The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-04-29

and girls who have to leave home to
attend. How to care for these young
people, increasing in numbers every
year as they are, is becoming a seri-
Gus problem.
The most likely solution seems to
be the establishment of a county
high school and junior college. Par
ent teacher associations, high school
students and their parents, young
people who have to go into far parts
of the state now for their normal
training, and our most forward look
ing leaders in county affairs are all
discussing the desirability and posi-
bility of such an institution. This
county high school and junior college
idea has been in the minds of the
people for some time, but it has been
thought best to pay off the county'S
accumulated warrant and bonded in
debtednesS before assuming a new
indebtedness. The warrant indebt-
edness has now been entirely paid
off and the interest Indebtedness re-
duced $4,000 per year. At this
rate, it will not be long until the
county will be entirely out of debt;
then, if not before the county will be
in a position to establish a county
high school and junior cllege.
COMERTOWN SCHOOL.
Prof. j. w. Johnston of Conner
town writes enthusiastically of the
schools of his district. He says:
This is the finest little. school l.
was ever in. | like Comertown peO-
pie and the students fine indeed"
So well pleased are the people of
Comertown district with their own
little school that the idea of a county
high school is far from popular with
some of them. Prof. Johnston says:
The people of this town want a.
home high school. They have tt. pay
their own bills and figure they can
get through with less expense and
secure better results at home than
by sending their children away from
parental care and guidance. Conner
town is for a local high school"
Without arguing either for against.
county high school, just here. the
writer wishes to explain that. the es-
Enlistment of a county high school
does not eliminate the district high.
school. When there. is. a. county high
school each district decides for itself
whether or not it will maintain a
high school of its own Just as if. does
now.
SCHOOL BENEFITS,
Sheridan County people seem new
er to weary patronizing affairs put
on for the benefit of schools. Even
in districts. with levies. as. high as, So
mills literary programs. must be. re-
peated as in Westby,, to accommo-
date the crowds who would. patron
lie them. Outlook has put on two
carniyals-one last year and another
this year., netting $40 and $296, re-
spectively..
Most of this money is to be used
for their library which already num-
bers about 1,200 volumes.
Similar instances might be cited
for practically every district in the
county. Levies run from 10 to "a
mills. There is nothing too good by
way of support for Sheridan county
schools.
FINANCE
The question of regular finance. a
very serious one when the county
was new, is becoming less and less a
problem as more land comes under
cultivation and more homesteads are
proved up on. Our last financial re-
port showed that all but nine dis
trlcts are ON a cash basis.
AS financial conditions have i'm
proved, school terms have been
heightened. Three districts will
have six months terms this year;
three will have seven; thirteen will
have eight and 50 will have nine. Our
course of study calls for nine.
Conditions here are far from per-
feet yet, but we feel that in educa-
tional matters we are keeping pace