Year: 1877

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OR Publio School


A meeting to determine the location
and adopt Dplans for the construction
Of new school house, is called At the
present yschool house, on I'd street, on
the 27th, at ; p. M, land we do hope
that the necessity for the construction Of
school house is 50 deeply felt that peo-
pie interested will turn out. If the busi-
ness interests Of the city do not feel the
necessity, it is to be regretted,' for every
interest suffers because Of our lack of
school facilities, and, though not Cath
olic, we rejoice that Father Martin has
taken the matter in hand, and regret
that we have not a thousand dollars to
give in addition to our good will to help
along his school enterprise. But there
are others who will not be satisfied with
denominational schools and whose inter-
ests demand creditable public schools.
Bismarck never has enjoyed this advan-
tage and never can enjoy it until ar
rangements are made for grading the
schools,-until cheerful rooms,. properly
furnished, are obtained and teachers are
employed who love their profession and
are adapted to it.


Our first schools were held in tucked
up corners of private dwellings where
decent accommodations for dozen pu-
pills could not be found. Then an unoc-
cupied church, badly seated and not
properly heated, was employed. This
would have answered the purpose but it
was neglected and the windows and
doors broken, and for time, when it
was not used for camping place for
Black Killers, cattle found it to be an
excellent stamping ground.


Teachers were employed who only
cared to put in their time One of them
found amusement in chewing gum and
reading novels while the children ran the
school. Others were but little better,
and it is not to be wondered that some
parents would prefer to send their chill
dren to pest house rather than to the
public school. Children sent to the school
came home talking of fighting and all
manner of deviltry instead oftheir lessons
and some were driven from the school
by act Of violence which passed unrebuk-
ed.


SO far as we can learn the school is
now properly managed but it lacks suita .
bic accommodation and until the school
can be graded, and an additional
teacher employed, time and money put in
toit is worse than thrown away.


The meeting will be held at 3p. m.
and We trust those interested will turn
out and we call upon the school board to
have in readiness some kind Of 4 PROPOSE
ton. Let them choose suitable location
or point out several locations stating the
terms that each can be had upon and
then let the people adopt or chose as the
case may be.


AS to the building: let plan be drawn
and an estimate as to the cost be made.


Bonds can only be issued to build
brick school house, but, we presume a
brick yeneered building will come. under
that head. .


Let the board invite our builders to fur
nish them plans of building Of this
character to be completed for less than
four thousand dollars to be submitted to
the meeting.


If copy of the law authorizing the
bonds has not been obtained let it be
done at once for the bonds can not be ne
gotiated without it, and it must be cited
in the bond and should be printed on
their back.


There may be those opposed to the is
sue of bonds. For their consideration
let plans of cheaper house, to be built
by taxation be prepared, and let some ar
rangement for its construction be sugges-
ted. Unless the board comes prepared
to submit propositions the appointment
of committees to do this work and one
adjournment after another will follow un-
til all interest in the subject dies out.


Think of it, Bismarck is now five years
old and has become the most important
town on the North Pacific and has not
vet provided accommodations for pub
lie school. Shall this be longer:s said to
our discredite