The Adair County news., 1908-08-26
More About a Graded School.

More About a Graded School.
Judge H. C. Baker having written
for information upon the subject, re-
ceived the following letter which ex-
plains itself:
Glasgow, KY, Aug. 20, 1908.
Judge H. &. Baker,
Columbia, KY.
Dear Judge:
Your letter of recent date inquiring
about the graded school at this place
has been received. 1t affords US a
great pleasure to give you history Of
this school and the results it is produc-
ing.
Excepting district school with about
three hundred pupils and Liberty Col
lege with about one hundred pupils en-
rolled, Glasgow was without schools in
which to educate her boys and girls un-
til in April 1902, when an election was
held for the purpose Of establishing and
maintaining a graded school. At this
election, a tax of fifteen cents on each
one hundred dollars worth of taxable
property which is about two miles
square, including the town of Glasgow
which is one mile square and one dollar
poll tax on each male inhabitant over
twenty-one years of age within the dis
trict, was voted for the purpose of
maintaining this school, that is paying
the teachers, buying the fuel and other
supplies, for period of five months
each year. At the time the district had
no house other than that which was be-
ing used by the common school district,
and as the people here were not famil-
lar with a graded school and knew
nothing of it's advantages, it was be-
lieved that the old district school build
ing would be sufficient. The above tax
was levied and collected and used for
the purpose for which it was voted for
a period of about two years, and the
old building was used during that time,
when it was found to be inadequate and
entirely too small to accommodate che
pupils. The trustees began to look
about for larger building when the
trustees of the old 'Urania College,
which was an old educational institution
that had been out of business for sever.
al years, proposed to turn over to the
trustees of the graded school their old
building. This was a brick building
erected especially for school purposes,
which had been used by the Normal
School once conducted here and after
wards moved to Bowling Green, but
this building was twice the capacity OF
that formerly occupied by the graded
school. The people not yet fully real
izing the advantages of the graded
school, it was thought by all of them
that the building belonged to "Urania
College" was the one the graded school
needed and that it would be sufficient
for all the future. Consequently it was
cheerfully accepted by the trustees OF
the graded school and was used by the
district until in the spring of 1906,
when it was found inadequate and also
too small to hold the pupils. Thereup-
On, the trustees to meet the needs OF
the graded school, had an election held
to vote further tax of fifteen cents on
each one hundred dollars of the taxable
property of the district for the purpose
of issuing bonds and borrowing money
with which to enlarge the graded school
building. This election resulted in favo,
of this additional tax, and the people
were so unanimously in favor of it, on.
ly four votes were cast against the
proposition.
After this tax was voted, levied and
collected, the trustees issued bonds and
borrowed thirteen thousand dollars and
put this amoxs into an addition to the
old building. Thus giving to the dis.
tricr building easily worth twenty
thousand dollars. This new building
was completed last year in time for the
school. Since this money has been ex-
pended, the graded school has build.
ing modern in all of it's parts, heated
with steam and supplied with the latest