The log cabin Democrat., 1914-11-07
SCHOOL ANNFXFS FORMALLY OPENED CROWDS VISIT BUILDING CONWAY SAID TO HAVE ONE OF BEST SCHOOL PLANTS
 IN THE STATE.

Seven hundred and ten pupils and more than 200 visitors yesterday aft ernoon attended the exercises com Ilnemorating the opening of the two annexes to the Conway public school, which have just been completed. Fol lowing an inspection of the building, the crowd numbering nearly 1000, heard several addresses in the school auditorium
 The building was opened to the in- spection of the public from l to 2:3O o'clock, the exercises beginning at the latter hour. Polite Boy Scouts in uni form showed the visitors over both the new and old portions of the build ing and everyone who inspected the magnificent school plant was delight led with it.
 The new annexes consist of four large class-roOms, domestic science room fully equipped, manual training room to be equipped, toilet and lava tory rooms and room for gymnasium. The annexes are directly connected with the main building and are heat ed from the same heating plant. Sev- enty-one plumbing fixtures have been installed in the basements of the an- nexes, including 43 toilets, six show CTS, eight drinking fountains and the domestic science room fixtures. In the main building are II class rooms, rest room for teachers and sick pu- pills, library, bank room, superintend- ent's office and an auditorium equip ped with $50 opera chairs.
 This gives the school total of 22 large rooms, in addition to the audi torium, and the building is so arrang- ed that it is a model of convenience. Supt. J. F. Womack said he believes the new arrangement will soon save all it cost in preventing illness among the children, as on rainy days it will not be necessary for the children to leave the building for any purpose, and they will not be permitted to go out and get their shoes and clothing wet.
 The cost of the annexes is in round numbers $17,OOO The original build ing is valued at $45,000 and the grounds at $8,0OO to $1O,0O0, giving | the Conway pupils a school worth in the aggregate over $70,0O0.
 The exercises yesterday afternoon were opened with a song, America y by the school, after which Supt. Wom- ack introduced Secretary w. B. Hub- bell of the school board Prof. Hub bell told of the financial difficulties confronting the board and how the apparently impossible had been ac- complished in the construction of the annexes, which he believed gave Con- way the best school plant in a town of it's size in the state.
 Prof. J. I. McClurkin of Hendrix College made short talk, emphasiz- ing the importance of the pupils re- maining in school until they complet- ed the course.
 Mrs. Joseph Frauenthal, president of the Conway School and Civic Club, with which the School Improvement Association was merged, was heartily WIlcH Slt was SellSu upOil to tell of the work of that organiZa- ton for the benefit of the school. Mrs. Frauenthal said the association was organized in 1908 and she believed that it was due to it's efforts that the rickety and dangerous old frame building was torn down and the new brick building erected the following year. Besides furnishing the audito- rum, beautifying the campus, and purchasing books for the library the club, she said, had accomplished many. other improvements and the aggre- gate amount raised she estimated to be at least $2,000.
 Prof. B. w. Torreyson, professor of secondary education for Arkansas, who came up to inspect the plant on behalf of the state department of ed ucation, delivered a short but inter esting address, in which he compared the school methods of today with those of his early youth and comment ed upon the wonderful advance which had been made along this line. "The rearing and training of children" he said. lis the most important business in the world, and all other activities of life should be subordinated to this