The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-12
rtus&sss Need $4,000 TO 6om,
plete the Lincoln Building.
WILL BE NO OPPOSITION
- oueseaon Has Been Briefly Com
msussd Upon by Taxpayers-Brief
Summary Of ths Districts Az
ssaru-Cost & tho Schools.

0SSliOu Oh WnCtuSf VI AVe eoS
shall b bonded In the sum OF $4,000.
The question will be put at a special
election which will be held at as early
= date a. possible after the required
notice has been given as provided by
law.
<The trustees OF the district. at a
y>ettug held last week, instructed h
to publish h necessary notice.
but County Attorney Trippet called
attention Of the board to the Tact that
TIE meeting at which the order was
made was an adjourned" meeting ana
tnare being no such thing as an "ad-
1ourned" meeting on the statute books,
decided that another meeting must
held to provide for the election. The
letting will be a special meeting,
usder the call of the president, and
yin probably be held Tomorrow even
Ing. Thu order will then be made.
The $50. 900 is TO be used for the pur-
nose Of completing the Lincoln school
building. now under course OF construc-
ton. The building. when completed.
viii be the most commodious OF any OF
tie buildings in the district. The con-
tractors have already finished the oriSk
work.. and the carpenters are nearly
through with the roofing timbers. The
buIlding in its entirety will cost in the
neighborhood Of 343. 000. and will be one
az the handsomest ward school In the
Northwest. The building now under
course Of erection takes h place OF
the old Lincoln school house which was
totally destroyed by fire last year.
The amount that will be required to
complete the Lincoln school building Is
between $25. 900 and $26. 900. $4,000 hav-
ing already been paid upon the con-
tract price. The building fund Of the
district IL now practically entirely de-
vl>e~A thovo hotnO nn1v q fow hundred
dollars still remaining therein. so that
Il In apparent the money that the bonds
will raise In absolutely necessary. The
difference between the amount neces-
oary TO complete the building and the
~. 900 will be used in making repairs to
the other school buildings.
The district now has a bonded in
d~ebtedness Of $S7 900. which sum. to-
gether with the $50, 900 abou to be
asked for, would make a total bonded
Indebtedness Of Sill 900. The extreme
limit to which the district may be
bonded Is 3 per cent of the assessed
valuation of the property included
within the district. That valuation Ii
about 81 $50. 200. 3 per cent of which In
S127. 600. leaving still SIC. 900 that the
trustees may ask for in addition Ia the
ST.. 900 now existing N the $4,000
which will be voted on I'm a few weeks.
With the incoln school completed
the district will have a total of six
school buildings. four of which are
handsome structures. They are the
Prescott on the West Side. the Central
a Main street. the Lincoln pm Chest
mi street. and the Bryan in the east
ern addition. Besides these. Carroll
has a school ample for the needs Of that
suburb. and there Is another located
three or four miles west of the city.
which is known as the Levengood
-r-
property Is about &92, 900. This sum
does not include the Lincoln school
building. Adding the Lincoln, the
value of the districts property would
- 3135. 900, more or less.
For the year just closed the cost of
running the schools of the district was
shout SIS. $50. Mex year the expendi-
lures will be increased by an esti-
mated amount of SO. 900. as many new
rooms will be opened and more teach
ers employed. 1t is estimated that the
increase over the present enrolment in
the public schools will be about 800 pu-
nils, who will begin school work when
tbe term opens next September. Last
Var q teachers were employed. This
number will be increasd for the term
Of 1859 to 80.
have never voted down a proposition
90 issue bonds. On the contrary. when
h trustees needed money to build
schools or to operate them, all that they
have had to do was to put the case
bcfore the people in a plain. straight
award manner. and the bonds were
Saeays carried. This most desirable
condition will no doubt obtain at the
coming special election. While there IL
little or no talk about the city upon
the bond question. there is little doubt
that the bonds will meet with no oppo-
sition. AT least they should not. for
b present emergency Is n that
brooks no delay. Either the bonds
u carry or the work on the Lincoln
school be suspended. n the district
will have to get along through another
year with hired halls and rooms that
are no more At for school rooms than
Is a barn.
And the people of school district No
10 will never let IL be done. They take
too much pride in Americas creates,
institution in general and the operation
Of that institution in Anaconda in par.
ticular to permit the bonds to fail OF
carrying. Besides. there Is anothel
question. The mere matter OF voting
the bonds IL not enough. The vote
must be decisive and as nearly unan.
imous as possible. for. as In the case
OF the court house bonds. the larger
the majority the larger will be the pre-
MUM capitalists will offer for th'
bonds.
Heretofore there has been a lack o.
interest in school elections. People
have been of the opinion that whatever
were needed would 60 through with
out opposition and in most cases Their
has been but a small vote cast at thu
elections. h is not as IL should be
The American school system lies closel
to the heart and home Of every either
than any other institution. political o.
civil, and a full expression Of the voic'
Of the people is essential. Therefore
when the late for the bonding election
comes let everybody go to the poll
and cast their ballot.
War maps given away with ever,