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Show EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS At the meeting of tax-payers held in Logan Hall on Monday night last, one thing was clearly demonstrated-that our people are being awakened in the cause of education. The good spirit in which matters of importance and expediency were discussed, showed that a friendly feeling existed; and that, without distinction, the people of Logan are earnest in their desire to advance the school interests of this city. When the assembly convened, the occasion for the meeting, and the attendant circumstances were stated very clearly. After remarks by various gentleman, Charles O. Card, senior trustee, was elected chairman of the meeting, and Jas. [James] A. Leishman, secretary. A motion relating to the business was introduced, amended and finally withdrawn; the result being that a proposition to this effect was brought before the house; That a tax of one percent be assessed for the purpose of building outhouses and repairing the buildings in all the school districts, the erection of a new house in the Fifth Ward, and for other school purposes. This measure was adopted by a vote of 50 to 11, being a clear three-fourths majority with some to spare. Remarks were afterward made by prominent gentlemen; and when the meeting closed, it was with a feeling that the people had only done their duty in giving the trustees power to proceed in a necessary direction. It now only remains for those servants of the people to discharge their trust-as they certainly will do, with wisdom and discretion. The project in view is to erect a rock building 31 X 39 feet on the school lot a short distance north east of the Temple. A better location could not have been selected. The place commands a fine view, the lot is high, dry, and healthy; and, considering the fact that a large number of inhabitants of the Fifth ward reside in "the Hollow," we think that no more central lot could have been chosen. The Fifth Ward more than any other in Logan needs a new school house; and the desire to build one there first, is only a proper one. It is not the intention to stop here but to proceed year after year until all of the different wards and localities in this district are not only supplied with good, convenient, substantial school houses and out buildings, but with improved desks, superior maps, charts, and other necessary furnishings. To do this the continual assessment of taxes [unreadable line] that no one will object when the results to be attained are carefully considered. Success to the movement! |