Gilpin observer., 1907-10-31

ed the high school on Monday. His
brother Dan has been with us from the
beginning of the year. 1t is not too late
for student who is in earnest to enter
high school, and we trust that many
more may follow the example of those
who have enrolled this week.
The high school football team will
play the Barnes Business College team
at the City park Saturday afternoon.
The Barnes team has been making a
good record and the game will be good
one. Come out and see it.
Supt. Ida Kruse McFarlane has the
honor of being the first to have her
name on the subscription list of the high
school paper. Subscriptions are so cents
for the school year. Hand your sub
scription to any high school student.
The paper will be well worth the money
and you should have your name on the
list early enough to get every number
from the first. The paper will be called
the Prospector, and will have live, up-to-
date newsy articles in every depart
ment. Send in your subscription now.
The sewing classes, assisted by the
Boosters club, are getting the recep-
ton room ready for the first school
event that may occur in it. 1t is prob
able that it will be ready for the enter
tainment of the Idaho Springs football
team on the 9th. In consideration of
the delightful entertainment and court
eous treatment accorded the football
team and the Centralites in general at
Idaho Springs on Saturday last, we feel
that no effort should be spared to make
their visit to Central an exceedingly
pleasant one.
Recent donors to the library are ex-
Supt. F. H. Clark, D. E. Wiedmann,
Miss Minnie Frey, Geo. R. Momyer and
Mrs. Clara M. Rogers.
Good books and magazines are always
welcome gifts.
Miss Ora Allebaugh of Black Hawk,
entered the high school on Monday.
Eight pupils from Black Hawk are en-
rolled in the Central schools in place of
twenty that should be enrolled and no
doubt would be in school if it were not
for the high tuition they must pay.
What is true of Black Hawk is true also
of Nevadaville and Russell Gulch. We
need some reasonable means of cooper
alton between these districts, not for
the. .aggrandizement of the Central dis
trict but for the good of the boys and
girls. The high school education is no
longer a luxury. No training is more
essential to the truest success in every
calling in life. Our people realize this,
hence our large nonresident enrolment
in spite of the tuition, an enrolment
that would be doubled or trebled if the
tuition were dispensed with. A county
high school is impracticable, requiring
the voting of bonds, the levying of a
heavy tax, and the cooperation of some
districts against their will. A union
high school applies the principle of local
option, each district voting separately
on the matter, requires no bonds to be
issued, demands that the Central dis
trict provide the building, and requires
of the districts cooperating only share
in the maintenance of the high school.
Central City high school is splendidly
equipped as to library, laboratories, ap-
paratus, etc, and does not particularly
need the aid of other districts but it
would seem no more than just to the
young people who are outside the limits
of this district that we should agree to
cooperate with any such district that
might desire to unite with us in the ca
pacity of Union High School District,
and thereby secure the advantages of
the high school. The work of the writer
for seven years past has been in Union
High school districts where pupils came
each day from one to seven miles and
had free entrance into the school. The
arrangement for united action is in
every way desirable and means a great
deal to a deserving class of students.
We would be pleased to discuss the
Union High school proposition at any
time with school directors or patrons.
The high school German club, known
as Die Lustigen Deutschen, has organ
lied with the following officers: Presi-
dent, Nellie Comfort; secretary, Ger
trude Morgan; treasurer, Robert Davey.
Committees have been appointed for
the purpose of arranging for German
party to be given, similar to the one last
year. The party will probably be given
on Friday night, Nov. sth, the place to
be announced later.
The High School Chorus club met last
week and elected officers as follows:
President, Miss G. A. Nelson; Vice
nreaidenf T. G Grao,. ranrota .,r A.aan