Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-02-26
IMPORTANT SCHOOL NETTING.
Two New School Houses 10 be Recon
mended-All Taxpayers Should
be Present.

The annual school meeting wbicl
will be held at Reeds opera house
next Monday evening will be on,
OF the most important IN the sch 90
district embracing the city Of salem
and IL is hoped and expected every
taxpayer of the district will be in
attendance and show that interest
IN its affairs which their growing
Importance demands.
The observations Of this writer
touching the vast increase of popu-
lation during the past year incline
10 the belief that the average citizen
will be surprised at the figures re-
sultiug from School Clerk Simpsons
enumeration and census, which IL
now nearly completed.
The board Of school directors have
had occasion to recognize this
growth and its pressing demands
for greater facilities in obtaining an
education, and feel IL their duty to
recommend TO the taxpayers next
Monday evening the building Of
two school houses, one in North
Salem and O8e between the exten
sion Of State street and Asylum
avenue in the eastern part OF the
city. They viii recommend that
au eight-room building be erected
In North Stleu, the four rooms on
the first floor t. be finished inside |
the irs' year a1l The upstairs the
flowing year. They consider that
a twO.ro1m but! Hug will be suIlicirnt
at the other nJint named.
For this purpose, the members of
the board t'ink bonds should be is
sued and not attempt to raise the
necessary aa,int by immediate
taxation, as tie sums raised by this
means, without making the levy
will be needed for the
expenses which the new
,chool houses would entail. There
would be three or four additional
eachers required, furniture and APP
)aratus, janitors, fuel, etc. Then,
~ next summer, the East Salem
llgh school will need repainting, and
70 insure the better health and
omfort of the pupils, the basement
will need q cement floor throughout,
ii Of which will demand quite IA {
leavy expenditure, hence the is
uance Of bonds IL considered the :
aslest and best means of providing
he needed buildings and the pur- ]
hase of suitable land In the eastern
art Of the city upon which to erect :
he one intended for that neighbor- !
lOOd. /,
The Office of school director is \
lore important than it is usually Il
nckoned, although it brings no pay +
xcept good deal Of criticism, work +
nd bother to the man who fills the :
lace with conscientlousness and an 2
ye TO the best interests of the dis Il
'lct and its pupils. But 10 IL ueces- I,
lry that good men should fill the h
lace, and IL II hoped that the two q
irectors to be chosen week from a
eat Monday will be of that chal. n
cter; that they will he men of IN .,
ependence, energy and advanced /,
lought; mon thoroughly in loye h
ith the cause of education, aud ;,
lille prhcticing economy, not so n
nrsim onious as to cripple or retard u
le means of progress in that line
hlch are so munillcently provided
every enlightened community. ii
Mr. John q. Wright, now presi- Ii
mt o: the board, has served as di- "
ctor six consecutive years and M
links IL Is time someone else took q
Ie wor6 of his hands, so he will d,
1t be a candidate for re election. fr
r. Litchtield Is now in the govern ST
ent Indian service, which causes GO
70 other vacancy. Mr. A. E, ST
rang, elected last year, Is the le'
ird member, and IL the two chosen fr'
Is time proveas zealousand pains. th
king, the district will have good IN
ID efficient board. f,u