The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1914-04-18
Colville School System
Stands in Front Ranks

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the fine large brick and concrete
structure in the north part OF
town on a slightly eminence which
lendss enchantment to the view
from any point of the valley.
This building furnishes the
High School nearly all of the mod
ern cOnveniences. It's class rooms
are of convenient size and form,
well lighted, and heated with
steam. There are twelve class
rooms, twenty-four feet by TWEEN
ty-eight feet in size. The audi
torium is large room that viii
ordinarily be used as a school as
sembly and study room. It is
supplied with a fine large stage
and is so arranged that the COR
ridor which passes along the full
width of the auditorium at its
rear may be thrown into it, thus
adding to it's length and giving
a seating capacity sufficient to ac-
commodate large audience.
Other rooms are the superinten-
dents office. the library, two large
laboratories, boys and girls
apartments with lavatories and all
modern fixtures, and a twelve-foot
corridor on each floor extending
through the entire length of the
building, a distance of more than
one hundred feet.
Among it's many convenient
pieces of equipment is it's large
electric self-winding clock. having
in connection an automatic pro-
gram machine that controls the
ringing Of the gongs inside and
outside The master clock is m
the superintendent office. This
piece of mechanism governs the
actions of the hands on the tower
dials, and the clocks in the other
buildings as well as the gongs al
ready described. All in all, Col
vile High School is elegantly
furnished, has the finest and most
valuable equipment, and it's ar
rangements and appointments are
the most nearly complete of any
school in eastern Washington out
side Of the city Of Spokane.
This fine building with its mod
ern equipment is but an expression
of the intelligence and general
high standing Of the citizenship
Of Colville. For all the years that
the High School has been main
tanned, Colville has never received
one cent of tuition from non-resi-
dents, deeming is sufficient re-
ward to be able to furnish gratu-
itously these facilities to the non
resident patrons Of our city. The
citizens therefore swing the doors
of it's High School wide open not
only to those residing within her
borders but to every one where
soc 'er he comes.
Where nearly forty per cent OF
the enrolment of our schools
comes from outside Of our own
school district it is easily seen
why our houses held for rent are
filled as soon as school opens in
the fall. Some of this forty per
cent bring their families with
them, others board, others rent
rooms and board themselves and
the remainder ride in on horse
back or in buggies or other We
hicles. In any of these cases, the
fact Of their living here brings all
these families here to trade and do
other business, thereby making
Colville their business center as
well as their educational center.
We have pupils from Okanogan
county, Ferry county, from Idaho
and from many parts OF Stevens
county The fact Of their atten-
dance gives the district the benefit
of their attendance money which
amounts to about "A cents for
each days attendance of a pupil,
making a little over $3.50 per
month each for the 60 non-resi-
dent students Of the High School.
If you stop to figure this up you
would find it would pay the dis
trict from this source about $4,000
annually.
We really have had most graft
flying reports from the different
institutions of higher educations
about our students. We have
three students in California Uni
versity at Berkeley, California, all
acquitting themselves very well
indeed Notwithstanding that the
university has one Of the most
strenuous courses of the whole
list of such institutions. We have
one student in a women's college
called Mills College for Women.
This young Lady won 81 200
scholarship at Mills College. by