Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-06-08

A special meeting of the board of
trustees of Independent School Dis
trict No. 4 was held Saturday night
at which time plans were perfected
for the calling for a bond election
at which the voters of the school dis
trict will decide whether or not to
bond in the sum of $SS,000 for a new
high school building.
The bond election will be held in
the high school building on June 10Th
between the hours of one and five
o'clock in the afternoon. To vote at
this election one must be a qualified
elector of the state of Idaho and a resi-
dent freeholder or householder of the
district.
The school board has been endeav-
oring to work out a plan to care for
the increased number of students for
the past six months and after going
over the situation thoroughly there
seems but one thing to do and that
is to provide a new school The plan
of renting rooms and of building ad-
ditions to the present buildings, have
both been considered but have been
passed up as inadvisable, too expen-
sive for the benefit to be derived and
besides neither plan would take care
of increases in the student body which
will come in after years.
The proposed new school building
will be thoroughly modern and will
meet the needs of the district for the
next ten years to come, it is believed.
The site of the building has already
been contracted for by the school
board and will consist of ample
ground in the Union church block.
Many possible sites were considered
by the school board and prices on the
same were secured. This site is CEN
trally located and fits admirably in
the plan to make the new schoolhouse
a community center where all kinds
of public meetings and social events
may be held. This site was also one
of the cheapest of all the available
locations in the district. Regardless
of whether or not the proposed bond
issue carries the site will remain
the property of the school district and
will be available at some future date.
The proposed new school will be a
three story brick structure, steam
heated and having modern lighting
and ventilating devices. 1t will be a
building of architectural beauty-one
which the city and county may be
proud of. 1t will be of the type to be
found in the most progressive cities.
The plans call for an auditorium
that will take care of at least 225 stu
dents. Fixed desks will be placed in
this auditorium. One of the features
of the building will be Gymnasium
the dimensions of which will be 70 by
40 feet. The gymnasium will be pro-
vided with gallaries and will have a
seating capacity of at least 500. In
this room it is proposed to hold COM
munity meetings, social affairs for the
public, athletic events of all kinds,
dances, etc. This room will meet a
long-felt need in the town.
The new building will have large
manual training room; a domestic sci
ence room, laboratory, commercial
department room, several recitation
rooms, superintendent office, teach
ers' rest room and cloak rooms.
The plans for the new building are
being drawn by the firm of White
house & Price, Of Spokane. This firm
makes a speciality of designing school
houses and public buildings and in the
past ten years has had charge of the
construction of some 80 of the largest
and best schools of several western