The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-08-03
MORE HIGH SCHOOL VOTING.

l Our township trustees are in rs bad "a mud
die rs ever on the high school question. The
vote two weeks ago having been in favor o
Shabbona square AS the location, application
was made in due form to the city council Il
dedicate the square for that purpose, but tho
lefty attorney advised the council that they
had no power to do 50, upon which the
council adjourned without action. Then the
question arises, have the trustees power to To-
cate somewhere else? They have come to the
conclusion that they have not The law gives
them such power only when the people in vot-
ing, fail TO caSta majority for any one location,
but IA majority having designated SlabbOna
square, they must go there or nowhere. SO
they have concluded to ask for another vote
As, in this new vote, whatever point is selected
must be bought and paid for, and as the $4,000
appropriation voted two week age is intended
only to erect and furnish the proposed new
building, the board are also constrained with
THIS second vote to ask for an additional APP
priation Of $1,000 to pay for the ground to he
selected
The board have been looking.around for eli
gble lots and find the following purhasablc
at the prices indicated+
Mrs. Montgoncrys properly % lots block west Of
Mrs Jas Converts property. on Conibds st 6TG
los4 and . block 81 States Addition, Columbus
Lots E and E s. bocE g. stcs Addition odd gas proper 0
Lewis Lewis properly q Iotsj southwest Of sia66caa
East GafLock los, original town of0tlawa (john Coz '
wells residence 300
Lots g. Q. 10 and 49, States Addition Charley Miller
property 200
-Four acres in South Ottawa, wea Of ti tqasts be- '
East Of the Green property g lotsj about $3.50
1t is apity that no more definite figures
than "abont" are given for the Green lots
in Esst Ottawa, as they really strike us as the
most eligible on the list.
1t is a pity, also, that the trustees failed to in
clude thcc $4,000 in the former vote, as it would
have been much easier to to obtain favorable |
vote then than twill now be, We fear, to get this
appropriation.
As to the prospects Of the school aside from
this muddlc about building and location, the
trustees have everything to encourage them.
At first they thought building that would nc
corlmodatc 200 would be suilicient---15 0 town
ship and 80 outsiders. They already End, how
ever so many outside applications, that at
least 800 pupils must I've provided for This
will give them in Nitions more than half
enough from the very Start to pay,the teachers,
and from the experience in Princeton and use.
where they arc satisfied that in a few wears
more, with accommodations tGT five or six
hundred r0pils, our high school may be made,
instead of an expense TO the township, actual
ly so,i-sustaning and source of profit to the
city besides in the large numbers of pupils it
will bring into the city that must be boarded
and otherwise provided for The school must be
opened in September and the time is crowd
ing on 80 rapidly that prompt action all around
is obviously necessary.
This second voting on the location and ad.
dtional appropriation Of $4,000 will take
place at the court house on Saturday, August
10th, between o'clock Il, m.'and5 p. IN.