The Adair County news., 1909-07-07
THE LINDSEY WILSON.
Valuable and Necessary Improve.
ments TO be Made on the Hill,
The Work TO be Pushed.
CONTRACT FOR BRICK work LET.

The Educational Board of The Louis
vile Conference will make some valu-
able improvements on the Lindsey-Wil-
son Hill which will be- of great worth
to the school and add much to the COM
fort and convenience Of the many who
occupy the dormitories.
A contract has been let to Lonnie
Simms to do the brick work and to w.
T. Mcfarland the stone work on an adj
dition to the girls dormitory to be
built thirty-four feet wide, fifty-four
long and two stories high with full
basement. The basement will be made
of stone and the walls of the building
of brick. The first floor will be used
for kitchen and dining room, the for
mer being fourteen by thirty-four feet,
thus leaving a dining hall thirty-four
by forty feet.
In the basement steam heating
plant will be placed and will be large
enough to heat the College building
when the furnace fails to meet the de.
mands. On the second floor will be
nine rooms for girls which will aid in
relieving the crowded condition during
the winter months when that building
is heavily taxed with young lady students
The addition will be so constructed as
to add to the appearance of the build
ing and to leave it to again be added to
and maintain the most modern form of
boarding hall. We are informed that
the Board contemplates such a move
when the necessities of the school de-
mand it.
The present dining hall will be used
for gymnasium building and such
equipments as are necessary for mus
Gle development will be added at an
early day. The two dormitories used
by the young men will also have at
tention. The Board will almost recon
struct them double ceiling and flooring,
them using corrugated paper to -deaden
sound, thus giving the occupants of every
room quiet, as well as warm quarters.
These two buildings will be heated by
a furnace and the sheet-iron stoves will
all disappear from them. Messrs. Neil
son and Moss assumes the responsible
ity of raising fund sufficient to pay
for the furnace, while the Board foots
all the other expense, reaching $4,000.
The. necessity for an even tempera.
ture in the dormitories has been thor
oughly felt by the experience of the
last two or three years with sheet-iron
stoves and the many colds and cases OF
pneumonia will not be so common when
the chilly days of winter come. In as,
stunning the cost of putting in the fur.
mace Messrs. Nelson and Moss did so,
fully believing that the many friends OF
the Lindsey Wilson will come to their
relief in the matter and not let the en-.
tire burden rest on them The Board
would have passed this much needed
improvement but for the pluck and pro.
gressiveness of these gentlemen who
have the comfort and well being OF
every student at heart and have vOlun-
tered to shoulder at least five hundred
dollars worth of improvements.
The people ought to come to THEN
rescue by good contributions. A few
dollars from few people will make the
amount needed. That the Educational
Board has greater Improvements fo1
this institution and that the school has
greater service and worth for this part
of the State can not be doubted. 1t is
also apparent that the Board means to
back up the men in charge as truly as
the people who patronize the school ap-
preciate their service. They are the
right men in the right place and are do
ing building a school and ad-
vancing this section, that will liye long
after they have passed from the walks
of life.
Here's hoping that the future of The
Lindsey Wilson may continue in its
rapid, permanent advancement and to
aid it in so doing seven entries from the
old plantation await its opening in
September.