Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-06-15
HOLD ELECTION
NEXT SATURDAY
VOTERS WILL DECIDE ON THE Is
SUANCE OF BONDS In SUM
OF $SS,00O
70 PROVIDE A NEW HIGH SCHOOL
MANY Reasons Given for Support OF
Bond Issue.

One of the most important bond cleo
tions that has been held in Bonners
Ferry for years will be conducted at the
high school building between the hours
of one and five o'clock Saturday af-
tprnoon, June 10, when the Qualified
electors of Independent School District
No. A, who are resident freeholders and
householders, will decide whether or
not the district shall be bonded in the
sum of $SS,000 for the purpose of
buiding a new high school building to
no constructed on what is called the
wales site Two-thirds of the voters
Of the district must favor the bond is
sue before it can become legal.
Great interest has been manifested
the past week in the proposed bond
issue. The matter has been presented
10 the Kootenai Valley Commercial
Club and this organization has in turn
presented it to the members of the
Readers Club and other civic and also
social organizations. A special com
mittee was appointed by the CONNER
cial club to further the interests of
the proposed bond election and this
committee is now actively at work.
There seems to be considerable SEN
tment in favor of the proposed new
high school building. Citizens who are
parents are particularly interested in
securing a new building as they real
ize, perhaps more than any one else,
that the schools are overcrowded and
that the present frame grade building
is no longer suitable and that large
Fairgrounds should be provided.
If the bond issue is to carry it is
necessary that every qualified voter
come out Saturday and vote If you
want to see Bonners Ferry continue
to lead as an educational center as far
as its public schools are concerned.
vote Bonds, Yes" If you want
fine, large high school building cen
trally located where it will be seen by
those passing through town on the
trains or auto routes, vote Bonds, /
Yes" If you want high school build /
ing that will meet the needs of the |
district for years to come, that will !
draw to our town, high school pupils
from all parts of the county, that will /
be community center, that will pro-
vide large and comfortable auditor
ium for all kinds of public meetings,
that will give your children educa-
tiOnal advantages they could enjoy in
other towns, vote Bonds, Yes"
This matter cannot be delayed if the
new school building is to be ready for
use this fall. Work must be started
at once. Your vote will count.
Following are a few of the reasons
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favor the proposed bond election.
l-Because the public schools of
Bonners Ferry are overcrowded and
more room is required.
Two new rooms must be provided
in the grade building this year, and
PROBABLY two more rooms next year. !
There is no place to put these rooms
unless the school board again resorts
10 the same expedient they did five
years ago which was to convert pri-
Vately owned frame buildings, improp-
erly heated and ventilated into school
rooms, without sanitary conveniences,
t.aefeDy endangering the health and
hYes OF the children.
-Greater high school accommoda-
uons must be provided. The enroll
ment OF the Bonners Ferry high school
increased 100 per cent in the last year I
ana the enrolment for the next four
u IVe years, with normal develop
ment' will be at least 25 per cent a '
ssear The departments in the present $
ulsn school building are already over
Iowded and cannot be enlarged to /
Il .sAe care Of the increasingly growing 7
SIIhe present grade building is a
"uouen en structure, housing over 300
PUPILS The building is difficult to 0
lsse lfa0 ana is a continual fire menace. t
uOs1 states in the Union prohibit the b