Connecticut western news., 1907-10-17

.Adolph Nelson, Edward O'Brion, Helen Parmelee, Edward Parmelee. Elsie Rains, Lillian Roberts, Helen Whitford Arthur White.
 Seventh and eighth grades, Regina Adams. Bessie Boinay, Ruth Curtiss. Lura Ferguson, Bessie Lorraine. Aida Lindell, Myra Lawton, Ruth Peirce, Gladys Pulyer, Mabel Roberts, Bertha Wellner, Vincent Fitzgerald, Clinton Wilcox, John Fuller, George Boinay Number enrolled 36. Average attend ance for the month 32.8.
 Higher grades. perfect in attendance for the month ending October 4, May Kegler, Julia Foley, Margaret O'Hara. Lloyd Curtis, Helen Pease, Emma Keg- Ter, Blanche Fox, Emma Rood, Elva Rood, Alice Sanford, Helen Hanlon, Mary Tierny, Minnie Caldwell, May Lorraine, Belle Roberts, Etta Johnson, Bessie Fitzgerald, Elizabeth O'Brien, John Killawee. Helen Rhoades, May Devine, Catherine O'Brien. Average attendance for the month S9, enrolled 40.
 The School Building
 On Satur day last, the school commit tee held meeting for the purpose of discussing plans for providing adequate school facilities for Canaan. Contract or E. R. Lorraine was in consultation with them and it was concluded that a two-room addition to the present build. ing would not be sufficient and that if the building is to be enlarged, the in- crease should be at least four rooms. The deliberations of the committee will be fully outlined at the special town meeting to be held November 3. To THE NEWS this appeals as question which requires careful and mature con- sidsration. It is a matter with many sides and one in which no move should be made that will be sourse of regret in after years. That the present build ing is too small is a certainty and it Is also claimed that it is not well adapted to the needs of the school because of it's inoonvenient interior arrangement. There is no central hall from which the several rooms open, the light is poor, there is no assembly hall, which is found so convenient for use in the pres ent day methods of teaching, ard in other respects it lacks much of being a modern building. Of course the tax payers dislike the thought of a new building but if Canaan is to grow in the future as rapidly as it has in the past, the time is not far distant when even the enlarged building would be found inadequate and the town would be confronted with the need of still further enlargement which enlargement would use another portion of the al- ready too small school grounds. We dislike to advocate selling the present building, buying a new and larger site and erecting modern building but this might better be done at the outset than to discover in the course of eight or ten years that new quarters must be provided. The taxpayers of the town of North Canaan should give this matter careful thought during the coming two weeks and be present at the meeting November 3. prepared to advance ideas as to the proper course to pursue. There should be free and thorough discussion and from various plans advocated, the school committee and taxpayers should be able to formulate course which will provide ample school facilities in this village, not only for the present but for many years to come. Attend that November 3 meeting. Your ideas are needed.