The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-08-10
Board OF Education Obtains Money
to Build 1t
WILL BEGIN AT ONCE
Busy Examining Plans With the In
tentiOn of Putting in Found
alton This Fall

Work on the proposed new high
school building for Sank Centre will.
in all probability, begin before many
weeks and the foundation for the
structure put in before snow flies.
The State Board of Investment, at
its last regular meeting held Friday,
August 4, voted to take the bonds of
the district at par, advancing the
cash therefor. These bonds, voted by
the district at recent special cleo
tion, are for $4,000 and run thirty
years at per cent. By a special ar
rangement the Board of Investment
consented to permit the district to
begin Immediately to take up these
bonds instead of waiting five years as
ordinarily provided for. By this ar
rangement the district will save some
interest.
The board of Education is now in
consultation with architects and
hopes to have plans ready to consider
and accept in a short time. 1t is
their intention to have the founda-
ton for the new building put in this
Fall.
At its regular August meeting the
Board of Education voted to open de-
partments in agriculture and domes-
tic science this Fall. The depart
ments in normal work and manual
training are already in operation and
will be continued.
Jos. Heraly of Morris, Mimi, will
be in charge of the work in manual
training. Mr.. Heraly is an expert
and a successful and experienced
teacher. The manual training de-
partment will give instruction to
students in the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades, besides the high school.
High school students will also take
mechanical drawing. Cabinet MAX
ing and wood turning will be taught.
In addition to this there will be work
in blacksmithing, forging, tempering,
sharpening and making of useful farm
TOOLS
Miss Gertrude Webb of McGregor,
Iowa, a graduate of the Thomas
Training Institute and of Chicago
University, will teach domestic sci
ence. A we'll equipped kitchen will
be provided with range, table, electric
plates and utensils to accommodate
twenty pupils. Every girl should be
taught to understand the home and
the making of her own clothes and
foods, says Supt. Aygarn. Sewing will
be taught in the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades, as we'll as in the high
school, Cooking will be taught in the
eighth grade and the high school.
The instruction in agriculture will
be comprehensive and the teacher
will be K. A. Norsen, a graduate of
the University of Minnesota. A four
year course will be offered in the high
school, consisting of class room, lab
oratory and farm work, the different
topics to be studied being farm crops,
animal husbandry, farm mechanics,
horticulture and forestry. 1t will un-
doubtedly take time to work out a
course and all cannot be done the first
year, but in four years things will be
in excellent shape. Boys in the
seventh and eighth grades will be
given an opportunity to do some of
this work as well as those in the high
school.
There is also to be a short course in
agriculture. When possible the in
structor in agriculture will spend, part
of his time with the farmers, the ob-
ject being to help them in as many ways
as possible. A short course for farm
er's boys and girls will be given dur
ing the winter months. Work will be