Reportof thePublic SchoolsofHarnett County1911-1912
REPORT OF THE Public Schools of Harnett County 1911-1912AND COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, SHOWING TEN YEARS’ GROWTH, 1902-1912 PRESSESCOLE PRINTING COMPANYSANFORD, N. C.
BUIE'S CREEK ACADEMY
This institution was established in 1887, and from the first session to the present has been a success. The work done here by the Principal, Rev. J. A. Campbell, is of lasting worth to the County and State. In December, 1900, the building was destroyed by fire, but the Principal did not permit himself and the work he had started to be swept away by one fire, but began at once, on the charred ruins of the old building, the erection of the present magnificent brick building, which was ready for use November, 1903.
BUIE'S CREEK ACADEMY.
HARNETT COUNTY
Fifty-seven years ago (1855) the people of Harnett proposed to set up housekeeping on their own account. In fine accord with their patriotism, the new county received the name of a distinguished Revolutionary patriot (Cornelius Harnett) whose home was on the lower waters of the Cape Fear; while the capital of Harnett perpetuates the memory of a grand soldier (General Alexander Lillington) in the war of the Revolution. But although formed into a separate county, Harnett county had no separate representation in the General Assembly until 1858, continuing to vote with Cumberland until that time. Since admitted to representation, Harnett has sent to the House and to the Senate representatives of sterling worth, reflecting credit on their constituents and contributing by their actions in the Assembly to the welfare and prosperity of the people of the whole State.
The County embraces about six hundred and forty-five square miles, and bounded as follows: On the north by Wake; east by Johnston; south by Cumberland and Sampson, and west by Moore and Lee. It is divided into thirteen townships, with sixty-seven miles of railroads, practically tounching every township. The taxable valuation of property has increased in ten years from one million to about eight million dollars. The climate is mild and well adapted to the growth of various crops; free from miasma, which makes it a noted county for the health and longevity of its citizens. The western section is rapidly being developed and fruit growing becoming one of the chief industries.
PUBLIC SCHOOL DIRECTORY—1911-1012
BOARD OF EDUCATION
| J. M. HODGES, Chairman | Linden |
| T. W. HARRINGTON | Broadway, R. F. D. 1 |
| O. BRADLEY | Kipling |
| J. D. EZZELL, County Superintendent | Dunn |
| D. B. STEWART, Treasurer | Broadway, R. F. D. 2 |
| HOOD & GRANTHAM | Dunn |
| BURWELL BARGAIN HOUSE | Lillington |
Second Thursday, Friday and Saturday in July and October.
MEMBERS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION1903
LONNIE SMITH, Chairman
D. B. STEWART
J. H. WILLIAMS
(LonnieSmith resigned in 1904 and succeeded by C. D. Stewart)
(J. H. Williams resigned in 1904 and succeeded by S. H. Stephenson.)
(S. H. Stephenson died in 1905 and was succeeded by W. H. Stephenson.)
1905-1906.C. D. STEWART, Chairman
D. B. STEWART
W. H. STEPHENSON
The Board as now constituted remained unchanged till July 5, 1909, at which time the present Board began their administration.
To the People of Harnett County:
Feeling that it is a duty we owe to the public to give an account of the progress of public education in the County, and believing that the patrons of the public schools, the school officers and the friends of education will be pleased to receive this information, and a better knowledge of what our schools are doing will tend to create more interest in them, we respectfully submit this report to you, trusting that the work done and the results of the same may meet with your approval.
Very truly yours,
J. D. EZZELL,
County Superintendent of Schools.
Dunn, N. C., June 30, 1912.
OLD BUILDING, DISTRICT NO. 1, AVERASBORO TOWNSHIP, BUILT IN 1906-1907. THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING EVER BUILT IN THE TOWN OF DUNN. A LOCAL TAX WAS VOTED PRIOR TO THE ERECTION OF THE BUILDING.
To the Board of Education:
I herewith respectfully submit this report of the public schools of Harnett County for the scholastic year ending June 30, 1912. In view of the fact that the success of the cause of public education depends in large measure, if not entirely, upon the attitude of the people toward the public schools, I deem an effort as greatly worth while that has for its purpose the establishment of a closer and more vital relationship between the people and their schools. And this report is submitted in the hope that it may serve in some measure to bring about this relationship.
It is hoped that the tables showing the receipts and the disbursements of the public school fund will be of interest to taxpayers generally, who have the right to know and who should know what is being done with the money which they pay for the education of their children. The tables showing the statistics of the individual schools ought to stimulate a spirit of wholesome emulation and rivalry, and thus create in each district an enthusiasm for better schools. It is also hoped that this report will be of particular value to committeemen and teachers. In it will be found the names and addresses of the committeemen of every public school district in the county, and the names and addresses of the teachers of each school for last year.
To the casual reader the pages of this report will reveal no startling or sensational outburst of progress; but to the diligent student they will show evidence of steady growth, of gradual improvement and of orderly, natural development. I desire to call your special attention to the table of comparative statistics, showing in brief summary the progress that has been made during the last decade.
I desire also to thank the board for its wise counsel and for its hearty co-operation with me in every progressive movement for the general improvement of the public schools in Harnett County.
Yours very truly,
J. D. EZZELL,
County Superintendent.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS—THE STATE'S GREATEST
ASSET
T. B. McAuley had this to say of the first common school law (1696): “By this memorable law it was in the Scotch forge statuted and ordained that every parish in the realm should provide a commodious school house and should pay a moderate stipend to a school master. The effect could not be immediately felt. But before one generation had passed away it began to be evident that the common people of Scotland were superior in intelligence to the common people of any other country of Europe. To whatever land the Scotchman might wander, to whatever calling he might betake himself, in America or India, in trade or in war, the advantage of his early training raised him above his competitors. If he was taken into a warehouse as a partner, he soon became foreman, if he enlisted in the army he soon became sargeant.
Scotland meanwhile, in spite of the barrenness of her soil and the severity of her climate, made such progress in agriculture, in manufactures, in commerce, in letters, in science, in all that constitutes civilization as the old world never saw equalled or even the new world has scarcely seen surpassed.”
NEW BUILDING, DISTRICT NO. 1, AVERASBORO TOWNSHIP (DUNN GRADED SCHOOL)
HARNETT COUNTY FOR YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30, 1912
Census, Enrollment, Average Attendance, and Teachers of Each School.
WHITE RACEANDERSON CREEK TOWNSHIP
By Districts
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | No school, moving and build new house. | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 80 | $30 00 | Miss Flossie Elmore, Westville | |
| 3 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 80 | 37 50 | Miss Jane McCormick, Lillington, No. 2 | |
| 4 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 60 | 30 00 | Miss Margaret Shaw, Jonesboro, No. 1 | |
| 5 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 70 | 35 00 | Miss Flora McCormick, Lillington. No. 1 | |
| 6 | 13 | 19 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 80 | 35 00 | Miss Margaret Shaw, Cambro |
AVERASBORO TOWNSHIP
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | Dunn Graded School 278 | Dunn Graded School 283 | Dunn Graded School 183 | Dunn Graded School 207 | Dunn Graded School 124 | Dunn Graded School 146 | 160 | $125 | B. P. Gentry, Supt., Dunn | |
| 75 | H. M. Shields, Prin., Dunn | |||||||||
| $50 | Miss Lena Leggett, Dunn | |||||||||
| 50 | Miss Florence Caruthers, Dunn | |||||||||
| 45 | Miss Matilda Michaels, Dunn | |||||||||
| 50 | Miss Pauline Hassell, Dunn | |||||||||
| 50 | Miss Nellie Stephenson, Dunn | |||||||||
| 45 | Miss Julia Farmer, Dunn | |||||||||
| 45 | Miss Pauline Wade, Dunn | |||||||||
| 50 | Miss Rosa Thomas, Dunn | |||||||||
| 50 | Miss Sallie Thomas, Dunn | |||||||||
| 55 | Miss Jeannette Rudisell, Dunn | |||||||||
| 2 | 25 | 36 | 35 | 20 | 27 | 13 | 80 | 35 | Miss Cleva Godwin, Godwin | |
| 3 | 31 | 43 | 27 | 16 | 20 | 12 | 63 | 30 | Matt E. Holley, Benson, No. 2 | |
| 4 | 48 | 59 | 46 | 39 | 19 | 16 | 80 | 30 | L. V. Parker, Dunn, No. 5 | |
| 5 | 57 | 40 | 51 | 33 | 47 | 38 | 80 | 45 | J. L. Johnson, Dunn | |
| 30 | W. P. Reaves, Dunn, No. 5 | |||||||||
| 6 | 36 | 24 | 29 | 24 | 23 | 20 | 80 | 30 | Miss Lizzie Dorman, Dunn, No. 4 | |
| 7 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 31 | 16 | 14 | 80 | 35 | Miss Lorena Bland, Cooper | |
| 8 | New District, no house | |||||||||
| 9 | 20 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 80 | 35 | Miss Annie McMillan, L. R. Acad'y | |
| 10 | 32 | 24 | 30 | 22 | 13 | 12 | 80 | 40 | Miss Mamie Pierce, Mt. Olive | |
| 11 | 23 | 25 | 23 | 25 | 13 | 17 | 80 | 35 | Mrs. Esther Butler, Dunn |
| No. District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 80 | $30 | Mrs. Mack Cameron, Broadway | |
| 2 | 16 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 80 | 30 | Miss Katie Withers, Broadway, No.1 | |
| 3 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 80 | 30 | Mrs. Mildred Swann, Jonesboro, 3 | |
| 5 | 30 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 20 | 80 | $50 | Guy Cox, Jonesboro, No. 3 |
| 1 | 31 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 13 | 16 | 80 | $35 | Chas. P. Partin, Angier | |
| 2 | 27 | 20 | 21 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 87 | $25 00 | Miss Lottie Daniel, Henderson | |
| 3 | 35 | 26 | 23 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 69 | 35 | I. J. Stephenson, Angier | |
| 4 | 74 | 95 | 74 | 95 | 38 | 42 | 160 | 40 00 | Miss Bessie E. Deans, Pikeville | |
| 31 25 | Miss Mattie Draughon, Rowland | |||||||||
| 5 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 80 | 30 | W. T. Campbell, Cardenas |
| 19 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 160 | $100 | Rev. Frank Hare, Prin., Angier |
| 1 | 50 | 51 | 35 | 31 | 23 | 21 | 80 | 45 | J. D. Champion, Fuquay Sp'gs, No 1 | |
| 30 | Miss Madge Cade, Kipling, No. 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | 58 | 47 | 49 | 45 | 24 | 28 | 80 | 45 | J. E. Holt, Fuquay Springs, No. 1 | |
| 30 | Miss Nannie Templeton, Holly Sp'gs | |||||||||
| 3 | 41 | 32 | 37 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 80 | 35 | Miss Mamie Stuart, Willow Sp'gs |
DUKE TOWNSHIP
| No. District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1* | 239 | 230 | 230 | 177 | 122 | 85 | 140 | $75 00 | Miss Jessie Smith, Principal, Duke | |
| 45 00 | Miss Flora Smith, Duke | |||||||||
| 40 00 | Miss Minnie Cannady, Duke | |||||||||
| 40 00 | Miss Mary Broom, Duke | |||||||||
| 32 50 | Miss Berta Davis, Duke | |||||||||
| 35 00 | Miss Mary Bostian, Duke | |||||||||
| 2 | 36 | 30 | 35 | 31 | 17 | 12 | 80 | $40 00 | R. McLeod, Duke, No. 2 |
| 1 | 40 | 20 | 33 | 24 | 17 | 9 | 80 | $35 00 | Miss Rossie Dorman, Dunn, No. 4 | |
| 2 | 47 | 23 | 33 | 25 | 16 | 12 | 69 | 35 00 | Miss Beulah Young, Angier | |
| 3 | 99 | 103 | 90 | 108 | 47 | 58 | 140 | $75 | Owen Odum, Coats | |
| 35 00 | Miss Miriam Jones, Durham | |||||||||
| 30 00 | Miss Ida Coats, Coats | |||||||||
| 25 00 | Miss Edith Fuquay, Coats | |||||||||
| 4 | 38 | 34 | 28 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 80 | 30 | J. L. Norris, Duke | |
| 5 | 36 | 27 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 80 | 35 00 | Miss Dora Creel, Dunn | |
| 6 | 47 | 47 | 39 | 36 | 22 | 21 | 80 | 40 00 | Miss Callie Page, Buie's Creek | |
| 25 00 | Miss Mollie O'Quinn, Buie's Creek | |||||||||
| 7 | 36 | 27 | 33 | 31 | 18 | 17 | 40 | O. M. Johnson, Dunn |
| No. District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | 40 | 45 | 37 | 42 | 28 | 32 | 80 | $45 | Miss Mamie Collier, Buie's Creek | |
| 30 | Miss Rachel Smith, Chalybeate Sps. | |||||||||
| 2 | 45 | 50 | 53 | 50 | 35 | 33 | 120 | $65 | J. A. McLeod, Buie's Creek | |
| 35 | Miss Earnestine Hayes, Louisburg. | |||||||||
| 3 | 28 | 22 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 86 | 40 | L. M. Chaffin, Jr., Kipling | |
| 4 | 44 | 39 | No report | 30 | 40 | Miss Katie C. Sessoms, Raleigh | ||||
| 5 | 28 | 30 | 22 | 23 | 17 | 18 | 80 | 30 | Miss Nannie Utley, Holly Sp'gs, 1 | |
| 6 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 70 | 35 | Miss Iola Upchurch, Lillington, 1 |
| 1 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 28 | 18 | 24 | 105 | $50 | D. P. McDonald, Rock Branch | |
| 2 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 80 | $30 | Mrs. Jettie Smith, Jonesboro, No. 1 | |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 60 | 30 | G. C. McClung, Mt. Lookout, W. Va. | |
| 4 | 18 | 23 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 60 | 30 | Miss Mary McDonald, Pineview |
| 1 | 51 | 56 | 38 | 49 | 17 | 31 | 170 | $45 | Miss Emma Pegram, Stedman | |
| 45 | Miss Vivian Douglas, Mt. Mourne | |||||||||
| 2 | 22 | 24 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 80 | 35 | Miss Mary McMillan, Parkton | |
| 3 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 80 | 30 | Miss Mary McLauchlin, Elease |
LILLINGTON PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TFACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||
| 10 | 11 | 7½ | 9 | 170 | $100 | J. F. Thompson, Prin., Faison |
The Public School is run in connection with Buie's Creek Academy
| 1 | 93 | 99 | 94 | 98 | 75 | 80 | 80 | $145 | Rev. J. A. Campbell, Prin., Bule's Creek | |
| 2 | 38 | 37 | 26 | 39 | 20 | 27 | 100 | 40 | Oscar S. Young, Angier, No. 2 | |
| $30 | Miss Essie Parker, Manly | |||||||||
| 3 | 45 | 49 | 46 | 27 | 31 | 29 | 100 | 75 | J. M. Page, Kipling | |
| 30 | Miss Mittie Holland, Buie's Creek |
| 1 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 80 | $45 00 | Miss M. L. Fredericks, Knoxville, Tenn. | |
| 2 | 52 | 60 | 44 | 50 | 25 | 35 | 120 | $80 | Rev. L. L. Hudson, Bunnlevel | |
| 35 00 | Miss Vestal Nixon, Topsail | |||||||||
| 32 00 | Miss Eliza Lindsay, Raleigh |
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | 39 | 46 | 17 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 80 | $35 | T. A. Harrington, Broadway, No. 1 | |
| 2 | 22 | 31 | 14 | 28 | 9 | 12 | 85 | 25 | J. C. Cummings, Broadway, No. 1 | |
| 3 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 80 | $30 | Miss Bessie Davis, Lillington, No. 3 | |
| 4 | 46 | 56 | 33 | 42 | 22 | 21 | 100 | 40 | H. Y. Smith, Broadway, No. 2 | |
| 30 | Miss Clara Buchanan, Broadway, 2 | |||||||||
| 5 | 33 | 41 | 26 | 39 | 14 | 27 | 100 | 50 | Miss Mary Thompson, Snow Camp | |
| 30 | Miss Maude Harrington, Broadway 1 | |||||||||
| 6 | 58 | 48 | 53 | 39 | 30 | 26 | 80 | 35 | Miss Florence Buchan, Lumberton 2 | |
| 30 | Miss Mary B. Ray, Lillington, 3 | |||||||||
| 7 | 10 | 20 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 11 | 80 | 30 | Miss Carrie Caddell, Carthage | |
| 8 | 38 | 37 | 33 | 43 | 20 | 29 | 80 | 35 | Miss Clyde Bryan, Wade, No. 1 | |
| 25 | Luther Starling, Wade, No. 1 | |||||||||
| 9 | 32 | 40 | 25 | 34 | 18 | 19 | 80 | 40 | Mrs. J. H. Withers, Broadway, 1 | |
| 10 | 34 | 31 | 31 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 80 | 40 | Mrs. Paul McKay, Lillington, 3 |
STATISTICS BY TOWNSHIPS—WHITE
| TOWNSHIPS | Districts | Census | Enrolled | Attendance | Polls | Assessed Valuation of Real and Personal Property | Local Tax Schools |
| Anderson Creek | 6 | 164 | 105 | 68 | 80 | $ 160 312 | |
| Averasboro | 11 | 1171 | 898 | 600 | 618 | 1 370 700 | 1 |
| Barbecue | 4 | 139 | 92 | 65 | 101 | 158 616 | |
| Black River | 5 | 367 | 330 | 164 | 196 | 316 424 | 1 |
| Buckhorn | 3 | 279 | 218 | 140 | 144 | 195 603 | |
| Duke | 2 | 535 | 473 | 236 | 267 | 1 074 783 | |
| Grove | 7 | 624 | 547 | 289 | 284 | 426 410 | 2 |
| Hector's Creek | 6 | 406 | 293 | 203 | 133 | 249 267 | 1 |
| Johnsonville | 4 | 125 | 109 | 76 | 48 | 106 111 | 1 |
| Lillington | 3 | 188 | 155 | 87 | 154 | 436 028 | 1 |
| Neill's Creek | 3 | 361 | 330 | 262 | 167 | 292 090 | 1 |
| Stewart's Creek | 2 | 128 | 110 | 73 | 95 | 266 135 | 1 |
| Upper Little River | 10 | 705 | 559 | 336 | 324 | 473 728 | 2 |
| 66 | 5192 | 4219 | 2599 | 2611 | $5 526 207 | 11 |
BEFORE LOCAL TAX
COATS, DISTRICT NO 3, GROVE TOWNSHIP
AFTER LOCAL TAX
COATS, DISTRICT NO. 3, GROVE TOWNSHIP, ERECTED 1906.
HARNETT COUNTY FOR YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30, 1912
Census, Enrollment, Average Attendance, and Teachers of Each School.
COLORED RACEANDERSON CREEK TOWNSHIP
By Districts.
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'th Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 80 | $17 | Annie B. Roan, Spout Springs | |
| 2 | 26 | 43 | 19 | 26 | 18 | 16 | 80 | 17 | Lara J. McNeill, Duke, No. 1 | |
| 3 | 36 | 33 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 80 | 17 | Lou Ella Smith, Duke, No. 1. | |
| 4 | 23 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 80 | $17 | C. L. Walker, Broadway | |
| 5 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 60 | 17 | Hattie McLean. Argo |
| 1 | 145 | 147 | 65 | 101 | 30 | 46 | 160 | $35 | W. S. King, Selma | |
| $25 | Mrs. W. S. King, Selma | |||||||||
| 2 | 25 | 15 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 80 | 17 | Hattie Williams, Fayetteville |
BARBECUE TOWNSHIP
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | 30 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 60 | $17 | W. H. Best, Broadway, No. 1 | |
| 2 | 30 | 35 | 12 | 27 | 8 | 21 | 48 | $17 | Lillian Massey, Barclayville |
| 1 | 17 | 13 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 80 | $17 | Almira Massey, Barclayville |
| 1 | 27 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 80 | $18 | Isabella McLean, Buie's Creek |
| 1 | 35 | 31 | 30 | 40 | 20 | 25 | 80 | $18 | Dockery Shaw, Dunn, No. 4 | |
| 2 | 16 | 24 | 10 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 80 | $17 | Lauretta Massie, Duke |
| 1 | 19 | 21 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 15 | 80 | $17 | Brazilla Stuart, Angier | |
| 2 | 25 | 45 | No School—Building House | |||||||
| 3 | 20 | 30 | 18 | 25 | 10 | 14 | 69 | $17 | B. J. Walker, Dunn | |
| 4 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 80 | 17 | Missie E. McKay, Lillington |
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | 31 | 32 | 26 | 24 | 20 | 25 | 80 | $20 | Mary H. Bailey, Lillington | |
| 2 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 80 | 17 | Ida D. Matthews, Lillington, |
| 1 | 21 | 24 | 19 | 24 | 13 | 18 | 68 | $17 | Maude Mallett, Pineview | |
| 2 | 40 | 35 | No School—Building House |
| 1 | 60 | 60 | 56 | 56 | 38 | 44 | 80 | $30 | Eloise E. Hunter, Raleigh | |
| 20 | Maggie E. Street, Lillington | |||||||||
| 2 | 34 | 46 | 27 | 28 | 20 | 22 | 67 | 20 | Bettie E. McKay, Lillington |
| 1 | 85 | 87 | 40 | 53 | 24 | 36 | 80 | $37 | Henry M. Stewart, Buie's Creek | |
| 18 | S. P. McLean, Buie's Creek |
| 1 | 87 | 90 | 54 | 59 | 25 | 33 | 80 | $25 | P. G. Harrington, Jonesboro | |
| $20 | E. J. McDougald, Duke | |||||||||
| 2 | 27 | 23 | 15 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 60 | 17 | Rebecca Smith, Duke, No. 1 | |
| 3 | 46 | 56 | 26 | 57 | 19 | 27 | 80 | 18 | Metta McKella, Linden | |
| 4 | 32 | 36 | 19 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 60 | 17 | Josephene McLean, Duke |
UPPER LITTLE RIVER TOWNSHIP
| Number District | Census | Enrollment | Av. Attendance | L'gth Term—Days | Salary | TEACHERS | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1 | 27 | 33 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 80 | $17 | Carrie B. McKay, Lillington, No. 3 | |
| 2 | 17 | 29 | 20 | 22 | 15 | 19 | 80 | 16 | Elsie Gilmore, Broadway | |
| 3 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 14 | 80 | 17 | Sadie Mallett, Pineview | |
| 4 | 59 | 58 | 55 | 57 | 41 | 44 | 80 | $25 | William J. Campbell, Lillington 3 | |
| 20 | Mary C. Campbell, Lillington 3 | |||||||||
| 5 | 28 | 36 | 28 | 36 | 18 | 26 | 120 | 30 | H. E. King, Sanford |
OLD BUILDING DISTRICT NO 4, BLACK RIVER TOWNSHIP, BEFORE LOCAL TAX WAS VOTED.
NOW ANGIER HIGH SCHOOL.
| TOWNSHIPS | Districts | Census | Enrolled | Attendance | Polls | Assessed Valuation of Real and Personal Property | Local Tax Schools |
| Anderson Creek | 5 | 236 | 138 | 122 | 50 | $ 19,519 | 0 |
| Averasboro | 2 | 332 | 202 | 100 | 192 | 26,075 | 0 |
| Barbecue | 2 | 118 | 81 | 51 | 44 | 16,473 | 0 |
| Black River | 1 | 30 | 38 | 29 | 25 | 9,102 | 0 |
| Buckhorn | 1 | 50 | 42 | 20 | 28 | 8,032 | 0 |
| Duke | 2 | 106 | 101 | 64 | 48 | 7,693 | 0 |
| Grove | 4 | 192 | 95 | 64 | 55 | 22,791 | 0 |
| Hector's Creek | 2 | 85 | 72 | 56 | 28 | 4,898 | 0 |
| Johnsonville | 2 | 120 | 43 | 31 | 30 | 13,136 | 0 |
| Lillington | 2 | 200 | 167 | 124 | 84 | 37,670 | 0 |
| Neill's Creek | 1 | 172 | 93 | 60 | 50 | 10,124 | 0 |
| Stewart's Creek | 4 | 397 | 271 | 146 | 140 | 42,609 | 0 |
| Upper Little River | 5 | 327 | 276 | 211 | 75 | 45,727 | 0 |
| 33 | 2365 | 1619 | 1078 | 849 | $263,849 | 0 |
| Buildings Erected, Name of Contractor and Contract Price. | |||||
| Number District | Number Rooms | TOWNSHIP | CONTRACTOR | Price of Building | Date |
| 6 | One room | Upper Little River | McD. Withers | $ 475.00 | 1903 |
| 6 | One room | Averasboro | M. G. Lee | 160.00 | 1904 |
| 1 | Two rooms | Buckhorn | L. S. Mann | 425.00 | 1904 |
| 2 | One room | Grove | Pope & Beasley | 271.00 | 1904 |
| 5 | Two rooms | Barbecue and Upper Little R. | C. R. Lassiter | 560.00 | 1905 |
| 4 | Two rooms | Black River | M. W. Denning | 759.00 | 1905 |
| 2 | Two rooms | Buckhorn | T. W. Austin | 215.00 | 1905 |
| 1 | One room | Hector's Creek | L. D. Matthews | 440.00 | 1905 |
| 2 | One room | Upper Little River | J. L. A. Brown | 223.00 | 1905 |
| 1 | Ten rooms, Auditorium, Cloak rooms | Averasboro | Pope & Beasley | 8,000.00 | 1906 |
| 2 | One room | Averasboro | W. M. Munds | 250.00 | 1906 |
| 3 | Three rooms | Grove | Pope & Beasley | 650.00 | 1906 |
| 1 | Three rooms | Lillington | Johnson & Shaw | 1,162.00 | 1906 |
| 3 | One room | Lillington | Johnson & Shaw | 442.00 | 1906 |
| 7 | One room | Upper Little River | A. McD. Withers | 470.00 | 1906 |
| 2* | One room | Upper Little River | J. B. Rosser | 150.00 | 1906 |
| 3* | One room | Upper Little River | A. McD. Withers | 140.00 | 1906 |
| 2 | One room Cloak rooms | Duke | Pope & Beasley | 700.00 | 1907 |
| 3* | One room | Grove | W. G. Turner | 97.00 | 1907 |
| 6 | One room | Hector's Creek | H. S. Holloway | 314.00 | 1907 |
| 3 | One room burnt 1908 | Neill's Creek | Neill McLeod | 525.00 | 1907 |
| 9 | One room | Upper Little River | W. K. Black | 450.90 | 1907 |
| 1* | One room | Averasboro | Core & Phillips | 183.00 | 1908 |
| 3 | One room | Anderson Creek | W. E. Lucas | 248.00 | 1908 |
| 5* | One room | Anderson Creek | J. E. Holmes | 122.00 | 1908 |
| 2 | One room | Black River | A. E. Flowers | 254.00 | 1908 |
| 3 | Two rooms | Buckhorn | T. W. Churchill | 761.00 | 1908 |
| 4 | One room | Johnsonville | D. J. Monroe | 270.00 | 1908 |
| 1* | Three rooms | Neill's Creek | H. M. Stewart | 650.00 | 1908 |
| 3 | One room | Upper Little River | J. B. Rosser | 192.00 | 1908 |
| 1* | Two rooms | Stewart's Creek | C. M. Byrd | 178.00 | 1909 |
| 5 | One room | Averasboro | S. E. Williams | 155.00 | 1909 |
| 2 | Two rooms | Hectro's Creek | C. M. Byrd | 1,105.00 | 1909 |
| 1 | One room | Johnsonville | W. N. McClung | 150.00 | 1909 |
| 2 | Three rooms | Stewart's Creek | C. M. Byrd | 1,100.00 | 1910 |
| 2* | One room | Stewart's Creek | Sam Williams | 147.00 | 1911 |
| 7 | One room | Averasboro | W. M. Munds | 390.00 | 1911 |
| 3 | Two rooms | Neill's Creek | J. M. Shaw | 1,162.00 | 1911 |
| 3 | One room | Black River | D. W. Price | 600.00 | 1912 |
LOCAL TAXATION
The first election held in Harnett County for the establishment of a local tax school district was held at Dunu on September 12, 1905. On October 10, 1905, District No. 8 voted local tax, and on the recommendation of the County Superintendent, this district was consolidated with the Dunn district.
At this time there was no public school building in the Dunn district. The building that had been used prior to this time was a wretched makeshift with no equipment and very inferior light. Immediately after the election the Board of Education and the new Board of Committeemen, or Trustees, took steps to have a new building erected. With the aid of the regular apportionment, which the County Superintendent would not agree to be used further to run the school in the old building, and in this way saved $1,407; this, with the local tax and the loan fund, a new brick school house was built and equipped which is valued at twice the total county school funds in 1902.
The following table shows the local tax districts in the county, the date on which the election was held in each, and the amount received from local tax for the school year 1910-1911.
ANGIER-DISTRICT NO. 4, BLACK RIVER TOWNSHIP, ERECTED 1905-LOCAL TAX DISTRICT.
| TOWNSHIP | Date of Election | Number District | Amount of Local Tax Received for School Year 1910-1911. | Rate on $100 Valuation of Property |
| Averasboro Consolidated | September 12, 1905 | 1 | $3,189.85 | 30 |
| Averasboro Consolidated | October 10, 1905 | 8 | $3,189.85 | 30 |
| Black River | October 23, 1905 | 4 | 492.67 | 30 |
| Grove | May 19, 1906 | 3 | 444.46 | 30 |
| Lillington | June 16, 1906 | 1 | 749.65 | 30 |
| Barbecue and Upper Little Riv'r | June 5, 1907 | 5 | 67.05 | 15 |
| Hector's Creek | August 10, 1907 | 2 | 254.87 | 30 |
| Stewart's Creek | September 5, 1907 | 2 | 313.56 | 30 |
| Upper Little River | September 10, 1907 | 4 | 49.73 | 15 |
| Neill's Creek | April 12, 1910 | 3 | 159.02 | 30 |
| Johnsonville | May 19, 1910 | 1 | 387.50 | 30 |
| Grove | June 6, 1911 | 7 | Not listed | 10 |
| Amount charged in Local Tax Districts under the new assessment for school year 1911-1912. | ||
| TOWNSHIP | Amount of Local Tax Charged for School Year 1911-1912. | Number district. |
| Averasboro | $3,938.06 | 1 |
| Averasboro (col.) | 159.37 | 1 |
| Black River | 798.36 | 4 |
| Grove | 852.60 | 3 |
| Lillington | 1,154.37 | 1 |
| Barbecue and Upper Little River | 113.11 | 5 |
| Hector's Creek | 344.28 | 2 |
| Stewart's Creek | 469.66 | 2 |
| Upper Little River | 85.84 | 4 |
| Neill's Creek | 209.00 | 3 |
| Johnsonville | 494.37 | 1 |
| Grove | Not Listed | 7 |
In the eleven local tax districts the valuation of school property is $20,000, before the tax was voted the school property was valued at $1,000. The length of the school term before local tax was 78 days, now an average of 127½ days. This shows an increase in the length of the school term of about 63½ per cent. The average attendance as compared with the census population was 34 per cent, whereas now in these districts it is 76 per cent.
We have now reached an era in the progress of our schools when the people in any district who want a good school must vote the local tax, because all the best teachers are seeking employment in the local tax districts, where the pay is better, the interest alive and the term is longer.
THE LOAN FUNDIn districts where the necessary amount cannot be raised by private donation, the State Loan Fund is applied to for help. Loans from this fund are granted on notes, made payable in ten annual installments, with interest at four per cent. While this method of getting money for buildings shortens the term slightly, yet it does not materially interfere with the school, and it has proven a blessing in many districts in our county.
Up to this date the following districts have availed themselves of the advantages of this fund:
| 1903. | Upper Little River, District No. 6 | $ 250.00 |
| 1904. | Hector's Creek, District No. 1 | 250.00 |
| 1904. | Black River, District No. 4 | 250.00 |
| 1904. | Upper Little River, District No. 2 | 100.00 |
| 1904. | Lillington, District No. 1 | 250.00 |
| 1905. | Upper Little River, District No. 5 | 375.00 |
| 1905. | Upper Little River, District No. 7 | 300.00 |
| 1906. | Averasboro, District No. 1 | 3,000.00 |
| 1909. | Hector's Creek, District No. 2 | 450.00 |
| 1911. | Neill's Creek, District No. 3 | 500.00 |
| 1911. | Stewart's Creek, District No. 2 | 900.00 |
In District No. 1, Averasboro, the trustees arranged to take up the notes and pay the entire indebtedness. The County Superintendent was requested by the trustees to take proper steps in taking up these notes, the last of which was not due until 1916. On February 10, 1909, the notes were cancelled by paying amount due, $2,832.00.
Report of Treasurer for School Year Ending June 30, 1903
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, 1902, brought forward | $ 1,352.86 |
| State and County poll tax | 2,755.84 |
| Property Tax (18c) | 3,561.45 |
| Local property tax | |
| Local poll tax | |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 124.00 |
| Liquor Licenses | 350.00 |
| From State Treasurer | 3,205.65 |
| From other sources | 38.95 |
| Total funds | $11,388.75 |
| County Superintendent | $ 405.00 |
| White teachers | 5,841.56 |
| Colored teachers | 1,465.64 |
| School-houses and sites (white) | 2,117.34 |
| School-houses and sites (colored) | 197.99 |
| Teachers’ Institutes, (white) | 40.00 |
| Teachers’ Institutes, (colored) | 24.00 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. on $10,321.00 | 206.42 |
| Mileage and per diem of board | 94.70 |
| Expenses of board | 21.78 |
| Taking census | 62.46 |
| Other expenses | 51.00 |
| Total expenditures | $10,527.89 |
| Balance on hand July 1, 1903 | 860.86 |
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, 1903, brought forward | $ 860.86 |
| State and County poll tax | 2,956.00 |
| Property tax (18c) | 5,206.02 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 251.93 |
| From first $100,000 | 892.71 |
| From second $100,000 | 2,012.65 |
| From State Loan Fund | 250.00 |
| From State for Library | 10.00 |
| Private donations for Libraries | 10.00 |
| Sale of old school building | 4.00 |
| Other sources | 62.50 |
| Total funds | $12,516.67 |
| County Superintendent | $ 426.00 |
| White teachers | 7,762.28 |
| Colored teachers | 1,536.12 |
| School-houses and sites (white) | 1,498.48 |
| School-houses and sites (colored) | 32.50 |
| Installment on Loan Fund | 30.00 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. on $11,524 | 230.48 |
| Mileage and per diem of board | 74.10 |
| Expenses of board | 47.50 |
| Census and Committee | 277.82 |
| Libraries | 30.00 |
| Insurance | 11.00 |
| Fuel | 7.62 |
| Total expenditures | $11,964.90 |
| Balance on hand July 1, 1904 | 551.77 |
Report of Treasurer for School Year Ending June 30, 1905
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, 1904, brought forward | $ 657.67 |
| State and County poll tax | 3,067.50 |
| General property tax | 5,664.32 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 106.51 |
| From first $100,000 | 922.53 |
| From second $100,000 | 1,925.06 |
| From other sources | 84.42 |
| From State Loan Fund | 850.00 |
| Total school funds | $13,278.01 |
| County Superintendent | $ 515.00 |
| White teachers | 7,121.30 |
| Colored teachers | 1,632.75 |
| Institutes | 133.09 |
| Treas_rer 2 per cent. on $12,089.42 | 241.78 |
| Mileage and per diem of board | 86.70 |
| Other expenses of board | 27.50 |
| Taking census | 127.44 |
| Fuel | 52.71 |
| School furniture | 80.75 |
| Other school supplies | 108.45 |
| New houses and sites (white) | 1,768.48 |
| New houses and sites (colored) | |
| Repair of old houses (white) | 163.15 |
| Repair of old houses (colored) | 42.30 |
| Installment on loan Fund | 34.00 |
| All other expenses | 195.80 |
| Total disbursements | $12,331.20 |
| Balance on hand June 30, 1905 | 946.81 |
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, 1905, brought forward | $ 948.23 |
| General State and County poll tax | 4,078.00 |
| General property tax (18c) | 5,422.00 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 2,151.74 |
| From first $100,000 | 916.83 |
| From second $100,000 | 1,527.98 |
| From State Loan Fund | 675.00 |
| From State for Libraries | 50.00 |
| For Libraries, private donations | 40.00 |
| From other sources | 114.97 |
| Total fund | $15,924.75 |
| County Superintendent | $ 677.20 |
| White teachers | 7,918.15 |
| Colored teachers | 1,643.98 |
| County Treasurer, 2 per cent. on $14,068.09 | 281.36 |
| Mileage and per diem of board | 153.40 |
| Expenses of County Board | 34.75 |
| Taking school census | 113.24 |
| School Committeemen | 16.00 |
| Expenses of County Superintendent | 17.80 |
| Surveying and registering deeds | 10.25 |
| Postage, printing and stationery | 74.10 |
| Desks, black boards and furniture | 73.29 |
| Stoves and other supplies | 125.20 |
| Libraries | 150.00 |
| Installment on loan fund | 167.11 |
| New houses and sites (white) | 2,537.06 |
| Repair of old houses (white) | 208.33 |
| New houses and sites (colored) | |
| Repair of old houses (colored) | 83.78 |
| Fuel | 64.45 |
| Total disbursements | $14,349.45 |
| Balance on hand June 30, 1906 | 1,575.30 |
Report of Treasurer for School Year Ending June 30, 1907
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, brought forward | $ 1,576.51 |
| State and County poll tax | 3,802.50 |
| Property tax (18c) | 6,316.07 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 1,600.11 |
| From other sources | 43.75 |
| Balance from taxes, 1905 | 439.28 |
| Local property tax | 2,686.01 |
| Local poll tax | 392.40 |
| From first $100,000 | 973.79 |
| From second $100,000 | 1,820.95 |
| From Loan Fund | 3,000.00 |
| Total funds | $22,651.37 |
| County Superintendent | $ 682.80 |
| White teachers | 8,333.84 |
| Colored teachers | 1,527.28 |
| Fuel and Janitor | 87.92 |
| Desk, stoves, blackboards, etc. | 423.79 |
| Insurance and rent | 94.00 |
| Installment on loan fund | 623.35 |
| New building, repairs and sites (white) | 9,809.87 |
| New building, repairs and sites (colored) | 250.04 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. commission | 443.91 |
| Mileage and per diem of Board | 123.15 |
| Expenses of Board | 46.15 |
| Census and committeemen | 133.92 |
| Errors, overcharges | 1.80 |
| All other expenses | 57.97 |
| Total expenditures | $22,639.79 |
| Balance on hand July 1, 1907 | 11.58 |
OLD BUILDING, DISTRICT NO. 6, UPPER LITTLE RIVER TOWNSHIP.
NEW BUILDING, DISTRICT NO. 6, UPPER LITTLE RIVER TOWNSHIP. ERECTED IN 1903. THE FIRST DISTRICT THAT APPLIED FOR STATE LOAN FUND.
RECEIPTS
| Balance, June 30, 1907, brought forward | $ 11.58 |
| State and County poll tax | 4,300.00 |
| Property tax (18c) | 8,500.00 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 849.50 |
| Dispensary proceeds | 9,500.00 |
| From other sources | 66.00 |
| Local property tax | 2,084.00 |
| Local poll tax | 416.00 |
| From first $100,000 | 976.38 |
| From State for High Schools | 500.00 |
| From State for Libraries | 20.00 |
| Private donations for Libraries | 15.00 |
| Total funds | $27,238.46 |
| County Superintendent | $ 913.39 |
| White teachers | 13,893.61 |
| Colored teachers | 1,580.78 |
| Fuel and janitors | 246.86 |
| Desk, stoves, blackboards, etc. | 1,814.56 |
| Libraries | 75.00 |
| Insurance and rent | 11.00 |
| Installment on Loan Fund | 643.00 |
| New building, repairs and sites (white) | 3,783.06 |
| New building, repairs and sites (colored) | 421.65 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. commission | 520.56 |
| Mileage and per diem of Board | 161.80 |
| Expenses of Board | 148.39 |
| Census and committeemen | 132.95 |
| Errors, overcharges, borrowed money | 2,017.37 |
| All other expenses | 184.60 |
| Total expenditures | $26,548.58 |
| To balance on hand July 1, 1908 | 689.88 |
Report of Treasurer for School Year Ending June 30, 1909
| Balance, June 30, 1908, brought forward | $ 689.88 |
| State and County poll tax | 3,736.66 |
| Property tax (18c) | 7,463.34 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 1,151.10 |
| Dispensary proceeds | 9,128.16 |
| Balance on taxes, 1907 | 1,222.31 |
| From other sources | 63.61 |
| Local property tax | 3,000.00 |
| Local poll tax | 1,000.00 |
| From first $100,000 | |
| From second $100,000 | 779.16 |
| From State Loan Fund | 450.00 |
| From State for Library | 15.00 |
| From State for High Schools | 500.00 |
| Private donations for Libraries | 15.00 |
| Total funds | $29,257.49 |
| County Superintendent | $ 1021.61 |
| White teachers | 14,593.91 |
| Colored teachers | 1,491.49 |
| Fuel and janitors | 345.60 |
| Desk, stoves, blackboards, etc. | 358.44 |
| Supplies—brooms, buckets, etc. | 41.58 |
| Libraries | 45.00 |
| Insurance and rent | 245.20 |
| Installment and Loan Fund | 2,723.90 |
| New buildings, repairs and sites (white) | 2,468.55 |
| New building, repairs and sites (colored) | 785.59 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. commission | 548.14 |
| Mileage and per diem of Board | 142.00 |
| Expenses of Board | 389.03 |
| Census and committeemen | 143.24 |
| All other expenses | 209.32 |
| Borrowed money repaid | 1,310.55 |
| County apportionment to High Schools | 500.00 |
| To High Schools from local tax | 92.00 |
| From State for High Schools | 500.00 |
| Total expenditures | $27,955.15 |
| Balance on hand July 1, 1909 | 1,302.34 |
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, 1909, brought forward | $ 1,302.34 |
| State and County poll tax | 9,074.70 |
| Property tax (18c) | 4,537.34 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 1,053.85 |
| Sale of old school building | 82.25 |
| Errors in last year's report | 1.24 |
| Other sources | 126.00 |
| From first $100,000 not paid in 1909 | 1,052.79 |
| Balance County tax 1908 | 1,415.84 |
| Local property tax | 1,025.31 |
| Local poll tax | 512.65 |
| From first $100,000 | 1,224.65 |
| From second $100,000 | 911.18 |
| From State for Libraries | 30.00 |
| From State for High Schools | 500.00 |
| Private donations for Libraries | 15.00 |
| Private donations increasing term | 27.20 |
| Total funds | $22,892.34 |
| County Superintendent | $ 982.00 |
| White teachers | 10,678.71 |
| Colored teachers | 1,844.21 |
| Fuel and janitor | 119.49 |
| Desk, stoves, blackboards, etc. | 552.00 |
| Supplies—brooms, buckets, etc. | 22.71 |
| Libraries | 30.00 |
| Insurance and rent | 11.00 |
| Installment on Loan Fund | 282.90 |
| New buildings, repairs and sites (white) | 2,084.00 |
| New buildings, repairs and sites (colored) | 395.94 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. commission | 426.71 |
| Mileage and per diem of Board | 135.80 |
| Expenses of Board | 68.00 |
| Census and committeemen | 106.02 |
| Other expenses | 65.33 |
| To High Schools from local tax | 829.71 |
| To High Schools from State | 500.00 |
| Paid Dunn Schools | 2,627.95 |
| Total expenditures | $21,762.48 |
| Balance on hand July 1, 1910 | 1,129.86 |
Report of Treasurer for School Year Ending June 30, 1911
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, 1910, brought forward | $ 1,129.86 |
| State and County poll tax | 3,624.98 |
| Property tax (20c) | 5,849.69 |
| Special County poll tax | 416.70 |
| Special County property tax | 2,530.55 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 145.00 |
| Sale of school property | 152.20 |
| From other sources | 90.64 |
| Private donations to lengthen school term | 50.16 |
| From ex-Treasurer J. H. Williams | 649.98 |
| Local property tax | 4,391.06 |
| Local poll tax | 1,650.25 |
| From $125,000 State appropriation | 1,322.95 |
| From second $100,000 | 800.08 |
| From Loan Fund | 900.00 |
| From State for Libraries | 10.00 |
| From State for High Schools | 500.00 |
| Private donation for Libraries | 10.00 |
| Total funds | $24,224.10 |
| County Superintendent | $ 1,005.00 |
| White teachers | 12,427.19 |
| Colored teachers | 1,961.91 |
| Fuel and janitor | 192.66 |
| Desk, stoves, blackboards, etc. | 1,440.41 |
| Supplies—brooms, buckets, etc. | 39.66 |
| Libraries | 45.00 |
| Installment on Loan | 274.90 |
| New buildings, repairs, sites, etc. (white) | 2,512.95 |
| New buildings, repairs, sites, etc. (colored) | 343.46 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. commission | 451.93 |
| Mileage and per diem of Board | 112.30 |
| Expenses of Board | 63.60 |
| Census and committeemen | 137.98 |
| Other expenses | 243.35 |
| To High Schools from local tax | 826.25 |
| To High Schools from State | 500.00 |
| Paid Dunn Schools | 1,200.00 |
| Total expenses | $23,778.55 |
| Balance on hand July 1, 1911 | 445,55 |
MOUNT PISGAH, DISTRICT NO. 5, BARBECUE AND UPPER LITTLE RIVER TOWNSHIPS. BEFORE CONSOLIDATION AND LOCAL TAX.
MOUNT PISGAH, DISTRICT NO. 5, BARBECUE AND UPPER LITTLE RIVER TOWNSHIPS. AFTER CONSOLIDATION AND LOCAL TAX. ERECTED 1905.
RECEIPTS
| Balance June 30, 1911, brought forward | $ 445.55 |
| State and County poll tax | 4,320.00 |
| Property tax (20c) | 13,016.26 |
| Special County property tax | 1,385.65 |
| Fines, forfeitures and penalties | 9.50 |
| From State | 214.32 |
| From Wake County | 39.75 |
| From Lee County | 64.64 |
| Special local property tax | 2,511.96 |
| Special local poll tax | 1,255.98 |
| From $125,000 State appropriation | 1,414.54 |
| From second $100,000 | 1,059.15 |
| From Loan Fund | 500.00 |
| From State for Libraries | 50.00 |
| From State for High Schools | 500.00 |
| Private donations for Libraries | 40.00 |
| Private donations for increasing term | 21.60 |
| Total funds | $26,848.91 |
| County Superintendent | $ 1,200.00 |
| White teachers | 14,710.14 |
| Colored teachers | 2,510.28 |
| Fuel and janitors | 211.40 |
| Desk, stoves, blackboards, etc. | 255.31 |
| Supplies—brooms, buckets, etc. | 54.85 |
| Libraries | 60.00 |
| Insurance and rent | 7.00 |
| Installment on Loan Fund | 392.00 |
| New buildings, repairs and sites (white) | 1,209.50 |
| New buildings, repairs and sites (colored | 227.01 |
| Treasurer 2 per cent. commission | 507.63 |
| Mileage and per diem of Board | 111.60 |
| Census and committeemen | 6.48 |
| Other expenses | 238.81 |
| To High Schools from County | 82.40 |
| To High Schools from local tax | 1,615.13 |
| To High Schools from State | 500.00 |
| Paid Dunn Schools | 1,989.95 |
| Total expenses | $25,889.49 |
| Balance July 1, 1912 | 959.42 |
| Comparative Statistics of the County Superintendent, Showing Ten Years’ Growth. | ||
| 1902 | 1912 | |
| Total school funds from all sources | $11,388.75 | $30,23072. |
| Total expenditures | $10,527.89 | $29,127.94 |
| Special county school taxes on property | $1,470.00 | |
| Special local school tax | 6,100.00 | |
| Private donations to school fund | 574.90 | |
| Paid city schools | $2,000.00 | |
| Paid to high schools | $1,650.00 | |
| Number of rural libraries | 1 | 26 |
| Number of local tax districts | 11 | |
| Value of school property, white | $7,063,00 | $60,000.00 |
| Value of school property, colored | $2,392.00 | $5,000.00 |
| Average length of term in days, white | 57.50 | 84 |
| Average length of term in days, colored | 55.00 | 73 |
| Rural school census, white | 4,243 | 5,192 |
| Rural enrollment, white | 3,303 | 4,219 |
| Rural average daily attendance, white | 2,208 | 2,599 |
| Rural school census, colored | 1,816 | 2,365 |
| Rural enrollment, colored | 1,348 | 1,619 |
| Rural average daily attendance, colored | 806 | 1,078 |
| Average salary of teachers per month, white | $27.73 | $37.99 |
| Average salary of teachers per month, colored | $19.31 | $22.66 |
| Assessed value of property, white | $1,650,212.00 | $7,083,176.00 |
| Number of polls, white | 1,833 | 2,694 |
| Assessed value of property, colored | $65,944.00 | $269,022.00 |
| Number of polls, colored | 545 | 868 |
| Amount actually paid by white on property and polls | $6,379.00 | $19,624.00 |
| Amount actually paid by colored on property and polls | 933.00 | $1,904.00 |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1903. | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 4,243 | 1,816 |
| Enrollment | 3,303 | 1,348 |
| Average attendance | 2,208 | 806 |
| Average length of term in days | 57.5 | 55 |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $27.73 | $19.31 |
| Number of local tax districts | none | none |
| Number of libraries | 1 | |
| Value of libraries | $40.00 | |
| Value of school property | $7,063.00 | $2,392 |
| Special County taxes | none | none |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1904. | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 4,383 | 1,947 |
| Enrollment | 2,971 | 1,316 |
| Average attendance | 1,900 | 829 |
| Average length of term in days | 77 | 68 |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $27.85 | $17.03 |
| Number of local tax districts, | none | none |
| Number of libraries | 4 | |
| Value of libraries | $120.00 | |
| Value of school property | $5,875.00 | $1,646.00 |
| Special County taxes |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1905 | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 4,396 | 1,994 |
| Enrollment | 3,127 | 1,161 |
| Average attendance | 2,155 | 858 |
| Average length of term in days | 79 | 68 |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $27.21 | $16.07 |
| Number of local tax districts | none | none |
| Number of libraries | 6 | none |
| Value of libraries | $200.00 | |
| Value of school property | $7,415.00 | $1,295.00 |
| Special County taxes | none | none |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1906. | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 4,843 | 2,064 |
| Enrollment | 3,065 | 1,441 |
| Average attendance | 1,959 | 907 |
| Average length of term in days | 80 | 73 |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $29.00 | $16.58 |
| Number of local tax districts | 4 | |
| Number of libraries | 11 | |
| Value of libraries | $330.00 | |
| Value of school property | $12,978.00 | $1,720.00 |
| Special County taxes | none | none |
CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, DISTRICT NO. 2, HECTOR'S GREEK TOWNSHIP, BEFORE LOCAL TAX.
CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, DISTRICT NO. 2, HECTOR'S GREEK TOWNSHIP, AFTER LOCAL TAX, ERECTED 1908.
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1907 | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 4,916 | 2,061 |
| Enrollment | 3,065 | 1,441 |
| Average attendance | 1,959 | 838 |
| Average length of term in days | 79 | 70 |
| Average term in local tax districts | 134 | |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $34.20 | $16.70 |
| Number of local tax districts | 7 | |
| Number of libraries | 14 | |
| Value of libraries | $435.00 | |
| Value of school property | $25,955.00 | $2,215.00 |
| 2,215.00 | ||
| Total value of school property | $28,170.00 | |
| Special County taxes | none | none |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1908 | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 4,879 | 2,131 |
| Enrollment | 3,758 | 1,312 |
| Average attendance | 2,173 | 807 |
| Average length of term in days | 79½ | 70 4/13 |
| Average term in local tax districts | 154 | |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $36.82 | $16.74 |
| Number of local tax districts | 7 | |
| Number of libraries | 15 | |
| Value of libraries | $460.00 | |
| Value of school property | $33,320.00 | $3,055.00 |
| 3,055.00 | ||
| Total value of school property | $36,375.00 | |
| Special County taxes | none | none |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1909. | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 4,930 | 2,215 |
| Enrollment | 3,604 | 1,159 |
| Average attendance | 2,257 | 693 |
| Average length of term in days | 81 | 70 |
| Average term in local tax districts | 128 | |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $36.82 | $16.84 |
| Number of local tax districts | 7 | |
| Number of libraries | 17 | |
| Value of sehool property | $525.00 | |
| Value of libraries | $38,075.00 | $3,255.00 |
| 3,255.00 | ||
| Total value of school property | $41,330.00 | |
| Special County taxes | none | none |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1910. | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 5,169 | 2,336 |
| Enrollment | 3,606 | 1,437 |
| Average attendance | 2,321 | 908 |
| Average length of term in days | 79 | 71 |
| Average term in local tax districts | 118 | |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $36.92 | $17.00 |
| Number of local tax districts | 10 | |
| Number of libraries | 17 | |
| Value of libraries | $525.00 | |
| Value of school property | $43,030.00 | $4,375.00 |
| 4,375.00 | ||
| Total value of school property | $47,405.00 | |
| Special County taxes | none | none |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1911. | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 5,345 | 2,375 |
| Enrollment | 3,712 | 1,443 |
| Average attendance | 2,421 | 910 |
| Average length of term in days | 80 | 72 |
| Average term in local tax districts | 118 | |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $37.00 | $17.00 |
| Number of local tax districts | 10 | |
| Number of libraries | 18 | |
| Value of libraries | 555.00 | |
| Value of school property | $54,125.00 | $4,555.00 |
| 4,555.00 | ||
| Total value of School property | $58,680.00 | |
| Special County taxes | $2,142.00 | $805.00 |
| Statistical Report of the County Superintendent for the School Year, Ending June 30, 1912. | ||
| White | Colored | |
| School census | 5,391 | 2,390 |
| Enrollment | 4,236 | 1,616 |
| Average attendance | 2,631 | 1,067 |
| Average length of term in days | 82 4/7 | 79 |
| Average length in local tax districts | 117½ | |
| Average salary of teachers per month | $37.16 | $17.02 |
| Number of local tax districts | 11 | |
| Number of libraries | 26 | |
| Value of libraries | $795.00 | |
| Value of school property | $60,000.00 | $5,000.00 |
| 5,000.00 | ||
| Total value of school property | $65,000.00 | |
| Special County taxes | $1,416.00 | 54.00 |
THE CHARACTER OF THE SCHOOL HOUSE.
At the very foundation of every successful school system lies the practical problem of necessary physical equipment in houses, furniture and grounds. * * * This question of the character of our public school houses is a far more serious one than many people think. Nobody has any respect for any thing that is not respectable. A respectable school house, then, is not only necessary for conducting successfully the business of public education, but is absolutely essential for commanding the respect of the community for that business. The character of the business must, to some extent, determine the character of the place of business.
What, then, should be the character of the public school houses where the business of educating nine out of ten of the State's children for citizenship and social service is carried on? * * *
Within, shall it be a hovel or a home; a place of beauty or a place of ugliness; a place of comfort or a place of discomfort; a place of cleanness or a place of uncleanness? Without, shall the grass grow green and the sun shine bright, and the flowers bloom and the birds sing, and the trees wave their long arms; or shall it be bleak and bare and barren, where Nature, God's great teacher, never whispers to the children her messages of peace and love and beauty from the Master?”—J. Y. Joyner, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
SPECIAL LEVY BY THE COUNTYCOMMISSIONERS
The estimated amount necessary in the County for a four-months’ school was made and submitted to the Commissioners, and they having made the special levy, there is no doubt as to the length of term in every district.
We feel that the Commissioners deserve commendation for their action in this matter. This harmony existing between the Commissioners and the Board of Education on educational matters means much for the schools of Harnett County.
DISTRICT NO. 1—LILLINGTON TOWNSHIP, ERECTED 1906. LOCAL TAX DISTRICT.
In behalf of the teachers and friends of education of the County, we desire to express gratitude to the editors of both the County papers for their co-operation in the work of the Board and Superintendent, by granting free of charge space in their papers, devoted to the progress of education in the County. This is a commendable spirit, and we feel sure that the people of the County appreciate it, as well as the Board of Education.
OUR PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLSThe schools were located by the Board of Education in July, 1907, at Angier and Lillington. As to locations geographically convenient to all parts of the County, no better places could have been selected. Already these villages were included in large special tax districts and provided with ample school buildings. Since the establishment of these schools, the building at Angier has been enlarged, and now there is in course of erection a large dormitory for the convenience and growing demand of boarding pupils.
These schools are free and open to every pupil sufficiently advanced to take the high school studies, which begin with eight grade work.
CIRCULAR LETTERS OF THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
JULY 1, 1911, TO JUNE 30, 1912.
Since a part of the work of the County Superintendent is carried on through correspondence, a few of the circular letters sent out during the year are submitted below, selected as being most pertinent to this report because of the light they throw upon the general character of the year's work. They are placed here in permanent form, in the hope that their publication may serve to further their original purpose.
DUNN, N. C., September 26, 1911.
To the School Committeemen and Public School Teachers of Harnett County:
I have been thinking for some time as to the advisability of holding a joint conference of school committeemen and teachers, just prior to the opening of the schools. The more I study the situation, coupled with experience, the more I am becoming convinced that a great power for good, now almost dormant, resides in the school committeemen.
If we can get the committeemen organized and actively co-oporating with us, we will have a strong right arm in making the schools of the county far more efficient.
I would suggest before we hold our meeting that you think about the following subjects, jot down your thoughts, and come to the meeting prepared to give your fellow committeemen the benefit of your carefully thought-out suggestions in from five to ten minutes.
First. What definite things have you a right as a school committeeman, to expect of the teacher in your district?
Second. In what definite ways has your teacher a right to expect your co-operation?
Third. In what definite ways can you, by virtue of your office as a school commiteeman, increase and improve the educational advantages of the children in your district, as well as in your County as a whole?
This plan can no doubt be improved upon the more we work at it. What do you think of the plan? Do you not think you would like to meet with the committeemen and teachers of the County? Those two classes upon which the success of our schools very largely depend. I will take the liberty to call our first meeting on Saturday, October 21st, 1911, at 10:30 A. M. at Lillington. I hope to see, if not all, a large majority of the school committeemen and teachers present.
Very truly yours,
J. D. EZZELL,
DUNN, N. C., November 17, 1911.
Dear Madam:—
I am writing you, asking your services in a work that means everything for our County. May I ask you to join with us in bettering the educational conditions in the County?
If every woman in Harnett should feel called from her little isle of safety to the larger ways of service for the children's sake, the good done would be beyond our reckoning.
Now, you have a public school building and grounds in your community, let us make it the most important place, next to the church, in your neighborhood. Well, you ask me how shall we do it?
I have a plan—it is this: Send word by the school children to your lady friends and neighbors to meet you at the school building Friday, November 30th, at 2 o'clock and organize, by merely talking over the following questions:
What can we do to make the school more attractive?
What can we do toward getting some pictures on the walls?
What can we do to get the parents, especially the mothers, to take more interest in the school?
Get all the mothers and young ladies interested and talking about our school, showing that they are proud of it.
I have an abiding faith in the womanhood of Harnett, and I know they can do almost anything they want to. If you learn that certain children in your school district are not in school, make it a point to visit the home, talk with the mother and encourage her about the importance of her children attending school every day during the term. Tell her that her life is being spent for them, and in old age her greatest source of happiness will be in her children, who have grown to be honorable and intelligent men and women through her influence.
If you should know of any children in your district kept out of school because they are not able to get books, will you please let me know who they are, and you and I together will see to it that they have them.
It will be a great pleasure to me as well as encouraging to get a letter from you along any line of school work. I am sending more than five hundred copies of this letter to the mothers.
With best wishes,
Very truly,
J. D. EZZELL.
DUNN, N. C., October 12, 1911.
To the Teachers:
Will you not do your very best this year in every phase of work pertaining to your school?
I want to ask you to get the names of every boy and girl between the ages of six and twenty-one years old in the district school you teach. I also want you to send me the names of the parents and the correct address of each. If you will do this it will be very beneficial to you and to me.
I will be glad to have this information no later than December 10th.
We must take advantage of every means possible to make the attendance better in our schools. When you have done your full duty you feel easy of conscience, but if you drag along in a don't-care sort of way, you lose your appetite, sweet sleep has left you, your health is gone, you are down and out.
Let's not have such a ghost-like picture haunting us, but rather, we will do our full duty and never drive from our cheeks the roses of youth and that vigorous and happy life that comes to every one who labors well in his or her chosen field.
As soon as you have engaged to teach, let me know where and when your school will begin. I can help you and want to do so.
You should hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone.
Very truly,
J. D. EZZELL.
Dunn, N. C., January 17, 1912.
To the Teachers:
The Harnett County Teachers’ Association will meet in the school building in Lillington at 10:30 A. M. Saturday, January 27, 1912.
We hope to have a full attendance at this meeting. There will be before the Association several questions, as follows: The advantages, if any, of a school with more than one teacher.
Should we have fewer districts and establish public conveyances to take the children to and from school? Other questions will also be heard.
I want to say to you this: Pay special attention to common and decimal fractions, and simple interest. I find in the public examinations of teachers that many of them are deficient in their knowledge of decimal fractions. Drill your pupils well along this line.
Do not go about your work in a mechanical way, but rather move along with your pupils in an inventive way, studying the best way to get the pupil to understand what he does not know by what he does know. Your pupils will make remarkably slow progress if you follow any one particular plan. Conditions and circumstances are such, sometimes
OLD BUILDING, BUNN LEVEL, DISTRICT NO. 2, STEWART'S CREEK TOWNSHIP. BEFORE CONSOLIDATION AND LOCAL TAX.
NEW BUILDING, BUNN LEVEL, DISTRICT NO. 2, STEWART'S CREEK TOWNSHIP, AFTER CONSOLIDATION AND LOCAL TAX. ERECTED IN 1910
that we must get out of the groove of the theorist and try an unbeaten path. Learn to be a teacher from the various branches of knowledge.
Ask yourself this question: In what does a child differ from a man? As the child is immature in all its powers, it is the first business of education, to cultivate those, by giving to each regular exercise in its own proper sphere, till, through exercise and growth, they come to their full strength and skill.
Let me append to this letter some of the things that have come to me in my experience as a teacher:
1. Help the pupil to form a clear idea of the work to be done, in its several parts and stages.
2. Show him that there are always more things implied than are said in any lesson.
3. Ask him to express, in simple words of his own, the meaning as he understands it, and to persist till he has the whole thought.
4. Aim to make the pupil an independent investigator. Cultivate in him a fixed and constant habit of research.
5. Make the most of the pupil's knowledge. Let him feel its extent and value as a means of learning more.
6. Teach the pupil to hate all falsehoods and shams as things that are odious, hurtful, dishonoring, shameful, cowardly and intensely mean and wicked. Make him to dread a false answer to a problem as a falsehood from the lips.
Very truly,
J. D. EZZELL.
DUNN, N. C., December 2, 1911.
To the Teachers:
As previously announced, the next meeting of the County Association of Teachers will be held in Lillington Saturday, December 16th, at 10:30 in the school building.
In this meeting we hope to have discussed the school register, its uses and benefits. Bring your register with you and tell us how you keep it. Let us discuss at this meeting also time-saving devices and system in school work.
The one teacher school through lack of system is woefully inefficient. System will do much towards redeeming it. Come, let us reason together about this and thus help one another.
Very truly,
J. D. EZZELL.
DUNN, N. C., November 2, 1911.
To the Teachers of Harnett County:
Saturday, November 18th, as previously announced, the Harnett County Teachers’ Association will be held in the school building in Lillington at 10.30 A. M.
This meeting will be mainly for organization, electing officers and perfecting the roll. Short talks will be given on:
a. Problems of Supervision and School Management.
b. A Model Lesson.
c. The Reading Circle.
d. How to Use the Library.
It is my earnest desire that the teachers make these monthly meetings their own, and that they will feel free at all times to make suggestions, to ask questions pertaining to the advancement of our work. I am looking forward with much pleasure to meeting you all Saturday, November 18th. Come and let us plan together larger and greater things for the children of our beloved and historic county. I shall be greatly disappointed if a single teacher fails to be present, and thereby imposing upon me the unpleasant duty of investigating the reason.
With best wishes.
Very truly yours,
J. D. EZZELL,
County Superintendent.
This oration of Dr. Thompson is republished in this report for its educational value.
J. D. EZZELL,
County Superintendent.
WASTE*BY CYRUS THOMPSON, M. D., JACKSONVILLE, N. C.
If the art of living is the finest of all the fine arts—and who that dreams of a perfect life shall doubt it!—then the saddest thing in life is man's slowness in learning to live it. The world is so beautiful, so beneficent, so abundant. The order of nature is so frugal and so conservative. In the stars of the firmament, there is no lost motion; no planet swerves from its helpful path; there is no dissipation of energy but is conserved in some useful form. If human economy is negligent, destructive, and wasteful, the divine order is contructive and saving. Out of the void and darkness, the spirit of God created all that is, preserves it all, and destroys nothing. Out of the abundance of man's heritage, over which he holds rightful dominion, behold the waste of life, the waste of opportunity, the stupendous waste of material!
Just one old Book contains the wisdom of the ages—written by the best of their times about the best when at their best. As a scheme of life the world's literature has nothing comparable to it. It makes record of the one perfect life, the one universal man, the measure of all men. In Palestine one afternoon, this Galilean had been teaching a vast multitude. “When the day began to wear away, then came the twelve and said unto him ‘Send the multitude away, that they may go into the town and country round about, and lodge and get victuals; for we are in a desert place.’ But he said unto them, ‘Give ye them to eat.’ And they said, ‘We have no more but five loaves and two fishes, except we should go and buy meat for all this people.’ For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, ‘Make them sit down.’ Then he took the five loaves and two fishes, and
* Annual oration delivered before the Seaboard Medical Association of Virginia and North Carolina, at Newport News, Va., December 5th, 1911, and first published in The Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly.looking up to heaven he blessed and brake and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. And they did eat and were all filled.” When they were filled”—with food and no less with wonder—when the multitude and the disciples of the Master were satisfied and ready to go away, then came to his disciples this command out of the carefulness of God, “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.” A desert place, to be sure—a multitude to be fed, only five loaves and two fishes; but the Lord of Life, the master of the feast, the divine economy of saving, and the fragments more than they had at the beginning!
With the savage man, all is waste; as civilization advances, something is saved, though much is lost.
In a material way, we are saving much. The cotton of the South not long ago was valuable only for the lint, but now a very considerable part of the value of the crop is contained in the seed. Thirty years ago, a seedless lint seemed desirable; today the cotton-grower would almost welcome a lintless seed. Olives do not grow in the cotton belt, nor cows and hogs on cotton stalks; but from cotton seed we get lard made in Chicago, butter churned in Indiana, and olive oil pressed in sunny Italy. Petroleum gives us everything from axle-grease for an ox-cart to gasoline for an aeroplane; and the profits of the Standard Oil Company are largely made from the waste of twenty-five years ago. Armour has learned the saving principle of the whole hog or none; and he puts on the market everything from the ham to the internal secretion of the suprarenal gland. It used to be a problem with our sawmills what to do with the sawdust. Invention found a way to throw it into the furnace for fuel, and later invention converts it into wood alcohol. On farm and in factory, improved implements, methods, and machinery make impossible and ridiculous the slow and wastful methods of other days. Vast areas of waste lands we are reclaiming by drainage, and by irrigation we are forcing the desert places to blossom like the rose. The stage-coach is a memory, and railroads are everywhere; and the wastefulness of bad country roads is preached at every turn by the makers of automobiles and gasoline. The waste power
of turbulent waters is converted into productive energy. Steam and electricity, telegraph and telephone, are crowding the world together and wiping out time and distance; and still, finding it too far withal to steam around Cape Horn, we are spending our millions to save time, and cut across at Panama.
And in a social way, we are becoming conscious of our wastefulness, and are turning our minds to the principles that underlie conservation. I believe that I am right when I say that all social waste is due to the assertion of individual rights, and all social conservation is founded upon a denial of them. And I believe that the best government for any man is that which is best suited to develop the best possibilities that are in him. The form of government, in other words, must be determined by the matter of development.
All government is a denial of natural rights and the substitution of duties for the good of the individual in the common good. The fullest exercise of natural rights is found in a state of savagery; the highest conservation of rights is found in a state of civilization—in that civilization which makes fullest denial of natural rights for the well-being of society.
The State exists for the individual, and the individual must exist and be fitted to exist for the State. No personal right can stand in the way of the individual and social good. The doctrine of right’ must yield to the doctrine of duty; in the higher civilization, the sense of selfishness must give place to the sense of service.
The law of eminent domain holds true not only in lands and material things; it is operative as well over men. The State may tax for the preservation of order and compel for the public service. It may fine and imprison for crime; for the safety of society, it may take away all rights for a time or a lifetime; nay, it may take even life itself when the individual so misuses his rights that his death, better than his life, subserves the public good.
Preventive medicine, than which there is no finer fruit of civilization, is founded upon a denial of rights. Compulsory vaccination is primarily for the safety of the individual, but
mainly for public protection. Quarantine against acute, contagious and communicable diseases is prevention of waste through denial of personal rights. We may not allow a man to exercise a right when he exercises it to his own hurt and to the injury of his neighbors. The right is taken from him for his own and the public good, so to conserve best his best rights in the health of his community.
These principles we are steadily learning men to appreciate, and when we come to the full appreciation of the divine economy of service and saving, pestilence will not walk in darkness, nor destruction waste at noonday.
A dairyman's cows are his own, to be sure; but he may not sell infected milk to waste the health and life of his neighbors’ children.
A butcher's meat is his own; but, if unfit for human food, he may not offer it at the market-places.
A patent nostrum is its maker's own; but let him warn the purchaser of its narcotic content.
A manufacturer's money is his own; but he may not spend it for the cheaper labor of the undeveloped child, or require of a man for a day's labor toil beyond a definite number of hours.
A man's child is his own; but he may not waste its growth and health and life in hazardous labors.
A man may not waste his own child nor his neighbor's child, nor claim any right of person or property that hinders the aggregate development and safety of his community.
On every hand out of the mouths of frauds, ignorance and politicians, we hear enough of the rights of men; let us hear more rather of their duties. We have had enough of waste; it is time we had more of conservation. To love our neighbor as ourself is but to see ourself in our neighbor and to find our safety everlastingly involved in his welfare. From rights, then, to duties; so lead the way from waste to permanent wealth and happiness.
Think for a moment of the stupendous waste in an uneducated and untrained child, the countless untrained, undeveloped, uneducated children of the past. You desire wealth,
but intrinsic value resides only in man; the value of things is derived from man; and the greater or less value of things is dependent upon the character, the quality of man. A lively consciousness of this fact is the motive of all progress in education.
Our system of public education is founded upon a denial of rights and a material consciousness of duties—a denial of the right of the child to himself, of the right of the parent to his child, of the right of even the childless man to so much of his money as may be necessary for the child's education. To conserve, to construct, this is the mark and work of civilization; to tear down, to hinder, let that be of the past: it is diabolical. To build, to prevent waste, this embodies the whole duty of civilized man. The State is endeavoring to build for the sake of the individual and itself, and the individual must be fitted to fulfil his duty to the State.
To prevent waste, therefore, we have everywhere our common schools, our graded schools, our colleges and our universities; our technical schools for the education of men, and our normals for the training of women. For the same reason we shall come everywhere to a system of compulsory education. Recognizing already the defects and consequent waste of our methods, we are coming even now to the study of exceptional and nervous children and to the medical inspection of the school children in general.
To prevent waste, the State, the churches, and fraternal orders establish and maintain orphanages. These are not mere charities, not matters of sentiment only; they are makers of men and women—they make them, alas! far better than the average home!
To prevent waste, we teach the deaf and dumb and the blind, and make them self-sustaining members of society.
To prevent waste, we care for the insane and the epileptic, and restore many of these unfortunates to happy and useful life.
To prevent waste, gathering up hitherto neglected fragments, the State of North Carolina leads among Southern States in the establishment of a school for the teaching of the feeble-minded. The motive originated in this society, and
stands as one of its glories forever. The Commonwealth of Virginia is urged to follow in this constructive work; and Virginia cannot lag behind.
To prevent waste, everywhere there is better care of the criminal classes. The old misanthropy did not seek to reform and save; the old misanthropy imprisoned in noisome jails without hope of health or reformation, at the offender's cost and wretchedness. No prouder name stands in English history than the name of John Howard, the humane country gentleman, high sheriff of Bedfordshire, the father of modern prison reform. Begun in sentiments of humanity, the new philanthropy leads the State to take account of the offender and forces the offender to take account of the State. We punish the criminal not for the sole purpose of punishing, but for the protection and progress of society, to deter others from the commission of crime and to reform or improve the offender and send him home a useful member of society. If we deprive him of liberty and his rights, it is to make of him a better citizen. We work him and care for him; we feed him, clothe and shelter him; we make him profitable to himself and useful to the State, even against his will.
To prevent waste, we have juvenile courts that consider the defects and possibilities of the criminal; and we build reformatories for young criminals, lest the hope of reformation to useful life be lost by association with the irretrievably bad.
To prevent waste, the physician has ceased to be the mere giver of drugs to them that are sick; he is become the peripathetic teacher of sanitation and hygiene, the guardian of individual and public, the apostle of the gospel of health. Having fought against death at close quarters and failed, he warns all men everywhere to fortify against his approach. And so he adds to the years of human life. If he carries no more of us beyond the limit of three score years and ten, he leads more lives more nearly to this limit. Oh! the waste of life in its prime, the slaughter of the innocents from mothers’ arms, the untimely tears of broken hearts, before the physician glimpsed the fulness of his mission and began to rouse the State to the duty of preventative medicine! You've seen
DISTRICT NO. 3, NcNEILL'S CREEK TOWNSHIP. AFTER LOCAL TAX WAS VOTED.
the tumorous scars, in every city, hamlet, and churchyard, that made prematurely leprous the beautiful face of mother earth.
Not that our work is yet fully comprehended or perfected; but this one thing we do, forgetting the things that are behind, we press forward, proud that on stepping-stones of our dead selves we are rising with better conscience to higher things.
To prevent waste, the manufacturer begins to look after the sanitation of premises and the health of his operatives. He finds that he can save life and time and money.
To prevent waste, great insurance corporations are organizing health departments, issuing health bulletins, and teaching their policyholders and the public how to live.
And to prevent the waste of war, this relic of barbarism, the verity of hell—the dream of poet and seer through centuries from Isaiah to the latest soul that sang in sight of things—to beat our swords into ploughshares and our spears into purning-hooks—the greater nations of the earth now seek to adjust their disputes by arbitration. May our young Nation lead the world in this joyous laugh in the face of Death! Oh, it will come some time, and nations will learn war no more! Did you ask when? I know not the day; but when man is wise enough to exercise his duty to his fellow as he would now assert his right in his face, we shall not be far from the
“One far-off divine event,Toward which the whole creation moves.”For the world, despite all its evil and waste, is growing better; but from wild grapes to grapes is a long way, a slow and halting evolution.
But there is more of high ideal and noble purpose in the world than ever before; knowledge is being diffued as never before, and we are growing more humane. But if we are on the Appian way, in sight of the Three Taverns, let us thank God, take courage, and go on: we are not yet in Rome.
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So with all our increase of knowledge and growth of humane sentiment, our utilization of natural resources and
prevention of material waste, our marvelous National progress, the thoughtful man cannot fail to inquire if we are building character, making men and women, as well as we builded in former days. After all, are we not tithing mint and anise and cummin and forgetting the weightier matters of the law? Are we as law-abiding as we used to be; have we the old-time reverence for sacred things; do we reverence God and the State as our conscience, and our conscience as the State and God? By the assertion of rights, are we not following the way of the prodigal who spent his substance in riotous living and would fain, at last, have filled his belly with the husks which the swine did eat?
If my son have not respect for my authority and the authority of the State; if he reverence not God and holy things; if he have not faith and hope and love abiding in him; if he have not respect for the rights of others and respect for himself; if he have not character; no wealth or knowledge of his can tell me that he is not a dangerous derelict without anchor, and I shall know that he is the heaviness of his father.
I am not preaching you a sermon—I am not cut out for that—but whatever of good there is in me comes, I know, from that mature sentiment, which, when the Sabbath dawns for man's rest, says “Come, let us go up in the house of the Lord;” and, when I have entered, “The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him!”
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It used to be said that the parent controlled the child; it is now a common saying that the child controls the parent. That the parent does not control the child is too grievously true. Parental authority in no sense depends upon the consent of the governed. It is inherent in parenthood; it is a duty which the parent has no right to disregard, whether for himself, for his child, or the State. For the family is the indispensable social unit. The purpose of the family is the training of children to orderly life and citizenship. More and more the family is failing of its purpose. I must train my child in
the way he should go for the child's sake and for society's sake. It is not a work which I have a right to do or not to do: it is my inalienable duty to him, to the State, and to God. I may not relinquish my work any more than the Creator of all things may abdicate His throne upon the circle of the heavens. So only can come among men the doing of justice and judgment. The Puritan may have been unduly austere, but the Puritan made men and women. To spare the rod even and so spoil the child, what is it but to take out of my child the best that is in him along with all his best possibilities? I, his king, will have robbed my subject and wasted the substance of the State.
Patriot and demagogue rant about rights of local self-government—let them descant less upon the beauties of it to the thoughtless, unbridled multitude; but rather, as fathers, let them teach it to their children—teach them obedience to divinely constituted authority and obedience to self. For “he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.” So may crime be lessened and more surely punished; so may juries look up to God and care well for the State; these new mad-storms of reckless brains be lulled ere they rise; the company of the insane will grow smaller, and the number of hysteric women and psychasthentic men will grow less.
In the building of character, the right attitude of the soul of man, a work of early years, nothing can take the place of the family. The schools are only supplementary. And I pray you, O schoolmaster, teach my child both obedience and books if you can; but if you can teach him no books, teach him obedience to you and and control of himself—teach him this form of local self-government, this most vital, embryonic form of democracy.
It is said that “when the court chaplain of Frederick the Great was asked by that gruff monarch for a concise summary of the argument in support of the truths of Scripture, he instantly replied, with a force to which nothing could be added: ‘The Jews, your Majesty, the Jews!’ ”—a people enduring, law-abiding, not much given to crime.
“And the Lord said, Shall I withhold from Abraham
that thing which I do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that thing which he hath spoken of him.” It would come in no other way; not even the Lord could bring it any other way!
Therefore, whoso shall rouse the heads of American families to resume their rightful sway, to discharge to their children, the State, and to God their inalienable duty, he shall preserve our rights and prevent the waste of the Nation.
RECOMMENDATIONSThe minimum length of school term of four months provided in the Constitution should not be made the maximum length of term. To stop here is to shut off hope of progress. The door of hope for education should be open to the child in every rural district. The general school fund, supplemented by a local tax, would give a six months’ school to the rural districts, as an average.
(1) That every rural district in the County vote a local tax of the maximum rate of 30c on the $100 valuation of property and 90c on the poll. The aim should be for not less than six months’ school in the rural districts.
(2) That our citizens, school officers, teachers and legislators all co-operate in making the rural schools better, and thus solve the most vital question before our county.
PUBLIC SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN—WHITE.ANDERSON CREEK TOWNSHIP
| John M. Stone, Spout Springs | John S. Johnson, Spout Springs |
| R. L. McRae, Spout Springs | Moses Elmore, Westville |
| Alex West, Westville | John McArten, Little River Acad'y |
| Joseph Hubbart, Little River Acad'y | Daniel Ray, Little River Academy |
| H. D. McDonald, Westville | D. H. Bain, Westville |
| J. A. Stephens, Westville | A. E. McRae, Westville |
| J. McC. Rae, Westville | R. L. McRae, Westville |
| J. A. Clark, Westville | D. R. West, Westville |
| A. A. Shaw, Westville |
| C. Hodges, Dunn, No. 2 | R. G. Allen, Dunn, No. 5 |
| A. B. Weaver, Dunn, No. 5 | J. S. Neighbors, Dunn, No. 5 |
| John B. Young, Dunn, No. 5 | W. R. Denning, Dunn, No. 5 |
| J. B. R. Jernigan, Dunn | John Norris, Dunn |
| Walter Parker, Dunn, No. 5 | J. V. Barefoot, Dunn, No. 5 |
| Jonas Reaves, Dunn, No. 5 | T. C. Miller, Benson, No. 3 |
| Blany Lee, Dunn | Frank Butler, Dunn |
| J. L. Lee, Dunn | M. W. Barefoot, Dunn |
| W. M. Munds, Dunn | Jessie Tart, Dunn |
| J. L. Hodges, Dunn | J. H. Sorrell, Dunn |
| G. F. Norris, Dunn | G. L. W. Jackson, Dunn |
| J. C. Pope, Dunn | W. F. Wade, Dunn. |
| James McPhail, Dunn | George Hemmingway, Dunn |
| Thomas Royall, Dunn | B. H. Jernigan, Dunn |
| L. W. Tart, Dunn | T. S. Jones, Dunn |
| H. D. Cameron, Rock Branch | John Darroch, Jonesboro, No. 3 |
| John S. Harrington, Broadway, No. 1 |
| G. W. Partin, Angier | Andrew Parrish, Angier |
| A. B. Currin, Barclayville | N. A. Barnes, Barclayville |
| Benton Matthews, Cardenas | W. F. Ogbern, Cardenas |
| L. B. Barber, Cardenas | B. F. Williams, Angier |
| C. S. Adams, Angier | J. A. Hockaday, Angier |
| J. T. Nordon, Angier | J. R. Young, Angier |
| B. C. Hockaday, Angier | J. F. Jones, Lillington, No. 1 |
| E. E. Matthews, Lillington, No. 1. |
BUCKHORN TOWNSHIP
| J. M. Cade, Kipling | R. S. Abernathy, Kipling |
| A. V. Dewar, Kipling | J. W. Stephenson, Holly Sp'gs, No. 2 |
| H. O. Austin, Holly Springs, No. 2 | J. D. Weathers, Holly Spring, No. 2 |
| Edward Prince, Kipling | E. M. Blanchard, Kipling |
| A. Y. Tudor, Kipling. |
| T. H. Webb, Duke | Arthur Fowler, Duke |
| W. M. Crawford, Duke | W. D. Barnes, Dunn, No. 4 |
| Hannibal Pope, Dunn, No. 4 | C. C. Colville, Dunn, No. 3 |
| C. L. Bailey, Benson, No. 3 | C. D. Stewart, Benson, No. 3 |
| James Ennis, Benson, No. 3 | J. M. Langdon, Benson, No. 3 |
| C. P. Matthews, Benson, No. 3 | Andrew Cobb, Benson, No. 3 |
| B. F. Parrish, Coats | R. M. Coats, Coats |
| P. F. Pope, Coats | R. M. Canaday, Duke, No. 2 |
| W. T. Avery, Dunn, No. 3 | B. F. McLeod, Duke, No. 2 |
| L. L. Turlington, Duke, No. 2 | Stewart Turlington, Dunn, No. 3 |
| G. M. Stewart, Dunn, No. 3 | I. M. Avery, Duke, No. 2 |
| A. C. Snipes, Dunn, No. 3 | Z. E. Byrd, Duke, No. 2 |
| Marshal Ennis, Duke, No. 2 | J. M. Pleasant, Duke, No. 2 |
| Richard Sorrell, Duke, No. 2 |
| W. L. Senter, Kipling | L. O. Senter, Kipling |
| W. C. Marrshburn, Kipling | A. A. Johnson, Chalybeate Springs |
| R. E. Smith, Chalybeate Springs | W. N. Bradley, Chalybeate Springs |
| H. S. Holloway, Cardenas | P. R. Adams, Cardenas |
| David E. Smith, Cardenas | L. F. Arnold, Fuquay Springs |
| W. H. Lee, Fuquay Springs | J. A. Gilbert, Fuquay Springs |
| Duncan Rollins, Fuquay Springs | R. H. Holland, Fuquay Springs |
| J. D. Betts, Fuquay Springs | T. B. Brinnett, Fuquay Springs |
| W. H. Rawls, Fuquay Springs | Andrew Johnson, Fuquay Springs |
| J. J. Spivey, Cameron, No. 3 | J. L. Marks, Spout Springs |
| J. J. Parker, Cameron, No. 3 | D. M. Buie, Cameron, No. 3 |
| C. A. Cameron, Pineview | T. M. Cameron, Pineview |
| Raford Gilham, Spout Springs |
| H. T. Spears, Lillington | E. S. Smith, Lillington |
| J. E. Caviness, Lillington | W. F. Hockaday, Lillington |
| James Bryan, Lillington | Gus Byrd, Duke, No. 1 |
| James Byrd, Duke, No. 1 | G. A. Wicker, Lillington |
| Chas. Rich, Lillington, No. 2 | N. McKay Murchison, Lillington, 2 |
| Hector McLean, Lillington, No. 2. |
| John Collier, Buie's Creek | R. B. Crowder, Buie's Creek |
| Archie Johnson, Lillington, No. 1 | J. C. Upchurch, Lillington, No. 1 |
| M. B. McKinnie, Lillington, No. 1 | J. L. Wilborn, Lillington, No. 1 |
| E. B. Johnson, Lillington, No. 1 | Walter Johnson, Lillington, No. 1 |
| Burwell Coats, Lillington, No. 1. |
| G. D. Elliot, Duke, No. 1 | J. H. Williams, Duke, No. 1 |
| Dr. C. W. Melvin, Linden | C. M. Allen, Duke. No. 1 |
| F. D. Byrd, Duke, No. 1 | Lonnie Byrd, Duke, No. 1 |
| W. R. Gilchrist, Lillington | Charles Ross, Lillington |
| W. M. Hawley, Lillington | D. A. Patterson, Broadway, No. 2 |
| J. A. Griffin, Lillington, No. 3 | J. W. McLean, Broadway, No. 2 |
| R. M. Griffin, Jonesboro, No. 2 | William Douglas, Broadway No. 2 |
| T. B. Buchanan, Broadway, No. 2 | N. A. Patterson, Broadway, No. 2 |
| John A. Buchanan, Broadway, No. 2 | J. A. Byrd, Broadway, No. 2 |
| John McLeod, Broadway, No. 1 | W. T. Sloan, Broadway, No. 1 |
| A Frank Holder, Broadway, No. 2 | S. A. Harrington, Broadway, No. 2 |
| D. R. Stewart, Broadway, No. 2 | D. A. Cameron, Broadway, No. 2 |
| Malcom J. Butler, Broadway, No. 2 | M. S. Holder, Broadway, No. 2 |
| N. A. Morrison, Broadway, No. 2 | N. A. Mason, Lillington, No. 2 |
| Edgar S. Smith, Lillington, No. 2 | A. B. Wade, Lillington, No. 2 |
| W. H. Rogers, Lillington, No. 3 | J. R. Patterson, Lillington, No. 3 |
| Geo. W. O'Quinn, Lillington, No. 3 | John Blue McDonald, Lillington, 2 |
| H. J. McDonald, Lillington, No. 2 | N. A. McLean, Lillington, No. 3 |
| H. B. Page, Lillington, No. 3 | J. W. Byrd, Lillington, No. 3 |
| W. J. Brown, Lillington, No. 3 | T. R. Rosser, Jonesboro, No. 3 |
| A. H. Gross, Jonesboro, No. 3 | W. J. McDonald, Jonesboro, No. 3 |
| By a special act, district No. 1, Averasboro, (the Dunn Graded School) has a board of trustees elected by the town Commissioners: | |
| K. L. Howard, Dunn | S. J. Hooks, Dunn |
| R. G. Taylor, Dunn | T. C. Young, Dunn |
| G. F. Pope, Dunn | S. Cooper, Dunn |
| A. F. Surles, Dunn, elected to fill unexpired term of H. L. Godwin. |
The School Committee of Angier and Lillington Public High Schools are appointed by the County Board of Education. The powers, duties and qualifications are similar to those of other public school committeemen.
They are appointed for a term of two years, for a term of four years, and a term of six years.
ANGIER HIGH SCHOOL| B. F. Williams, two years, Angier | C. S. Adams, four years, Angier |
| J. A. Hockaday, Six years, Angier. |
Dr. J. E. Caviness, two years, Lillington E. S. Smith, four years, Lillington H. T. Spears, six years, Lillington.
ROCK BRANCH, DISTRICT NO 1, JOHNSONVILLE AND BARBECUE TOWNSHIPS. THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL HOUSE EVER ERECTED IN THIS IMMEDIATE SECTION. THEY HAVE LOCAL TAX.
A VERASBORO TOWNSHIP
The school in Dunn is under the management of the same board of trustees as the Dunn Graded School for the whites.
| H. H. Hartfield, Dunn, No. 5 | J. A. Burnett, Dunn, No. 5 |
| A. B. Brinkley, Manchester | Tobie McNeill, Spout Springs |
| H. W. Washington, Spout Springs | Curtis Elliot, Thornwall |
| Isaiah Barney, Westville | John McGregor, Westville |
| G. W. Mayner, L. R. Academy, No. 1 | Jacob Furgison, L. R. Academy, 1 |
| S. G. Williams, L. R. Academy, No. 1 | George Ray, Westville |
| R. S. Ray, Westville | Henry Ray, Westville |
| Sandy McLean, Westville | C. F. McLean, Lillington, No. 2 |
| Joe Harris, Lillington. |
Managed by the White committee, given in the list of white committeemen.
BLACK RIVER TOWNSHIP| Jim McKay, Angier | Kelly Cutts, Angier | Ad. Matthews, Angier. |
| Matthew Williams, Kipling. |
| Duncan Range, Dunn, No. 4 | Sam Draughon, Dunn, No. 4 |
| Lewis Williams, Dunn, No. 4 | Henry Wall, Duke |
| Stephen McKay, Duke | Sam McNeill, Duke. |
| George Cofield, Coats | Hilairy Stewart, Coats |
| Wesley Johnson, Coats | William Shaw, Dunn, No. 3 |
| D. J. Ryals, Dunn, No. 3 | L. N. McKay, Dunn, No. 3 |
| Neill Massey, Dunn, No. 2 | Haywood Sanders, Dunn, No. 2 |
| J. A. Ryals, Dunn, No. 2 | Robert Rowland, Coats |
| Alex James, Coats | Walter Matthews, Coats. |
| Freeman Blalock, Kipling, No. 1 | W. H. Cofield, Kipling, No. 1 |
| Charles Hicks, Kipling, No. 1 | Hubbart Judd, Chalybeate Spring. |
| Lewis Stewart, Chalybeate Springs | Edward Major, Chalybeate Springs. |
| A. A. Rone, Spout Springs | D. J. McGregor, Spout Springs |
| Stephen McRae, Spout Springs | Boston Chalmers, Pineview |
| Nathan Mallett, Pineview | Bill Hailey, Pineview. |
LILLINGTON TOWNSHIP
| Anson Bailey, Lillington | Gus McLean, Lillington |
| J. H. MeLean, Lillington | Joe McNeill, Lillington, No. 2 |
| Stephen McKay, Lillington, No. 2 | Mack McDougald, Harnett. |
Managed by the white committee, given in the list of white committeemen.
STEWART'S CREEK TOWNSHIP| James McNeill, Duke, No. 1 | Sonnie Smith, Duke, No. 1 |
| R. B. Smith, Duke, No. 1 | Robert Harris, Linden |
| Robert Maynor, Linden | French Williams, Linden |
| Parker Covington, Duke, No. 1 | Gus McNeill, Duke, No. 1 |
| George Smith, Duke, No. 1 | Sandy McDougald, Duke, No. 1 |
| George Hill McLean, Duke, No. 1 | Jack McLean, Duke, No. 1 |
| Sam McLean, Lillington, No. 3 | Jim McLean, Lillington, No. 3 |
| Sam McKay, Broadway, No. 2 | Sandy Douglas, Broadway, No. 2 |
| Jno. Brewington, Broadway, No. 2 | L. C. Harrington, Broadway, No. 2 |
| B. F. Buie, Broadway, No. 2 | N. A. McLean, Lillington, No. 2 |
| Sam McDougald, Lillington, No. 2 | J. A. G. McNeill, Lillington, No. 2 |
| J. A. Yarboro, Broadway, No. 2 | Sandy Smith, Broadway, No. 2 |
| Sandy Minter, Broadway, No. 2. |
Considerable progress has been made in the County in the improvement of educational conditions, but there is a great deal yet to be done. A few more school houses need to be built, more school rooms furnished with the equipment necessary for successful work, more consolidations of districts made, more local tax districts established, a better average school attendance secured, and a library of select reference books for teachers purchased. By the hearty co-operation of the parents, the teachers, the school committee and the other school officials, these necessary improvements can soon be attained.
I believe that there is more of the Declaration of Independence expressed in the common school system than in any other of our institutions; there is more of equal opportunity, more of the even chance, more of the square deal, more of the recognition of the individual merits than in any other institution. At the door of the public school all social, political and religious distinctions disappear, all external marks of rank and classification are laid aside, and the children enter the public schools as the sons and daughters of American citizens, and as children of the Republic.
