Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-05-17
SCHOOL PATRONS
HOLD! JsDl!.! a. P0W-WOW
More School Room for Town I'D Country
Sections Warmly Debated
NO BIG MEETING But HEAP MUCH TALK
No Positive Advice Given the Board Preferences
as to Building Sites and Buildings Needed
Are Freely Expressed

4 OF the district n school building. He
then spoke in favor OF a high school
building and its location in the south
west part OF the city. The attend
ance OF high school he said mus,
always largely come from within the
city and its location should be made
with reference to the probable Rro~ti,
OF the city. He hoped the Board had
no intention OF building high school
upon either Of the present school
grounds.
Supt. Bolies in answer % question
said he believed about IS per cent OF
the present pupils OF the high school
resided outside the city limits
Mr.. Weybright. speaking for the
rural population said he didn't think
they would be much affected by tho
high school location in town and
would not be disposed to enter into
the discussion as to the site.
d. d. Wiley wanted to say tina,
II the board intended to build 4 high
school there was no better site than
a part OF the land OF the present
Washington school, which the dis
triet already owned. He did not sec
any reason for buying more ground.
Mr.. Bartholomew and Mr.. Bah.
cock spoke in favor OF the same To-
cation. Mr.. Barnes also favored the
Washington school ground.
J. w. Todd spoke in favor Of keep
ing the future growth Of the city in
mind in the matter of high school
building. He thought Il was not
wise to build now small. limited
school building for high school pur-
poses. He had an idca-whieh was
to divide the work Of the high school
putting par; OF the students in each
OF the larger school buildings and
having the teachers go from ono to
have crcditablc high school build.
ing. but it was too early to build ono
yet.
Mr.. Evans said he feared they
would have to keep n couple of autos
to carry the teachers around under
Mr.. Todd's plan.
Mr.. Frazier was called on and said
he had no opinion TO offer as to n
location as he did not know the situ-
alton rs to schools here yet. But he
cited the instance OF an eastern city
crowding an expensive high school
building alongside OF grade school
; building and making an unsightly and
crowded group OF buildings.
Mr.. Seller expressed himself in
opposition to the Washington school
site for a high schol building. and
believed the southwest part of town
was entitled to a school building.
Z. w. Manni = spoke in favor OF
the southwest part of town, adding
that he had no property interests in
that quarter calculated to influence
his opinion. He favored the location
simply as matter of fairness to the
residents of that section.
Mr.. Ritchic was disposed to be
chary about offering an opinion, but
he thought that either the new build
ing should go on the Washington
ground should be sold and land
bought in the southwest corner of
town ii that was the more convcn-
lent location.
Mr.. Taylor said the Board ought
not to sell foot OF land it now own
ed. 1t had far too little for its needs.
He suggested that the right thing
would be for the interested parties
who had landed interests in the
southwest part of town to get togcth-
cr and arrange to donate to the Board
piece of land sufficient for school
site. 1t was evident that a school
building was regarded as contribut-
ing to the value of land about it and
it would not be amiss to give back to
the people who made the land values
enough land for school site.
Supt. Bolles said with marked cm-
phasis don't sell a foot of school
ground. We have need of all of it"
And he then went on to show the
valuc and need of large school
ground space and after making that
point closed with an argument for
making the present Liberty building,
with its limited ground, an exclusive
ly high school building, because of its
central location and its present ad-
vantagcs. This at least so that it
would serve the high school purposes
for few years to come, until it was
more clear what the growth and
needs of the town was going to be
and more resources were available
for such building as would do credit
to town architecturally.
By this time-it was 6 p. m.-about
everybody in the meeting had been
heard from, either voluntarily or un-
der call, and the respective opinions
pretty we'll aired, but no actual mo-
tions had been presented. The chair
suggested that there had not been
much in the way of definite conclu-
sion reached for the Board to go up
on. But the meeting broke up with