The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-12
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.
A Few Facts Further for The
City Council to Contemplate.

City Council to Contemplate.
The article in the last issue of the TEL
EGRAPH-CoURIER on the action of the city
council has apparently stirred up consid-
cradle comment. People are talking about
this matter of the necessity of better High
School building and are becoming deeply
interested For the information of the
public few facts Irelative to the matter
are herewith presented
In the first place, the Board of Educa-
ton of Kenosha, have the power and au-
thority to go ahead and build a High
School building of any size the necessities
of the case may demand whether the Coun-
Gil agrees to it or not. This view of the
case was proven correct when the North
Side school house was built. The case is
very much the same now. In support of
this opinion and showing the powers of the
Board of Education in the premises, the
following extracts are taken from the
city charter
Chap. IL, Sec 10.
The Board of Education shall have
power and it shall be their duty.
LIST. To establish and organize such and
SO many schools in said city, in addition to
the schools now established therein, as they
shall deem necessary.
I'd. To purchase or hire school houses,
rooms and lots or sites for school houses,
and to fence and to improve the same:
Sd. Upon such lots or sites, and upon
any lots occupied for school purposes, to
build, enlarge, alter, inprove and repair school,
houses, etc.
9th To determine and certify to the City
Council on or before the first Monday in
August in each year, the sum, in their opin-
ion, necessary to be raised for school pur-
poses under the provisions Of this act, spec
flying the sum required for each 'of the
purposes mentioned therein.
Chap II, Sec. g. The City Council shall
have power and 1t shaU be their duty to raise
on or before the first Monday of September
in each year. by tax on the real and per-
sonal estate ia said district such sum or sums
as mag be recommended by The Board Of Edu-
cation, etc etc.
Chap. IL. Sec 4 The Commissioners Of
Schools of said city and The Superintendent
thereof shall constitute ,ard of E1uca-
ton, which Board shall be a corporat3 body
in relation to all the powers and duties
conferred upon them by this act.
The City Charter gives the Board of Ed
ucation practically fall control of its own
sphere of action and provides for the action
of the City Council as the fundamentally
to be used in carrying out the de isions of
the Board. The present Board of Educa-
ton will compare very favorably indeed, to
put it mildly, with the present Council, and
the public may rest assured that the Board
will take every precaution to see that they
are right, bat then they are going ahead.
They will not cause the city one dollar Of
useless expense, but they will decide on a
building which will be large enough to &C
commodate the pupils, (Which the present
building will not do) and one that will be a
credit and vast benefit to the city when
done A committee of five from the Board
goes to Waukegan this morning to inspect
the Waukegan building and another COM
mittee will go to Chicago to inspect the
Hyde Park School building in a couple of
days. There is but very little opposition
anywhere to the new building except among
those who either know nothing or care
nothing about the condition of the present
High School building Since the last issue
of this paper it has transpired that Mr.
Simmons opposition to the erection of the
new building was caused by transformation
about the intentions of the Board Of Edu-
cation It is hoped this is true; as nearly
every prominent man in Kenosha who has
expressed himself has pronounced in favor
of the new building It might as well go
ahead now, as half the money necessary for
the new building is levied, and if it is not
used for that purpose, it will very likely be
used for some purpose which will leave the
city with little or nothing TO show for it.
At the regular meeting of Fred S. Low
ell Post No. $50, G. A. r. Monday evening
the annual election of officers occurred.
The following were the officers elected for
the following year:
poet ('opo ms ndor Geo g. Timnart
Sen, Vice Commander Chas. H. Blood.