Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-12-06
SHOULD VOTE FOR BONDING ISSUE
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. IN GREAT NEED OF NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING SHOULD Be MODERN STRUCTURE
AND READY FOR use IN THE SPRING
PROMINENT CITIZENS FAVOR PROJECT TO BE VOTED UPON AT
Y THE SCHOOL TOMORROW RESULT MEANS MUCH TO
THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY

year (the present one) i'll which to
allow the news to spread still far
ther, it is possible and indeed high
ly probable that the enrolment will
even reach the 100 mark. But with
no increase from the outside, what
are we going to do with our own
eighth grade when it is necessary
to make room for them in a place
where there is none available?
If the grades increase as they
have in the past, at the rate of IA
per cent annually, what are we go
ing to do with the students when
FIVE of those rooms are now over
crowded, and this extra IA per cent
will not only more over crowd these
FIVE, but will bring the others up
to the limit3
All of these barefaced facts pre-
scented themselves before the mem
bers of the school board for solu-
ton, and they tried in every con-
ceivable way in which to find a
solution that would suffice another
year and failed.
In order to get the question
properly before the board, it was
moved that it is the sense of the
board that the present school build
ings are adequate for the year 1913
IA"
Every phase of the question was
discussed and gone into in detail
The motion was put by the chair
and the roll was called and each
member went on record as against
the motion.
In other words it was the unani-
nous decision of the board that a
new building would have to be
erected.
Fire Proof or Fire TrapY
The question then arose, that as
long as it is necessary to build
would it not be advisable to build
a brick, fire proof, steam heated,
air driven ventilated and modern
!: building large enough so that with
it and the present buildings we
} could accommodate the needs Of
the district for FIVE or six or more
years, according to the develop.
ment of the district. Upon motion
: the board decided that such a steI
/ would be the most economical. II
. such a building is not erected the
/ board will proceed to erect as they
did last year, another two, three Oh
four room frame building and the
. following year be called upon to dc
, so again. And what will it al
= amount to in the end-a large
} flame, few sad deaths, a lost for
b tune and a heap of ashes. Which
; policy do you think the most econ
omical for a large and wealthy
| school district?
Again, if there is no more room
in the present buildings how ar,
{ we going to install manual train
ing, domestic science, agricultur,
and possibly book keeping ant
: business practice? Are h rs
r branches more necessary than Latil
E to the ordinary boy and girl?
e A Small Bond Issue
= Forty thousand dollars seems
E large sum of money to raise, an
i indeed it would be for one person
. but when it is placed upon tn
e shoulders of thousands and upon
}. district with a valuation of 81 700
It 900, and then spread over a perio
t of twenty years it really becomes
d very small and insignificant matter
e one of less than every day occur
J. renee.
a Taking the exact figures for OF