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About Daily coast mail. (Marshfield, Or.) 1902-1906 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1904)
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL -TfT "-'"''''?''' ih in ra h r.xi u hi mill r hji ml i.mk 1 I) St'KKK CKl fKKlON mom. M It h tr u ht' litiv I r c'm'l .iMj- h-.l it the progresiven of tj building throughout ti httedwtlh rleitnc a . ..mmuiiiiy can be Mil and speaking tubes, and is wired fat l.. un.J than that comma- rlecttic lights. There is in the upper kill mtv's m'eresi in Hliicf a large "well-bole." which glvei a com- tii'ii. and if then? is owe rnamiiHg iew of the exit lo all the rons, thing more than artotlter aM4 of the main ejftaac to the building ot wu. h Marthhe'd is proud, it is her a feature of no little raltie in main ainlnt excellent pulp i- irhool. odr Cily water is supplied to stationirt The premt vhool house was erected in Mh and iii h of th- l.j-ni-nt. and jCtrW' .WT tj'us 4.1 'If trtoiiai property of the prin iUi, and m l.irgl mitlr by bis own bands. The court ot study includes two years ol work in the high school and the work cov ers the essen'ia's of the slate three years cours, though dip'oross are given tor only the two year coune. This h ben eTct ed by so strengthening Ike work of ihe seventh and eighth grades as lo permit the addition oih- regular two year course of Ih iitipi u bran- St, 'ane guiitir and HHPK jpfV ' T" ViW4rrVBssssssssn 1896, at a coat ot a bom $15,000. V.V give with this an illustration of the exterior of the building. The basement contains, in the cantor, a large furnace and fuel room, with recreation rooms an either side for boys and girls separately. On the first tloir there are four class rooms, two janitor's closets, a large assembly hall ml front snd rear stair ways. The upper floor has a principal's office, four school rooms and ample hallway. The building throughout, excepting the stone basement is constructed of while cellar, all Inttrjlrs being trimmed in the natural wood with hard oil finish. The walls are flnbhed In brown plaster with white hard finished ceilings, down to a broad wainscot ing of cedar. All the scliool rooms have byloplate Mack boards extending all the way ari.nd between doors and windows. There SCHOOL BUILDING to tw xrparale iws 'n ra li ! ' Mi r The school it well tupplcd wuh turn tur and appara'us All n-.v turni'ur.- thv Iim I teen put in the building m of the single dsk type, and is of the la et anl m. approved design There u a fin pium, a well select ed library of ab'iut 503 vo'ums, mil a J. It. Colt's highest grade stereopttcin with slides for the illustration of many o'. the subjrc s in the course of study, particularly history and physical g-ography. In th- pbys'oal laboratory, there is much valuable apparatus, including among the larger jiieees an air pump, a Toepler Holtz Improved Kleciric Machine, with attachments for both, a helio slat, gravity balance, galvawmielc ., electro s0mi, jmiiiluluiii and pulley apwratu, he sides many smaller pieces for illustrating the laws of heat, light, etc. The physical .ippu- phvn , i! ibr -I in Mariuutse. Tku"ur h'ntl it i ifiing j mut-h broader field than ate most ot ibr i houls of the state of simi lar gral . IVIowmg are the teach-rs hiw employed in the school; K. A. (Jiild-M, principal, ninth awl tenth grades Kllui M. Ilcamis, assistant, seventh anl eighth grades. Kinma Howard, sixth grade. Lulu J. Mann, fifth grade, Amy Holin-j, fourth ginde. Clara Vtughn, third grade, Margaret Aniletson, sesond grJit. Mrs. I. M. Wilbur, dm gtady. Tlie enrollment at the close of Inii Jnoniji was A)(, h f IV