The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-07-17
Carencro Raises $500 for School
Grounds.

tons that brought forth good
results, was held in Carencro on
the 10th instant. The meeting
was well attended and of very
representative character.
DR.. Moss. president of the
Parish School Board, announced
to the meeting the desire and
the intention of the School
Board to enlarge and improve
the school at CarencrO to keep
pace with its rapid increase in
attendance. He pointed out the
duty Of the parent and of the
community to give to every
child the benefit of a good educa
ton, which would be it's best
capital and support in life. He
sad that the most valuable asset
OF any country was an educated
and enlightened citizenship.
Speaking of the Immediate
OBJECT of the meeting. President
Moss asked for the co-opera.
tion of the people toward
making the new school building
soon to be erected in Carencro
as large and complete as possi-
bic. and toward getting more
ground, as the present lot was
entirely too small for the re-
qulrements Of the school. He
explained that the unceasinp
demand for new and larger
school buildings and for more
teachers from every section of
the parish, could not be met fully
and promptly by the school
board with present revenues.
The policy of the school board
outlined by DR.. Moss. of develop
ing high schools out of the Car.
encro and other strong central
schools in the parish, where
will be given courses of instruc-
ton in agriculture. manual
training and bookkeeping re-
celved the hearty approval of
the meeting. He said this would
be the means Of giving a useful
business and industrial training
to the ninety per cent or more
OF school children in the parish
who are never able, for one
reason or another, to get any
education beyond what is afford
ed them by the local or neigh
berhood school.
Messrs. G.. C. Brown and
Alcide Judice, members of the
Parish School Board, made elo-
quent and earnest appeals to the
parents and public spirited
citizens, present to all join hands
in building up strong and pro-
gressive school in Carencro, to
the end that the boys and girls
of Carencro and vicinity may
become well equipped for doing
their part in the worlds work.
Mr.. Brown urged his fellow
citizens of the town of Carencro
to encourage the children of the
outlying district to attend the
graded school in Carencro where
they would enjoy superior ad-
vantages in obtaining an educa-
ton. He argued that the town
of Carencro depended for it's
support upon the people of the
surrounding country and, there
fore, it was to the interest of the
citizens of Carencro that the
plane of intelligence of these
people should reach the highest
point possible. He said that if
the residents of Carencro did
not believe in this doctrine and
would build a Chinese wall
around their town they would
soon become extinct as a busi.
ness community.
i Superintendent Alleman pre-
sented some interesting and
instructive figures on the black
: board showing that the schoo
board was making an intelligent
and equitable distribution of the
. special tax money and other
school funds. He earnestly
. pleaded that every child in the
parish might be given the best
possible educational advantages
and predicted a bright future
for the Carencro school.
The addresses were followed
J by general discussion of schoo