The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-09
Graduates
Get Diplomas
Three Able Addresses


soie ppJeet in view of improving the
euucs.iohai qualifications Cf the
school
j me Board had hoped to construct a
permanent high school building dur
Ing the present year. 1t found how
Yer ahat the state law limited the
habisfy Of any school district to five
per cent Of its total assessed yalua-
ton The tai assessed valuation of
this 5shool district is about s40O, 900 90
rive per cent of that would allow
a bonded Indebtedness, you will dead
iy We, Of alb cut s20,00O.00. The pre-
senfSbonded indebtedness against the
District is 100000, makinng it pos
sible for the people to add an addi-
tlonsl bond of alb ut $13,00000.
Nm. you know that $13,0OO.0O will
not ptlild very much of building,
when you desire to build it Of st one,
brick or concrete, and make it per-
manont, convenient, and a building
that would be credit to the COM
munity. Besides it would be necess-
airy TO acquire sch .ol grounds, which
We have figured would cost from
$2,OOe00 to s2,50000. With all of
these obstacles in view it became evil
dent to the Board as it must become
evident to ycu, to build at the pre-
sent time, with the finances of the
sehoci district as they are, would be
limp0csible.
The Board Therefore have c,nsidere
the adyisibility of first, and this year
to as,luire school grounds, to levy a
tax Sufficient to pay for the same,
IL, levy tax sufficient to pay at
least 100000 of the present bonded
indebtedness. We hope that in ano-
Ither year the assessed valuation OF
1.-THE property in the school district
will have increased sufficiently that
with s.h1ol grounds already paid fol
lesea-s GkSez re1laction pf the 1reseni
5hr findcbtedHess tswasA- will, y thef
have Margin enough under the law Il
bond FIR sufficient amount t. con.
struct creditable high school build.
ing. This will probably necessiitat
the construction on the newly acquir.
ed schoel ground of a cheap tempo.
rary building for use by the High
School o. some cf the grades, during
the next school year or possibly two
years; Is you know it is utterly i'm
possible at least We have found it so
to rent buildings that will be ade.
Quate for 1901 school year. The
Board hopes the position they have
taken in this matter will be approx.
ed by teh school patrons.
Many children Begin the race fol
an advanced education, few persevert
sufficiently to carry their early am
bititrs to completion. Many parents
realizing the need and advantage o
an education, work in excess of theil
strength and many times deny
themselves CT actual necessities, tha
their children may have this chance
| for an education. Now those availint
themselves of such an opportunity
are entitled to the highest credit, iol
the poet says:
THE toilers that travel the schoo
room read,
No idle loiterers are,
They weave each day the web o
life,
With threads both dark and fair"
The individual having the op
portunity and nct availing himself O
1t, loses one of the richest opportun
tiles of life. Ycu members of the
commencement class have graduated
from this high school with nonor t.
yourselves, TO the school faculty, this
community, this fact alone is evidence
that your characters are formed, tha
you are workers, that you have {
place in this world of work and en-
deavor, it is frcm your class of peo
pie come the builders of cities ant
empires.
l take pleasure in presenting /.
you, Your diplomas, the concrete evi
dence of the result of your efforts
and bid You G ID Speed on your voy
age through life.
Pr t. Elmer Lafayette Cave, of tht
i'eilingham schools made the follow
ing address:
~ is our privilege and good fortune t
pe hVing in the State which bears th'
name OF the father of our Country. tru
y distinctive honor. Therefore it is fit
ting that We pause for few NOM
ehls IN the activities of besiness, home
ana professional life to consider ou
i.eii'age, and our responsibilities as cit
i%ehs OF the great State of Washington
10 the children of the State the future
ia'hefs and mothers of this great com
monwealth.
we nave just reason to be proud o
'ie state of Washington, while she il
ohe OF the new states in the family o
.he nation, she is holding her own il
.iis aggressive, progressive, and develop
,heht age. The outlook is full of prom
ise' But while the retrospect yieid