Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-12-23
WHAT THEY WANT TO Do.
Proposition Of The Board OF Education
OF Great Bend.

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.SehooI District Number one, Bar
ton County, Kansas.
The Board of Education submits
the following proposition to the cleo
tors of the district, to-wit:
That an issue of bonds to the
amount of S3O,000.00 be authorized
as provided by law; such bonds to be
of the denomination of S500.00 each,
to run for twenty years, to bear in
terest at the rate .of four per cent
per annum or less provided they can
be sold on that basis, of which the
Board now have full assurance, the
interest to be payable seml-annually
and the bonds to be sold to the State
School Fund Commissioners, where
by under the law the said bonds may
be paid in the sum of $4,000 or any
multiple thereof at any interest pay
ing period after date of issue.
With the money realized from the
{. sale of the said bonds, the Board pro-
pose to purchase one additional fifty
foot lot and to have erected on the
present site of the Central School
grounds a modern school building
for grade and high school purposes
sufficient to meet the pressing needs
Of the District.
The proposed building will consist
of bas Nent two full stories and a
partial q d story; the basement to
contain the heating and ventilating
apparatus, toilet rooms and such
additional rooms as will be suitable
for manual training purposes, and of
height of 9 or 10 feet, sufficient to
adapt it to the uses aforesaid.
The first story above the basement
to be utilized for graded school and
will contain six school rooms and a
superintendent's room, with neces-
sary cloak rooms, etc.
The second floor to contain an as
sembIy room fifty by sixty feet in
size, with a gallery; this room Ito be
used fer the double purpose of an
assembly room and high school
study room; the ceiling of this as
sembly room to be about twenty feet
iagh, with the gallery at the rear, over
the hall and recitation room below.
This gallery does not project out in
to the assembly room. This floor
will also contain three high school
rooms. necessary cloak
rooms, etc.
Q eThe proposed building is to be
equipped with modern, hygienic heat
ing and ventilating plant and with first
class equipment to meet present needs,
including a suitable chemical and
physical laboratory.
This building to be SO constructe d
IS to permit additions to be made to
meet further demands without in any
way destroying the architectural har-
rhcny and sym etry of the structure
and drawings are to be made and
preserved fully indicating the pos,
sible extensions.
Special attention is to be given the
vital questions of light. heat and /
ventilation.
The Board of Education do not in
tend to move the site from its present
locssion.
They do not intend to separate the
whiteo from the colored children.
They have no power to do this under
the law.
They do not expect to convert the
old frame building into a ward build
ing, but will sell it to the highest bid
der and turn the money into the
school treasury.
They do not intend to use any of
the money realized from the sale of
these bonds to enlarge or equip the
present ward buildings.
They do not believe they will be
able t6utilize the old brick building
except the salvage from the same.
but on this subject they will be guided
by the advice of their architect and
the wishes of the people.
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