Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-08-23
EXPENDED $4,000 ON
SCHOOL BUILDIMGS
Most OF the School Buildings
have Undergone Repairs Dur
ing Vacation Days.


TINS year the School Board have been
ouslly employed putting in the neceS-
sary improvements to the different
school buildings in the city, and now
that the time for the opening of the
schools for another period of ten
months draws near. the students will
find more commodiouS quarters, and
more beautiful surroundings than
during the year just past. Nearly
every school building in the city has
undergone some kind of repair or
Improvement this summer, and nearly
$4,000 has been expended in this COM
mendable work. While the method
OF teaching should always come in
! for the most careful attention, it is
just as necessary that the buildings
and grounds of the different schools
should be kept in a sanitary condition,
and that the health of the students
receive the most careful attention.
The very best way to note the man.
ner in which this good work has been
carried on during the summer, and
'the extent to which the Improvements
have been made can best be noted by
a brief description of the work done
on each Of these buildings.
At the Lincoln High school build
ing we find first that the School
Board has erected fence completely
around their grounds. This fence is
two-board fence, strongly built, and
painted in a neat drab. The special
advantage to be derived from this
fence is that the grounds are now eX-
cluded from the use of the public,
and the old wagon roads that used to
mar Gse grounds and give it a spider
Web0y appearance will soon be grown
up TO grass and with little care and
moderate expenditure the campus will
take on an up-tO-date educational in
stltute appearance, and afford the
students an excellent field for recrea-
| tion and athletics. On the interior
OF the building the auditorium has
been beautifully decorated, likewise
the principals rooms. This dec )ra-
tion was the result of the class of
| 1900 6 and the Glee Club, who raised
by entertainments etc, Sl05 for this
specific purpose, ana therefore the
decorations Of these rooms are to be
credited properly, and are in addition
to the School Boards expenditures.
At the Howe High school more ex-
tensiYe repairs have been made. These
expenditures were made necessary by
the removal OF the County Normal
Training school from the Lincoln
building to the upper story of this
building. The old high room has
been devded by PARTITION thus
making two rooms for the use of the
Training school. Two of the recita-
tionS rooms in this building have
been made into one class room by the
removal of a PARTITION. In the base
ment the old closet system has been
entirely replaced by an up-todate
and more sanitary system, and this in
its self was a commendable change.
Practically the only change that
has been made at the First Ward
school this summer was the sale and
removal of the old building. The
grounds have been cleaned up, but it
was not found necessary to make any
changes in the building.
At the Emerson. or Sixth ward
school, the kindergarten building
has not only been re-painted, but a
new foundation constructed. The
old rOck-faced foundation to the main
building has been cement coated and
newly marked, and couple of new
cement steps constructed.
The Lowell building has received a
complete new heating apparatus. The
plant installed is the American Heat
ing Co.'S. hot air furnace, and is most
excellent and satisfactory system.
The wood shed has been moved back
on the grounds, the trees trimmed,
and new cement curb put in around
tue walk.
1t is difficult matter to convey an
idea OF just the amount OF work that
has been put on to the school buildings
and the best way to appreciate the
improvements is to see them, They
were all needed improvements, how
ever, and the School Board should be
commended for the excellent manner
in which they have gone at and COM