Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-02

ance and substantial qualities of the
building is due to the architect and con-
| tractors. Ii. T. Waldron, of Rapid City,
was the architect, John j. Hutton, Of
Rapid City, the general contractor, and
the Rapid Plumbing Company, also of
Rapid City, installed the heating and
plumbing systems. People who have
seen both buildings say that the work
manship in ours is much better than
that in the new Rapid City High School
building.
The building is complete. The sacri-
flee of our time, money and labor that
this thing might be accomplished as well
as those farther sacrifices we shall be
called upon to make are by no means to
be regretted. From those portals,
wherein enter our little tots, emerges a
constant stream of young men and
women healthy in mind and body and
as well educated, if not better than the
children of our neghbors We are
pleased with the sI!endid number of
our graduates who have been unusually
successful in past years, How much
more pleased will we be to see the num-
Der doubled and trebled by the use of
modern methods and appliances.
While our minds are on matters per
tinent to the district it seems to us that
brief history of its organization and a
notation of the personnel of its first and
present Boards should not be out of
place.
In May, 1888, the residents of Custer
City by an election decided to organize
an Independent school district and elect
ed Board of Education. This Board
consisted Of Messrs. S. r. Shankland.
Odo Reder, ID. Mcdonald. Dickson and
Wells. They organized on May 10Th.
1888, and elected 5. r. Shankla land. presi.
dent, Odo Reder, vice president and J.
C. Dickoyer, clerk. d, Carrigan was the
first treasurer
On July ?, 1888, a petition signed by
fourteen residents of the territory ada
cent to the town limits was filed with
the Board Of Education. These people
requested the annexation TO the district
of all territory within two and one-half
miles of the corporate limits. Their
petition was granted The Board of
County Commissioners fonnd that this
was contrary to law and reduced the
boundaries one-half mile on each side.
This made the district approximately
five miles square, which is as it now
stands In May Of the following year
Jos. Kubler was elected a member and
President of the Board. Mr.. Kubler is
the present incumbent of that office
He has not held the office all these
years, for being member Of school
board is poor way to seek popularity.
The records of these early Board
meetings are full of interest from his
torical point OF view. but space does not
permit us to mention the various incl
dents. The one impression that fingers
with us is that however great the i'm
proyement in our methods of teaching
and the modernization of our buildings,
the board meetings of today are just as
militaristic as they were thirty years
ago.
This little panegyric should not be
brought to a close without some lauda-
tory mention of those whose earnest,
determined and self-sacrifcing efforts
have been crowned with success. We
refer to the members of the board aud
officers of the district during the last
and present years They are Mrs S. f.
Ainslie, Mrs. +. b. Wilson, Mrs. w. f.
Hanley, DR.. M. Long, NJ. A. Willis, Jos.
Kubler, Percy ii. Helm and George
Babcock, members of the board, VIM.
A. Simonton, clerk, and 7. W. Delicate,
treasurer. That they have been con-
sciencious in their work is sef-evident.
1t is for posterity to reap the harvest.