The Sauk Centre herald., 1911-06-08
NEED MORE ROOM
Sduk Centre Public School
Cramped for Space
WANT A new BUILDING
Special Election Called to Vote
Bonds to Defrdy Cost of EreC-
ting Necessary Structure

Sauk Centre needs new public
school building. The present struc-
ture is old, poorly arranged, over
crowded. not well adapted to the
needs of the school.
The Board of Education has felt
this for some time as have the pa
irons of the school. So the board has
called a special election, notice Of
which appears, in official form, in
another column in this issue, to vote
upon the question of issuing bonds to
the amount of $4,000 to defray the
expense of erecting and equipping the
proposed structure.
An architect has already made and
submitted to the board tentative plans
for new building These plans the
secretary of the board, R. E. Hansen,
has in his possession. Many have ex-
amined them and pronounce them
adequate for the purpose. The plans
show two story building, Of ample
size, with up to date interior arrange
ment, to face north on the school
grounds on which stand the present
buildings
The bonds whose issue will be voted
upon at the special meeting in ques-
tion, are to run twenty years at four
per cent. The assessed valuation OF
the district is SSS9,00O. The issue of
the bonds would entail an extra levy
of three and half per cent, which
would mean about $500 on thous-
and. This extra amoupt would add
only very little to the taxation of
the property in the district, while
! the benefits conferred by the new
building and it's equipment would be
inestimable. In fact, a new building
must be had in the near future or the
district cannot expect to receive state
aid to the amount it would did it
possess the proper equipment for
school work.
The school now has normal de-
partment, but it loses the state aid
of $4,000 year because it has not
quarters devoted to that line of work.
A new building would furnish all
that could be desired in the matter
of housing for that department
The manual training department,
housed in an old wooden building
where the quarters are cramped and
i'll adapted to the accommodation of
the pupils who desire to take up that
| line OF work.
The board, in response to an inSiS-
tent demand, is desirous of establish
ing department for the teaching of
domestic science. 1t has no place in
which to place such department.
There is great demand for instruc-
tion in agriculture. But here again
the school authorities are embarrassed
| for room.
If two of these three subjects are
taught here the school will receive
81 900 year from the state. If, as
is quite likely, one or more of the
schools listed to $500 year from
the state for an agricultural depart
ment should fail to qualify, Sauk
Centre is right in line. In making
the assignments for this appropria-
tion under the Putnam act, the state
authorities were obliged to reject the
applications of Sauk Centre and Glen
wood. Deer River was chosen but
that town cannot qualify. So there
are but two left and Sauk Centre is
one of them.
Could the public schools of Sauk
Centre be properly equipped for the
proper teaching of its normal depart
ment, for giving instruction in do
nestle science and in agriculture, it
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