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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.