The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-29
Gil SGH10Ls
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(QJ sANSA%l6S A4AAtAssS7A ~ PAAP'tfS -
(e) Highest enrolment "a any
one room ..... 80
a. Number Of regular rooms. to-
tai. 4S:
s. Number Of rented and impro-
yIsed rooms. total, IS.
Pupils in rented and improyised
rooms, AS.
6. Estimated an .ual cost OF
schools, $4,000; Cteachers $44. 600,
building fund, $16,OOO.)
H q. Approximate value Of property
lin district. ST. 100000.
s. Now needed:
(a) a central high school build
o. "a ten-roOm building in the
East End.
/ 6e) a stz-room addition at Alta
vista.
i These TO provide for the eighteen
Irented and improvised rooms, to re-
IIlieve number Of congested rooms.
and to provide for the rs annual in
crease.
'.Thus you can readily see from
! LuGS 6GdLlELlGG44 ACPO4L E5tNS ~ CGA
superintendent, that we are urgent
lily in need of an up-to-date hreproof
/ high school building. The ambition
of the board OF education is to equip
this building with a gymnasium for
/ the boys and a gymnasium for the
i girls, and to contain an art room
where pupils Gamble taught, IL they
! so elect. course in painting and
decorating; also a music room.
where the piano and organ can be
utilized by the student body IL they
SO choose.
1.-The board would like to see ere
ated a department of domestic
science where the girls can be
taught the duties relating to the
home; and the boys can receive a
suficlent industrial instruction that
viii enable them to push plane and
/ and hammer a nail accurately and
in a workmanIfke order. want
to say to you ladies, that it is as inn-
portant and essential for your
daughters to have knowledge of the
, duties of the household as 1t Is for
them to demonstrate a theorem in
algebra or translate from the Latin
into the English And it is as es-
sential that the boys should have a
knowledge of how to push plane
4 and drive a nailias it is for them to
solve the mos: difficult mathematical
.prCr.em. .log
@.,1f tscse tirsaS gSsGFre-d done, then we
wi! have cur children developing
into sro=g. sturdy, and symmetrical
men and women. The laws OF our
state will only permit us to levy not
! in excess of 1919 cents on each
-$1O0 valuation for building pur-
poses. An examination OF the sta
t;stical report above. will disclose
! the fact that it is impossible to erect
a commodiouss high school building
and the necessary graded school
buildings when we are restricted by
a law to this small levy. The con-
4 clusIon. therefore, on the part OF
your board OF education is, that the
only solution is an issue of bonds
\ that will enable us to give the chill
drcn the necessary equipment and
buildings for higher education.
THE city of Bluedield, w. Va, has
completed a magnificent high school
building at a cost of $15O,O00, and
she accomplished this by her citizens
joyfully and enthusiastically sup
porting a bond issue. have visited
the high schools of Charleston
Huntington, Parkersburg and Fair
mont, and on my return to my
home city / feel that we have no
kept pace with the progress OF tbs
times After revolving this question
over in my mind have come to tbs
conclusion that it will largely de
pend upon the mothers of the city
whether or not we shall have these
improved conditions. am no
Eunmindful OF the magnificent &C
complement OF woman in thu
worlds AFFAIRS. know how Sapph'
loved and sang; and Aspasta inspired
Pericles to think and act; and Gle
opatra, who was wooed by two EN-
perors OF Rome; and how Theodor'
suggested the Justini N code, an
had the last word in its compilis
ton; know OF tho intellectual ac
complIshments and gentle grace
possessed by Madame De stael
Sarah Wedgewood, and George FL
lot.