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Show MTHffif OVEB . THE SITE FOR S NEW HP SCHOOL 1 BRIGHAM CITY. Jan. 29. The people of tho Bear river valley are actively engaged In campaigning for a high school which tho people of Garland Gar-land and Trcmonton want erected between be-tween tho two towns. Quito a number num-ber of students from thoso towns attend at-tend the Box Elder high school in tli is city and the argument put forth by tho instigators of the movement is that they want their boys and girls at home. A committee will doubtless be named in tho immediate future to wait upon the board of education and place tho matter before the school officials. of-ficials. Patrons of tho grade schools in this city arc demanding another school building for this city on account of the over crowded condition of the various va-rious grades on account of the large number of pupils attending the grade school. Tho school population of Brig-ham Brig-ham City outside of the high school is 1249 and there are 30 teachers, each having an average of 42 pupils to instruct. Resolved to Have New S6hool. Trcmonton, Utah, January 2S. t Editor Standard: The people of Box Elder county are preparing to havo a1 high school outside of Brigham City, which place is down in one corner of the county. The proposed site is half j way between Garland and Treraonton. one milo from tho center of each! town. This will make a pleasant walkj for the children from each placo and thero will bo conveyances provided to bring the children from many other' places where they can return homo every evening. Tho community here has gotten thoroughly tired of sending tho children at their most tender! years to Brigham, where they cannot bo at home and where they get weaned away from homo influences. It is estimated that this community is spending a thousand dollars a week in; Brigham City on the high school children. chil-dren. It has been fully determined that thero arc 5000 people and more than 1000 children within six miles of the proposed site of tho new high school. Organizations of business men from Garland and Tremonton are behind the movement and have already visited most of tho surrounding communities and held enthusiastic meetings in' which tho unanimous sentiment is that we have played second fiddle to Brigham Brig-ham City too long already and that we must have more local benefit from our Tho greatest argument in favor of immediate construction of Uio high' schiil is that, in these war times, it is so difficult to get enough labor on tho' farms that tho children will be largely I denied the privilege of attending high I school, if the school Is not placed where they can attend and at the same time help their parents at home a part of each day. The dairy business has assumed such proportions here tht it is impossible impos-sible to let the larger youngsters go away from homo overnight without i cutting down tho number of cows that can bo milked on each farm. And in ! addition to that, the churches and other community affairs aro largely Interrupted by having tho only high school in tho county away down in one corner. The following committees of their respective places have copies of petitions peti-tions in charge and have about 1000 signeds all told to date. Riverside W. S. Mason, L. H. Ken-nard Ken-nard and J. T. Bigler. Elwood J. W. Francom, Lews Hunsaker and Lawrence Law-rence Hansen. Fielding Geo. Godfrey, God-frey, R. E. Salnsburry and J. H. Hess. Rothwell Rasmus Anderson. John H. Watt and H. B. Coles. East Garland-John Garland-John Oyler, H. L. Moore and F. G. Korth. Tremonton Ed Shaw, Moses Taylor and J. H. Keller. East Tremonton Tremon-ton J. D. Haws, Oren Seager" and Thomas Kay. Union E. H. Cornwall, Robert Allen and Robert Colderwood. Garland and North Garland A. R. Capener, M. Felsted, Roy Shaw, John F. Burton, R. A Lewis and M. D. Evans. Thatcher A. W. Borgstrom, Nels C. Nelson and E. O. Wight. Meetings are yet to be held in Doweyville, Plymouth, Portage, Penrose, Pen-rose, Blue Creek and Howell. When they aro completed these committees will meet together and present tho completed com-pleted petition to the school board. It has been strongly intimated in i many places that we cannot bo put off 0 any longer without a high school and 'that we will go to any means necessary neces-sary to get it, even to a division of the county or the organization of another first class school district in the cpunty, as there is only one school district in the county at present. It has been pointed out from good authority that Cache county, with less assessed valuation than wo havo, has several high schools and that no county of as great population and I valuation as Box Elder has ever before be-fore gone without more than ono high school. Yours respectfully, D. W. JENKINS. nn |