The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-03
IN T|P-TOP CONDITION
School Boards Plans for the
Washington School.
IT is A FINE STRUCTURE
A Little Work Will Put 1t in First Glass
Shape-New Bids viii Be Rs
ceived-SchoolT Term Be-
gins Sept. IL.

1t is the intention of the school board
to put the Washington school building
in tip-top condition. Last winter the
heating plant was altered and the VEN
tllation of the building remedied. Now
the roof is to be painted and the exter-
Tor walls and trimmings polished up.
Bids for this work We're submitted to
the board at the meeting Tuesday. but
as the specifications called for onlv one
coat of paint on the woodwork, the bids
We're thrown out and new ones called
for. Some of the builders even sue-
gested in postscripts to their bids that
one coat would not be sufficient and
submitted supplemental bids. While
this was regarded as all right in one
way, it did not conform to the specifica-
tons. Hence new bids are to be sub
mitted. The Washington building Is a
fine structure and can be made to be
an ornament to the part of town in
which it is situated. The yards might
well be trimmed up little. too.
The school term will begin on Sept.
II, instead of the 4th as has been ex-
pected. Now that another week of
vacation has been added. those teach
ers who are enjoying visits out of town
longer. There will he little, if any,
changes in the assignment of teachers
before the new Aluminium street and
Atlantic avenue buildings are COM
pleted. 1t will be some weeks after the
term opens before these buildings are
| ready for occupancy.
Trustee Moulthrop has suggested to
the board the advisabiity of securing a
certain strip of land adjoining the AL
uminum street site, so that in future no
controversy may arise to embarrass the
board. 1t is a fraction Of ground lying
next to the lot, at one end of which
it is about two feet wide and at the
other six or eight. Mr.. PfOuts owns the
ground and will, it is understood deed
1t to the district without cost.
The new desks ordered from the
Standard Supply company of Chicago
should be here by the LIST of September.
They will be placed in the Atlantic
street school, which is to be used for
the smaller grades The friends of the
| non-adj Unstable desks contend that with
six sizes of desks there should be 10
trouble in adjusting the pupil to the
desks-that is, a small child to sit in a
small desk and a size larger to sit in a
desk a size larger and so on. They
also claim that by purchasing the nom
adjustables the district saves about
$1,000. The objection to the non-adjust-
able arises from the TACT that 1t has
been the custom in later years to supply
the rooms with the adjustable desk
made of the best materials Another
objection to the -adjustables in
transit is based on the argument that
they are not substantially constructed.
Clerk Richards, when he stated the
other night at the meeting of the board
that he would fOrego his vacation this
summer, in order that his able assist
ant, Miss Nellie Manning, might enjoy
a few weeks of rest, showed that his
heart was in the right place. Several
months ago Mr.. Richards had the mis-
fortune to break a leg. He was laid up
for about two months. Miss Manning
jumped into the harness and assumed
the duties and responsibilities of the
office. just at a time when u hours
constituted a days work. She perform
ed those duties with credit to the office
and honor to herself When the trustees
suggested that this was the time for the
clerks vacation, Mr.. Richards promptly
stated that he would wait until next
summer for his vacation. Miss Man
ming will spend a few days at the Boul-
der Hot Springs.
Several months ago Trustee Lane and
Clerk Richards purchased a horse for