The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-01
At School Election on March
Ii, Question Of Bond Is
sue to be Sub
mitted.
$6O,OOolS AMOUNT NEEDED.
Board Of Education Held 8
Warm Session Last Night
When Progress Was
Discussed.

the interests Of Keokuk at heart and
a noticeable lack of aggressiveness |
were hurled back and forth at the
meeting of the board of education last
night. What promised to be a meeting
devoid of all sensational features ter
minated with proposition for new
school house bonds referred to the
voters.
The cause OF the outbreak was the
advisability Of submitting a question
to the voters, at the election to be
held next week, OF issuing bonds for
new buildings in different parts of the
city, to replace some of the buildings
now used, intimating that some of
them have outlived their usefulness
and are gradually becoming too small,
and some of them unsafe for further
use. Mr. Lutz. opened the question by
stating that he had, at various times
been called to the Wells school by diff
ferent people who say that the walls
are pulling away from the ceilings
and that the building is growing I'M
safe. He has had a committee ex-
anime the school several times and
their report has always been that the
building Is in good condition. How
ever another complaint came to him
Yesterday and he talked to Commits
sioner Gray about it. Mr.. Gray told
him to refer it to the board at their
meeting last night, and, if they
thought it necessary, they could have
| 1T examined again. Quite lot of dis
cussion was caused by this and the
opinion was expressed by majority
OF the board that this condition was
caused by the extreme dry rther of
last fall. Out of this grew he ques-
tion of new school buildings. AS soon
as this subject was introduced the
board was in an uproar. Everybody
began talking and for several minutes
1t was impossible to hear what any
body was trying to say. Finally, after
the noise had somewhat subsidized Mr..
Roberts made a motion that the city
4 tear down the Carey, Wells, Terrence
and Garfield schools and ask the vot-
ers to authorize bond issue for s24O,-
i 900 at the coming election, to erect
new school buildings. The motion was
Immediately seconded by Hamill
Some time was used In the discussion
before the question was put. The mo-
ltion was lost on vote to g.
For New School.
4 Hamill was on his feet as soon as
the vote was heard with motion
asking for $4,000 for the erection of
a new building, the location of which,
to be afterwards determined After
discussion on this, the motion was
amended to read, "the board to be
authorized to ask the voters at the
coming election for the sum of $780,
1000 for the erection of two new build.
irgs, one south of Main street and one
north of Main street" This question
was seconded by Roberts and was lost
on a vote by to q.
After the vote was taken and the
|, motion had been lost Hamill arose
and pointing his finger at the mem
bers who had voted against the mo-
ton, said: This Is the time for us to
. SCI pdSy anu WI lOT LILO lCdtt1
Keokuk and you who have voted
against this motion are just the ones
who are holding this city back from
the place which is rightly hers. With
the influx of new Industries that will
surely come to this city with the wat
er power will come many new people
The first question that viii be asked
by employers and employees will be
where are we to get proper educa
tional facilities for our children ant
the best that we will be able to show
them will be these old rattletraps tina
: have long ago outlived their useful
ness"
President Hughes in reply to thi
y said: II am not opposed to more ans
better schools, but l do emphaticall.
object to burdening the people will
more than one school year. That il
sufficient and in case the board was
tie on the question I would have t,
! now under consideration.
, Put up to People.
) Mr.. Lutz also expressed. himself a
I entirely in accord with DR.. Hughes o.
3 the question and to that end put
, motion before the board that the fo
/ lowing question be put to the voters a
the election on March II next: Re
Z solved, that the board of education b
. authorized to issue bonds to III
: amount OF 100000 for the erection G
:. new school building in the Well
! district
Much talk was indulged in befor