The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-12-15
MORE SCHOOL
ROOM o NEEDED. !!
District Board Calls Mas, Meet.
ing Of Voters Dec. 10th to
Consider the PROPOSE.
ton. " .'>

Special Election Will Be Held
Dec. 27th to Vote on Issue
Of Bonds. j
The need of more sob ool room
has been felt for q long time and
conditions have now reached the
point where something must be
done to relieve the pressur @. The
school board has had an architect
here to prepare plans, which will be
presened to the mass meeting called
for the % th. - -. ~ : '.*
When the present school building
was built, the high school depart.
ment was given one assembly room
accommodating 80 pupils and two
class rooms. These class room &C.
commodations were soon outgrown
and grade rooms taken for the high
school. The high school now oc-
cupies two grade rooms and some Of
tho grades have as q result been
crowded out.
Our present high school arrange
ments will not meet the needs
much longer and there is no chance
for expansion in the present build
ing. The need of a building has
been apparent for several years and
the above facts caused the Board to
plan for a high school buildi ng
rather than grade building, but
one that would also provide for the
upper grades. The present grounds
are centrally located and Worthing-
ton is not sufficiently large to make
a ward school possible and main.
tian q good school. hence it seemed
best that the building if built,
should Sc near the present building.
There are at present 1874 pupils
crowded into the third floor rooms
| with no ventilation except the
windows, and with poor light in
some cases. In addition, there are
40 pupils in the basement of the
library building without proper
light and ventilation.
In building of this character it
is not sufficient to simply provide
for the present needs, but a build
ing must be planned that will meet
the needs for years to come.
The Board of Education has had
plans drawn up by experienced
architects and plans that meet the
above requirement. will call for a
building costing approximately
$225O0 exclusive Of heating plant.
The present building demands a
new heating plant and the extern
sion Of sewerage to the present
building is necessary to the health
of the pupils. This can be arrang-
ed for both buildings with great
saving of expense and one heating
plant will heat both buildings at
less than it now costs to heat the
one.
In regard to expense and the
question of taxes the following
figures are significant. The rate
in mills Of special school tax for
1904, comparing Worthington with
the neighboring towns are found to
be as follows: Adrian 1906 mills,
Luverne 1906 mills, Window, 18
mills, jackson, 2O.02, mills, St.
James, 22.Os, mills, Pipestone. 26
mills, Worthington, Is mills.
The present plans of the Board
can be carried out without increas-
ing the tax above the amount gen.
orally carried by the district.
The rate for the district in 1899
was 81 mills, in 1901, 1863 mills, in
1902, is mills, in 1904, Is mills'
1905, 1877 mills.
The interest on $2500 asked by the
Board would amount to $1,000 a
year. This would increase the rate
of taxes 14 mills making the rate
is. 95 mills. The building will meet
the need for years to come and as
the assessed valution increases the
tax rate will decrese.