The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-01-10
IN ideal place for community gather

an ideal place for community gather
ings.
The teacherage is located on the Sec
ond floor. Here are their bed rooms
and kitchen and if one can judge from
the appearance of these rooms Friday
night, these teachers some day are go
ing to make mighty good housekeep-
ers. The kitchen is provided with a
range so that the pupils may prepare
hot lunches.
The plans for the building were fur
nished by Ira L. Rush, a Minot archi-
tect Mr.. Rush was present at the
dedication and if he is little proud of
his accomplishment, he surely has a
right to be.
Will Teach Agriculture
Agriculture will be one of the stud
les taught in this school and it is a
big, important subject. The school
board procured a five-acre tract of
land where experimental plots will be
maintained. Trees and shrubs will be
PLANTED about the school grounds in
the spring and the place will be 9TH
erwise beautifed Mr.. Mouck, a men,
Der of the school board, who was man.
ager of the Great Northern Nursery
for years, will be of valuable assist
ance in supervising this part of the
work.
The school building is located in the
southwestern part of the district but
the board did not desire to locate it
any closer to Minot for the reason
that those living near Minot can just
as well attend the Minot schools. The
consolidated district covers IS square
miles. School opened Monday and
while the attendance now is but twen-
ty-fve, it will grow steadily. The dis
trict will maintain no school BUSES at
present. but the members of the dis
trict will be allowed an average of so
cents per family per day for trans
portating their children to and from
school.
Community Singing
After President Mark Chatfeld had
called the meeting to order, Mrs. Amy
Simpson, teacher of music in the Mi
not Normal school, took charge and
for some time Community Singing was
enjoyed. The old and the young join
ed in the singing and how their faces
lighted up as they sang keep the
Home Fires Burning" "The U. S. A..
Forever TO the tune of Dixie, and
other patriotic airs.
President Chatfeld delivered short
address, saying: "This building be-
longs to you; you paid for it with your
own money, and we want you to use
It as you have tonigh hit. hope that
this will be the first of many such
gatherings" He then introduced An
thony Walton who said that this build
ing was an example of what education
and cooperation could do. eve need
something better than the little coun-
try school house," he said. He told
of the little tar papered school house
he helped to build in Tatman town
ship in the early days and stated that
he hoped that soon that township
would have such school as this one.
He then gave a reading on~"Fire and
Butter" and proved that as an orator
he has most of our young Daniel Web
sters "backed off the boards"
The Governors Address
Governor Frazier was then intro
duced and he was given an ovation.
He said in part: always like to
attend the dedication of a consolidated
schools, for / feel that they are do
ing more good for the boys and girls
than any of the other schools and |
am sorry we do not have more of
them. There are 447 consolidated
schools in North Dakota, the largest
number of such schools of any state
in the Union. We have too many one
room schools.
cat this time of our national crisis
we have much work to do. The great
est problem is to bring the war to a
successful issue. The boys and girls
have their part to do in conserving
food and raising food. It will be
mighty hard to get along in North
Iakota, we have such large agricul-
utral state; 10000 North Dakota boys,
our best workers, have left and their
places are hard to fill. We will do the
best we can under the circumstances,
and do what we can to produce large
crop. Our own boys are in France
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