The Press., 1919-11-13

i Monday evening drew perhaps the
 largest attendance that has been pres
 ent at such meeting for number o1 years. w. H. Heald was chairman l Though other matters were to be voted
 on the one concerning the report o1 the committee, elected at the last
 meeting to look into the needs of a
 new high school building was the cause of the large turn out. The de- | cisions made upon this matter was to give the committee vote of thanks | for their work and elect a new com
 mittee of five (one of them to be a
 member of the present town school committed chosen from the floor to Investigate present school needs and to report at legally named meeting of the electors to be held on the second Monday of March, 1920, the re- suit of their investigations, and also to report at said meeting ways and means for raising the necessary funds for the erection of said new school
 building should they decide to report
 in favor of same. The committee
 elected was as follows: J. H. Valen- tine, A. D. Bernardo, R. w. Smith, J.
 R. Parkhurst and F. G. Sanford. The
 first committee was not empowered to
 recommend ways and means for rais-
 ing the money for a new building
 al To,
 the meeting were acted upon as fol-
 lows: Voted to appropriate $10O for
 the observance of Memorial day;
 voted to instruct the selectmen to give
 note for $215.30 to the town to make
 good the deficiency now existing in the
 town deposit fund; voted to accept the
 selectmcn's estimate of $94 ,O55.36 as
 the tudget for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1920. The clause concern
 ing the school question was the last one in the call and when it was
 drought up throats were cleared and everyone got interested. c. B. Pinney read the report of the committee. In it was mentioned the rapid growth of the town during the war and that the new additions Eeing put on some of the manufacturing establishments assures further growth It contained an enumeration of the attendance in the Springs grammar school and high school and the OvercroWded condition in the lower grades of the grammar school especially The committee had made thorough investigation of the building and found that the basement and first and second floors were in very good condition. The third floor t1nxv tn hn The light and ventila- tion was poor and the danger in case of fire, quite grave The committee vas unanimous in condemming the use of the attic for any class purposes whatsoever. Mr. Pinney also read a letter that had been received from the state school inspector in which was said that the third floor of the attic was regarded as unfit for school work and that some of the grammar grades were much OvercrOwded. They rec that a separate building for use of the high school be erected. They had conferred with different architects and were able to give esti- mates of the cost of a new building. To erect the kind of school they be- lieVed the town would like to have if it could afford it would cost $180,5OO architect had given them plans for a less elaborate building which would cost $135,0 without the furniture. A third estimate was $75,- 900 for an up-to-date building. This estimate did not include the cost of or the architects fee. Much discussion followed this report. Tn the opinion of some a grammar school was needed more than a high school. A motion made by R. A. Moth nick that the consideration of a new school be postponed for two years was ost. The Italian voters had met in heir hall early this month and had lrawn up a resolution which they submitted at the meeting. In it they that some of the money for a new school building, if erected, should be raised by subscription and that the new building be erected on the site of-the present one. It was finally moved by J. H. Valentine that new committee be elected. motion then made to adjourn was quickly ap- proved.