Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-06-16
VOTERS DECIDE ON
TEACHERS MANSE
Heavy Vote Polled at Alberta in
Special School Election to
Bond District

Inc cOnSOlldaCed Scn0Ol district al
Alberta voted in favor of erecting a
teachers manse at the special cleo
tiOn held last Saturday. The ques-
tion of bonding the district for the
sum of So, 900 to erect a home for
teachers drew out an enormous vote
1876 out of the estimated possible
total of $50. The bond issue carried
with nine majority, the vote being
72 to So.
The annual task of securing suit
able and convenient boarding places
for the teachers will soon be a thing
of the past at Alberta A handsome
manse will no be erected on the school
grounds and the estimated cost will
be Sc, 900. Prof. Grafelman and fam
lily, or his successor, will occupy part
of the fiat and the other rooms will
be furnished to the teachers who will
have use of kitchen and all other
necessary equipment that go to make
housekeeping a success. The school
board will fix the rental price. The
idea found unanimous favor with the
teaching staff at the school and every
one of the teachers assisted in the
campaign of education prior to the
special election.
The proposition as presented to the
taxpayers of the district involves the
raising of only $4,000 cash to meet
Immediate cost of construction. The
school board expects to sell the pre-
sent residence property occupied by
Prof. Grafelman and family, proceeds
from this sale being estimated at
81 900, but may be much more. The
Rockefeller interests have appropriate
ed the sum of $4,000 available now
as soon as the work of building COM
mences. That leaves the district 81,
600 on hand with which to commence
operations. The rentals from the
teachers manse will reach $24O or
more per year and this sum will be
placed at interest and in eight or nine
nine years the cost of the teachers
manse will have been paid and the
taxpayers will have a handsome &c.
600 building on the grounds all paid
for without having cost them the loss
of a single dollar. After that the
building will be income property and
may be regarded as a tax reducer.
The Rockefeller interests are not
making So, 900 donations promiscu-
ously to school districts and many of
those at Alberta who opposed the
manse proposition at first soon saw
the great advantage of acting wisely
at the Saturday election. Only one
other school in the state, that at
Cleveland, Lesueur county, was given
consideration by the Rockefeller in
terests.
81 don't know just when we shall
commence work on the new manse,"
said one of the Alberta school officers
Monday in discussing the results of
the election. "We really didn't ex-
pect to find So voters in the district
who would object to getting So, 900
free for the school district. When the
manse is completed it will be return
ing money to US every day. At the
end of eleven or twelve years it will
pay back to US the $4,000 as we'll as
pay US for the property we are going
to sell for 1000 or more. That
means that in that length of time
we shall have made $500 year for
the district. The taxes won't be in
creased any. 1t is the same PROPOSE
tion as man signing note for the
other fellow who builds a house.
When the builder is through and has
paid for the house he presents it to
you for having signed his note. You
have not spent cent but only as
sumed risk. ANY business man in