The record-union., 1894-01-29
ELK GROVES UNION HIGH SCHOOL.
1t Was Formally Dedicated on Sat-
urday Last.
The Country People Turn Out in
Large Numbers-Addresse and
Other Exercises.

The good people of Elk Grove and
vicinity on Saturday celebrated two holi-
days in one-the legal holiday, made so
by Governor Markham's proclamation
on account of the opening of the Midwln-
ter Fair, and the dedication of the Union
High School, where the rising generation
of the pretty little city on the line OF the
Western Pacific Railroad and of neigh
boring districts will receive their prepara-
tory course qualifying them to enter the
State University or other temples OF
learning where the higher classics are
taught.
Flags were displayed on the prominent
buildings of Elk Grove, and on the new
schoolhouse brand new flag waved IN
the fresh breeze that prevailed.
Elk Grove is in the line of progress,
and is fast assuming the shape and COM
placency of well-governed city.
Its main pride is the water-producing
facilities which are substantial in every
respect, the water being pure and clear as
crystal and the pressure extraordinarily
strong for a town the size of Elk Grove.
The tank from which the water for house
purposes is obtained has a capacity OF
$4,000 gallons.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the visit
ors and townspeople assembled in the
commodious meeting-room OF L. y. y. +.
Hall, and the large attendance manifested
the degree of interest taken in the cere-
monies of the dedication of the new high
school.
The assemblage was called to order by
Professor r. L. McKisick, Principal of
the school, who, in brief speech, stated
the object of the gathering.
An invocation was said by the Rev.
Van Deventer of Elk Grove, after which
an address Of welcome was delivered by
Supervisor Jenkins, President OF the
Board of Trustees of the district.
REMARKS BY SUPERINTENDENT HOWARD.
County Superintendent of Schools b.
T. Howard was then introduced and in
an eloquent manner congratulated the
people of Elk Grove and vicinity on their
acquisition of a building where the chill
dren of the community were to assem- bic
each school day of the year and there re-
ceive all the privileges and emoluments
of a first-class education.
Mr.. Howard said that Elk Grove is the
only town in the county outside of Sacra-
mento that supported Union High
School. He also referred to the great
colleges at the State University, the Le-
land Stanford Jr. University, Harvard,
Yale and the many other standard col
OF Elk Grove, no doubt, in years to come
would eventually enter.
Miss Bessie Graham, in pleasing man
ner, favored the audience with a vocal
solo.
PROFESSOR ANDERSoN'S ADDRESS.
II. J. w. Anderson, State Superintend-
ent Of Common Schools, was introduced
to the assemblage, and delivered an
entertaining and appropriate address.
. IL i,.o1
tricts represented by the Union High
School, who had, he said, erected
temple more sacred than those in which
the votaries of learning proclaimed the
praises of Pallas and Minerva"
He was glad of the opportunity to join
with them in celebrating the completion
of an enterprise fraught with so much OF
benefit to that community and to the
cause of popular education in that por-
ton of our beautiful commonwealth. 1t
was fitting to recognize, with public re-
joicing, the completion of public build
ing so grand as the one they were there
to dedicate. Especially was it fitting to
rejoice and acclaim upon the completion
of a structure erected for so grand pur-
pose as that which prompted the great
undertaking.
AS structure erected in the interest of
civilization, and in a State in which the
forces of good and evil are in fierce and
CONTINUOUS WT0SGle, IL Invites TO glaQ-
ness and to an expression of pleasure that
here had sprung forth such a testimony
to the growing popular faith in the worth
and blessings OF popular education. Con-
tinuing, Professor Anderson said:
This temple Of learning, my friends,
is monument to your praise, and tam
gible witness of the high appreciation in
which you hold the cause of popular edu-
cation. 1t indicates to me, in most forci-
BILE manner, that in the midst of material
progress you are not unmindful of the
fact that all true prosperity and progress
must have their well-springs in the cult
ure provided by the schools; that all hope
for the continuance and increase of pro-
gress must be founded in the intelligence
of the people.
"But it proclaims to me, as it will to
all, that the good people of Elk Grove are
patriotic people; that they love the in
stitutlons of government under the 8g1s
of which are insured to them the blessed
privileges which they here enjoy; that
they believe in the cardinal doctrine that
liberty and all the grand retinue of bless
ings that follow in her train go hand in
hand with the enlightenment which en-
anates from the schoolroom. The log
cabin schoolhouse and the humble school
master paved the way for and made DOS
sible the liberties which we enjoy. This
building, and the thousands of such
buildings scattered throughout the length
and breadth of this great Nation are altars
erected to the God of liberty sacred
shrines, at which minister an army of
over 800, 900 faithful men and women,
with fidelity strong as that which charac-
terized the vestal virgins in their blind
devotion to her who was honored in all
the temples of the heather gods.
'sThis edifice, citizens, is an OBJ
iective witness of the fact that you know
the privileges and the glories of your
great opportunity here, and it Is guar
antee to your children that their most
sacred interests will be most carefully
conserved. 1t is a pledge of love to your
children, to your country, to your God"
Professor Anderson then spoke at
great length on the benefits of education,
in which he rendered words of encourage
ment and advice to young and old. He
concluded his very entertaining and in
structive address in these words:
1--WE are here, fellow citizens, to unite
our reioicings in this completed work.
This audience, representing the fathers
and mothers, and the rising life of this
prosperous community, are to be congrat-
Mated on the event and the occasion