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. :,se.(....... 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 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 ----------------------- -------- A 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. „ laauli....... ml“'..... S'T"'. . 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. .me year of Caesar, an I one jear lam digg ng and berry P* I 1 a