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 Educational Survey of 
 
 Jones County 
 
 Georgia 
 
 
 By 
 
 M. L. DUGGAN, Rural School Agent 
 
 No. 20 
 
 Under Direction of the State 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
 
 M. L. BRITTAIN 
 State Superintendent of Schools 
 1918 
 
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Educational Survey of 
 
 Jones County 
 
 Georgia 
 
 By 
 
 M. L. DUGGAN, Rural School Agent 
 
 No. 20 
 
 Under Direction of the State 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
 
 M. L. BRITTAIN 
 State Superintendent of Schools 
 1918 
 
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 FEB 20 1911 
 
GEORGIA. 
 
 NOTE: An experience with county-wide local school tax is the 
 most effective argument for it. Counties adjacent to local tax coun- 
 ties, seeing its benefits, most readily vote for it. See map. 
 
 Shaded Counties: County-wide Local Tax. 
 
 LOCAL TAX COUNTIES. 
 
 These counties tax themselves in order that all — not some — of their 
 schools may be improved. One by one others are adding themselves 
 to the roll of the educational leaders who demonstrate thus practically 
 their belief in the necessity for more and better training for the 
 children. A few years ago only Chatham, Richmond, Bibb, and Glynn 
 had county-wide local taxation: 
 
 Bacon, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bryan, Burke, Butts, Camden, Chatham, 
 Clarke, Clinch, Coffee, Columbia, Crisp, DeKalb, Echols, Emanuel, 
 Fulton, Glascock, Glynn, Hancock, Hart, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jas- 
 per, Jeff Davis, Jenkins, Jones, Lee, Lincoln, Mcintosh, Mitchell, 
 Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Muscogee, Newton, Pulaski, Quitman, 
 Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, Screven, Spalding, Stewart, Talbot, 
 Terrell. Tift. Walton, Wayne, Wheeler, Worth. 
 
HON. E. W. SAMMONS, Superintendent. 
 
 COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. 
 County School Superintendent. 
 
 HON. E. W. SAMMONS Gray, Ga. 
 
 County Board of Education. 
 
 HON. T. W. DUFFY, Sr., Chairman James, Ga. 
 
 HON. J. T. FINNEY Haddocks, Ga. 
 
 HON. A. B. GREENE Wayside, Ga. 
 
 HON. F. M. STEWART Gray, Ga. 
 
 HON. B. F. WINTERS Bradley, Ga. 
 
"I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, 
 Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones. 
 
 * * * 
 
 And dinged ef a livin' was in the land. 
 
 * * * 
 
 But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm. 
 And he rolled up his breeches and bared his arm, 
 And he picked all the rocks from off'n the groun'. 
 And he rooted it up and he plowed it down. 
 Then he sowed his corn and his wheat in the land. 
 
 Brown looked up at him sharp and riz and swore 
 
 That, 'whether men's land was rich or poor 
 
 There was more in the man than thar was in the land'." 
 
 — Sidney Lanier. 
 
 JONES COUNTY 
 
 Jones county is located at the geographical center of the 
 state, and on the line of contact between the physiographic 
 provinces known as the Piedmont Plateau and the Atlantic 
 Coastal Plain, mostly in the former. There are a few small 
 areas of level land typical of the Coastal Plain, but the 
 surface configurations for the most part are rough and 
 hilly or broken sections. It is drained by the Ocmulgee 
 river which marks the Western boundary, and by tributaries 
 of the Oconee river Eastward. Jones county was originally 
 a part of Baldwin county, the separation having taken place 
 in 1807. Other territory was added from Putnam in 1810, 
 and still more added when Bibb county was formed in 1822. 
 Population increased rapidly until about 1835, when the 
 
county stood third in point of agricultural wealth in the 
 state. Owing to the prevalent system of farming the lands 
 became greatly worn by erosion, and it became famous as 
 "a county of red hills and stones", and many farmers left 
 to take up fresher lands in newer sections of the state. 
 
 The area of the county is 401 square miles, or 256,640 
 acres, of which 216,153 acres are classed as farm lands. 
 While the average size of these farms is reported to be 112.5 
 acres, it is said that half of the county is owned by about 
 fifty persons, their holdings ranging as high as 12,800 
 acres. This condition is the greatest hindrance to the prop- 
 er development of the county, ample proof of which can be 
 seen by comparing different sections of the county. 
 
 The county has excellent transportation facilities. The 
 main line of the Central of Georgia railway traverses the 
 southern part of the county for a distance of ten miles, the 
 Athens and Macon branch of the same road runs North 
 and South through the center of the county for twenty-five 
 miles, and the Georgia Railroad East and West for twenty 
 miles. Besides these important lines the Southern Rail- 
 way is within a mile or two of the Western borders of the 
 county for a distance of ten or twelve miles, although across 
 the Ocmulgee river which forms the Western border. There 
 is a large mileage of dirt roads which are rapidly being 
 put into fine condition, except that they are not well sur- 
 faced and so get into bad condition during the winter sea- 
 sons. 
 
 Jones has always been strictly a rural and agricultural 
 county. There are half a dozen thriving villages, but none 
 with above 500 population, and no manufacturing or min- 
 ing enterprises, excepting only one small cotton mill. The 
 chief commercial products of the soil are cotton and peaches. 
 The cotton crop of 1917 was approximately 10,500 bales^ 
 and the county shipped some 250,000 crates of peaches. 
 Many young peach trees are not yet in bearing, the total 
 number now growing being estimated at 2,000,000. The 
 melon crop amounted last year to about $25,000.00. Lo- 
 
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cated within only a very few miles of Macon, Ga., (pop- 
 ulation about fifty thousand) , and Camp Wheeler, a United 
 States Army Cantonment, the county enjoys exceptional 
 market advantages. 
 
 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 While the land has prospered the public schools have also 
 prospered. Allowing the paraphrase, "There is more in 
 the Administration than there is in the Situation". Ten 
 or fifteen years ago the public school situation in Jones 
 was not unlike any other average Georgia county, with 
 similar conditions and difficulties hindering progress. But, 
 figuratively, 
 
 "He picked up the rocks from off'n the groun', 
 
 He rooted it up and he plowed it down. 
 
 And he sowed", — the doctrines of county-wide local taxa- 
 tion in the land. The harvest was a liberal, permanent and 
 business-like maintenance fund for the support of the 
 schools. 
 
 STATISTICS AND FINANCES. 
 
 The last school census credits the county with 1,208 white 
 and 3,554 negro children. At the time this survey was con- 
 ducted (Dec. 1917) none of the negro schools were in opera- 
 tion. There are twenty-four white schools in the county. 
 The county receives from the state school fund__$15,952.70 
 and from the county local school tax levy 13,500.00 
 
 making a total for school purposes $29,452.70 
 
 The rate of the local school tax levy is five mills, and the 
 county tax rate for all other purposes (including roads) 
 is eleven mills. 
 
 LENGTH OF SCHOOL YEAR. 
 
 With the state school funds thus liberally supplemented 
 by a county local school tax levy all of the white schools 
 
of the county are maintained for nine months, and, with a 
 few exceptions, this is a continuous term. In this respect, 
 therefore, the rural schools of Jones county are on a par 
 with the best urban schools anywhere, and the grades 
 should be completed easily. There are, however, some 
 other conditions militating against this achievement at some 
 of the schools. 
 
 CONSOLIDATIONS. 
 
 Through consolidations the number of schools have been 
 reduced during the past ten years to from about thirty-five 
 to twenty-four. But by carefully noting the locations of 
 the schools with reference to their directions and distances 
 from each other it will be seen that there are still a few 
 consolidations that may reasonably be effected without great 
 inconveniece to patrons. The mimimum distance contemp- 
 lated by the law is four miles, making a school district 
 of sixteen square miles. 
 
 TOO MANY GRADES. 
 
 Many of the schools, it will be observed, are attempting 
 too many grades to the teacher; and a few of them too many 
 grades and teachers in proportion to the number of pupils 
 attending. In the former cases it is impossible to do thor- 
 ough and satisfactory work; while in the latter the cost 
 per pupil is proportionately too great. It is practically im- 
 possible for one teacher to teach effectively twenty-five to 
 thirty-five periods per day, especially when some of this 
 is high school work; and it is bad business policy to main- 
 tain an extra teacher for this high school work when the 
 number of pupils is too small to justify the expenditure. 
 
 An examination of this report will show that more than 
 half of the county's schools are attempting more or less 
 high school work. One school is teaching five grades, four 
 schools six grades, five schools seven grades, eight schools 
 eight grades, and six schools ten grades. 
 
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CONSOLIDATE HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS. 
 
 A far more business-like policy, in the interest of pupils 
 and tax-payers, would be a consolidation of the high school 
 pupils. Several progressive counties are adopting this pol- 
 icy in the interest of efficiency and economy ; others are con- 
 sidering it. Where the distance is too far to walk it would 
 be both better and cheaper to bear the expenses of trans- 
 portation for these few to a consolidated high school than 
 to maintain an extra teacher for the few or to rob the pri- 
 mary grades of time that should be given to them. Ordi- 
 narily, and unless for strong local educational reasons, high 
 schools may reasonably be approximately ten or twelve 
 miles apart. The law of "the survival of the fittest" will 
 usually determine their locations. 
 
 "ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES." 
 
 The absence of "Associated Activities" at nearly all of 
 the schools is probably the most noticeable weakness of the 
 county school system. The term, "no organized club work", 
 becomes monotonous in this report. The county has no 
 Farm Demonstration Agent or Home Economics Agent, 
 and few teachers have taken the initiative in introducing 
 these or other organized activities into their schools. There 
 are a few small school gardens, most of which are being 
 neglected. It is to be hoped that public sentiment, which 
 is being so rapidly educated towards practical activities in 
 the public schools, will soon demand more in this direction of 
 their teachers. The teachers should be the leaders, and 
 not wait to be driven. 
 
 SCHOOL EQUIPMENT. 
 
 Practically all of the schools are well supplied with suit- 
 able patent desks and first-class blackboards. Four-fifths 
 have only the small state maps distributed by the state de- 
 partment of agriculture, or the United States history maps 
 sent out by the United States department of agriculture, 
 while three are without maps of any kind. Ten schools 
 
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have small school libraries; twelve are supplied with refer- 
 ence dictionaries. 
 
 (NOTE : Since this survey was made, and while this re- 
 port was in press, information comes that a number of the 
 schools are rapidly putting in better equipments as a re- 
 sult of the inspection and suggestions to them.) 
 
 SCHOOL HOUSES. 
 
 As will be readily seen from the photographs herein, the 
 school houses are substantially and comfortable, but do not 
 as a rule fulfill all the requirements of present-day school 
 architecture. The deficiencies are usually in the matters 
 of cloak rooms, lighting, heating, etc. The new and com- 
 modious brick building at the county seat is well adapted 
 for a high school, and with libraries, laboratories, etc., 
 which are in contemplation, would serve well as a county 
 high school. Building and grounds are ample for such 
 future services. 
 
 A MODEL RURAL SCHOOL HOUSE. 
 
 The Glovers school is in every respect an ideal two- 
 teacher rural school house — a rural school plant planned 
 and built for business. Just how much this plant adds to 
 the educational efficiency of the little institution it would be 
 difficult to determine, but none would deny its educational 
 value. It would be well worth the while of progressive 
 school officials proposing to build to see this plant before 
 wasting their money on unsuitable make-shifts, as has been 
 done so often in every county. 
 
 SCHOOL GROUNDS. 
 
 The playgrounds at the Glovers school, while rather too 
 small, are unusually well equipped with appliances of per- 
 manent and approved character. It has been said that "a 
 school without playgrounds is an educational deformity". 
 In comparison with this one the other schools of the county 
 are, in this respect, deficient. All have playgrounds, some 
 of them "ample", but most of them "unimproved". At all 
 a small yard around the front door is kept clean, which is 
 
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good "as far as it goes", but most of them go no farther. 
 It will be noted that over half of the schools are 
 reported as having "only one toilet"; and while all are re- 
 ported in "fair" or "good condition", these terms are used 
 in their ordinary sense, and do not mean "sanitary". The 
 Board of Education has acquired title to nearly all of the 
 school grounds. 
 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 In the twenty-four white schools of the county are em- 
 ployed thirty-seven teachers. Of these all except three hold 
 first grade license, the majority of them have had normal 
 training, and two-thirds have been at the same school two 
 or more years. 
 
 An Administration and citizenship that has already ac- 
 complished so much progress will assuredly welcome sug- 
 gestions looking towards further progress. I therefore con- 
 fidently submit to their careful consideration the following : 
 
 RECOMMENDATIONS. 
 
 1st. Consolidations of the high school pupils in the in- 
 terest of economy and efficiency. 
 
 2nd. ''Associated Activities". Organized club work both 
 in and out of the schools. No school should be without its 
 societies and clubs. 
 
 3rd. Separate sanitary toilets at all schools in the in- 
 terest of moral and physical health of the pupils. It is 
 worth while to safeguard the children's health. 
 
 4th. More "Teachers' Helps" — maps, charts, globes, ref- 
 erence dictionaries, sand-tables, illustrative materials, etc. 
 It is always the part of wisdom and economy to furnish 
 skilled workmen with an abundant supply of good tools. 
 
 5th, Better monthly salaries to teachers — even if it 
 should be necessary to reduce the school year to eight 
 months. The greatly increased cost of living makes this 
 imperative. It is becoming increasingly difficult to hold 
 the best teachers on old salaries. 
 
 M. L. DUGGAN, 
 Rural School Agent for Georgia. 
 January 1, 1918. 
 
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GRAY HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 Teachers: U. S. Lancaster, Principal; Miss May Stewart; Miss Mary 
 Barron; Miss Sara Smith. 
 
 Location: County Seat Jones county. 
 
 Grounds: Area, three acres well situated; titles in local trustees; 
 well sodded; ample play grounds, improved with tennis courts, 
 basket ball, etc.; no school gardens; two toilets in only fair 
 condition. 
 
 Building: Value $1,200.00; new brick building, well planned; six 
 class rooms, large auditorium, music rooms, domestic science 
 rooms, etc.; cloak rooms; well lighted; well kept. Also on 
 grounds is a very neat Women's Club Room and Library. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; teacher's desks; first-class black- 
 boards, (green); state and United States maps; charts; 
 globes; well selected pictures; library (cases built into the 
 walls); reference dictionaries; illustrative materials; win- 
 dow flowers, etc. Bubbling fountain. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; four teachers, and music 
 teacher; ten grades; enrollment 120; programs posted; a 
 very active well organized Primary School Improvement 
 Club (First and Second grades. Miss Lottie Bragg, Presi- 
 dent; Master Thomas Bragg, Secretary; Master Herbert 
 Greene, Treasurer). An active Women's Club with club rooms 
 on school grounds is an influential force for school and com- 
 munity betterment. 
 
 Maintenance: $2,196.00. 
 
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GLOVERS' SCHOOL. 
 
 Teachers: Miss Hattie Mann; Miss Susie Russell. 
 
 Location: At Juliette Station Southern Railway; near Monroe coun- 
 ty line; two and a half miles south to Saunders. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; g'rounds being 
 improved; playgrounds small, but exceptionally well equip- 
 ped with play appliances, ($300.00 worth); play supervised; 
 school gardens; two toilets in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value, $1,800.00; ideally planned for a rural school; two 
 class rooms; cloak rooms; perfectly lighted; well ventilated; 
 heated by furnace in basement; in first-class condition and 
 well kept; painted. (This is a fine model for two-room 
 schools.) 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; teachers' desks; first-class black- 
 boards (green); good supply of maps mounted in cases; 
 charts; globes; fine selection of well framed pictures; a good 
 library; reference dictionaries; a fireless cooker, etc.; illus- 
 trative materials. A bubbling fountain. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; two teachers; eight grades; 
 enrollment 50; programs posted; a cooking club organized. 
 
 Maintenance: $931.50. 
 
 NOTE — To Mr. John N. Birch, of the Juliette Milling Co., more 
 than to any one else, belongs the credit for this ideal school plant. 
 
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WAYSIDE SCHOOL. 
 
 Teachers: Mrs. M. T. Green, Principal; Miss Alice Young, Assistant. 
 
 Location: On Central of Georgia Railway; three and a half miles 
 southeast to Bradley; three and a half miles north to Round 
 Oak. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; grounds level, 
 well kept; small playgrounds; no school gardens; two toilets 
 in good condition. 
 
 Buildings: Value, $1,200.00; two class rooms; cloak rooms; well 
 lighted; in good repair and well kept; painted. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desk; first-class blackboards; one small 
 state map and one United States history map; no charts; 
 small globe; framed pictures; a few reference books; a 
 reference dictionary with stand; organ; covered water-cooler, 
 individual cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; two teachers; ten grades; 
 enrollment 49; program posted; no organized clubs or in- 
 dustrial work. 
 
 Maintenance: $689.50. 
 
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WALLACE SCHOOL. 
 
 Teachers: Miss Blanche Burton, Principal; Miss Georgia Burton. 
 
 Location: Four miles north to Haddocks. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; grounds be- 
 ing improved; well kept; small playgrounds; school gardens; 
 two toilets in fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $900.00; two class rooms; no cloak rooms; veranda; 
 fairly well lighted; building in good repair and well kept; 
 painted. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; first-class blackboards; maps; 
 chart; no globe; pictures; library; reference dictionary; sand 
 tables. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; two teachers; nine grades; 
 enrollment 47; program posted; twenty periods; boys' corn 
 club; a Home Upkeep Club. 
 
 Maintenance: $729.00. 
 
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CANEY CREEK SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Willie Tyner. 
 
 Location: Six miles east to Round Oak; not near any other school. • 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; unimproved, 
 except yards well cleaned up; playgrounds small; school 
 garden; one toilet in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $800.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; well light- 
 ed; in good condition and well kept; painted. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; first-class blackboards; a small 
 United States map and a county soil survey map; a globe; 
 no charts; framed pictures; small library; reference dic- 
 tionary; covered coolers, individual cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; seven grades; 
 enrollment 50; program posted; thirty periods; no organized 
 clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $405.00. 
 
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PINE RIDGE SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Mrs. J. T. Morton. 
 
 Location: Three miles north to Grays; four miles south to Haddocks. 
 
 Grounds: Area, (?); titles in trustees; unimproved; ample play- 
 grounds; adjoining church lot; no school gardens; one toilet 
 in fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $600.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; fairly well 
 lighted; in good repair and well kept; ceiled inside; painted 
 outside. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; one United 
 States history map; no charts; globe; no pictures; no library; 
 no reference dictionary; water from open buckets. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; eight grades; 
 enrollment 42; program posted; no organized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $450.00. 
 
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ROBERTS SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Elmore Williams. 
 
 Location: Four miles northwest to Litentie; four miles east to Gris- 
 worldville. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; bare and un- 
 improved, but clean; ample playgrounds; a small school gar- 
 den; one toilet in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $600.00; one class room; veranda; no cloak rooms; 
 floor o'led and well kept; painted; in good repair. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; small state 
 map; no charts; no globe; framed pictures; a reference dic- 
 tionary; no library; organ; covered cooler, individual cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; eight grades; 
 enrollment 30; program posted; thirty-five periods; no or- 
 ganized clubs; construction work, drawing, sewing. 
 
 Maintenance: $405 00. 
 
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BLUFF SPRINGS. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Annie Mae Dixon. 
 
 Location: Five miles north to county-line; five miles east to Irwin's 
 Crossing. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; yards well 
 cleaned up and partly improved; ample playgrounds; tennis 
 courts, etc.; no school gardens; one toilet in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $700.00; one class room; veranda; no cloak rooms; 
 fairly lighted; windows and doors well screened; floor oiled 
 and well kept; ceiled and painted. 
 
 Equipment: Double and single patent desks; teacher's desk; plenty 
 of extra chairs for use on public occasions, Sunday school, 
 etc.; first-class blackboards; no charts; globe; framed pic- 
 tures; library, sectional case; maps; organ; no reference dic- 
 tionary; covered water-cooler, individual cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; eight grades; 
 enrollment 25; program posted; thirty-five periods; basketry, 
 etc.; no organized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $405.00. 
 
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COBB SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Hattie James. 
 
 Location: Three miles southwest to Burden; four miles north to 
 James. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; very high 
 elevation; grounds unimproved; yards w^ell kept; ample play- 
 grounds; no school gardens; one toilet, fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $500.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; fairly well 
 lighted; well kept; in good repair; ceiled inside; painted out- 
 side. 
 
 Equipment: Patent and home-made double desks and teacher's desk; 
 first-class blackboards; one United States history map; no 
 charts; no globe; framed pictures; no library; no reference 
 dictionary; open buckets, individual cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; seven grades; 
 enrollment 37; program posted; thirty-five periods; no or- 
 ganized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $405.00. 
 
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LITENTIE SCHOOL. 
 ("Light-and-tie".) 
 
 Teacher: Miss Mary Lou Hammock. 
 
 Location: Three miles southeast to Roberts; four and a half miles 
 north to Gray. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; fine ^rove; 
 unimproved; small playgrounds; no school gardens; one 
 toilet in fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $650.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; well light- 
 ed; in good condition and well kept; floors well oiled; plas- 
 tered inside; painted outside. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; first-class blackboards; no charts; 
 no globe; framed pictures; no maps; no library; no reference 
 dictionary. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; seven grades; 
 enrollment 19; program posted; thirty-four periods; no or- 
 ganized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $364.50. 
 
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ANTIOCH SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Mrs. Virginia Cawthon. 
 
 Location: Five miles east to Litentie; no other school near. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; unimproved; 
 yards clean; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; one 
 toilet. 
 
 Building: Value $650.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; veranda; 
 well lighted; well kept; in good repair; painted. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; teacher's desk; first class black- 
 boards; state and United States maps; no charts; no globes; 
 framed pictures; small library in good case: no reference 
 dictionary; open buckets, common dippers. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; eight grades; 
 enrollment 26; program posted; no organized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $364.50. 
 
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 ETHERIDGE SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Lilla Odum. 
 
 Location: Six miles west to Union Hill; no other school near. 
 
 Grounds: Area, (?); titles in private individual; very fine grove, 
 unimproved; yards clean; small playgrounds; no school gar- 
 dens; one toilet in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $800.00; one class room; veranda; no cloak rooms; 
 insufficiently lighted; floors oiled and well kept; in good con- 
 dition; painted. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent steel desks and teachers' desk; fairly good 
 blackboards; small state map and United States history 
 map; no charts; small globe; framed pictures; a library; a 
 reference dictionary; illustrative materials, etc. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; six grades; 
 enrollment 22; program posted; thirty periods; Literary and 
 Sewing clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $324.50. 
 
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THREE POINTS SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Earle Humphries. 
 
 Location: Five miles to nearest school. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; unimproved; 
 very small playgrounds; no school gardens; two toilets in 
 fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $400.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; well light- 
 ed; in good condition; ceiled inside; painted outside. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; a small 
 state map and United States history map; no charts; no 
 globes; framed pictures; small library; reference dictionary. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; five grades; 
 enrollment 23; program posted; twenty periods; no organized 
 clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $324.00. 
 
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PLENTITUDE SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Louise Hudson. 
 
 Location: Six miles to nearest school. 
 
 Grounds: Area, (?); titles in local trustees; large grove; cleaned 
 up, but unimproved; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; 
 one toilet in fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $700.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; fairly 
 lighted; well kept; in moderate repair; painted inside; un- 
 painted outside. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; first-class blackboards; no maps; 
 no globe; no charts; no pictures; no library; no reference 
 dictionary; organ; covered cooler, individual drinking cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher* eight grades; 
 enrollment 21; program posted; thirty periods; no organized 
 clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $324.00. 
 
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LIBERTY SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Irene Walker. 
 
 Location: Four miles south to Plentitude; five and a half miles north 
 to Saunders. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; very fine 
 grove; grounds improved; ample playgTOunds; school gar- 
 den; one toilet in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $600.00; one class room; veranda; no cloak rooms; 
 well lighted; floors oiled and well kept; painted; in good 
 condition. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; teacher's desk; first-class black- 
 boards; small state map; no charts; no globes; framed pic- 
 tures; no library; no reference dictionary. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; seven grades; 
 enrollment 18; program posted; twenty-nine periods; Lit- 
 erary Club and Bird Club. 
 
 Maintenance: $324.00. 
 
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JAMES SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Bessie Roberts. 
 
 Location: On Georgia Railroad; five miles south to Cobb; five miles 
 northwest to Gray. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; clean, but unimproved; ample play- 
 grounds; no school gardens; one toilet, in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $600.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; poorly 
 planned; in good condition and well kept; improperly lighted; 
 ceiled and painted. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; first-class blackboards; one small 
 state map and United States history map; no charts; one 
 globe; framed pictures; reference dictionary: no library. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; seven grades; 
 enrollment 24; program posted; 39 periods; no organized 
 clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: .$324.00. 
 
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SAUNDERS SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Amanda Mitchell. 
 
 Location: Two and a half miles north to Glovers. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; entirely un- 
 improved; yards clean; very small playgrounds; no school 
 gardens; no toilets. 
 
 Building: Value $600.00; one class room; veranda; no cloak rooms; 
 well lighted; new building; ceiled and painted. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; first-class blackboards; no maps; 
 no globe; no charts; no pictures; no library; no reference 
 dictionary. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; six grades; 
 enrollment 16; no program posted; no organized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $324.00. 
 
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AVANT SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Mamie Waits. 
 
 Location: Four miles east to Union Hill; five miles southwest to 
 Round Oak. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; grounds un- 
 improved; small playgrounds; no school gardens; one toilet 
 in fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $500.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; veranda; 
 well lighted; well kept; in good repair; painted. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; first-class blackboards; one small 
 state map; no charts; no globes; no framed pictures; no 
 library; no reference dictionary; water from open buckets. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; six grades; 
 enrollment 16; program posted; no organized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $283.50. 
 
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UNION HILL SCHOOL. 
 
 Teacher: Miss Lollie Johnson. 
 
 Location: On the Putnam county line; three and a half miles to 
 nearest school in Jones county; six miles to nearest school 
 in Putnam county. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in Board of Education; beautiful 
 location, unimproved; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; 
 one toilet in fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $400.00; one class room; veranda; no cloak rooms; 
 not well lighted; in good repair and well kept; ceiled; un- 
 painted. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks and teachers' desk; first-class black- 
 boards; three maps; a chart; a globe; framed pictures; no 
 library; no reference dictionary; water from open buckets. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; one teacher; attempting 
 ten grades; enrollment 9 from Jones county; program posted; 
 no organized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $162.00 from Jones county. 
 
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HADDOCK SCHOOL. 
 (A Standard School.) 
 
 Teachers: J. N. Wagnon. Principal; Miss Fidelia Miller; Mrs. Mamie 
 Grisworld. 
 
 Location: On Georgia Railroad. 
 
 Grounds: Area. (?); titles in local trustees; grounds terraced and 
 well kept; ample playgrounds; small school gardens; two 
 toilets in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $5,000.00; brick building badly planned; three class 
 rooms; cloak rooms; two rooms well lighted, one room poorly 
 lighted; floors oiled and well kept; painted inside. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks and teachers' desks; first-class 
 blackboards; maps; charts; large teachers' globe and in- 
 dividual globes for 5th and 6th grades; fine selection framed 
 pictures; library 150 vols.; reference dictionaries; illustra- 
 tive materials, clocks, flowers, flags, etc.; sand tables; a 
 kitchen cabinet, stove, utensils, etc.; covered water-coolers, 
 individual cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; three teachers; ten grades; 
 enrollment 67; program posted; School-room Improvement 
 Clubs. Pupils exchange school exhibits with Kentucky 
 schools. 
 
 Maintenance: $1,620.00. 
 
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ROUND OAK SCHOOL. 
 
 Teachers: L. C. Kimsey. Principal; Miss Emma King, Miss Carrie 
 White, Assistants. 
 
 Location: On Central of Georgia Railway: three and a half miles 
 south to Wayside. 
 
 Grounds: Area, two acres; titles in trustees; grounds partly im- 
 proved; well kept; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; 
 two toilets in good condition. 
 
 Building: Value $4,000.00; four class rooms; wide halls; cloak rooms; 
 well lighted; in good condition and well kept; painted. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; very few 
 maps; no charts; no globes; framed pictures; a small library; 
 a reference dictionary; illustrative materials; a domestic 
 science equipment; water from open buckets, but a bubbling 
 fountain to be ordered. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; three teachers; ten grades; 
 enrollment 58; program posted; cooking, sewing, cardboard 
 construction, music. No organized clubs. Primary grades 
 report daily on brushing their teeth. 
 
 Maintenance: $1,620.00. 
 
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BRADLEY SCHOOL. 
 
 Teachers: A. B. Greene, Principal; Mrs. A. B. Greene, Miss Mabel 
 Roberts. 
 
 Location: On Central of Georgia Railway; three and a half miles 
 south to Grays; three and a half miles northwest to Way- 
 side. 
 
 Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in County Board of Education; level, 
 sodded, unimproved; ample playgrounds; no school gardens; 
 two toilets in fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $1,500.00; four class rooms; well lighted; one cloak 
 room; building in good repair; well kept; painted; one room 
 fitted up for use of the Village Improvement Club. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; one small 
 state map; no charts; a small globe; framed pictures; a 
 small library; a reference dictionary, a clock, flags, etc. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; three teachers; eleven 
 grades; enrollment 51; program posted; no organized club 
 work; cooking soon to be introduced by Village Improve- 
 ment Club. 
 
 Maintenance: $1,620.00. 
 
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 BURDENS SCHOOL. 
 
 Teachers: Mr. T. E. Fatmer; Miss Marie Roberts. 
 
 Location: Five miles northwest to Roberts; five miles west to Bluff 
 Springs. 
 
 Grounds: Area, three acres; titles in Board of Education; grounds 
 unimproved; ample playgrounds; school gardens; two toilets 
 in good condition. 
 
 Buildings: Value $1,250.00; (teachers' home, $600.00); two class 
 rooms; no cloak rooms; verandas; one room well lighted, 
 one insufficiently; building in good condition; well kept. A 
 small building on lot used for teachers' home. 
 
 Equipment: Single patent desks; first-class blackboards; two maps; 
 no charts; no globes; no framed pictures; no reference dic- 
 tionary; a few reference books in library; covered water- 
 cooler, individual cups. 
 
 Organization: Nine months school year; two teachers; eight grades; 
 enrollment 55; program posted; no organized clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $931.50. 
 
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CLINTON SCHOOL. 
 (To be discontinued and consolidated with Gray.) 
 
 Teacher: Miss Ben Barron. 
 
 Location: Formerly the county seat of Jones county; one and a half 
 miles to Gray. 
 
 Grounds: Area, (?); titles (?); unimproved; ample playgrounds; 
 no school gardens; one toilet, fair condition. 
 
 Building: Value $300.00; one class room; no cloak rooms; well light- 
 ed; in bad repair; well kept; unpainted. 
 
 Equipment: Double patent desks; poor blackboards; United States 
 history map; no charts; small globe; framed pictures; no 
 library; no reference dictionary. 
 
 Organiation: Nine months school year; one teacher; six grades; 
 enrollment 14; program posted; twenty periods; no organized 
 clubs. 
 
 Maintenance: $324.00. 
 
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LETTER FROM STATE SUPERINTENDENT 
 M. L. BRITTAIN 
 
 To the County Superintendent and Teachers: 
 
 Educational results and good teaching generally are not 
 often secured in a shiftless-looking building in which neith- 
 er patrons, pupils, nor teachers take any pride. Indefinite- 
 ness has been removed at this point through the standard 
 school. In the larger towns and cities pressure of public 
 sentiment and the comment of visitors will sooner or later 
 force good educational conditions — and they are improv- 
 ing constantly. Rural communities need to be shown and 
 inspired by educational leaders and we have sent diplomas 
 to more than two hundred county schools where the super- 
 intendents have certified to the fact that they have meas- 
 ured up to the standard in every particular. There are a 
 number of localities in the State where the feeling is that 
 no community in the county is able to bring its school up 
 to these very reasonable requirements. I cannot help but 
 think that this is a mistaken view and that some standard 
 schools could be secured in every county in Georgia and 
 that these would serve to inspire the others to progress. 
 Superintendents have written that the use of this efficiency 
 test has developed more progress in the past 12 months 
 than for years previous in the way of improvement. The 
 plan is of no value, however, where it is not used or applied 
 and I earnestly hope we will have the effort at least of 
 every superintendent in the State to have his county repre- 
 sented on this roll of honor. The list will be published in 
 the next Annual Report. The standard is not unreasonably 
 high and no more than the Georgia parent has the right to 
 expect. Copies should be posted in every county school 
 room in the State and can be secured for this purpose at 
 any time on application to the State Department of Edu- 
 cation. To be entitled to a diploma a school should measure 
 up to the standard in the following particulars : 
 
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I. The Teacher. 
 
 1. Good Teaching. 
 
 2. Good Order and Management. 
 
 3. First Grade Certificate. 
 
 4. Full, Neat, and Accurate School Register. 
 
 5. Daily Program Posted in Room. 
 
 6. Teachers' Manual on Desk. 
 
 II. Grounds. 
 
 1. Good Condition. 
 
 2. Playgrounds. 
 
 3. School Garden. 
 
 4. Two Separate Sanitary Closets. 
 
 III. Building. 
 
 1. Painted Outside. 
 
 2. Plastered, or Ceiled and Painted. 
 
 3. No Leaks. 
 
 4. Windows without Broken Panes. 
 
 5. Cloak Rooms. 
 
 6. Good Doors with Locks and Keys. 
 
 7. Clean and Well-kept. 
 
 IV. Equipment. 
 
 1. Patent Modern Desks. 
 
 2. At least 20 Lineal feet of Blackboard per Room. 
 
 3. Building Comfortably Heated and Ventilated. 
 
 4. Framed Pictures on the Wall. 
 
 5. Dictionary, Maps and Library. 
 
 6. Sanitary Water Supply. 
 
 V. Associated Activities. 
 
 1. Manual Arts, Corn, Canning, Pig, Poultry, or Cook- 
 ing Club. 
 
 VI. Salary of Teacher. 
 
 At least $40 per month. 
 
 VII. Term. 
 
 At least seven months. 
 
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