The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-01
SCHOOL BONDS
|. WILL Be VOTED
| ON SATURDAY
LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD MAKES
/ APPEAL TO GET OUT BIG
VOTE THAT DAY.
Every Citizen Who Has Children S
Welfare at Heart Will Work and
Vote For Bonds.

On next Saturday, July ), the reg
Istered voters included in the Special
Hax School District Number One will
have the opportunity to vote for the
issuance of bonds in the amount of
$50, 10000 to be apportioned as fol-
ows:
$17,500.00 ior the enlarging, i'm
broving and placing in thorough
anitary condition the present school
building in the city Of Lakeland.
$27,500.OO for the purchase OF
uitable site and the building of a
MODERN school house on the south
ide of the city.
100000 for the building of a
school for the negro population.
This is according to the action OF
he local School Board and approved
by the County Board of Education.
l'he plan has met with satisfaction on
he part of the citizens generally:
there being few, however, whom it
Ieems to be impossible to please and
who apparently fail to realize that
Lakeland has grown out of the vii
age class, is growing and will con-
inue to grow, and that it is more ex-
pedient and economical to build for
tomorrow instead of today.
The plan outlined will give the
District not only what it needs and
has sorely needed for long time, re-
ieving a sorry condition of things,
but it will be one of the best adver-
tisements to the outside world, and
those who have eyes on Lakeland as
future home. One of the first Ques-
tiOns asked by an inquirer is as to
the quality and quantity Of ouz
schools. Up to the present time we
have had to dodge this question and
lost thereby. The present plan OF
school extension is looking to the
time when it will be necessary to
have ward schools, with a central
high school, the ultimate outcome of
city's growth.
1t is up to the voters of the dis
rict, therefore, to come to the aid
II the School Board in this Bond
Election on Saturday, and see to it
hat sufficient votes are cast in order
carry the measure, SO that the re-
lef, SO necessary and vital to the in
crests of the whole district, may be
orthcoming and the Improvements
often under way Immediately. Every
oter should not only do his duty on
aturday by coming out to the polls
md casting his own vote but he
hould interest himself to see that
is neighbor does likewise.
The bond issue should carry with
ut question, but let it be by good
ouslng majority. If the present
chool facilities, or lack of them.
ave 10 be longer continued, it will
e for the lack of sufficient interest
u the part of those whose duty and
opportunity it is now to settle this
exed question.
The honor Of Lakeland the char
cter OF her educational facilities,
he anxiety of paretns and the ply
cal mad mental welfare of our chill
ren, as we'll as our progress and de-
|elopment, depend upon what the
oters in this district do or do not ao
ext Saturday. Let all questions Of
city detail be put aside and give
lace to consideration of the main
uestion at issue. Details will be
Forked out in accordance with the
fishes of the majority when the time
omes.
Remember the time and place to
ote-the Board of Trade room in
ne city of Lakeland. Saturday July
!. Lakeland expects that every man
nat day will do his duty.
G. B. MURRELL.
Fl. d. BASSETT