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Show Big Cottonwood Ward. It is a pleasure to chronicle improvement, im-provement, and nny Btnp 'made in the nay o: rrcm is always gratify-ins gratify-ins to note. The members of the Big Cottonwood ward have recently ereeted a new Bchoolhonsn, which ia a credit to their enterprise. The build-io: build-io: is 56 by 28 feet, with ceilings 15 leet in the clpar. It is divided into threa apartments. 1 The entrance serves as an -aute-rbom aud is fitted up with clothing hooks, etc.; a email a lass room adjoins, which will be used tor recitations, and iha main room is spaciouB and well adapted for school purposes. Tbe walla are brick out side, adobes inside, and rest upon a solid rook foundation. It ia Righted by eight lare windows, and ie surrounded sur-rounded by a neat cornice. Tbe iu-aide iu-aide is finished off with . wainacotting aud three conterpieces ornament the ceiling. ' Toe cost of the structure, when completed, will be about $2,000; the means were raised by a lax of three por.cent. on the property in the ward: it is to ba used exclusively for school purposes. . YYork on it was commenced last spring and the building build-ing was to have been dedicated yesterday: yester-day: School will be opened in next Monday. The trustees, Messrs. Wm. H. Walker,-' Wm. G. Davis and Francis McDonald, and Bishop D. Bridge, juur., have had charge of the work and lo them belongs a great deal of credit. . - |
