Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-11-30

lie schools - . 8ooo
eommunity's growth cioas ees osss ~
lines, because the Dsovtsaoa osec w
edueasioa. the ehsssescs o. she sesoos
buiidines, tie issssSoe eesae@Sss
and eomiost. sad ths ability OF sas
teaching stsa employed 70 Soo
esisesion Of the iatelleetssi eanoss OF
de people sad Of The TAXABLE s
sossees they posssss. Whs esas ses.
n niDd tks Easespsiss has Seea .ss
soae peias 70 pespsss . tev eone9ss
nv fsvses ssksa Sso@ tAs oesesas
rseo,ds os The Rocky Fos9 eeeeo.a
IL has bees especially issptsed. 20 eo
DO because ths pssssas school ycas
has evolved sons asv esd soeesG
features Of sehool vosk. sbost whss.
the Reaessl pebble have aoe - ~
been ven infosmed ssd Which are 70:
safded by the modem sdueatoss o.
on, youth a. marking the progress
i've spirit in edueatioo. ., o,
7, X, not ucedful nor advtsao,e y
On b.ek 10 the very organssasioo os
Sehooi District No. 4 In osdes "
10, that we have made some
.aow,h s That would be comparing
,hs a.y. Of nothing with today. AZ
~, events. Il would be to CONTRAST tne
i;,,i. one..oom adobe school mouse
,h,, once adorned the present sae OF
a., @ high school building. the ono
Snr.,w teacher who wrcstled with the
e., babies iei, by the siorks on our
soil and a few imported ones thas
rs,,, Nj, prairie schooner route. WIN
,resen, numbers and equipment. nu.
10 60 back just an even ten years ="
~. ia. al our schools will be sush'
cicn, for Our purpose. 81,
Attached 10 the Annual Report OF
the district secretary Tor INC yc
snd;ny Iuuc 10. 1896. VIC find the
name OF our estimable fellow eit,,en
n. a, Dawley. who by the way hiieo
,,.;,h intelligence and with fidelity 70
Mis- nublic trusts. more than ono pun
lie office in the earlier history OF our
town. And we give this bouquet 70
Mr.. Dawicy. en- passans oeeauss
neither the salary that attached to MS
nubi;c Offices nor the graft that came
h;. wav were compensation foe the
GOOD service he sendefed the com
munitv. Furthermore u might oe
ssid that such services are not -s1gnt-
n appreciated ge.eraily BY the com
muuity that receives them.
In the year 1886 Rocky Ford haa
,o,si .nroiiment Of 80 school child:
rem. over 6 and under ~ years o.
aoe The average daily attendasee
Nd ao0. Il may be interesting 70
note that the Associations Of popoia.
tion that year brought no less, than
a., different pupils under the charge
Of the teaching. stat. or almost one
third Of the school population pro-
.;d.d for Vas \ floating population. on
which little impress Of intelIeesuai %
moral training eould be made oS
their teachers.
There, was at that time one adobe
school house and oae brick school
house, and upon these we observe
that Secretary Dawiey put the gener'
ous valuations Of $50 and $1,000 re-
soectively. This was done. probably
because the bonded indebtedness OF
the district At this time was 10000
and he assumed that somewhere near
this suus ought to have gone into
that bsiek school buildinG u il didn't.
The adobe school house Aforesaid
was an unused structure that was
supposed to have seen. its fRish sew
eesi wears bsfofo. And there Wss TO
d sure the lan6 nader both bald
inss inelsaea.ia these estimates. Tho
estimaeeds1Ilus.ef the school equip.
ment Of that day. books, maps.
globes, reference books. etc. 10 plae'
ed at $500. There were ? rooms In
the buiidings and s Of them occupied
By s teachers. The salaries amount
ed to $3,S7S and the total expenses
of the school year. including intefs
est on bonds was A,e6I. .l8. DR..
Kearby, H. A. Dawley and w. c.
Steele were the directors.
Coming on Eve years IN the his
tory of our schools and taking up the
report for the year 1901, L. w. Bah
cock, secretary. we find the total
school population raised to 1901 and
the district raised to one of the first
class, with FIVE instead Of three trus-
tees. The five were: E. w. Kearby,
president; L. w. Babcock. secretary;
S. H. Pollock, treasurer; Ezra Muck
oils and B. F. Wyckoff. The number
of teachers had been raised to II.
The first half of the present high
school structure had been erected on
the site of the little adobe building
before mentioned and the valuation
of school buildings and sites had
grown to $4,000. There were now
16 rooms. Two special teachers, one
of drawing and one of music and
physical culture, were employed. The
daily average attendance had consid-
erably more than doubled. But the
increased expenditure for school
equipment and teachers, per pupil
based upon average attendance had
been raised from $2.8o to $3.1o
showing that the improved provision
outrun the increased attendance BY
3oc per pupil. The total expenditure
for that year was $I2,7o7.33. This in.
cluded interest on bonds and inter.
est on warrants; and a considerable