The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1897-11-19
fasE. SCHOOL BUILDING.
A CoE,lnos.ious and SyeiI-Equi.,-
ped Institution for the EscyeE-
meat OF The Young sGca.

lis education forms the mind,
Just ~ the twig is bent, the trees inclined,
! Chtlt:cn. Ike tender osiers t Ike the bow,
| And US they first are fashioned, always grow.
| Pope
The board of education of Fri.
day evening of last week gave
an informal reception to the
patrons and friends of the city
schools, for the purpose Of in
spection and examination of the
building, which during the sum
mer months was enlarged to
nearly double its former size, in
order to accommodate the two
primary departments, which had
previously been kept in the libra
~ building and fireman S hall.
The new arrangement brings all
of the departments of the school
under one roof, making the
general supervision of the sever
al departments much more con-
venient and effective and secur-
ing economy in the maintenance
Of the building.
The general and positive inter
est taken in the schools was
evidenced by the large umber
of citizens who turned out to the
reception, throng Of visitors
constantly circulating from the
basement to the rooms in the
upper story. The basement,
which is made the full extent of
the building, with stone wall and
cement floor, is occupied with
the furnaces for heating the
building, of which there are four,
a store room for fuel, a workshop
for the janitor, and a portion has
been partitioned off as a labora-
tory for high school classes, and
which is furnished with some of
the apparatus necessary for ex-
perimenting in chemistry.
On the first floor are located
the two primary grades. The
first primary is presided over by
Miss Verna CroWl as teacher.
It is here that the young Milbank
aspirant for knowledge takes his
or her first step up the ladder Of
Of learning, and III the present
system Of school work the ascent
in these first steps is made Of a
very pleasant and easy charac-
ter, so that the embryo man
hardly realizes that he has start
ed in on never-ending journey.
There are some 4S lads and las
sizes in this room.
The second grade is III charge
Of Miss Emma Carrick, and con-
sists of those who have taken
one degree in the mysteries OF
school life and have been adj
vanced to higher privileges and
responsibilities. Miss Carrick
has some SO possible presidents
and first ladies of the land in her
charge
Miss Nuna Shannon is mis-
tress over the third and fourth
grades, with some 60 scholars
enrolled in her room, and Miss
Ella Merry has the fifth and
sixth grades, with So as her en-
rollment. These four depart
ments are on the ground floor.
The building up stairs is az
ranged for the seventh and
eighth grades, in the control Of
Miss Laura Manning, with an
enrolment Of about so, and the
high school proper in charge of
the principal, Prof. W. n. Phil
lips and his assistant Miss
Blanche McCallister. In the
high school there are "A pupils
enrolled, 26 Of these being non
residents and paying tuition,
some 80 nonresident pupils be
ing at the present time in the
school. Besides the large high
school room, which occupies the
west half Of the building on the
upper floor, commodious reci-
tation room has been provided,
and a portion Of the hallway is
used for the school library.
The building is well lighted in
all Of the rooms, heated by fur
naces, and provided with a fair
arrangement for ventilation, and
has entrances on the west, north
and south from the outside. It
is certainly q building Of which
the people of Milbank need not DC