The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-03-09

Wduy disadvantages IN sending
their children to school at consid.
cradle distance temporarily rather
than divide and split up the dis
trict. The new school building
will now be centrally located and a
portion of the district south of this
building is rapidly being settled up,
and it will only be two or three
years until an intermediate school
building containing several rooms
will have to be constructed in
Section Seven. Farther east, in
Section Five, which is now being
settled up also, another building
will have to be erected within the
next FIVE years.
Thus the founders of our school
system have planned wisely with a
view of establishing a modern
school system upon the basis of
those existing in our larger cities,
with central high-school and an
intermediate school in the same
building, and several intermediate
schools surrounding same, each at
an equal distance from the central
high-school. And from now on
adequate school facilities will be
amply provided to keep pace with
the demand.
A regular high-school course has
already been established, and quite
a number of the pupils are now in
their first and second year of high
school work, and next fall the
high-school will be pushed with
vigor, and high-school pupils will
be separate and apart from others.
We have often marveled at the
well-dressed and intelligent chill
dren and young people that we see
every day going to and from our
public schools. It is an evidence
that they are we'll trained and that
their parents are people of superior.
intelligence, and it speaks we'll for
the adult population and the home
builders a Kennewick.
The Board of Trustees, in order
to alleviate in q measure, the hard
ships of children who live at dis
tance, have inaugurated the last
two years bus system, whereby
children from a distance are taken
to and from school at the expense
of the district.
Everything is being done to
build up a magnificent school sys-
tenn and it is safe to predict that
in a very few years, one of the fin
est school systems in the west will
be found in Kennewick. On ac-
count of our mild winter climate,
a number of people have brought
their families here for no other
purpose than to enjoy the mild
winter climate and to educate their
children. Farmers from the sur
rounding sections, in the Palouse
country in a number of instances
are preparing winter homes at
Kennewick, where to bring their
families and place their children in
school.
Kennewick is. therefore, destined
to become an educational center of
no small importance, and the peo
pie of the Kennewick district real
izing this have met the emergency,
and no one who locates at this
place will have any reason to COM
plain of the educational facilities.
An audience of more than twelve
hundred people greeted Williams
Dixie Jubilee Singers at the White
Temple Saturday evening and from
the great applause, everyone was
delighted.-Portland Oregonian.
They come to Kennew;ck Satur-
day evening of this week. Get re-
served seat tickets at Prof. Jauslin's
store.
Rebekahs to Organize.
All who are interested in organizing
a lodge Of Rebekahs in Kennewick are
requested to meet in the Odd Fellows
hall, Tuesday evening at 7:sO p. NJ,