The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-07-06
ANIMAL SCHOOL MEETING.
New Heating Plant Recommended.

calling F. w. Coon to the chair. The
district clerk acted as secretary.
Minutes of last annual meeting were
read and approved.
The annual report of the school board
was read as herewith given:
TO the Annual School Meeting of Join
School District No. 8 of the City of
Edgerton and Town of Fulton:
Your School Board respectfully report
to you as follows:
The school year just closed has, on a
whole, been a satisfactory one for the
Edgerton public schools. notwithstand
ing the prevalence of contagious disease
in our city, which necessitated the clos
ing of our schools for one week only.
The number of graduates from the
high room being twenty.one, which ex-
ceeds any previous year in the history
of the schools.
The entire teaching force has been re-
tanned as far as possible, with the excep-
ton of two assistants in the high room,
also the seventh grade and kindergarten
department.
AS has been anticipated, there will be
with the beginning of the school year
congested condition in the third and
fourth grades, an enrolment in the two
grades of 1874, necessitating the employ
ment of another teacher, buying seats,
ETC., and establishing grade between
the third and fourth. In view OF this
fact, together with the universal advance
in teachers wages, your Board has
found it necessary to increase the amount
asked for by tax levy.
Your Board has for some time had Sc
rious apprehensions what the ultimate
outcome would be should they continue
to use the old furnaces in the main
school building. AS safeguard COM
mittee was appointed to investigate the
heating and ventilation of said building.
Their report being as follows:
Your committee has carefully exam
ined the facilities for heating said build
ing and find that two of the five fur
naces now in use are warped and wholly
unfit and unsafe, that they are beyond
Improbable repair that the danger of
fire to the building, if the furnaces are
continued, is very great. That all the
furnaces in the main building are ex-
ceedingly wasteful of fuel and do not
and cannot heat the rooms properly and
efficiently, and we recommend that the
heating system be at once replaced with
good steam plant. We further report
that there is absolutely no systematic
ventilation in said building, that in cold
weather there is no way to get rid of the
foul air in the crowded rooms and no
means to get fresh air into the rooms,
except by means of the windows and we
believe that with steam heating plant
the building could not only be comfort
ably heated with saving of at least one
third in expense of fuel, but could be
decently ventilated as we'll.
Respectfully submitted,
Committee.
In view of the above condition of the
furnaces, ETC., is it wise to jeopardize the
lives of so many of our children, besides
taking chances of losing our entire
school building?
The financial condition of the district
is as follows:
Balance on hand last meeting ..........S 1889 A
From state and county taX............. 21l9 70
: high school fund. ................ 81 Va
tuition ........... .............. looo w W
TAX levy DOW w
:: fines on books .............. 3 80
Total REGENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 139S6 "a
From which we have paid
Teachers salaries. 1901 Is
Text hooks and S11nDlieS ............ 522 r.
Janitor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50 90
Fuel Observation-Disclosures. $50 "a
Insurance 49,. .............. 35 90
Cleaning school house Observation-Disclosures. 100 20
School furniture 49,. 1O4 Is
Bond and interest. ................. l2SU w
Repairs and 1nc1dentalS. 2S9 "A
Treasurer's bond ................ ...... Is 90
Clerk hire. 5O w
Electric % so
Shrubbery NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. so
Bills navable on new building .. SO 95
Balance on hand ............... 49,. 1892 IS
S139S6 81
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES.
Teachers salaries 1915 90
Fuel ,.... $50 90
JanitOr, ................... 5S5 90
Text books and supplies ......-......... 500 90
School furniture Observation-Disclosures. 175 90
Repairs and incidentals. Observation-Disclosures. 800 90
Cleaning school house .............'.... 100 90
Insurance. Observation-Disclosures. 200 90
Electric lights. Observation-Disclosures. SO 90
Clerk hire Observation-Disclosures. 80 90
Treasurers bond Observation-Disclosures. Is 90
Stewart Il Johns on new building 50 90
Shrubbery Observation-Disclosures. 10 90
$4,000 90
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS.
State anc county tax. ................S 3OOO w
High school tax. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. so w
Iultloh. .....'''''''.'' lOoV w
1929 90
We therefore recommend that tax
levy of $750000 be raised for the ensuing
year. Respectfully submitted,
". d. mABBEII,
w. Ell. CLARKE,
w. S. BROWN,
D. I. WILSON,
MRS. T. B. EARLE,
L. E GETTLE,
j. M. CONWAY,
Board.
On motion report and recommendation
were accepted and the amount asked for
be raised by district tax levy.
On motion it was voted to raise an
additional $500 by tax levy for the pur-
pose of extending a cement curb and
gutter along three sides OF the school
grounds.
The following resolution was presented
by L. E. Gettle:
Resolved. That the School, District Board of
Joint District No. s, of the City of EdgertOn
and Town of Fulton, Rock county, be and is
hereby authorized to make application for a
loan of $500 from the State Trust Fund, pay
able in seven years in equal installments of
| S500 with iOtarpSt a the rate of 3M cent