Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-09

A manual training building, con-
tanning heating plant and auditorium,
will be built on the high school
grounds next summer, provided the
voters favor the issuance of bonds to
take care of the cost and to wipe out
the balance of the floating indebted
ness, which will be submitted to them
at the school election Monday, March
II. With the election the terms of
President G. A. Turner and c. III. Hull,
of the school board, will have expired.
and their successors will be elected.
A sketch Of the proposed building
has been prepared and submitted to
the board, and the cost mas been esti-
mated at about $1,000. To be reason
ably sure of making the building,
when completed, come within the esti-
mate, the latter has been increased to
$12,500, which the board believes will
fully cover 1t. Thine board members
say there is public demand for a
public schools, and If the board builds
1t will include in the structure a new
heating plant, gymnasium, made so
1t can be converted into an auditori-
UNI, which will seat 500, manual train
ing class rooms, cloak rooms, etc. AS
planned the building will have ground
dimensions of 60xS6 feet, and will be
built on the north side of the high
school property. 1t will be Of pressed
brick, one and one-half stories IN
height. In the basement, which will
extend half story above the ground
will be the heating plant manual
training class rooms, and cloak rooms
On the first floor proper will be the
gymnasium and auditorium in dimen-
sions of 61xS3.
The board says it is confronted with
the necessity of remodeling and re-
pairing turnout the present heating
plant, which has outlived it's useful
ness. The estimate of this remodeling
will call for an expenditure of about
$4,000.
Superintendent Coffeen says there
will be no additional teachers employ
ed on account of the manual training
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manual training will be elective and
teach the classes, unless there should
pupils.
Bond Issue and Taxes.
AS estimated the board will submit
to the voters the proposition of issuing
bonds, probably for not less than $15,-
900 and for not more than $4,000. The
exact amount is not known yet These
bonds can be f1oated at from to ~
per cent. The natural supposition that
there will be an increase of taxes to
take care Of this issuance of bonds
the school board denies, and is author-
ity for the statement that next years
school taxes, the levy for which is to
be made soon, will be less than in re-
cent years, probably about 8 mills.
There is double purpose in the is
suance of the bonds One is to pay for
the manual training building, which
will swell the school districts assets
by the total of it's cost, and the other
is to apply the balance of the loan at
low rate, to wipe out a floating in
debtedness of $4,000 whcih is drawing
6 per cent interest.
In the levy last year that for the
building fund was retained, but as
this will not be used for that purpose
it will take care Of the balance of the
floating Indebtedness.
The cost of maintaining the schools
is approximately $4,000 year, but
the board says the levy of taxes soon
to be made will not be over 100000 for
next year.
The Districts Finances.
During the years 1894 there was
in power what is known as "the reform
board" which during those two years.
cut down the school levy of taxes to
10 mills and as result it left, when
it retired from office, floating debt
of $4,000, drawing per cent interest.
The board next in power raised the
taxes to what they had formerly been,
and since then the floating indebted
ness has been reduced to $4,000, althd
during that time the Click and Arson
schools have been built, and the Ar
mold and Abbott schools have been re-
modelled. The levy for the building
fund, to be paid this year, will amount
to about $4,000, which will be applied
and with the balance of the bonded
loan will wipe out the floating indebt-
edness The present bonded indebted
ness of the school district is $4,000,
and the present rate of school taxes is
36.5 mills. This will be reduced to
about 33 mills in the levy which will
be made next week.
Turner Will Retire.
The term of President George A.
Turner. which soon expires, will be his
last. Mr. Turner said Thursday night
that he would not be candidate for
reelection. Mr.. Turner has been
member of the board for nine years.
serving three terms. During the past
year he has been president 1t is I'M
dertsood that Mr.. c. H. Hull. the 9TH
err member of the board. will stand for
reelection, altho this could not be YER
flied as Mr.. Hullfis out of the city.
Recital a Success.
The oratory recital, given at Palmer