Show J THE PROPOSED SCHOOL BOND ISSUE A STATEMENT FROM THE BOARD OF EDUCATION To the Qu Qualified u a lift ed Voters of Salt Lake City School District The school census of our city from 1916 to 1918 shows an increase of 3 88 an annual growth of t 1263 The total number of youths from 6 to t 1 18 S 8 years of age in Salt Lake City ji is now The recent state law has raised the age of compulsory school attendance from 16 to 18 Your board of education has hitherto estimated that three new buildings each serving pupils were required every two years to meet the normal housing needs That is provision was planned for y yearly arly instead of 1263 I The fund ordinarily derived from taxes for building building- purposes pur- pur poses is totally inadequate to meet this recurring crisis of each year ear There are two courses of action before the board if it will give the children of Salt Lake their undoubted rights and maintain the merited reputation of the city as the foremost place in the west for its educational advantages The tax rate may be increased 50 per cent over the present levy or the qualified voters may be asked aske whether or not the they desire to have the Salt Lake School District issue bonds for the purpose of raising the funds to make the needed improvements The crowded conditions at the West High School are arc cried out against b by bV the teachers and pupils Proper housing there has become imperative The educational 11 policy of your board is to extend the Junior High School system All se seo r lions of the city desire equal advantages Hence it has been proposed to build large units for the seventh eighth and d ninth grades in the northern western and southern portions of the city Such accommodations as these would relieve the present and future pressure in various districts by removing the upper grammar grades to these new units Important additions to several elementary school buildings and the purchase of badly needed playgrounds adjacent arc are contemplated Are the qualified voters willing to have these urgent improvements improvements improvements im im- im- im undertaken The Ube board of education has decided to submit to them the bonding proposition to be acted upon Saturday April 1919 The amount named is well within the bonding limit of the Salt Lake City School District as fixed by law If the voters give a favorable support support support sup sup- port to the bond issue in this pending election the school willbe will willbe willbe be brought to a position of all around equipment and effectual preparedness that can enable the educational interests of Salt Lake City to keep pace with the large commercial 31 and social expansion upon which this tills prosperous metropolis of the intermountain region has surely entered Signed by byTHE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SALT LAKE E CITY CITY H. H A A. A SMITH President JOY H. H JOHNSON Chairman on Buildings and Grounds ERNEST A. A SMITH Superintendent of City Schools THE SCHOOL BOND ELECTION WILL BE BEHELD BEHELD BEHELD HELD SATURDAY APRIL 26 1919 r Two Polls in Each Municipal Ward at the Following Places FIRST MUNICIPAL WARD Hamilton school East and South Districts 1 t to 5 and 7 to C 9 q inclusive Liberty school t f 1090 Third East Districts 6 and 10 to f 1 18 S inclusive 1 SECOND MUNICIPAL WARD Library Vest West and South Districts 28 29 35 39 and 40 tO Peery Hotel 3rd South and V West Nest st Temple Districts 26 27 30 39 to 34 inclusive and 36 to 38 inclusive THIRD MUNICIPAL V WARD ARD West Vest High school 50 North 2nd West Vest Districts 51 52 52 55 to 58 inclusive and 60 Jackson school West Vest 1st North Districts 53 54 59 FOURTH MUNICIPAL WARD VARD Lafayette school t 3 2 North State Districts 76 to tu 79 inclusive and 83 and 85 Longfellow school 2 1st st avenue and J street Districts 80 8 81 t 82 and 84 FIFTH MUNICIPAL WARD Bryant Bryan t school East 1 1st st South Districts tot to 1 to inclusive City and County building Districts f 1 t 1 f 1 to t 11 17 inclusive That portion of county Districts and and east of Main street annexed to city will vote at Liberty school That portion of county District west of Main Mam street annexed to city will vote at Peery hotel Polls Will Be Open From 7 o o'Clock Clock a. a m. m to 7 o'Clock p. p m. m m. m All registered voters voter who arc are taxpayers on either cither real estate or personal property are entitled to vote I |