Gilpin observer., 1908-03-26
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL

School will be dismissed on Thursday
afternoon in order to permit the teach
ers and the eighth grade to attend the
open day exercises at Black Hawk.
The base ball team is getting ready
for another round with the butchers.
The butchers are husky fellows but
they'll be our meat some day.
Robert Morrison will represent the
Alpha Omega society in the declama-
tion part of the Alumni contest, April
18th. Dan Murphy will represent the
Alpha Zetas.
The second meeting of the school
boards for the discussion of the Union
High School question was held in the
high school building on Monday evening
out nothlng was accomplished toward
providiug high school privileges for the
young people of the camp outside of
Central City. 1t is matter of regret
that something cannot be done. We
have been pounding away on this mat
ter for long while without hope or ex
pectation of personal gain thereby. and
we expect to keep it up as long as the
printer will take copy on the Union
High School and as long as school pat
rons are interested in the proposed
plan. The Union High School is fair
and desirable proposition for all con-
cerned. The Boards realize this and
we believe would act favorably if they
could be assured that their school pat
rons were of the same opinion. With
out this assurance no action can be ex-
pected, and the young people of the
county will continue to have the tuition
stone added to the wall of indifference
that stands between them and the op-
portunities they deserve to have as
open and free to them as to any young
people in the state of Colorado. The
young people of Gilpin county are as
faithful, as earnest, as ambitious, and
as deserving as the young people of any
other community anywhere. You be-
lieve that, Mr.. School Patron, then why
not give them an equal chance with
other Colorado boys and girls? The
present tax levy will not need to be af-
fected in the least by the organization
of the Union High School. If you do
not believe this, figure it for yourself
or ask the school board to make the es-
timate tor you. You are not putting
your money into a new building, and
you are not paying for the education of
children from another district. This is
your opportunity to help your own boys
and girls. Why turn it down?
Plans are being made by the high
school to entertain all the eighth grade
students of Gilpin county at special
program to be given about the middle
of May. In connection with this pro-
gram an exhibit of the work of all
the grades of the Central City schools
will be made in the reception room and
in the superintendent office. Teach
ers are invited to attend with eighth
grade pupils. Preparations are on foot
to make this one of the big days of the
school year.
Miss Gertrude Flaherty visited the
high school Tuesday afternoon.
Idado Springs and Central high school
ball teams will play game on April
18th.
A number of the students are absent
this week on account of the pink eye.
The school is in receipt of cordial
invitation to bring our high school boys
and the eighth grade boys of Gilpin
county to visit the School of Mines at
Golden on the day following the eighth
grade day. President Anderson states
that every courtesy will be shown them,
special guides will be furnished, and the
work of the school fully explained. One
special car would be sufficient to take
all these young people to Golden and it
would be a splendid thing for the county
to have our young men visit the school
that trains men for places of RESPONSE
bility in the mills and in the mines.