Rockdale County GaArchives News.....HONEY CREEK NEWS January 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 December 8, 2005, 10:16 pm The Solid South, January 23, 1886 January 1886 ~Mrs. Sarah Scott has been very sick, some better at present. ~Mr. Coonie McDonald’s school is improving. She has a good school, 32 students, which makes it an interesting business for her. I am glad she has got a good school. I wish the young ladies who are capable of teaching could all get good schools, paying schools. They deserve the patronage of the people and ought to have it. Just to think that a man, a man with whiskers, will sacrifice his time (which would be valuable if properly applied) for three months, teaching a country school of 20 or 25 students for what the public pays, I.e., 4 cents per capita or thereabouts. It is just shameful. Further more, the young ladies ought to have the preference, from the fact that many of them are dependent upon their own resources for a living. Besides, it is a nice, decent business which they can very well afford to do. So the pale, sallow faced collegian should come in second, if at all, for public favors. Note: All names copied as written. I think this should read Mrs. Coonie instead of Mr. ~Mr. R. D. George’s menagerie passed my house a few days ago, a Jersey calf and a two horse wagon. He is banking heavily on a Jersey cow if he can just keep his calf braced against the March winds. More anon. J. M. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/rockdale/newspapers/honeycre910gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb