The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-12-25
Mankato Normal Not to Ask for
Dormitory This Year.
THAT WILL COME UP LATER
Cash 20 Be Called for to Garry Out
Other Plans, Paving, Sidewalks,
Wants OF Other institutions.


tor Wise attended a meeting OF the
state normal board yesterday in st.
Paul.
The board in an all day session de-
cided TO ask the legislature Tor money
To erect dormitories for the normal stu
dents at Winona, Moorehead and Du-
luth. Mankato viii not ask for dor
mitory this year. a site must be
procured first.
The board decided to ask for APP
propriaiions to install domestic Sci
enee outfits i'm all the normal schools
Of the state so that instruction may
be given along this line. This course
was added to the curriculum during
the summer, but none of the schools,
except the one at Duluth, had any
facilities for instruction. At Duluth
small department was maintained,
mainly through the generosity of pri-
yate citizens.
No Total Was Made.
No total was made on the amount
which will be asked of the legislature
Tor the maintenance of the fine nor
NAL schools. although it will run well
beyond the SG00000, appropriated last
year. In addition to the three dormi-
tories, for which money viii be asked
ut the rate of about $4,000 each, the
board will also recommend that the
west wing OF the school Mt Duluth be
finished at a cost of $4,000. Apparat-
lls for a gymnasium will also be pro-
yided at the schools in which there is
room for such a department.
All the schools are asking for more
money this year than they received
two years ago. The attendance is
growing rapidly. In CT. Cloud no more
pupils can be admitted, owing to the
crowded condition of the buildings.
Winona's Request.
For the Winona school the board
will ask $4,000, as support fund, it
addition to the regular appropriation
OF S24 ,000 This year there was S37 500
in the support fund as compared with
$4,000 asked for each of the next two
wears. Repairs to the amount of
81 900 will be asked. One thousand dol
lars for furniture, $4,000 for walk and
paving assessments, $3.50 for manual
training and $3.50 for a heat regula-
tor system.
Moorehead school wants $4,000 COM
pared to the $4,000 received this year.
Repairs are needed to the amount of
$1,000. The dormitory, furnished will
cost $4,000.
Duluth wants a model school, in adj
dition to a dornitory, entailing $ll5,-
600 for new buildings. The amount
asked, for general support, is $3l 500
which is slightly in excess of the
amount received this year.
The st. Cloud school will receive
$500 for a gymnasium, as well as
$500 for the improvement of the
grounds, along the river front at the
school. a tunnel connecting the sew
eral buildings will cost 5000 and the
domestic science department will cost
$1,000. Repairs amounting to over
$1,000 will be asked.
What Mankato Wants.
At Mankato considerable work will
have to be done in paving. building
retaining wall and laying sidewalks,
amounting to about $4,000 The roof
ON the main building will be reno
waited at cost of $1,000. The do
nestle science department will cost
$1,000. One thousand seven hundred
fifty dollars is also needed for new
furniture. 1t is understood that an APP
preparation will be asked for to COM
plete the model building.
The board authorized the president,
Ell Terrence. to have bill introduced
into the legislature for an emergency
fund for the Afoorehead school, where
$500 is needed for fuel, ianitors and
teachers, so that the model school can
be pat into operation.
For the summer sessions, during the
next two years, the board will ash,
for $4,000, to be apportioned among
the five schools according to later
agreement. This is $1,000 i'm excess of
the amount spent for the same purpose,
dnring the past year. The sessions
of the summer schools were fixed at
twelve weeks. except at Duluth, where
the session will be only seven