The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-05

Tho receipts for school purposes since
Sept. 1, 1894. are:
Balance on hand Sept. 1, 1884, ..s I4e OF
Apportlonment from taxes. s4,913 10
NOD resident pupils. 80
All otner sources. ...........--......... ~ 90
lotai $s5,l56 81
ExPESDrTUREs TO MARCH q. 1896.
Teachers salaries S5l, 800 10
Janitors and clerks ..................... 4,5o1 70
Insurance and repairs. ............ 4,779 co
ruei ana preparing same............... 2.26l 70
frlntlng and supplies ............... LIS 25
Lights, rents. taxes. otc............... 1918 As
outhouses, improvement OF sites, etc.. 500 As
Total expenditures .............s67,I 54 IS
This leaves q balance on hand in the
county treasury of $16,002.12. The ex-
penditures above include, of course, the
deficit from last year of SIC, 1882.
Our salary list averages something over
1900 per month. The funds on hand are
therefore but little more than sufficient to
maintain two more months of school and
/ would recommend that the schools be
closed on Friday, May IL, 1895. BY clos
ing on that date we should have small
balance remaining to our credit, which
! will be required in making some needed
repairs. The expenses for repairs during
the year have been very light, as will be
seen from the following statement pre-
pared for me by the clerk:
Adding new room to Meaderville
High school. adding one new room and
connecting water with building etc.. 701 IS
Colorado street, repairing to roof
blown of by wind. furnishing drill
room, connecting with sewer, etc.. 664 80
North Walkerville. connection water IL 80
West CenterviIle, repairing damage
Repa ai various buildings on account ~
OF damage by explosion on night OF
Jan. rs, 1895. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 46f 80
Ali other repairs and insurance. 1,430 OF
Thus it will be seen that out of a total
"A o D. a
20 per cent. of il, was for betterments or
extraordinary repairs. The expense for
maintenance of buildings will. of course,
increase from year to year. In addition
to the $S00.45 expended for furniture, the
board purchased seats and other appara-
tus from the Spokane School Furniture
company, giving therefor the notes of the
district as follows: No. 1, dated Aug. 20,
1894, due Feb. 20, 1896, $778.40; No. 2, dated
Sept. 6, 1894, due Feb. 20, 1886. $132. These
notes bear interest at the rate of per
cent. per annum and may be paid at any
time before maturity if we so desire.
During the past year we had three
months school at Stringtown, three
months at Basin and seven months at
Blacktail. The term of school in these
sections of the district is necessarily linn
tied. The children are entitled to all the
time we can give them, and suggest the
summer schools be opened at as early
date as the weather will permit. The pa
irons at Blacktah have already asked
that we open that school. We have had
no night schools during the past two
years, and have had no requests to open
night school. Nearly all the substitute
teaching for the past year has been done
by the pupils in the normal class. The
board should adopt some rules govern
ing the selection of teachers from this
class and regulating pay for their services.
In my opinion, q normal or training class
for teachers Ia not only q valuable addi-
ton to the schools, but in a district of
this size necessity. Where we employ
so many teachers, we could only provide
substitutes at great expense or in any
case be obliged to close the schools for
want of substitute il it were not for the
normal class. Under proper restriction
the class will be not only a great benefit
to our high school graduates but to the
substitutes who have been drilled in a
course of study and methods in line with
those adopted by the district.
The census enumeration for the past
four years shows an average increase of
675 children of school age per annum.
This means that we will have to prepare
additional room. During the past two
years we have been able to take care of
the increase by fitting up Easements and
additional rooms to the present buildings.
1t is probable that we have room suf-
ficient for the coming year, except in the
Il
/ am told these buildings are much
crowded. This should DO investigated
and, If necessary. additional facilities
provided. We are now renting a building
at the Centennial brewery. We should
either buy this building or erect another
one.s
am informed that the building in use
at present is not located to accommodate
the greatest number, that the majority of
the pupils attending the school come
from Williamsburg and Boulevard adj
dition. The PARROT school is over
crowded. The pupils from Silver Bow
park addition are being taken care of at
this and the South Butte building. There
are enough pupils in the Silver Bow park
addition to justify to furnish them a sep
to this is that one teacher would probably
have to teach a number of grades. This
is always undesirable. Complaint has
been made to me that the water closets
in some of the large buildings
are not sufficient to accommodate the
number of pupils. This Is q matter that
should receive careful attention. The
janitors should he instructed to see that
they are kept in the best condition. The
Ingalls, crematories now in use at the
three large buildings in East Broadway,
West Broadway and Colorado streets are
not an unqualified success, although they
were the best that could have been done
at the time the buildings were erected,
owing to lack of sewerage. In my opin-
ion it would be economy to tear them out
and connect the closets with sewers. /
would recommend that your committee
be instructed to investigate and report on
the probable cost of making the change
and at the same time arrange to put
closets in the Easements. 1 have also
recommended that the buildings at East
Centervilie, West Centerville. East Walk
ervIlIe, Parrot and South Butte be con-
nected with the water mains.