Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-05-11
BUILDING WILL
Be ORNAMENTAL
St. Joseph Academy APP
preaching Completion
An Institution Which Will Appeal
to the Pride of Every
Good Citizen.


envy is progressing satisfactorily, and
when completed the building will be
an Architectural ornament of which the
community may we'll be proud, and
of its merits as place of education
there is no question.
When the contract was given out
for the foundation of the new acad
envy last December, the Sisters we're
paying their current expenses with
money borrowed at interest for that
purpose. The ground was cleared and
work begun December 18th. On the
Dist of the same month the Sisters
borrowed from a friend in Los Angeles
5000, and deposited this amount in
the bank in Prescott as the nucleus of
a building fund. Thus far they have
expended in Prescott for material and
labor sl5, 800 30, and for material,
which very liberal offers induced
them to purchase elsewhere, s46l9.I0,
making a total expenditure of $40, 900,
of which more than three fourths went
to various persons of Prescott and its
vicinity. OF this sum the Prescott
Bank has loaned $1,000, and the rest
has been borrowed by the Sisters from
friends in other cities, having been
unable to get it in Prescott at a rate
of interest which would enable them
to carry on their work.
1t should be remembered that the
erection of a building of this char
acter, and the establishment of a
school of first class equipment, and
curriculum is in the nature of a pub
lie enterprise, one which rebounds to
the benefit of the whole people, to
men of business and all who desire to
have in their midst the advantage of
higher education. The success of this
institution will inevitably add to
the material as we'll as the intellectual
prosperity of Prescott. Now, if the
friends of the Sisters and the people
who hope to see this city attain the
best that may be in store for it, will |
aid in raising money to continue this
great undertaking, either by loans
at low rate of interest, or by such |
gifts as they may spare from the store
that fortune has bestowed, the Sisters
will look forward with more courage |
towards meeting the bills which will |
be due In June and July. In each of |
these months it will be necessary for
them to pay about ten thousand dol
lars, the expenditure of which sums
will practically complete the academy |
and make it ready for occupation, and
Prescott will have a school unsur
passed by any in Arizona.
A few friends responded promptly /
and generously to the first appeal of
the Sisters for aid in this work, and |
while gifts of five, twenty or fifty |
dollars are small in comparison with |
the aggregate required they will if |
multiplied soon reach the total nee
essary, and are all gratefully accepted.
1t is frequently said the Sisters
must have great courage to undertake /
such a work Others say they must
have great faith. They have. They
have great faith in Providence, faith
in the resources of the surrounding
faith in the future of Pres
cott, great confidence in the progress
i've spirit of the citizens of Prescott,
who can not fail to see the advantage
Of having here an institution of such
merit. and they also have the will to
devote their lives to making their
work a success and a benefit to their
fellow human beings. +. NJ. Murphy
mas by his generous gift of the choice
location for the building merited the
gratitude of the Sisters
md has set an example worthy of
emulation. The completion and per-
'ect development of this academy is
low depending upon the prompt and
generous support of the people of
Prescott, aud vicinity and the enter
Prise certainly deserves most liberal
support.
The old academy building and
grounds are for sale.