Newspapers / The Laurinburg exchange. / May 15, 1924, edition 1 / Page 35
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I The County School System \ Possibly Best in the State A System of Organisation and Consolidation of Dis tricts Worked Out Over a Period of Years and Upon a Thoroughly Prac ticable Bads. (By 1* M. PBBLK, County Soparia tarint at Schools) Thera are 3*4 equate miles of ter ritory in Hontlead county, practically ni third of which is undeveloped. There are eighteen hundred and sixty white children In the county. With toe exception of tour one-teacher atom i>la, these children an served by dr standard schools. The property agination tor the county this year la •17,008,285. This property pays a uniform tax of forty ex cents oa the hundred dollar* tor running all the schools for ate months-, All of the county except two amall districts in toewerteville township has a special tax tor emleaoanttaf the state six mosith school term, so the minimum term for all the white schools in the cuuaty now running 1s eight months, dam sue of these non-local tax die tnets pairoiuMi ins Laur.nourg graded school white'the other go to Marten. Of then dtx schools. Lsurinburg and Gibson are special chartered schools, the organisations and pol Wee of which are aantreUad by local boards inataod of the oounty board of education. There two scboola are standard high schoola mreti ng aB the requlrsc—tv sf ths state board of OdafsHnn fog a four-year high school High aeheel work is doua fat twa oth er schools of the saetsty, Spring HiU aud'Laarsl Hin. The Spring HU I high sahoel is what is known as a sarti dad high school with an average at tendance of over thirty pupils and two whole-time high school teaehsna Tha Laurel Kill school is a junior high school doing work only through, the ninth grade and having only ona whole-time high ached fare her. Ths ether taro schools, Wood Grove and Caledonia, are standard grammar i schools, each having four test her* and u graduate from a standard eol lago as principal. With tha exception of tha four too teacher reboots, which schools can net ha displaced because of tha pecu liar conditions of our county, no school requires a teacher to handle over two grades. A system of public * tracks end private conveyances, sup ported by county tares, puts stan dard high school work within the reach of every boy and girt in tha county. The county organisation ps It now exists was not arranged at my big county an sating, but has practieal 4y groom ap, tha needs and eondi ' dsns of ths different communities ad justing themselves along a common Kbm on*. As me boruum or a com munity Interest and needs receded to embrace neighboring communities, the people have naturally built their school hensea hi the populations! center using truck* to transport the' children from the more sparsely settled parts of the community. It u; natural therefore that the leading Ugh school of the county la in! LaaHnbuTg, the county seat It is al so Just as natural that the next largest high school la in Gibson, the second town of importance in the county. Spring HOI high school is located In Wagram, the only town In the township. Laurel Hill township, without a town or village within her borders, prefers to spend her high school tax money fas transporting her pupil* to Laurtnburg graded schools. The community Ufa of lower Stow artoville, centering around Johns Sta tion, the people built their grammar school for that wad of the township at Johns and transported their high school children to Lourtnfaurg. For those six schools to adequately! serve the needs of the county sevpn-! toon tracks must bo kept in operation. The running and replacement expense of these tracks wfll cost, approxi mately St 7,000 a year, or one-fifth of the school budget. The county’s building program will be MuWa by September l. Leurln b«rg, Glbaon, Wegrum and Johns have adequate buildings for the next long time under normal population rrowth. Tbe Laurel Hill Depot build log is now undar construction and the contract far tha Laurel Hill town •Wp achool building win ba 1st soon, lljaaa buildings have bean and are being constructed at a cost of be tween three thouaand and tWrty-ftv hundred dollars per class room unit. The money for constructing four of these buildings was obtained at foer end ona-half per cent interest Ho organisation or institution can hope to live and permanently thrive if It la based on enthusiasm alone. Tha bod rack foundation of our. achool system la economic. Therefore a school community not sufficiently large to embmoe enough property for naming a standard school can hot hope to do uniform work year after year. Our people era wise therefore in their organisation. In that every school community is baekad by ovair a million dollars worth ef property. Below appears e Hat of tha schools their property valuation, and an ap proximate value ef their buildings: Unrinbuif fS&MU 1X00,000 Ottyon MUJM 78,000 HiH 1300341 04,000 l«iw Hin 14*3368 00300 Johns 1386,684 98,000 L. Hill T*ihip 1384,487 18,000 Total 817,008488 8417,000 CAROLINA CONSTRUCTION CO, INC. HAMhMtb Cast ratting Cancers; Ena Haler Fraj acta in TMa Section i Beedguartare U Baa let This put of Old North State haa no mors efficient or active developing agency than tha widely known Caro lina Construction Co., which haa Joat bean reorganised .and ia ineorporatad amlar the lure of the state. This pro^Rnaive, up-to-date eon acrn specialties in general oontract ing and building in wood, brick, con crete. stone or steal construction. No fob is too largo to bn handled b> the Carolina Conatructioa Co., Inc. This concern has back of It a long Hat of leading structure* of raoant year* in thii section. They art now constructing tha post oOaa building la Laurlnburg and has constructed many state buildings. The company ia possessed of the latest and bast in tha equipment Una. A specialty ia made of furnishing es timates, and tha motto of tha com pany la "Flgusa with U» sad Bara a Uigurs or Two." •R- H. Halyborton Is president and general manager; C. W. Owens is secretary-tree surer, and James Dickey is general superintendent of tha company. Tits offices ere located on Main street, opposite the pest office. The readers of this paper may rest assured that When B. H. Halyborton ; . ■■■ '■ ■ l - Carolina Consttuction Company • * General Contractors . / • . ! * * Now building the Lauria burg Poat Office • + 4 llamiet, North Carolina I * * . . t taboo a contract It U going to to tontod out to the letter, dona on contract time and to a jab both owner and U» ooiutmeticD coaptny will || ptmid af. Ho la a live-wire to to* faMnm, popular tbrougtont tto 2*^52^' bpootor for ^ * Iwi. ***** C- W. Owaaa. an engineer of bread ararlaaoe to tto eonatruction world, U i***1 vMU «^*Had. Sup*. Juno Dickey know, tto ooo ■ traction gam at ovary angle and la * P?" »*»• ■>* i» practi cal bl bia ideas and plana. MBS. C B. ODOM One af Pint Two Siam, to State Conducted by Womoit Bualuoua Established la I Ml k ■» - i » ■■ s Thirty-one year* ago there waa only one mercantile eel ahH abluent in the statu of North Carolina owned end conducted by women. The-11 aueb astabliahment waa opeaad la Luuiinbut* In IMS, by Mr*. . C K. Odom, and haa toed in eontiauoua and nueceaaful operation tinea that data. It ie the oldect buidnaoa la Laurie burg- IU auceesa haa not been of tto mush-room variety, but haa boon af gradual growth, each year marking a decided advance toward the foraaoet poefttoa la the local baataOM world that la now occupied by the buatoeaa of Mrs. Odom. While the beginning ef the business ™ ®n a entail scale, tha present building, two stories in height and containing nearly 8600 square feat of ■Mr space ,wKh a one-story addition providing 1,000 additional square saa'3?53i£y»4S carefully purchased merchandise of tha typa that appeals to the average woman. The long experience of thoaa *" *f this ootabUshnsoat has ennblad thorn to buy their goods ad* variageousiy, thus making poeriNe price eooceaaioni to tha pufaiie which add materially to the popularity of tim business. Favorable prises are the rale at Mrs. Odom's. The linos carried include dry goads, notions, millinery, these, hosiery, and todies’ ready-to-wear garments. Tim last mentioned line la tha department of tha business in which Mrs. Odom specialises. and a full line of both ladies' and children's ready to wear may always ha found hare. Tha goods are selected with that ran judgment which means so much In the matter of buying woman's mo rehand iso, and la to a large extant tha secret of the successful operation- ef a woman's wear more. 1 Mrs Odom la active In tha conduct of tha business. She la a dtieen of pronounced public spirit, bring aa ac tive member of the' Chamber of Com mores She is also a member af the Baptist ehureh. Associated with her in the budmess are D C. Odom, who Is not active, and Charles W. Odom, who serves In the capacity of man. agar. The former is active in tha af fairs ef tha Methodist church, while tha latter Is o Baptist. Both are members of the Chamber of com merce, and are keenly interested in the progress and development of Laurinbarg and Scotland county. "All that the Name Jmpilot’ Purity Steam Bakery < * Delicious Pies, Cakes, Bread and Rolls, Made in a Sanitary Manner • * • ' "Buy From Your Grocer or Our Retail Store on Railroad Street’ * ■ " Jf_ l ^ Headquarters for Quality Meats -The Beet Oidf McLaurin & Shaw Loorinbor*. North CoroKoo ' ' • * * / * ■ • . . m Dealers In Buyers of COTTON and COTTON SEED * .. • ' • T .. ' *;* *.V* J _ • •**. «• • i\-} ./v.f* John* a - . North Carolina ' • - . ‘ % • Established 1886 * Iaeorporstsd 1*10 J. T. John * *« % General Merchandise and Farm Implements \ / * | • , - COTTON and COTTON SEED ' K i , • • * ' * * • •* . . ■' .*>£ S ' X ( • • • * * \ • t V ; Africy * . i ■ r .*^Vy! - • Chevrolet Automobiles / . • • # ~ f . '1'‘C .V. * Sales Parts '-j- Service •* r . ‘ 0 V , w * 'X1 •’ , . * *, ... North Carolina
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