Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-04-10
BUILDING ONTO OLD BUILDINGS
is NOT EVEN PROPOSED AT
SPECIAL MEETING
STRONG FIGHT is MADE ON SITE
Advocates of Park Site Across the
River Lose Out by Only 26 Votes

The voters of Joint School District
No. / of the City of Ladysmlth and
= Town of Flambeau, assembled at the
highschOol building Wednesday even
ing in special meeting duly called,
authorized the school board to pro-
ceed with the erection of a new high
school building on block of the
Menasha Wooden Ware Co.'s Addi-
ton to Ladsmith and further voted
TO bond the district in the sum OF
g65, 900 for the erection of the build
llg and the purchase of the site
{ 11signated
AS soon as the necessary prelim-
inaries, including sale of the bonds
and acquiring title to the site are
concluded, work will be started pre-
pairing the ground for the erection
of the building and the actual work
of construction will be started at
the earliest possible moment. When
this edifice is completed, Ladysmith
center building of which it can be
justly proud; one that will be com
mensurata WitA the progr5 SIS this city
has MADE in 0.n7r ways and that will
compare favoraDly with the high
schools provided by other cities of
similar size
1t will mean to every child in the
district the opportunity of acquiring
a complete highschool education in
the public schools without sacrifice
of health on account of overcrowd-
ing or other unsanitary conditions
that have prevailed in the Ladysmith
schools in recent years. 1t will mean
that our children will be given as
commodious, as well-lighted and as
well-ventilated quarters as the chill
dren of other cities have, and as the
state contemplates every child in
Wisconsin shall have.
The new building will accommodate
the upper grades as we'll as the high
school for some years to come at
least, and also, probably, the kin
dergarten. With the two existing
buildings, there will then no longer
he any necessity for the almost-crim-
inal using cf three easements, as well
as attics and store buildings, in which
to house the children of our city dur
ing school hours. There will be am
pie room for the grades as we'll as
the highschool for several years or
until it is necessary, perhaps, to
build another ward graded school
when the growth of the city demands.
Fully five hundred people turned
out to the meeting Wednesday night
The assembly room was packed full
and many who came late were un-
able even to get into the room al
ALL The Railways and stairways We're
filled and many went home when they
saw it would be impossible for then
to get where they could see what
was going on. The meeting itsel
was a convincing argument for the
necessity for large assembly room
< for such gatherings, and such will be
provided in the new building.
After all had been said on the
streets, pro and con, regarding the
proposition of building, no sentimen
was manifested at the meeting a:
opposed to the erection of a new
highschool Nor did anyone advocate
building onto the existing school
houses as a solution of the problem
confronting the district. The onl.
questions brought up We're: Wha
should the building cost? and wher
should it be located?
The meeting was called to orde
by w. E. Thompson, of the school
board, who was chosen permanen
chairman Following q reading of tn