The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1920-04-15
WHAT OUR Neigh
BORIS ARE DOING. .
TO HIGH SCHOOLS

/ W m@ N6OOES
H People VII be interested in II.
way other counties have met IL aroA,
lem Of better high schosi sdsaafaees.
A few weeks ago questioaaises were
sent out to about IS counties end 70
all counties having county high
schools. Below are extfaets from
three Of the best letters received in
reply:
Holyoke, Colo, Mar. 25, 1890.
Prof. v. H. Rowland, Prin.,
Sedgwick County High School.
Julesburg, Colo.
Dear Professor: In answer to your
queries Of recent date I will say first
that the assessed valuation of Phil
lips county high school district in
cludine all the county is Sl7,l71 $50,
and the high school tax is 2 mills with
bond interest levy Of 2-lO of one
MIL.
The high school district owns two
buildings valued at $l25,OOO. The
main school building at Holyoke and
q branch school building at Haxtun. ;.
The original building at Holyoke
was bult by direct taxation and an
addition was made by bonded issue
and finished by direct taxation. At
the same time that the addition was
made to the Holyoke plant, a new high
! school building was erected at Hax-
tun, where branch school was estab-
lished two years previous. Both of
the schools offer four years course
and both schools will graduate stud
ents this year. The course of study
is uniform in both schools. No inter
change of teachers between the two
schools. The entire management Of
these schools is under the control of
Ralph Robb as Superintendent. There
are nine teachers employed at Hol-
yoke and five teachers at Haxtun.
! The committee has aimed to give each
school their proportionate share of
the money derived from taxes. Meth
| er of these school have any connection
with the local schools nor. is it favor
ed by this office. We find that if the
super .ntendent put in the time that |
he should with the high school work |
that there is little time left for sup
ervision of local schools, besides the !
high school work is growing in our |
county and demands are already COM
ing in for more branch high schools. !
Yours for better schools,
. CHAS. R. PETER,
County Supt.
Holyoke, Colo, Mar. 8. 1920.
Mr.. V. H. Rowland,
Prin. Sedg Co. High School,
Julesburg. Colo
Dear Sir: Our branch school at
uoxk,,n nlol
ago with very small beginning of
part of the HaXtun grade school
The next year we occupied two rooms
teachers and an enrolment of twen-
ty--five. During the next summer
bonds were voted to erect two build
ings; one as branch of the county
high school at Haxtun and one as an
addition to the main school at Hol-
yoke. Accordingly $4,000 build
ing was built by the county at Hax-
tun. The total average enrolment in
the Haxtun branch school now is
sixty-seven, and in the main school
one hundred and thirty-nine. The
branch school is supported entirely
by county taxes. The total expenses
of the branch school with five teach
ers for this year will probably be
close to $9,5O0.O0.
Very truly yours,
RALPH ROBB,
Principal.
P. S. might say that the branch
school at Haxtun has solved many
problems for us, particularly the jeal-
ously between the two towns as far
as school matters were concerned.
Montrose, Colo, Mar. 26, 1920.
Mr.. V. H. Roeland,
Julesburg, Colo.
NV dear Mr.. Rowland: We have
two branches of the Montrose County
High School, one located in Olathe,
and the other at Nucia. Both of
these schools are conducted in build
ing owned by the District in which
the school is located, but the plan or
agreement has been to build our own
building when they. have an average
daily attendance of eighty pupils for
the year.
We offer full four years course at
both branches. The work is accredit-
ed and just as soon as we have
three teachers, which we have at
both branches, we carry the same
work and upon the same plan as at the
home school in Montrose There is
no exchange of departmental work by
the branches and the county high
school as they are too far apart The
number of teachers at each place is
apportioned according to the number
of pupils.
Trusting that this information NAV
meet your needs. | am
Yours very truly
WIN. MELCHER,
1 lClRREl"CIAN ON Icr or MN