The Pulaskian., 1918-10-25
FIFTEEN THoUsAN DDoLLARs MORE FOR THE WYE SCHOOL.

MORE FOR THE WYE SCHOOL.
 Tn soliciting support for the Wye school I was given an option on 5000 acres of land on the railroad extend l ing not over one and one-half miles from it. It comes within two miles of Wye and there is one station with in one-half mile of it and another on the line and still another place on the land where supplies are unloaded Thus all this land will be within two miles of station. The conductor will let you off at any of these points l to look at this land. The price of this land is such that l can donate all l above S5 an acre to the school and will up to $15,000 This S15.000 will be used to secure good roads across the mountain to the school house, or so much thereof as is necessary. To make this binding and secure the school the people of Wye must donate l land to the school in sufficient quanti i ty for school ground, experimental farm, teacherage and toWnsite. It must he in easy walking distance of the railroad for children.
 The townsite is necessary because it is proposed to build a teacherage or home for each teacher This, as there will be from six to a dozen town and will require stores. as there is no town at Wye now. Ii the school creates one it should have the profit from it in selling town lots. Such profits and a nice little town on the railroad will make the school a sue cess. I have commenced this solely for the benefit of the children and am determined that they shall secure every dollar of wealth that it creates that it is rossible to secure to them Incideptly it is going to benefit grown people immensely. People who own land adjoining the present school site can retain it on the same section line 1 by either donating part of their land | or listing it all for sale with me for the 1 benefit of the school, at the same prices they are now trying to sell 1t | for.
 l fund any district in Maumelle town ship, by majority of it's school cleo tors signing a petition to come into the consolidated school can have $500 at once as follows: The district first r aking the best road on permanent ght of way to the selected location for the school will receive the first 10 and each district as it improves i'5 road will in turn receive $500 un- til the $15,000 fund is exhausted or ao much thereof as is realized. Perry z, unty school district adjoining, in- c''iding Oak Grove and adjoining dis 1 tricts. can come in on same terms. rhornburg and nearby districts can come in on same terms, except that the roads for those districts shall lead to Thornburg and from Thornburg the children shall be transported in cars over the Fourche River and Indian Territory Railway
 Another yet larger land owner has promised to do as much as will be necessary in land matters, Another 1 land. owner has placed nearly one section of land at my disposal. One l hundred and sixty acres of it is near creek bottom land on top of the noun tain within two miles of Wye, the re mainder being within one mile of the Rock Island Railway The price of this land is $9 an acre, one half to the school fund. Thus you can easily see that enough money can be realized to put the roads in good shape for auto busses and erect temporary i buildings, which can afterward be used for teacherages to start the school and it should enable the school to continue with only the amount Of school taxes now allowed by law
 A consolidated school having a teacher for each grade or each study usually does not open until 10 a. m and closes at 3 p. m. and at the same time gives the children a better edu- cation than the district schools. It is l my intention to raise a sufficient fund to supply the school with moving pie lures to illustrate the lessons There 1 will also be pianos, photographs and 1 every possible aid to the study of mu- 1 sic. There must also be typewriteTs for the study of stenography and book keeping. There will be specimens of minerals and crystals for the study Of mining and there will be all kinds of l flowers, plants, shrubbery, trees and crops for the study of botany, agri- culture, orchards, gardens, flowers, l etc, and there will be specimens of 1 (Continued on Page 8.)