Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-06-12

thus far made the constable hereby required to release
said sheep swine to the making such application
upon satisfactory proof being made OF ownership.
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| School House.-Here is town of $500
inhabitants, of which number sic hundred
and t,centy seren are school childrcn-and
without school house. TO be sure there is
little, rickety, tumble down shanty, that
would perhaps keep the rain off of some
twenty-five or thirty children, that is digni-
fed with the name Of school house-but the
building is hardly fit for stable Girls and
boys by the hundreds, are growing up in ig-
norance, all for the want Of educational ia
cilities, and it is damning disgrace to a
town which, in everything but this, is noted
for its public spirit and zeal in the cause of
human progress. Can we expect the rising
generation to acceptably fill our places when
we shall step from the stage of action, if we
allow it to grow up in ignorance, and make
no effort to provide it with even the advan.
| tages of a common schooly" A horse race
will draw a big crowd but meeting for the
purpose Of taking steps for the erection of a
school house will not call out half dozen.
Why this apathy in matter of such vital
Importance? Nota man but that prcJsssedly
regrets we have no suitable school building.
yet hardly man seems willing to lend his
aid and assistance to remedy this evil An
intelligent stranger visiting the place, is
struck with establishment at this great de-
ficiency, and the lack of interest evinced in
educational matters on the part of the citi-
zens. Who can wonder at it; and if a man
with family of children should come here
with the intention of locating, but upon
learning that the town had no school house.
should go to some other point where his
children could enjoy the advantages that
would be denied them here, who could truth
fully say that he had not acted wisely and
we'll? Viewing the matter in pecuniary
light alone, it would pay this town to build
atcn thousand dollar school house. BY some
action taken last spring we thought we were
to have good building forthwith, but we
now seem to be as far from it as ever. We
hope our citizens will wake up to the import.
ance Of this matter and give it the attention
it deserves Duty and self interest combined
demand it. We dislike to publish an article
like the foregoing; it rather appears like a
stigma upon the town, AM we regret to
have it go forth that we are SO wofully be-
hind the times-especially when it bears
upon its face that it is all through lack Of
interest, ard not through lack of means
But this matter has run so long, and appa-
rently growing worse and worse, that we
have thought it our duty to make it public
affair, and see if little life cannot be infused
into our educational interests, even if we
have to humiate ourselves little in SO doing.
In Waterloo the citizens have commenced
the erection Of large and commodious
brick school house. Can we not afford to do
as much as Waterloo? From the Courier
we take the following extract, showing the
nature of the building now being erected
there:
Dimensions so feet front by so feet Deep two stories
hgh with tower in front, stories high for the front
entrances the upper story to be used library and OBJ
servatory The ground floor will be divided into CON-
school rooms, each % by 80 feet The entrance
TO the front rooms Is through the towera separate en-
trance way to each room The back rooms reached
ny rear entrance way II feet The second story
rooms 70 by 10 attached; cellar running under the
~hole Duding The building will probably cost $4,000
70 oe finished IN time for the Fall and Winter schools
need no better guarantee sf its successful compile
on than the fact that II will be built under the person
rector. - -
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than Soda for all purposes. n-1w
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