Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-25
Best Of Educational. Facili-

,.. ties
we now come to the most important
part Of East Grand Forks attain
ments, its public school system. ana
there is no better in the state, This
is saying a great deal. for Minnesota
has won a nationwide reputation for
the excellency of her public school
system. The Central high school Of
East Grand Forks is a spacious. three
story brick, with stone trimmings, size
7ox17o feet, built or a site covering
a whole block. 3ooxsoo feet. The
building. and. equipment cost 100000.
It is steam heated. electric lighted.
with the fan system OF ventilation. The
first floor has the primary department,
domestic science, laboratory. cooking,
dining and sewing rooms, teachers
normal training department, agricul-
ture room, physical and chemical la
.boratories. shower baths ana dress
ing rooms. The second floor, three
grade rooms, .superintendent's office,
high school: assembly room, five 'recita-
ton rooms. two rooms for the com
mercial department. library. reading
and principals office. Third
floor, two grade rooms, while. On the
other side Of the hall, is the depart
mental. seventh and eighth grades,
!. spacious assembly. hall and three reci-
tation rooms. large auditorium with
seating capacity Of $50, also used as
the East Side opera house; has full
stage, with. scenery. and dressing
rooms. 1t is fitted UP with removable
opera chairs, as it is utilized for the
SCHOOL gymnasium. The fourth floor
is devoted entirely to the manual
training departments. There is a
large work shop, equipped with mod
ern- machinery, including combination
wood worker, consisting of five ma
chimes as also lathes. Then there is
the mechanical. drawing department,
etE-s~- - .-rH - I'll -E-
finishing rooms, where the staining
Int painting is done, and the .direc-
tors office, Taken as a whole the
Central high school is. complete from
ar educational standpoint. Besides
the grade and regular academic high
school work, it offers a complete
course in agriculture. teachers nor
NAL; training, cooking, sewing and
manual training. During the winter
hs$three months short course for stu
dents who r unable to attend the
school year, in$which all the indus
trial. courses are offered, and a win
ter's night school, which Is largely
attended.
There is also the Lincoln school, a
two story brick, built at a. cost of $780,
900. where the. first to the sixth
grades. are taught, -. ~
The school system is under. Super
>intendent H. 3. Wolfe. who came here
in 1912. The corps OF teachers. COM
prise ten for the Central high, college
graduates. and fifteen grade teachers,
normal graduates. The monthly pay
roll Of the schools il. $4,000. The
school census 1850 and is rapidly in.
creasing.
This does not. however, cover the.
extent or thoroughness of the educa-
,tional advantages of the public school
system Of East Grand Forks; for there.
Ia a ten acre school farm tract that
was purchased BY the school board in.
1919. This demonstration tract is To-
Gated half q mile north of the Central
high school. The work now statte1l
is = flve year crop rotation, with
half acre in each plat; half acre O.
clover. two acres Of SIX row Ader-t
brucker barley. two acres of alfalfa,
two acres Of Minnesota No. 13 corn.
The school farm Is doing a great work
that will prove Of inestimable value
to the rising generation in crop ro-
tationsor scientific farming.
HsEe are Aour TuEai scIools asso-
ciated. with the city school Of East
Grand Forks.
ut would not be fair or courteous
to omit mention OF. the board of edu-
cation, the men who have taken such
deep interest Ia the education Of the
East Grand Forks rising generation,
and those.tn the outlying district, who
are taking advantage of this splendid
free school educational system. The,
members Of the board Of education
are: John Bailey, president; J. R.;
Johnson,s secretary and Thomas Pow
ers, treasurer. with%the following di-
feetors: N. J. Nelson. Or. ". e. Will
son and John C.Lse I'd
cry oneSof them Ems s:t-ar