Show VOTE FOR THE BONDS on oil Sit saturday next march edth 2 from 2 p in to 6 p in an elec tion will be held at the school chool house in every voting precinct of N ash ington county to vote on oil the question of issuing school bonds tax pipers in the precinct whose names are in n the last regi arati m list and arid n ho the prece ling i ear paid a property tax are the onla persons entitled to vote the bonds should be voted yes I 1 for the following rea ons when the legislature consolidated all the school districts of the county into one district it pt provided ovidea that the con consolidated district I 1 assume all the indebtedness of the anous school districts this in debt edness amounted to approximately dollar bearing interest as high as ten per cent some of this indebtedness is past due and is called for the district cannot pay it it is a debt and n we e cannot repudiate it whit what shall we ne do the present law provides that the school board cannot levy more than fix i F ix mills tax for the maint vinance of 5 the four mill county tax fix it has as been abolished so that all our funds for current expense expenses hereafter here after mutt come from the state school tax apportionment and our six mills local levy if the valuations this year aie doubled th the taxes will be less than thin last year ear and it is impossible for the beald to pay one cent of this indebtedness it will require the best of management and economy to run the schools on the limit fixed what is iq the remedy the law and good judgement jud gement as vell nell as expediency vedi ency sayi say i binds I 1 the and bindi can be sold it a little above par it at 5 interra if the bond issue carries we ne can meet our debts and re duce the interest to five per cent saving enough in one year to pay the cost of this election again owing to the lack of school houses schol is being held in private houses in some cases in sm u ill unsanitary rooms totally unfitted for the purpose in one place there aie upwards of three hundred chil dren and not one school building of the 19 schools in the county the district owns only nine buildings making it necess iry try to i lent ent and use eighteen rooms room not our own the board does not intend to build completely any district a school building but it the bonds cany they can give enough aid with the don allons ot of local towns to erect suitable buildings for schools it is no good to put off the i issue ue the school population is increase ing and the not be solved any other way As the new land projects develop as titles to land already occupied are obtained values will increase and this issue of bonds can be met with even less perhaps than the ano mills tax As the bonds run for twenty years some of the generation now to receive the benefit will nill help to bear the burden if the binds fail fill it means that even the present standard ot of our schools nill ft ill be lowered and tte may have to go back to five to seven months school instead of six to eight as at present it tt is our duty to educate our children T let et us its go forn forward ard and not backward PI the duty of every intelligent taxpayer and voter is to vote es on both propositions |