Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1913-12-19

IN need of a smoke consumer. /
This fact made the teacher more
sympathetic and tender hearted. |
and many a tear was shed as
relief to his feelings. |
For many years in Cedar City /
the same condition existed as to
the scarcity of books and the
limited supplies required by the
pupils as in the Old Fort, the !
teacher continued the collection
of tuition fees in the products
of the day as the prevailing |
legal tender, and the practice of |
boarding around was still in
vogue Conditions gradually
changed for the better. State
school laws made it possible for
trustees to handle the tuition
question entirely so that the
teacher was paid his quarterly
salary, part in cash and finally
a monthly salary, all in cash.
Wonderful changes for the
better have in recent years been
made in our school laws and in
our school system; the law pro-
viding for free schools, free
text books, free school supplies
and free literature makes it pos
sible for each child of school
age to have equal opportunity of
acquiring common school edu-
cation The burden of the par
ent of moderate means who used
to worry about the purchase of
text books and supplies and
about the payment Of tuition fees
for from one to six or seven chill
dren is removed. These hooks
and supplies are purchased to a
much better advantage by the
Trustees at saving of from fif-
teen to forty per cent of the cost.
and all the property of the dis
trict, including the Bank and
Mercantile establishments, is as
sessed to pay the bill.
Our school children have been
much better supplied with nee
essary books and materials for a
number of years. and our trus-
tees were among the first to fur
nish a splendid selection of H.
bi AIRY books as provided for
the school law. and Quue one =
rooms are genera tWean AL q
with good furniture and worRs
ing apparatus. If possible, tea
cheers who have taken a normal
training course or have had an
extended experience in, success.
full teaching are employed
and our schools will compare ia
vorably with most if not all of
the country district schools.
Wonderful strides were made
when the tustees, by taxing for
several years. constructed the
south part of the present dis
trict school house, consisting of
four rooms. The crowded con-
dition of the schools was re-
lieved for a short time. but it
was soon found necessary to
add two rooms on the north side
of this building and still another
two a few years later, owing to
the rapid increase of the school
population. A number of years
ago our school population out
: grew the present school build
ings, and the trustees have been
under the necessity of renting
from three to five rooms for
school purposes at a high rem
> tai. Our school population has
long since became fruitful
bough whose branches run over
{ the WALL" Under our present
) school system of grading the
! present school building, with its
eight rooms, will accommodate
comfortably about two hundred
! and forty pupils, and in a more
: crowded condition three humid
D red and twenty pupils or about
D one-half of the school population
e of the present Cedar City. We,
5 therefore. need at the present
: about double the amont of school
r room. A modern school building
: should be surrounded with suf-
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