SUPPLEMENT TO THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT.
Th., . ..... ing,|...K. muny of whom
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OF
TILLAMOOK COUNTY.
Furnish Good Educa
tional Advantages for
Home Seekers.
The people of Tillamook County are
justly proud of their public schools. Pro
gress has ever been the watchw<»r«l in
all parts of the county.
A decided ad
vance has especially been made during
the last scholastic year.
Fifty public schools are maintained
throughout the county, twenty of these
being graded schools.
In addition to
the regular prescribed work of eight
years, two schools oiler four years ol
high school work, and seven offer out
year of advanced work.
School Attendance.
I sen were the teachers nt Nehalem.
Miss I
I Rowe is also a graduate from the Mon-
mouth Normal school.
Of the remaining distrii ts, eleven held
nine month terms, four held eight-mouth
terms, eleven held seven-inonth terms,
seven held six month terms, and thirteen
j
,
'
I
held five-monlh terms or less.
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Teacher»' Salaries
New School Buildings
During the last three years, sixteen
During the last three years the num
ber of pupils attending school has in new school buildings have been built at
an aggregate cost of $29,864. During
creased from 1140 to 1383, a gain ol
the same period, fourteen other districts
243, or of 21 per cent. During the same
have made extensive repaiis costing
period, the a verage attendance has in
$5,820.
The old rough, brown box
creased from 781 to 1034, a gain of 253,
school houses are fast disappearing, and
or of 32 per cent. Three years ago but
new up-to-date frame buildings painted
75 per cent of all children between the
Most of our
ages of 6 and 20 attended school. This white take their places.
per ventage of attendance was increased schools are* being well furnished with
good furniture and apparatus.
The
to oyer 92 per cent last year.
grounds are being rapidly cleared, gra
Financial Receipts
Three years ago the total financial re ded and fenced. Trees are being set out
ceipts of all the schools of the county to further beautify the school grounds.
amounted to $26,279. This has increas Nine districts have made tax levies for
ed to $33,579 ; then to $35,464 ; then the purpose ol erecting new buildings
last year to $40,295 ; a gain of $14,016, this coining summer. It is, indeed, a
pleasure to ride over the county and note
or of 53 per cent.
these various improved conditions.
Valuation of School Pfoperty*.
The estimated value of school proper
Secondary Schools.
The one institution of which the people
ty in 1903 was $32,572.
In 1904 this
increased to $11,896. Next year’s fig of Tillamook City ate most proud, is the
ures were $50,172, and this increased to High School. This institution was es
$56,174 last year. This shows an in tablished by vote of the district seven
crease of $23,602, or of 75 per cent.
years ago. The first twelfth grade class
graduated therefrom in June, 1904. Since
Special Taxes
One may judge of the splendid interest then, sixteen young men ami women
taken in the public schools of the coun have
compieteli
lie
to ine ami
ty by noting the number of districts received their diplomas. Many of these
which make a special levy to raise ad graduates are now engaged in teaching,
ditional funds, so as to pay better salar and are filling various places in the
ies, and have longer terms of school -chools of Ibis and other counties, with
each year. On the 1903 tax roll, twenty- credit to themselves and to the instilo
three school districts made special tax lion. Several graduates arc now at lend
levies from which $6,005.89 was reeeiv
ing higher institutions of learning in this
ed. On the 1904 roll, twenty seven dis state.
The High School curiiculm
tricts made levies from which $ 11,081.80 lias been place«! on the accredited list ol
was received. On the 1905 roll, thirty several higher institutions, including the
two districts made special levies and re University of Oregon, Oregon State Nor
received $12,164 10. On the 1906 roll, mal School,ashingtori State University
thirty-four districts made levies ami will and Stanford University. A class of five
receive hii amount estimated at about will giadnate from the twelfth grade
$ 18,000.
Faculty.
ventilailtitf »V»-
The course of study is ditided into
Tut interior of .ht . .......... ..
three department», each being in chnrge
I,led into eight session rooms and a-
of n specialist. I’rof. \V. R. Rutherford,
I library. Separate clonk moms are pro
n gr.adunle from the Monmouth State
voted lor each . ....................... I he base
Normal School, is the principal, and has
nient .» used as a (day room lor the
charge ol the department nl mathemat
children of the h.wer grades. I he fur
ic» and science.
Miss Mildred Lister,
U.uc >s also located ■» the basement.
A.B. (U. ol O.), has charge of the Latin
ytlikl.es are encouraged, and sufficient
and English depnrtnient* ; Miss Pauline
apparatus such i.s dumb bells. Indian
Walton, AM. (NorthWestern Univ),
clubs, wands, etc., are kept on hand
has charge of the history <k|iarlnivnt.
B.skel ball, base ball and loot b. II are
all iinlulge«! in.
The library room is fairly well stocked
eluted library «I one tlion
with a well >e.
sand volumes. The library room is also
used as a ......... I museum, where a good
supply of botanical and geological speci
mens are displayed.
These have be...
I coin.necled, classified and loaned Io.
exhibition by the high school students.
Students are in atte. dance from all
TILLAMOOK COUNTY’S NEW COURT HOUSE.
parts of the county.
All graduates Irem
The court house is a newly constructed building, costing in the the eighth grade of our public schools
neighborhood of $25,000 to erect and furnish. It is a commodious are admitted to the freshman class with
building and nicely arranged with offices for the different officials, out examination.
with a court room on the second floor. The walls of the building Two literary societies are maintained
are concrete, the ceilings are made of ornamental pressed steel and by the high school students : The Emer-
the roof has steel tiles.. The building is drained, heated with 1 soniaii and the Ciceronian Societies
steam and generates its own electricity with a water motor and I Each society has about thirty members,
| each one being required to appear on the
dynamo, the power being furnished by the city water system.
| program once a month.
Several public
debates, oratorical contests, and other
entertainments are given by the two
societies each year. Theseentertainments
'tie always well patronized.
ith the
proceeds, they have paid for a $450
piano an«l presented the same to the
high school. The societies also spend
, considerable money each year in supply-
i ing the reading room with current peii*
J.
odicals. about 25 of the leading niaga-
I zines being received regularly.
Course of Study.
!
Bav City High School.
The l*av City school has a magnificent
school building ol lour ronins and a
basement, situated on a terrace above
the town, and overlooking Tillamook
Hay. The building was erected several
years ago at a cost of $6,00(1.
The
elev.'iith and twelfth grades were added
to the course this year. The couise it
very similar to the one outlined above.
Miss Frances L. French, A.H. (Albany
College), is the principal of the school,
and Miss Ellen Bewley is her assistant.
Another teacher will be added next year.
St Alphonsus Academy.
In addition to the public school facili
ties afforded to the people of Tillamook,
there is a'splendid parochial school now
under management of the Sisters of St.
Mary. The academy occupies a large
three story building in the eastern part
of Tillamook City.
The school is con
ducted on both the day plan and board
ing plan.
Students are in attendance
Irom all over the county. Thecourse of
study in uddition to the regular acade-
mic work, includes sewing, painting and
instrumental music on both the piano
and violin. Five Sisters are employed
and the school remaining in session ten
months each y ear. Nearly one hundred
students were enrolled last year.
The course ol study is arranged
pri.
marily for those students who are pre-
paring for admission to the freshman
class of the University of Oregon, or
other institutions of like standing. The
course is divided into four terms of t»u
siniestcrs each, and conforms in most
iiesjeclsto thecourse recommended by
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TILLAMOOK CITY.
The First Presbyterian Church of Tillamook City was built iu
1890. It is a well built structure, pretty and unique iti design,
and will conifoitibly seat 250 persons. There is also a i’resby
teiian church at Bay City and another at Cloverdale.
the State? Board of Education.
Mathematics—Algebra, one and one-
half year ; Plane Geometry, one year ;
Solid Geometry, one year ; Academic
Arithmetic, one year ; Bookkeeping, out-
half-year.
Science, one half year in each of the
following : Physical Geography, Geo.
logy, Botany ; one vear in Physics.
English —Four years’ course,including
Grammar, Rhetoric, Composition and
M.E. CHURCH,
Wdrd-Anal} sis.
FACTS
School Libraries
What Tillamook Has
One of the best harbors between San
Francisco Bay and the month of
Columbia River.
35,000,000,000 feet ol merchantable
timber.
Great natural
resources in divtree
branches.
Balance of trade always in it»favor.
Equable temperature, insuring bod
ily comfort.
Good wages, .for working
cash each month.
Abundant
rainfall,
mtn m
guaranteeing
crops and water.
Good schools witbin reach ofertrj
home.
An honest, law-abiding,
peactiul
population.
Healthfulneas, eapecially absence 0
fevers rind malaria.
Land unsurpassed in prodseti»*«*
Pure, cool mountain water in alnio
dance.
Magnificent
j
mountain
and bent
scenery.
Splendid hunting and fishing.
What Tillamook Has Not:
No Chinese to compete w ith
can labor.
No irrigation, with
Teacher»* Employed.
TILLAMOOK CITY PUBLIC AND HIGH SCHOOL.
Th is building was erected in 1905 and is in every respect a modern, tip-to date school building with „:„i .
..
well lighted, well ventilated and well heated rooms, with all the paraphernalia necessary iu a welt Main T 1 commodious and
expensive piano. It is heated with steam and the school directors make it a special point to emn1nv\ -T school, including an
rhe citizens of Tillamook City are justly proud of their public and high school, and with a maenatiimnn S,1_enf, corps of teachers,
other districts to take the high school course at a nominal charge. After pupils have graduated'from th, T'T ,
pupils from
desire mote education, can enter the State University at Eugene.
"s ”8" sc'10°i> should they
litigation.
No codling mollis
j
it*
«0 deitroJ
No long severe winters, «hen1
must be housed and fed.
No severe frosts to destroy
from
*nJ
« hatever.
No earthquakes, cyclon*.
droughts, or esc
No tramps or strikes.
What Tillamook Need»
A railroad to con»e<«
world (now building).
Electric linen.
More manufactures
>» 1
lines.
Capable, energetic settler»
business.
Harbor improvement.
Tillamook County „thirds
iojment during the whole
catnptng parties. Hundredi^^X
loaded witli cam,er» and c*
fl
fits, visit Tillamook every J J
spend part of the time cmrp^Z|
THE TARISH HOUSE.
ST. ALPH0NSUS ACADEMY.
mountains hunting .snd
go to the beach and
SACRED HEART CATH0UC CHURCH
- j
,
apples.
No potatoe p* st of any kind.
tion.
No crop failure
Long Sessions of School Held
During the last hscal year. two school
districts, Kolev and Garibaldi, held clew
en months ol school. Miss I-(be Holt, a
graduate of Sodaville College, taught in
the former district ; while Miss Sara
Watt, a graduate of the Tdlau.ook High
School, an«! Miss Lillie Hull, a graduate
of the Monmouth Normal, taught in the
latter
Two other districts, Nehalem
and llalm. held ten ’months of school
t lie teacher at Hahn I »ring Mr. I
\\
Black of the Monmonth Normal
Mbs
Berth» Kota and Miss Sophia Nordbau 1
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TILLAMOOK CITY.
La» in.—Three years'course, including
Three years ago there were 1645 vol
umes in all of the school libraries of the
county ; this number has increased year
by year, and the district librarians re
ported for last year 4,169 volumes,
which shows a gain of 2524 volumes, or
a gain of 153 percent. A still greater in
crease will be made during the present
year, due principally to the library lew
made by the county court last |anuaiy,
from which $265 00 was secure«!
This
amount was immediately invested in
library books, and nI out 670 books
were distributed among the different
schools of the county. This rear a like
amount will be receive«! from the same
source, hi addition to the fumls te
reived from the library tax, many dis
tricts expend considerable money from
t heir general fund fortius purpose. Our
district (No. 28) has just recently placed
an order for fifty supplementary readers,
which will be p«i«l out ol the general
funds ol the .district. Many other dis
tricts use the entertainment plan for se
curing additional funds lor lihrarv pur
poses. District No. 13 recently gave an
entertainment from which over $40 was
receiver!
A splendid interest is being
taken in the school libraries in all parts
of the county.
Of (he seventy.two teachers employ
ed in the schools ol the county last ycai
one-fourth or eighteen of them held state
papers ; eighteen others held first grade
certificates , sixteen others held second
grade certificates ; nine held third grade
certificates , while eleven were granted
temporary certificates
either
upon
special examination, or upon certificates
held in other counties and not valid
here.
Of the »eventv-t wo. thirty-five or near
Iv one-half, hail received either notinal
or collegiate training , eighteen others
had either graduated from high sclioob
or received academic instruction equiva
lent thereto. Most of the others hat!
made two or more veais of advance
study alx've the public school course.
of
Cicero,
cuter higher schools next '“,r-
Literature.—Three vears*course in both
Tbf|,igh school huildiugrs ,.lu..te.i ....
English an<1 American authors.
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History —Hour J-enr»’course, including
ol lheiity, ..nd is surrounded by
L,«Clous grounds. The bmldmg. erected Ancient Greek, Roman, Medieval and
lbl.e rents «gout a cost of $s.060..s .. Modem European History ; mid Ameri
can Constitutional History and Civil
Hue modem-Uire-uteol two stones.....
hase.inut. U - beated b, sre«.», ...... Government.
;
Teachers' salaii« s have been gradually I
increasing during the last three rears. I
In 1903, $12,399 were expended for this
purpose. Two years ago, $15 202 ; one
vear ago, $17.357 ; and last year the.
amount pai«l teachers increased to $19.-.
522. This sliows ail incieaae ol 57 per j
cent in three \ears
School hoards as a
rule realize that in order to secure the
best leaching set vice, better salaries
must be paid. Of the country dixliict>\
l ist year two paid $66 per month, three
paid $55, twelve paid $50. fourteen paid
i>45, eleven paid $4 >, and eight paid
$35. A still great» r increase Iia9 been
«node this present year. Of the 49 tea
• ‘hers now engaged, one receives $100
per month, another $70, >, another $65,
three receive $60, three others $55.
twenty-eight receive $50, six receive $45.
five receive $49. and one is teaching for
$35.
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