Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-25
OUR PRESENT NEEDS

I'm South Biueielj the building
for white children needs heating
plant and a ventilating system That
for colored children needs heating
plant. a system of ventilation. re-
vision OF the system of lighting the
rooms and some other repairs.
The annex to the present high
school building should be torn away
and the high school building itself
extensively repaired or replaced by
new building
We need a new building of one or
two rooms in the East End OF the
! city for the use of the primary
grades; a new building for white
/ children Of at least rooms on the
North Side; a building of at least
rooms for colorsd children on the
: North Side; building of at least
rooms at Midway. where there are
10 or so children without school
facilities a building of one or two
rooms in Ain Town. where there is
large territory unprovided for: and
suitable high school building.
The question of suitable high
school building is Of extreme i'm
portance. The people of BlueHeld
spend annually from $4,000 to
100000 i'm sending their children
away from the city to receive the
same kind of an education as should
be provided by a properly conducted
high school in the city. The same
is true i'm the country districts out
! side of BlueGell. It should be re-
membered that our high school is
not city high school. but district
| nigh school to which all the chill
! ir Il of the district who have com
pleted the course of study in the
| common schools are entitled to
come, free of charge. The course
of study in this high school is so
arranged as to give The children the
kind and character of an education
suited to their needs, whether they
expect to subsequently enter college
or to Immediately engage in some
business or trade activity
In order to carry out our high
school work effectively, it is abso-
lutely necessary to provide suitable
buildings and apparatus. There is
nothing which will attract people to
the city so much as good school ia
cilities.
1t is proposed to eXpend $125,-
| 600 in erecting and equiping the
high school. If any objection could
be made to this sum, it would be
! because it is too small. Other cities
in West Virginia are eXpending sums
| OF equal proportion. However, this
amount Will give us a building of
which we may be proud
In The country, we need to have
| bored a large number of wells to
provide good water supplies for
schools. Quite a number of the
buildings need repairing and in sew
eral cases must b. replaced by new
buildings. In at least three locali-
ties there are demands for school
buildings of more than one room to
provide thickly settled communities
and all over the district. both I'm
town and country, apparatus in the
way of globes, maps and dictionaries
and furniture in the way of desks
and other necessary articles must be
supplied
To provide for this it is proposed
by the board to issue coupon bonds
to the amount of $l5O,OOO, bearing
intereste at per cent. and payable
in 20 years Section a. of Chapter
XIV. of the Code provides in what
manner this shall be done and that
these bonds cannot be sold for less
than par. 1t also provides the cir
cumstances under which and the
purposes for which such bonds may
be issued, as follows
In districts wherein there is a
town with an enumeration OF youth
of school age Of 300 or over. the
| board of education Of such district
may borrow money and issue bonds
therefor, for the purpose of build
ing. completing, charging. repairing
and furnishing school houses in
such town"
It Will be observed that the Ian
guage OF the statute restricts the
purposes for which the bonds may
be- issued TO the boundaries of the
town. 1t was therefore. necessary