The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-16
TAX BOARD FkVORS
HIGH SCHOOL BOND
ISSUE IN FRANKLIN

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A bond issue of s51. 200 for the con-
struction of a new high school build
ing at Whitewater, in Franklin town
ship, has been assured through the
forwarding from the office of the state
tax board of formal permit to issue
the bonds to the required amount.
The permit marks the end of a series
of legal DELAYS and numerous hearings
which have lasted over five years,
starting in 1917.
Bids were received on the building
in the month of April. 1917, but the
fact that war was declared caused
delay in building In July, 1921. bids
again were received The bids proved
unsatisfactory. and Aug. !, 1921 an
other hearing was held before the
state tax board The board took the
matter under advisement after this
hearing and rendered a decision in
December, 1921, when it granted the
bond issue. providing satisfactory bids
were received on the job.
In the meantime, contractors who
had submitted bids in July, 1921, pro-
| tested, claiming their bids of that date
! were binding. For this reason, re-
| hearing was held, Feb. 2. AS a result
| of this hearing, the tax board ordered
! re-advertising of the contract, and
| bids were opened April /. One bid
/ was received at this time, and ii was
! over the required amount The old
bidders then came forward and re
/ leased their claims on the contract,
| Withdrawing their bids.
Approved by Board
| Re-advertising and receiving bids Oh
May 5, the trustees submitted the bids
| to the state tax board, and they were
! approved.
when the building at Whitewater
/ is completed" said Superintendent
| Williams Tuesday, Franklin township
will have one of the best schools sys-
| TENS in the county,
The Whitewater building is to be
of brick construction, of 10-room ca
pacity, and will have provision for fu-
| ture expansion of the schools. All
the schools in Franklin township are
now consolidated with the exception
| of Bethel.
! Excavation work on a new $4,000
grade and high school building at Will,
liamsburg was started Monday. Foun.
dation for new $4,000 school build
ing already is going in at Hagers
town. The Good Conctruction com
pany of Columbus, Ind, got the con
tract for erecting the high school
building at Cambridge City when bids
/ were opened recently The company
bid s65,000 on the high school build
ing alone. The company also took con
tracts for repairing the old high school,
building at Cambridge City and foi
putting up a new grade school build
ing at Pershing.
Have Good Schools.
With the completion of this years
building program, Wayne county will
i have one of the finest sets of school
buildings in the state. New buildings
will be in use at Cambridge City, Hag
erstown, Williamsburg, Whitewater
and Boston. A new building was just
! completed at Centerville, and is only
partially occupied to date. 1t will be
filled next fall, however
Wayne county, working under the
direction of T. A. Mott, county sup
erintendent, in 1892, was the first tc
start consolidation of schools. The
first consolidated township school il
the state was that at Webster, in 1892
Wayne township also leads in hav
ing the first commissioned township
high school in the state, that at Foun
tain City, commissioned in 1900.
In the five years after 1900 there
, were quite wave of consolidation
J over the county, and several buildings
: were erected. The consolidated schoo
} movement spread over the state
shortly after this time.
: The need for modern building con
struction and for more room for th'
schools was stressed by Mr.. Williams
/ in his statement Tuesday. AT tn
time these buildings were erected, il
the year 1900 and shortly after" h
said, there was no manual training
no agriculture and no domestic scienc
, or any of the other modern classes
: The buildings were merely classrooms
! nothing more. With the presen
: building program ample provision i
/ made for expansion in the next feV
years"