Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
School Board. in Response to Over.
whelming Petition, Vote Cnani.
mOusly TO Abandon the
North Building.
PUPILS TO THE SOUTH BUILDING
Half Day Session in South School,
The Arrangement for the
Attendance.
(FrOm Fridays DaiIy.)

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The school board last evening un-
animously voted to abandon the north
central school building. Their action
followed the presentation of a petit
tion, signed by an overwhelming
majority of school patrons whose
children attend school in this build
ing, asking it's abandonment
Go to South Building.
Beginning Tuesday, all grades that.
formerly went to the north building.
will attend school in the south build
ing. 1t is hardly likely that school
can be held there Monday morning, as
Q great many seats have to be changed,
but it is expected that regular sessions
will be begun Monday afternoon. All
pupils attending the south building
will have half day sessions.
These go in Morning.
The grades taught by the following
teachers will attend in the morning,
beginning at s o'clock. except the first
primary, which will come at $50:
Miss Lane Miss Whaley
Miss Robinson Miss Edwards
Miss latham Miss Fade
Miss Mcfarland
These go In Afternoon.
The grades taught by the following
teachers will 90 in the afternoon. be-
Uinninv nt I N'o1onE.
Miss Stark Miss Evans
Miss Baker ELiss Dundon
Miss Mikel Miss Genung
Miss Mcintosh.
Resolution Passed by Board.
The resolution passed by the board
follows:
whereas, petition has been pre-
sented to this board reading as fol-
lows: We the undersigned parents
who have children going to school in
the north building. as well as others,
request that you discontinue the use
of the said building for school purpos-
es, and that you find other quarters
'oi VIC Shliule Gil. we leet tnat after
many examinations of said building by
competent men and it having been
in each and every instance found to
be unsafe and unsanitary this request
should be granted at once"
And it appearing to the board that
said petition has been signed by 2ll
persons, 15S being parents of children
actually attending school in the build
ing referred to, and So, being other
school patrons and residents of the
district; and it further appearing to
the board that it would be unwise to
continue maintaining the schools in
said building with the present feeling
OF anxiety on the part of parents and
school patrons as evidenced by said
petition, and the board having now
considered said petition and being
fully advised in the premises;
BE 1t Resolved, that the said north
central school building be, and it is
hereby. ordered Immediately discon-
tinued for school purposes; and the
is hereby directed 10
arrange the best and most suitable
facilities in the other school buildings
of the district for the children hereto
fore attending in said north building:
and for that purpose the superintend-
ent is authorized, as he deems best, to
arrange schedules for half day ses-
sions in all the various grades, and
to rearrange the various school rooms
and the school equipment to accom-
modate the schedules so adopted by
him.
w. SIS
Mother Passes Away.
Mrs. Chas. Tackett and Mrs Wm
N~l a.