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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1907)
SUPPLEMENT TO THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF TILLAMOOK COUNTY. Furnish Good Educa tional Advantages for Home Seekers. The people of Tillamook County are justly proud of lheirpublic schools. Pro gress lias ever been the watchword in all parts of th? countv. A devilled ad vance lias especially been made during the last scholastic rear. 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 lour years of high school work, and seven offer one year of advanced work. School Attendance. this coming June, many of whom will one year of Caesar, an I one (ear of I Cicero, enter higher schools next ve«r. Literature.—Three venr«'course in both The high school building is sit unfed on h beautiful mid commanding site in the English ami American nmhors. History —Fouryenr»'course, including center of the city, mid is surrounded by spacious grounds. The building, erected Ancient Greek, Roman, Medieval and three vears ago nt a cost of $8,()(>(), is a : .Modern European History ; and Ameri fine modern structure of two stories and can Constitutional History and Civil basement. Il is heated bv steam, mid Government. Faculty. is equipixd with a good ventilating sys The course of study is divided into tem. The interior of the building is divi ded into right session rooms and a three departments, each being in charge library. Separate cloak rooms are pro of a specialist. Prof. W. R. Rutherford ’ sen were the teachers at Nehalem. Miss | Rowe is also a graduate from the Mon- j mouth Normal school. Of the remaining district«, eleven held nine month terms, four held eight month terms, eleven held scvcu-monlh terms, seven held six month terms, and thirteen i held five-month terms or less. Teacher»* Salaries Teachers salari*s ha ve been gradually increasing during the last three vears. In 1903. $12.399 were’expended for thia purpose. Two years ago, $15 202 ; one vear ago, $17.357 ; and last year the amount paid teachers increased to$l9.- 522. This shows an increase of 57 per cent in three vears. School boards as a rule realize that in order to secure the l»est teaching sei vice, heller salaries must be paid. Of the country <lisliiclc, l ist year two paid $60 per month, three paid $55, twelve paid $50. fourteen paid t»45. eleven paid $4 >, and eight paid #35. A still greater increase lias been <uade this present year Of the 49 lea •ihers 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 $40. and one is teaching for $35. vidcd lor each session room. The bare a graduate from the Monmouth State ment is used as a play room lor the Normal School, is the principal, and lias children of the lower grades. The fur charge of the department ol mathemat Miss Mildred Lister mice is also located in the basement. ics ami science. \thletics me encouraged, and sufficient A.H. (U. ol O.>. has charge of th-Latin apparatu-, such as dumb bells, Indian and English departments ; Miss Pauline clubs, wands, etc., are kept on hand. Walton, A.M. (North-Western Univ ) B isket ball, base ball and foot b. II are has charge ol the history depnrtment. 1 TILLAMOOK COUNTY'S NEW COURT HOUSE. The court house is a newly constructed building, costing in the During the last three years, sixteen neighborhood of $25*000 to erect aild furnish, * * . It is a commodious new school buildings have been built at building and nicely arranged with offices for the different officials, an aggregate cost of $29,864. During with a court room on the second floor. The walls of the building the same period, fourteen other districts are concrete, the ceilings are made of ornamental pressed steel and have made extensive repairs costing the roof has steel tiles. The building is drained, heated with |5,820. The old rough, brown box i steam and generates its own electricity with a water motor and school houses are fast disappearing, and dynamo, the power being furnished by the city water system. new up to date frame buildings painted New School Buildings During the last three years the num ber of pupils attending school has in creased from 1140 to 1383, a gain ol 243, or of 21 per cent. During the same period, the average attendance has in creased from 781 to 1034. a gain of 253, or of 32 per cent. Three years ago but 75 per cent of all children between the white take their places. Most of our ages of 6 and 20 attended school. This schools ar«* being well furnished with per ventage of attendance was increased good furniture and apparatus. The to over 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 of erecting new buildings last year to $40,295 ; a gain of $14,016. this coming summer. It is, indeed, a pleasure to tide over thecountv and note or of 53 per cent. these various improved conditions. Valuation of School Property. Secondary Schools. The estimated value of school proper The one institution of which the people |y in 1903 was $32,572. In 1904 this increased to $41,896. Next year’s fig of Tillamook City are most proud, is the ures were $50,472, 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 yenisago. The first twelfth grade class crease of $23,602. or of 75 per cent. graduated tkerelroin in June, 1904. Since Special Taxes One may judge of the splendid interest then, sixteen young men and women taken in the public schools of the coun have completed tie courte and ty by noting the number of districts received their diplomas. Many of these which make a special levy to raise ad graduatea are now engaged in teaching, ditional funds, so as to pay better salar and are filling various place« in the ies, and have longer terms of school schools of this and other counties, with each year On the 1903 tax roll, twenty- credit t<» themselves and to the instiiu three school districts made special tax (ion. Several graduates are now attend levies from which $6.005.89 was rectiv ing higher institutions of learning in this ed. On the 1904 roll, t wentv seven dis state. Th»* High School curiicuhn tricts made levies from which $ I 1,081.80 has been placed on the accredited list of was received. On the 1905 roll, thirty- «ever» I higher institutions, including the two districts made special levies and rc University of Oregon, Oregon State Nor received $12,164 10, On the 1906 roll, mal School,\lashiugton State University thirty-four districts made levies and will and Stanford University. A class of five receive rii amount estimated at about will graduate from the twelfth glade* $18,000. I 1 i ; Bav City High School. all indulged in. The Lay City school has n magnificent The library room is fairly well stocked with a well selected library of one thou school building ol four rooms and a sand volumes. The library room is also baseinent. sitnatnl on n terrace above used as a school museum, where a good the town, and overlooking Tillamook supply of botanical and geological speci Buy. The building was erected several The mens are displayed. These have been years ago at a cost of $6.000. coinmcctcd, classified and loaned fo. eleventh and twelfth grades were added to the course this year. The course is exhibition by the high school students. Students are in atterdance from all very similar to the one outlined above. parts ol the county. All graduates from Miss Frances L. French, A.U. (Albany the eighth grade of our public schools College), is the principal of the school, are admitted to the freshman class with mid Miss Ellen Bewley is her assistant. Another teacher will be added next year. out examination. Two literary societies are maintained St. Alphonsus Academy. by the high school students : The Emer In addition to the public school fatili- sonian and the Ciceronian Societies ties afforded to the people of Tillamook, Each society has about thirty members, there is ¡¿splendid parochial school now each one being required to appear on the under management of the Sisters of St. program once a month. Several public Mary, The academy occupies a large debates, oratorical contests, and othei three story building in the eastern part entertainments are given by the two of Tillamook City. The school is con societies each year. These entertainments ducted on both the day plan and board, are always well patronized. With the ing plan. Students nre in attendance proceeds, they have paid for a $450 Irom all over the county. Thecotirse of piano and presented the same to the study in addition to the regular acade high school. The societies also spend mic work, includes sewing, painting and considerable money each 5ear in supply instrumental music on both the piano ing the reading room with current peri and violin. Five Sisters are employed odicals, about 25 of the leading maga ami the school remaining in session ten zines being received regularly. months each year. Nearly one bundled Course of Study. 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 two simesters each, and conforms in most res| eels to the course recommended by 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, om- FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TILLAMOOK CITY. The First Presbyterian Church of Tillamook City was built in 1890. It is a well built structure, pretty and unique in design, and will comfoittbly seat 250 persons. There is also a Presby teiian church at Bay City and another at Cloverdale. 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 Word Analysis. Latin.—Three vears'course, including M.E. CHURCH, TILLAMOOK CITY. FACTS. School Lihraiies Three years ago there weie 1645 vol umes in all of the school libraries ol the county ; this number has increased yeai by year, and the district librarians re ported for last year 4,169 volumes, which shows a gain of 2524 volumes, oi a gain of 153 percent. A still gieater in crease will be made during the present vear, due principally to the library levy made by the county court last lanuary, from which |265(H) was seemed. This amount was immediately invested in library books, and about 570 books were distributed among the <1 Herein Schools of the county. This vear a like amount will be received from the same source. In addition to the funds le ceived from the library tax, many dis tricts exjieud considerable money Iron, th*:, general fund for this purpose. Om district (No. 28) has just recently placed an order for fifty supplementary readets. which will lie paid out of the general funds ol the .district. Many other dis tricts use the entertainment plan lor m * curing additional funds lor librarv pur poses. District No. 13 recently gave an entertainment from which over $40 wus received. A splendid interest is being taken in the sellout libraries in all parts of the county. What Tillamook Has : One of the best harbors between San Francisco Bay and th? mouth ol Columbia River. 35,000,000,000 feet ol merchantable timber. Great natural resources in diverse branches. Balance of trade always in its favor. Equable temperature, insuring bod ily comfort. Good wages, for working men in cash each month. Abundant rainfall, guaranteeing crops and water. Good schools within reach of every home. An honest, law- abiding, peaceful population. Healthfulness, especially absence of levers and malaria. Land unsurpassed in productivness. Pure, cool mountain water in abun dance. Magnificent mountain and beach scenery. Splendid hunting and fishing. What Tillamook Has Not : No Chinese to compete with Ameri can labor. No irrigation, with Teacher»* Employed. Of the seventy-two teachers employ ed m the schools of the county last year one fourth or eighteen of them held stab papers eighteen others held first gradr certificates ; sixteen others held second grade certificates . nine held third gtadt certificates . while eleven were granted temporary certificates either upon special examination, or upon certificates held in other counties and not valid here. Of the seventv two, thirty fixe or near Iv one-halt, had received either normal or collegiate training ; eighteen others had either graduated from highschools or received acadcmK instruction cquiva- I lent thereto. Most of the others had made two or more years of advance study a>M»ve the public school course. ... TILLAMOOK CITY PUBLIC AND HIGH SCHOOL. his Iriiilding was erected in 1905 and is in every respect a modern, up-to date school building, wUh eight commodious and cm nsi ’el’mo THsh^ed h ''1 h T'’ t^l V ParaPhernalia ’^cessary in a well equipped school, including an expensne piano. It is healed with steam and the school directors make it a special point to employ a splendid corns of teachers I he citizens of 1 illamook City are justly proud of their public and high school, and with a mapnaninmne cnidt 11 1 r other districts to take the high school course at a nominal charge. After pupils have graduated from this liiol ri?m dt;sirc »lorc education, can enter the State University at Eugene. P ’ graduated trom this high school, should they moths its expensive to destroy the apples. No potatoe p< st of any kind. No long severe winters, wbep stock iirust lie housed and fed. No severe frosts to destroy vegett' lion. No crop failure from any cause w hate ver. No earthquakes, cyclone, hlizzarde, droughts, or excessive heat. No tramps or strikes. What Tillamook Needs A railroad to connect with th® world (now building). Electric lines. More manufactures Long BcBsions of School Held During the last fiscal vear, two school districts, Foley and Garibaldi, held elev en months ol school. Miss Effie Holt, a graduate of Sodaville College. taught in the former district . while Miss Sara Watt, a graduate ol the Tillau.ook High School, and Miss Lillie Hull, a graduate of the Monmouth Normal, taught in the latter Two other districts. Nehalem and Balm, held ten’months of school the teacher at Balin being Mr. E. W. , Black of the Monmonth Normal Miss Bertha Row and Miss Sophia Nurdhau I litigation. No codling in nearly ■» lines. Capable, energetic settlers who m?a® business. Harbor improvement. Tillamook County affords splendid en- joyment during the whole season for camping parlies. Hundreds of wagon®« loaded with campers and camping out* fits, \isit Tillamook every year. They spend part of the time cnirpiog in the mountains hunting and fishing and then THE PARISH HOUSE. goto the beach and rusiicat», bathing» ST. ALPHONSUS ACADEMY. SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH. clam digging and berry picking.
