The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-02
The Forum
a COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR
GRANT COUNTY.
Opinions of the Readers of the
Eagle on Current Topics.


An issue is now fairly before the people
of Grant county of paramount Importance
to the educational welfare of our peo-
pie and the rising generations. Every
voter is called upon to recognize the ne
cessity of Grant county in the establish
ment of high school; to afford oppor-
tunity to the advance scholar of our dis
trict school.
At present we cannot meet the demands
of scholars for higher education. Coun-
ties lying on either side of Grant may
boast OF being favored with college or
territorial high schools, and may con-
clude to do without county high school;
but our people can Ill afford TO permit
one opportunity to go by to secure a
school. Any one who is thoroughly ac-
quainted with the situation or with the
peculiar sectional strife of Grant county,
can readily predict that if the high
school proposition is defeated at the spe
cial election to be held February %. that
the proposition may not be successfully
submitted in Grant county In the next
ten years. Again one who is acquainted
with the people over our county, know
that 80 per cent of the voters are in
favor of "a county high school. Some of
these voters seeing in the past struggles
of their lives, how much assistance would
have been rendered by a better education;
and qualification for business. A con-
seriousness of their deficiency has enabled
them TO see the advantage of educational
proficiency and the parents are enthusi-
astic over the prospect of better educa-
ton for the boys and girls of this. the
succeeding generation for the response
bilities of citizenship and the building
OF homes and the fostering of virtue in
these homes as to be exalted as a people.
In the canvass made recently to OBJ
tain the names of voters 10 a petition to
the county commissioners asking them
to appoint a day and hold a special cleo
ton over the county, nearly l,400 names
of legal voters of Grant were affixed by
their voluntary act to this form of petit
ton praying the county commissioners to
grant a special election TO locate a coun-
~ high school at Lamont as provided by
law. Thus over One-third of the actual
number of votes cast at the last regular
election We're numbered as petitioners
for the high school
These petitioners are located in differ
ent parts of the county, some living in
remote sections of the county, distant.
from the town named in the petition for
the school. The majority III these remote
districts, seeing the advantages of this
kind Of a school towering far above what
seemed to them TO be disadvantages of
location.
Lamont's location for health could be
no better The town is situated between
creeks; Spring creek, passing on the
west side. 1t is true that creek does
not carry great volume down it's chan
mel during the year, but the springs that
bI,ble up along the banks keep an in
eXhaustible supply of water in the reser-
voirs of this creek. On the east side there
is another small creek similar to Spring
One-half mile south Of town are the high
banks of Pond Creek where it has nearly
finished its course at a tributary to the
Salt Fork. Thus located the streets and
all the surface of the town with good
drainage system hurries the excess of
water falling, away, leaving all pleasant
for the inhabitants.
The water used here is drawn from
StdNci bSu "itit IL lldS lutSieu an OuSH,
kept pure, soft and nealthful; not soft
as rainwater it is true. but preferable to
the hard water Of many localities.
As to the railroad facilities: They are
good and prospectivey better located on
the b. +. S line of the Frisco. having the
assurance of an east and west road in the
near future. With prospect of a direct
north and south line We may anticipate
easy transportation to and from the To-
cation of our school.
No one need have any fears in regard to
the Inconvenience that may be offered
at Lamont to all scholars in attendance.
If you as voters of this county, conclude
to locate this school at Lamont rest as
sured the people of this vicinity will do
all in their cooperative efforts to have
decided success
Let the voter comprehend the import
ance and the benefit of this school and
note the fact that all may shore in these
benefits and this will enable him to over
come any dislike he may have toward the
location because it is not central or at
county an effort has been made to con-
solidate four or more districts in order
to establish a high school for u town
ship. This reveals a progressive spirit
with that people and is taken that they
can be relied upon to support an effort
school. II. G. MOORE,