and one-half miles west of Colliiis. Grounds : Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; located in oak grove;
yard fenced; otherwise unimproved; no school gardens; very small playgrounds; 110 toilets. Building: Value, $300; 1 class room; 110 cloak rooms; unceiled; uiipaiiited; school room clean and well kept. Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; 1 chart; U. S. history and county maps; no globe; no reference dictionary; 1 framed picture; organ; very small library; water at pump; common dippers. Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 42 pupils; a literary society organized; program posted; school year, 22 weeks ; moonlight school organized.
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JENNIE SCHOOL. (A Standard School.)
Teachers: Miss Rosa Freeman, Principal; Miss Ruth Hodges, Assistant, P. 0. Daisy, Ga., R. 2.
Location: Four miles west to Eunice; 4 miles northeast to Cherry Grove.
Grounds: Area, 4 acres; titles in Board of Education; situated in a very beautiful pine grove; fenced; yards well cleaned up; otherwise unimproved; small playgrounds; good school gardens; 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building: Value, $800; 2 class rooms; 110 cloak rooms; poorly lighted; painted; well kept building.
Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; 1 U. S. history map and a county soil survey map; no charts; globe; framed pictures; a reference dictionary; no library; flags; individual drinking cups.
Organization: Two teachers; 8 grades; 72 pupils; a literary and debating club; no community clubs; 8 mouths' school year; splendid moonlight school organized.
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SEWJ.XG AND CANNIXG CLUB CLASS OF LEW SCHOOL. DOMESTIC SCIENCE CLASS AT GLENNVILLE.

LEW SCHOOL.

Teachers: A. T. Bell, Principal; Mrs. A. T. Bell, Assistant, Lew, Ga.; Lola Knight, Lew, Ga.
Location: Three miles south to Vauce; 3y2 miles east to Eunice.
Grounds: Area, 2 acres; titles hi local trustees; open, bare, unimproved; well cleaned up; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building: Value, $2,000; 3 class rooms; cloak rooms; barely well lighted, except as to one new room; ceiled, but unpaiuted inside; painted outside; hi good condition and well kept.
Equipment: Single patent desks; poor blackboards; IT. &., State, county, and county soil survey maps; no charts; no globes; framed pictures; reference dictionary; library ; flags, etc.; very poor heating stoves; good well on lot; individual drinking cups at well.
Organization: Three teachers; 8 grades; 116 pupils; sewing; school improvement club; eight months' school year; moonlight school organized.

BAGG'S MILL SCHOOL.
Teacher: Miss Lucile Kicklighter, Reidsville, Ga.
Location : Three miles east to Stoney Hill; 31/2 miles west to Shiloh; 3y2 miles north to Battle Creek.
Grounds : Area, 2 acres; titles in board of education; elevated, rolling, open, unimproved; yards well cleaned up; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; 1 toilet, in good condition.
Building: Value, $700; 1 class room; cloak rooms; lighting excellent; painted inside and outside; a well-planned building ; well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; 1 U. S. history map ; no charts; no globe; no library; a reference dictionary; flags, etc.; water at well on lot; common dippers.
Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 27 pupils; 5y2 months' school year; no organized school clubs; splendid moonlight school organized.

EUDORA SCHOOL. Teachers: Wood, Principal, Manassas, Ga.; Mrs. Wood, Assis-
tant, Manassas, Ga. Location: Four miles east of Fairhaven. Grounds: Area, 3 acres; titles in trustees (10 acres of-
fered for the proposed new school here); situated in very beautiful pine grove; entirely unimproved. Building: Value, $500; 2 class rooms; no cloak rooms; poorly lighted; ceiled, but unpainted; entirely inadequate to needs of school. Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; U. S. history and county maps; no charts; no globe; a reference dictionary; small library, in good case; well on lot. Organization: Two teachers; 9 grades; 101 pupils; program posted; no organized clubs; school year 28 weeks; no moonlight school organized.
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FAIRHAVEN SCHOOL. Teacher: Miss Lida Ariclerson, Keiclsville, Ga. Location: Four and one-half miles east of Reidsville. Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; yards well cleaned
up and well kept; otherwise unimproved; 110 school gardens ; good playgrounds; 1 toilet, in good condition. Building: Value, $500; 1 class room; cloak rooms; well lighted; ceiled, but impainted inside; painted outside; well kept. Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; Georgia, county, TJ. S., and county soil survey maps; no charts; no globe; reference dictionary; 110 library; water at well on lot; individual drinking cups. Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 36 pupils; program posted; weekly debating club; school year 22 weeks; no illiterates iii the district.
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HEBRON SCHOOL. Teacher: E. J. Mullin, Cobbtown, Ga. Location: Three miles east to Cobbtown; 5 miles south to
Yeomans. Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; elevated lot in grove
of small oaks; unimproved and neglected; small playgrounds; no school gardens; 1 toilet, in average condition. Building : Value, $650; 2 class rooms; no cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted; ceiled, but unpaiuted; not well kept. Equipment: Double patent desks; very poor blackboards; 1 U. S. history map (damaged) ; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no library; no reference dictionary; well on lot; open buckets; common clippers. Organization: One teacher; 6 grades; 60 pupils; no organized clubs; 5y2 months' school year; no moonlight school organized.
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MATLOCK SCHOOL.
Teachers: W. M. Lymi, Principal, Glennville, Ga.; Miss Auuie F. Kandall, Assistant, Glennville, Ga.
Location: Two and one half miles east to Glennville; 4=yz miles southeast to Unity.
Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; open, bare; yards well fenced; well cleaned up; uo school gardens; ample playgrounds; 1 toilet, in bad condition.
Building: Value, $700; 2 class rooms; cloak rooms; veranda; lighted; ceiled; painted; in good condition and well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; U. S. history, county, and county soil survey maps; no charts; no globe; no pictures; reference dictionary; small library with good case; water at pump; individual drinking cups.
Organization: Two teachers; 8 grades; 82 pupils; program posted; semi-monthly debating club; 22 weeks' school year; no moonlight school organized.
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MOORE'S SCHOOL. Teacher: Miss Annie Jordan, Reidsville, Ga. Location: Three miles east to Shiloh; 4 miles west to lieidsville. Grounds : Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; in grove of small
oaks; grounds unimproved and neglected; yard clean; small playgrounds; no school gardens; no toilets. Building: Value, $300; 1 class room; no cloak rooms; lighting medium; unpainted; building unfinished and not well kept. Equipment: Home-made double desks; very poor blackboards; State and county soil survey maps; no charts; no globes; pictures; no library; no reference dictionary; water at well on lot; common dipper. Organization: One teacher; 6 grades; 28 pupils; 5% months' school year; moonlight school organized.
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CEDAR CREEK SCHOOL. Teachers: R. H. Peck, Collins, Ga.; Ruth Kennedy, Collius, Ga. Location: Four miles east of Yeomans. Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; elevated location in
fine pine grove; yards fenced; improved playgrounds, tennis, etc; school gardens; 1 toilet, in good condition. Building : Value, $700; 2 class rooms; no cloak rooms; 1 room well lighted; ceiled, but unpainted; in good repair and fairly well kept. Equipment : Double patent desks; poor blackboards; U. S. and county maps; no charts; no globe; reference dictionary on stand; no framed pictures; library, 100 vols. in good case; sand tables; decorative flags, etc.; well on lot; open buckets; individual dippers. Organization: Two teachers; 8 grades; 71 pupils; program posted; sewing club; literary society; school year, 22 weeks; no moonlight school organized.
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CEDAR GROVE SCHOOL.
Teachers: Asa Sikes, Principal, Elza, Ga.; Miss Ruth Rustin, Assistant, Elza, Ga.
Location : Five miles south to Altamaha; 6 miles north to Oakdale.
Grounds : Area, 2 acres; titles in trustees; open, elevated lot; fenced, otherwise unimproved; school gardens; ample play grounds; 1 toilet, in good condition.
Building : Value, $800; 2 class rooms; cloak rooms; sufficiently, but improperly lighted; unpainted; school rooms well kept.
Equipment : Double patent and home-made desks; blackboards good in one room, poor in the other; U. S. history and State maps; no charts; no globes; framed pictures; no library; no reference dictionary; individual desk dictionaries ; organ; large U. S. flag; well on lot; bubbling fount; common dippers.
Organization: Two teachers; 8 grades; 91 pupils; program posted; weekly debating society; a comnnmity club in contemplation; 22 weeks' school year; splendid moonlight school organized. The teacher organized a class in an adjoining school district.
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GLENNVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. (A Standard School.)
Teachers: J. M. Harvey, Principal (9th & 10th grades) ; J. D. Harvey (8th, 9th and 10th grades) ; Miss Emma Saumlers (6th and 7th grades) ; Miss Ruby llolbrook (4th and 5th grades) ; Miss Lera Smith (2d and 3d grades) ; Miss Jiiaiiita Striekland (1st and 2d grades) ; Miss Rena Branneii (1st grade).
Grounds: Area, 4 acres; titles in city council; well and conveniently located; level lot; fenced and well-kept hedges; ample playgrounds; school gardens; sanitary toilets carefully looked after; grounds being further improved and well kept.
Building: Value, $15,000; brick; 7 standard class rooms; well appointed building for manual training shops; good heating plant; all rooms well and properly lighted; city water; drinking fountains; building well kept.
Equipment: Single patent desks in suitable sizes; teachers' desks; fairly good blackboards; good supply maps; charts; globes; framed pictures; sand tables; flags; weather calendars; reference dictionaries in each room;

booklets, display school work, etc.; library, 200 vols.; domestic science equipment. Organization: Seven teachers; 10 grades; 359 pupils; domestic science; manual training; 2 literary societies; active parent-teachers' association; NIGHT SCHOOL FOR ADULT ILLITERATES WITH CLASS OF THIRTYEIGHT. LARGEST IN THE COUNTY.
Adult JS'ight Class, numbering 38, at Glennville, Ga.; J. M. Harvey, Teacher.

TYSON SCHOOL.
Teachers: D. J. Shaw, Principal; Miss Lillia Stanfield, Assistant, P. 0. Glennville, Ga.
Location: Four and one-half miles east to Matlock; 4% miles west to Stone Hill.
Grounds : Area, 2 acres; titles in board of education; grounds well cleaned up; well fenced; playgrounds ample, but little improved; school gardens; 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building : Value, $1,000; 2 class rooms; veranda; cloak rooms; lighting medium; ceiled; painted inside; painted outside ; well kept.
Equipment: Single patent desks; teachers' desks; good blackboards; U. S. and county soil survey maps; no charts; no globe; no library; framed pictures; reference dictionary ; water at well on lot; individual drinking cups.
Organization: Two teachers; 9 grades; 5'4 pupils; weekly debating club; 5% months' school year; no moonlight school organized.
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EUNICE SCHOOL. Teachers: Miss Sudie Grimes, Principal; Miss Eosie Butler,
Assistant. Location: Four miles east to Jennie; 4 miles west to Union. Grounds : Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; entirely unimproved;
yards cleaned up; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; 1 toilet, in bad condition. Building: Value, $750; 2 class rooms; veranda, but no cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted; ceiled, but unpainted; well kept, Equipment: Double patent desks; very poor blackboards; no maps, except a county soil survey map; no charts; no globe; no framed pictures; no library; no reference dictionary; water at pump on lot; common dippers. Organization: Two teachers; 7 grades; 75 pupils; no clubs organized; 5% months' school year; splendid moonlight school organized.
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ALTAMAHA SCHOOL.
Teachers: Miss Kathleen Burns, Reidsville, Ga., R. F. D.; Miss Miriam Stanfield, Reidsville, Ga., R. F. I).
Location: Five miles north to Cedar Grove; 7% miles east to Oak Grove.
Grounds: Area, 1 acre;. titles in trustees; adjacent to church lot; open, bare, unimproved; neglected; no school gardens; small playgrounds; 1 toilet, in average condition.
Building : Value, $400; 2 class rooms; no cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted; unfinished; unpainted; not well kept.
Equipment: Double patent and home-made desks; poor blackboards; no maps; no charts; no globe; 110 pictures; no reference dictionary; no library; ($28.00 in hand for the purchase of a better equipment) ; water from a neighbor's well; cooler; common dippers.
Organization: Two teachers; 7 grades; 55 pupils; program posted; weekly debating club; 22 weeks' school year; moonlight school organized by a teacher in another district.

OAK DALE SCHOOL.
Teacher: F. C. Randall, Elza, Ga.
Location: Five miles east to Reidsville; 6 miles south to Cedar Grove.
Grounds: Area, 2 acres; titles in trustees; open field with small oaks; fenced, otherwise unimproved; yards well cleaned up; ample playgrounds; school gardens; 2 toilets, in fair condition.
Building: Value, $400; 2 class rooms; no cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted (windows too small and too low) ; unceiled; unpainted ; well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; 1 II. S. history map; no charts; no globe; no framed pictures; library, 175 vols., in good case; reference dictionary; flags, etc.; well on lot; open buckets; common dippers.
Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 46 pupils; program posted; weekly debating club; 28 weeks' school year; moonlight school organized.

OAK GROVE SCHOOL.

Teacher: Miss Mattie Rushing, Glennville, Ga.

Location : Four miles east to Dinner Branch ; Altamaha.

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Grounds : Area, 1 acre ; titles in trustees ; live oaks and pines on lot ; entirely unimproved ; small yards clean ; no school gardens ; very small playgrounds ; 1 toilet, in poor condition.

Building : Value, $250 ; 1 class room ; no cloak rooms ; well lighted ; unceiled ; unpainted ; fairly well kept.

Equipment : Double home-made desks ; poor blackboards ; county and county soil survey maps ; no charts ; no globe ; no pictures; no reference dictionary; no library; water at pump ; common dippers.
Organization: One teacher: 7 grades; 32 pupils; program posted ; no organized clubs ; 22 weeks ' school year ; no moonlight school organized.

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ELLA GROVE SCHOOL.
Teacher: Miss Mary Lizzie McCord, Gleimville, Ga.
Location : Two miles southwest to Glennville; 2% miles south to Buck Branch.
Grounds : Area, 1 acre; titles in local trustees; open lot with pines; fenced; ample playgrounds; fine school garden; 2 toilets, in good condition; grounds well kept.
Building: Value, $800; 2 class rooms; veranda; cloak rooms; lighting medium (windows too low) ; painted inside; unpainted outside; rooms very neat and well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; teachers' desk; good blackboards; 1 U. S. history map; no chart; small globe; framed pictures and flags; no reference dictionary; set
. of encyclopedias; bubbling fountain in room.
Organization: One teacher; 6 grades; 44 pupils; a literary society meets occasionally; 5% months' school year; moonlight school organized.

BUCK BRANCH SCHOOL. (A Standard School.)
Teacher: E. A. W. Cochran, Glennville, Ga. Location: Two and one-half miles west to Gleimville; 3 miles
north to Ella Grove; 5 miles southwest to Unity. Grounds : Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; situated on a sloping
lot with pines and large oaks; grounds well cleaned off; small school gardens; small playgrounds; 2 toilets, in good condition. Building: Value $500; 1 class room; cloak rooms; well lighted: painted inside and outside; well kept. Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; U. S. history map; no charts; no globe; framed pictures; no reference dictionary; no library; flags, sand tables, etc; well 011 lot; water served at well; individual cnps. Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 49 pupils; program posted; literary society organized; 32 weeks' school year; moonlight school organized.
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BETHESDA SCHOOL.

Teachers: Miss Mattie Price, Principal; Miss Bourne Parrish, Assistant, P. O. Cobbtowu, Ga.

Location: Three miles east to Mile Hill; 6 miles west to Cobbtowii.

Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; grove of small oaks;

fenced; yards well cleaned up; small playgrounds;

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school gardens; 2 toilets, in average condition. Building: Value, $700; 1 class room (divided by a curtain);

no cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted; painted; in good

repair and well kept.

Equipment: Double patent desks; teachers' desk; medium blackboards ; U. S., Georgia, and county maps; charts; globe; framed pictures (good selection) ; a reference dictionary; no library; water at well on lot; individual drinking cups.

Organization: Two teachers; 6 grades; 60 pupils; no organized clubs; 5!/2 mouths' school year; no moonlight school ized clubs; 5y2 months' school year; no illiterates in
district.

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APPLETON SCHOOL.
Teacher: Miss Eoro Strippling, Glennville, Ga.
Location: Five miles south to Dinner Branch; 6 miles northwest to Tison.
Grounds : Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; situated in a fine original pine forest; lot unimproved; yards clean; no school gardens; small playgrounds; 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building: Value, $300; 3 class room; no cloak rooms: barely well lighted; unfinished; unpainted; well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; U. S. history map; no charts; no globe; framed pictures; water at pump; individual drinking cups.
Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 47 pupils; program posted; literary society organized; school year, 22 weeks; moonlight school organized.

CHERRY GROVE SCHOOL. Teacher: C. II. Brown, Daisy, Ga. Location: Four miles southwest to Jennie, near Evans County
line. Grounds: Area, 1 acre;.titles probably in a Baptist church ad-
joining; in a fine pine grove; 1 large cherry tree; yards clean, but unimproved; small playgrounds; no school garden; 2 toilets, in poor condition. Building : Value, $1,000; two-story; 2 class rooms; cloak rooms; poorly lighted; ceiled, but unpainted; in good condition and well kept; floors oiled. Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; no maps; no charts; no globe; 110 pictures; no library; a reference dictionary; water at well on lot; common clippers. Organization: One teacher; 8 grades; 42 pupils; no organized clubs; 5y2 months' school year; 110 illiterates in the district.
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UNITY SCHOOL.
Teacher: S. L. Gaskins, Glennville, Ga.
Location: Five miles south of Glennville.
Grounds : Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; live oak grove; lot unimproved; yards cleaned up; no school gardens; small playgrounds; 1 toilet, in average condition.
Building : Value, $500; 1 class room; no cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted; ceiled, painted; in good condition, and well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; no charts; no globe; no framed pictures; library; a reference dictionary ; water at pump; individual cups.
Organization: One teacher; 6 grades; 54 pupils; program posted; no organized clubs; school year, 22 weeks; moonlight school organized.

BEARD'S CREEK SCHOOL.

Teachers: J. 0. Bacon, Principal; Miss Luna Belle Easterling, Assistant, P. 0. Glennville, Ga.

Location: Four miles south to Ella Grove; 4% miles north to Jennie.

Grounds: Area, 50 acres; titles in Baptist church adjoining; situated among some fine live oaks; fenced, but entire lot neglected; small playgrounds; no school gardens; toilets (?).

Building: Value (?); 2 class rooms; no cloak rooms; very poorly lighted; ceiled, but unpainted; well cleaned up.

Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; good set

maps mounted in case; chart; no globe; no pictures;

no library; a reference dictionary and stand; open

buckets; common dippers.

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Organization: Two teachers; 8 grades; 67 pupils; weekly debating club; 5% months' school year; moonlight school

organized.

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REIDSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. (A Standard School.)
Teachers: Geo. R. Wheeler, Principal, Latin & Mathematics; Miss Jennie Kicklighter, 7th grade and History; Miss Marilu Bridges, f>th and 6th grades; Miss Hessie Newton, 4th grade and English; Miss Kate Freeman, 3d and 4th grades; Miss Lula Smith, 1st grade ; Miss Murphy, Music.
Grounds: Area, 5 acres; titles in city council; grounds improved and fenced; ample playgrounds improved ; school gardens; sanitary toilets in building.
Building: Value, $16,000; brick; 6 class rooms and auditorium; cloak rooms; domestic science room; music room; library, etc.; well lighted; in good condition and well kept.
Equipment: Single patent desks; teachers' desks: good blackboards; good set maps, mounted in case; charts; globes; an excellent selection of framed pictures; reference dictionaries; a good equipment for teaching domestic science; library, 400 vols.; bubbling fountains in building, city water.
Organization: Seven teachers; 10 grades; 270 pupils; literary societies; 9 mouths' school year; splendid moonlight school organized.
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UNION SCHOOL.
Teachers: Miss Susie (Mum, Gleniiville, Ga.
Location: Three miles north to Eunice; 3 miles west to Lew; 3 miles south to Vaiice.
Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; bare; fenced; otherwise unimproved; small playgrounds; 110 school gardens; 1 toilet, in average condition.
Building: Value, $500; 2 class rooms; veranda; cloak rooms; insufficiently and improperly lighted; ceiled, but uupainted; well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; U. S., county, and soil survey maps; 110 charts; globe; framed pictures; reference dictionary and stand; large flag; library ordered; water at pump 011 lot; individual cups.
Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 42 pupils; weekly debating club; 51/2 months' school year; splendid moonlight school organized.

YEOMANS SCHOOL.
Teachers: Lester Anderson, Principal, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades; Miss Ruby Jordan, 3d and 4th grades; Miss Ruby Hooks, 1st and 2d grades; Miss Queen Collins, primer class.
Location: Four miles cast to Cedar Creek; 4 miles south to Collins; 5 miles northwest to Cobbtown.
Grounds : Area, 2 acres; titles in trustees; situated upon rolling grounds, with some fine pines; fenced; school gardens; small playgrounds; 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building: Value, $1,500; badly planned; 4 class rooms; cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted; in good repair and painted; fairly well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; very poor blackboards; 1 U. S. history map; no charts; no globes; a few pictures; library of 100 vols.; reference dictionary; large U. S. flag on pole; water at well on lot; common dippers (a few individual cups).
Organization: Four teachers; 8 grades; 165 pupils; organized debating club; 5y2 months' school year; splendid moonlight school organized.
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STONEY HILL SCHOOL.
Teacher: O. R. Sarten, Reidsville, Ga.
Location: Three and one-half miles north to Battle Creek; 3 miles west to Bragg's Mill.
Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; open, bare, unimproved, except fenced yards; small playgrounds; no school gardens; no toilets.
Building: Value, $650; 1 class room; 110 cloak rooms; well lighted; ceiled inside; painted outside; well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; U. S. history, State and county maps; charts; no globes; pictures ; library; reference dictionary; individual drinking cups at well on lot.
Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 32 pupils; no organized clubs; 5y2 months' school year; no illiterates in the district.

SHILOH SCHOOL. Teacher: Miss Nannie Elliot, Glennville, Ga. Location : Three miles northwest to Moores. Grounds: Area, ] acre; titles in trustees; situated in a beautiful
pine grove; grounds entirely unimproved; small playgrounds; no school gardens; 1 toilet, in average condition. Building: Value, $400; 1 class room, size 24 x 60; lighting medium ; unpainted; unfinished. Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; IT. S. history arid a soil survey map; no charts; no globe; no framed pictures; no library; reference dictionary: pump on lot; open buckets; common dippers; $14.00 worth equipment ordered. Organization: One teacher; 8 grades; 33 pupils; 2 literary societies organized; 5^/2 months' school year; no illiterates in the district.
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COBBTOWN HIGH SCHOOL.
Teachers: W. W. Carter, Principal, 7th, 8th, and 9th grades; Mrs. W. W. Carter, 6th and primer grades; Miss Genie Daniels, 4th and 5th grades; Miss Luella Wells, 2d and 3d grades; Miss Annie Elders, 1st grade.
Grounds: Area, 3 acres; titles in trustees; open, with pines in backgrounds; fenced; fairly good playgrounds; no school gardens; 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building: Value, $2,500 (two buildings); poorly planned; 5 class rooms and auditorium; cloak rooms added; insufficiently lighted; ceiled and painted outside; well kept.
Equipment: Some rooms with patent desks, other with tables and chairs; medium blackboards; II. S., State, county, and county soil survey maps; globes; framed pictures; reference dictionaries; library of 150 vols.; water at well on lot.
Organization: Four teachers; 9 grades; 205 pupils; no organized clubs; 7 mouths' school year; splendid moonlight school organized.
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BATTLE CREEK SCHOOL. Teacher: Miss Bamie Kennedy, Eeidsville, Ga. Location: Three miles southwest to Bragg's Mill; 3 miles south
to Stoney Hill; 3 miles west to Shiloh. Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; grove of small oaks;
fenced; other improvements under way; small playgrounds ; school gardens; 1 toilet, in good condition and screened. Building: Value, $400; 1 class room; no cloak rooms; insufficiently lighted; ceiled, but unpaintetl; well kept. Equipment: Double patent desks; good blackboards; 1 U. S. history map; charts; no globe; framed pictures; no library; reference dictionary; flags, etc.; well on lot; open buckets; common dippers. Organization: One teacher; 9 grades; 27 pupils; literary society; 51/2 months' school year; no illiterates in district.
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MILE HILL SCHOOL. (A Standard School.)
Teacher: Miss Lily Thompson, Manassas, Ga.
Location: Three miles northwest to Bethesda; 3 miles southeast' to Longview.
Grounds : Area, 2 acres; titles in board of education; rolling; fenced ; improvements begun; ample playgrounds; school gardens (flower and vegetable); 2 toilets, in good condition.
Building: Value, $650; 1 class room; cloak rooms; small library room; lighting ideal; painted; well kept; well planned building.
Equipment: Double patent desks; teachers' desk; poor blackboards ; U. S. history, State, county and county soil survey maps; no charts; no globes; framed pictures; library; reference dictionary; organ; flags, display sewing, etc., etc.; water at well on lot; individual drinking cups; individual basins and towels.
Organization: One teacher,- 7 grades; 60 pupils; literary society; sowing club; adult illiteracy class very successful.
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This class of adults at Mile Hill School, Miss Thompson, teacher, was organized three years ago, and now doing fourth and fifth grade work.
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VANCE SCHOOL. Teacher: K, F. Dowdy, Hagan, Ga. Location: Three miles northeast to Union. Grounds: Area (?); titles private; temporarily located; no im-
provements ; very small playgrounds; no school gardens; no toilets. Building : Value, $250; 1 class room; no cloak rooms; poorly lighted; unpainted. Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; no maps, except 1 soil survey of county; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no library; a reference dictionary; water from neighbor's well; covered cooler; individual drinking Clips. Organization: One teacher; 6 grades; 28 pupils; 5% months' school year; no organized clubs; no moonlight class organized.
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DINNER BRANCH SCHOOL.

Teacher: Mrs. J. D. McLeod, Reidsville, Ga.

Location: Three and one-half miles from nearest school.

Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in trustees; in good condition; small playgrounds; no school gardens; 1 toilet in poor condition.

Building : Value, $300; 1 class room; no cloak rooms; building

in poor condition, but well kept; unpaiiited.

Equipment : Double patent desks; good blackboards; maps; no charts; no globe; no library; 110 reference dictionary;

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no pictures.

Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 25 pupils; program posted; 28 periods; 22 weeks' school year; a night school for adults.

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2, Rocky Creek School; 3, Manassas School; 4, Ebenezer School; 5, Collins School.
TYPICAL NEGRO SCHOOLS.