Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-04

boards, in orGer that they may have
the four years course to which the
law entities them.
The Situation I'm Nutshell
The Lemoyne school board has is
sued a statement on the loan subject
to their people which sums up the
situation in general for all the
boroughs an communities affected,
! showing that the new school will be
a big Improvement and not any more
expensive than the present unsatis-
/ factory system. 1t is as follows:
| The undersigned school directors
of the Lemoyne School District here
by submit the following statement for
the information of the voters of the
Borough of Lemoyne, who desire to
vote at the coming election upon the
proposed loan for the establishment
of new joint high school in the
| school district of Camp Hill, Lemoyne,
Wormleysburg. East Pennsboro and
West Fairview. Our present High
school is a high school of the third
class, with a 3-year course, and a
nine-month term.
This year it will cost our district
about s2,100 to maintain it, this sum
includes the tuition of four pupils
from our last years graduating class
who are attending the Harrisburg
high school, (Pupils who graduate
from a school of the second or third
class. have the privilege. under exist
ing laws to complete their education
at a first class high school, at the ex-
pense of their school district. This
right. and this expense cannot be
evaded by the directors of the district. }
The tuition in Harrisburg per term
| for each scholar from an outside dis
trict is s71.25.
Our next graduating class includes
10 scholars, If these take advantage
] q NV Iax In, 1ao n
proportion as the last years class, and
. complete their education in the Har-
risburg High school 1t will increa sc
the expense s49S.75, which will bring
the cost of maintaining our high
! school up to about $4,000. The school
increase, the law prescribes their
duties and they are lawfully bound to
perform them. This expense will in
crease as our graduating classes in
crease in number.
! Every room in our school build
ing is now occupied, it will be only a
very short time until we will have to
make provisions for a larger school
building unless we go in with q joint
high school. By taking our high
school out of our present building, ii
Will accommodate our grades for a
numb of years to come.
Proposed New Joint High School
| " tiSipdlc III lI0 IleW joint mig
school of the first-class 1t is proposed
to issue bonds to the amount of S1o,-
| 800, bearing per cent. interest re-
| deemable in 80 years.
The expense each year would be:
Interest on bonds. s516; sinking fund
to redeem bonds, 1914; estimated cost
to maintain 40 pupils in joint high
school. $780, total, $500.
According to the above estimate,
which we consider conservative, It
would cost our school district about
the same as 1t would to continue under
our present system.
The new school would enable the
| pupils to complete their high school
course within 4 years In our own
schools. As it is they must attend the
Lemoyne high school three years and
the Harrisburg high school two years
to get first-class high rcnool educa-
ton under present condition, and 1t
costs the district to keep the pupils
In school five years where 1t would
only cost for four years If we had a
joint high school.
The board of directors will cheer
fully furnish any further information
| that may be desired by the voters.
"WM FETTROW,
CHRIST L. EBY,
''I. l.. UNGER,
"W. d. MUMMA,
IL. +. BAKER"