Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-27

We are informed, amounted to $3.50.
and in the Sparta school to 81. 100.
There are probably sew raj causes to
account for this difference besides the
want of school room, one of which may
be the fact that Lancaster. by its super.
ior inducements as healthful location.
the beauty of its environments. its high
MORAL and social standing, ana the
moderate cost of living and
taxes. invites not only the students to
our schools but their parents to homes
among us, and thus the scholars be-
come registered as our own instead Of
outsiders.
We have not many outside scholars
but there are not many schools in any
town OF Wisconsin not larger than Lam
caster that can show classes of eighteen
young men and young women SEM out
this spring with certificates in :heir
hands that pass them to the University.
This IS depression butt tends to show
that our school is growing in both the
lower and upper stories, and that there
is need of provision for additional schol-
ars who are coming either with their
families or as students to pay fees. If
therefore, We wish to be prepared for all
the law requires us to prepare for and
for all applicants. the necessity for adj
ditional school room is apparent.
On the determination to have another
school house the location is the first
thing to be considered. That it shall
be in the north part of the city is under
stood. An apportionment by the cen
sus shows that line drawn east and
west on Maple street.-the next north Of
the court house-divides the school
population nearly in halves. 1t gives
in the south division $40 and in north
303. In looking over this territory for
site the following were brought under
our notice:
The north half of the block on which
the Methodist parsonage stands can be
bought of Mr.. Roberts for 81, 600. In
GLIDING with it the house and southwest
quarter, the price is $4,000.
In the same tier of blocks some 200
yards farther north a strip $50 feet wide
is reported to be purchasable OF Mr..
Nichols and Mr.. Bass. 1t would make
good school ground if the two lots north,
comprising the remainder OF the block,
could be bought with it. The prices
have not been learned.
Farther north, just west of the Croft
tobacco house, a block is purchasable Of
Lewis Croft for $1,000
North of this block can be bought of
Jasper Napp for $1,000.
West of Madison sheet, tract reach
ing from street to street 343 feet, and
$50 feet wide, can be purchased of r.
A. Watkins for 1000.
West of the railroad beautiful block
can be bought of S. Mitchell for 81, 200.
These appear to be the only sites
available. The Nichols and Bass lots
are the nearest to the center of popula.
ton to be served, but the center at the
present time is moving west and north.
There are several families residing
northwsrd in the country. OF the
places named even the farthest is little
if any more remote from the popula-
ton than was the site OF the present
school house when it was selected. The
school should If possible have as much
as block of ground. At the rate pur-
chases of lots and the building OF resi-
dences is going on now the time seems
near at hand when vacant block in
an eli gible locality cannot be had. Our
judgem ent is therefore that the site
should be bought now whether further
progress is made this year or not.
Your committees suggestion is for a
brick school house, say 40 by so, two
stories, for use of LIST and I'd primary.
intermediate and grammar schools,
that shall prepare scholars for the high
school. No division of the district is
proposed. The schools would be under
the same superintendency as the other.
The architecture should be such as to
admit of additions. Costs have been
named ranging from $4,000 TO $4,000
depending upon the style, etc. The as
sessed value of property in the dlstrict
is in round numbers about $500, 900.
The expenditure proposed we think
would not be loss to the people. Car
Isle wrote, lLiberality to schools is new
extravaganza. Good chools make
good citizens.
EDWARD Pollock,
Committee I Il MEYER