Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-23
FOR A new HIGH
SCHOOL GYMNASIUM
School Board viii Submit PROPOSE
tion to Voters is Badly
Needed.

A meeting Of the school board was
Iheld Saturday night to consider tht
request made by the faculty and one
hundred and twenty-five students Of
1.-The Webster City high school, for 9
jnew gymnasium. After due consid-
|eration, the board decided that the
request was both needful and urgent
and will at once issue a call for
special election for the voting Of
bonds to be issued on the PROPOSE
Ition and will also advertise for bids
for the structure.
The plans for the Lincoln high
school building should have included
Ia gymnasium-one Of the most inn
portant adjuncts of we'll equipped
educational institution-but so long
as they did not, the only way to OBJ
tain one is to build it. The plans
are to float bonds. for $4,000 fdr a
one story frame structure so build
ed that later brick veneer or peb-
BILE dash may be added to the exter-
ior. The building will be 16 feet high
and G0xSO feet in dimensions. There
will be a small dressing room for
the girls and also a store room be-
sides the gymnasium proper. In
this room, there will be regular
classes in physical culture for both
girls and boys and basket ball for
each class so arranged that there
may be inter-class games. The boys
will thus be enabled to have football
practice all winter, which they have
always been obliged to forego, on ac-
count OF the lack of a place to play
In.
Z. The room. will be located about
where the large chautauqua tent
was last summer, and directly over
one Of the heat mains, that the sup
plying Of heat for the room will be
very easy. Electric lights and Wire
glass windows will supply the light
for day and night and the little
building will be a school center for
all class parties, class meetings and
exhibit work. There will be hum
dred uses for the building after it is
once built.
So great is the desire of the stu
dents for such structure that over
one hundred and twenty-five boys
and girls have already signed their
names to a petition and signified
their willingness to work in regular
classes of physical training.
Many of the boys Of the high
school have declared their intentions
to work upon the building under the
direction of carpenters, free Of
charge, Saturdays and after school
hours until the structure is complet-
ed. The girls have likewise determ-
ined to help by cooking the dinners
for the boys on the days they work.
1t will be at least four weeks before
the preliminaries will be arranged
and the building started but it is
thought that even with that delay
the gymnasium will be ready for oc-
cupancy by January LIST, 1916.
This is a proposition upon which
the women of the city may vote and
without doubt they will use their op-
portunity to good advantage.
A gymnasium has been one of the
crying needs of the school for years
for the physical development of
boys and girls is fully as important
as that of their minds, Nevada, al
town OF only little over 1000 in
habitants, has just issued bonds for
the building Of a, 100000 high
school building. The one in Webster
City cost $4,000 and already is in
adequate for daily use SO far as class
room is concerned. aside from the
lack of gymnasium. Without
question the bonds will be floated for
the amount required, but will only
do so with a full vote of all interest
ed in the plan.