Annual School Report

The Trustees of School District, No. 1, of the city of An 11 Arbor, liercin submit tlieir twenty-eightli annual report to the voters and tax-payers of the district. The total receipts for tlie school year endlng September 1, 1833, was as follows: Italance casli on hand, Sepl. .', 188-i $ 7,107 3!i Reo'd (rom taxes voted Sept. 3, 18íj.... 23,850.00 " " oaeratlltax 4,(M0.!7 " " primary scliuol money.... 3,070.62 ' " tultlou 5.ÍHM.00 " " dog tax 2,t8.8ö " " llbrary flne money 23.49 " " flne money 80.78 Total receipts $15,809.11 The total expenditures for the same perioil were as follows: Paid salarles $21,ni;.k .¦_':: ' Janltora ,'it 7ö " f'iel 1,076.26 " gas iio.ou " Insurance lll.(K) " bonds due Keb. 1, 1SH4 2,000.00 " interest on bonded iudebledness 5a5.8:j " loan and interest to A. A. Savlngs bank B,104.!)4 " completion of sixth ward building, heutlog. furnishiug etc. 7,771.41 " repairs, lmprovemenls and iucldentals 3.483.S3 ¦' llbrary books a2.9(i " lot on Thayer street 700.00 Cash on hand 39321 N5.80Í.11 The board estim.ites the receipts and expenditures for the School year eiuiing September lst, 1885, as follows: KECEIPTS. Frora primary school fuud $ 3,000 ' one mlll tax.__ 4500 '¦ tultlou f,,000 Total $12,500 EXPENDITUKKS. Salaries „ $21,000 Bonds due Kei). 1,1884 2 000 Interest bonded indebtedness '700 Fue!. 2000 "pairs 1,000 Janltors 14UO Insurance 3(ly Gas 100 Incidentals 1,000 Total $32,500 Deuuct estima teil reeelpls 12,500 120,000 Upon the basis of these estimules it will be ïiecessmy to raise by tax tor the support of the schools for the coming school year the 911111 of twenty thoiifsind dollars. The amount raised by tax for the sume purpose each yeiir for the past ten years was as follows: J H,S20 }" 17.M0 J 22 320 1ST7 J2.865 1H78 20 (i(ir 1S79 : ..;. ik ',ii J22" '." uno !"82:::z:::::::::::::::::::::r::zz::::::::::;v:-l!;! lHS-'t 2.'i k"0 BONDED DEÜT. The total boiuled debt of the district is fourteeu thousand dollars, hearing tive percent, interest and to become ilue as follows: 1SS5, Fobruary lat ÏW laafl ' , 3,uw in?; ¦ ::::::::.: m 1888, " ; 1889 " MS IXtuí l OOI IS?; - :::.ï:::::::::::::: w Ttie total bonded debt of the distric oacb year for tbc pust ten years bas been as follows: !Sh:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::S lg7H 211,001 1877 :"::::...:::: : . 1878 ÜliW 187!) .500 1880 14,000 1881 14,000 1882 ".(KW 1883 M.MX Daring thlsperlod of ten yeats the prln eiptd of the debt bas not oiily been reduced f 'rom twenty-nlne. thoutand dollars to fourteen tnousand dollars, and the rate of Interest on the same f rom eight to flve per cent., but the Tappan building - one of the most beautlful primary schoo building n tl'ie State has been erected anc furnlsbed complete- the Second Ward building remodeled and two new roomi added - an addition of two rooms made to the First Ward building, and the Flftl Ward building thoroughly overhauled, furuished with a new roof, new oak lloors in three rooms and hall, a new and commodlous stairway built, and all without any material increase in taxation. IMPHOVEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Besides the radical chances and Ira proveinents mude to the Fifth Ward building', a new sidewalk bas been laid In front of the school property in the Fifth Ward, ft n artificial stone walklald lialf tht lengt h of the south side of the High Schoo i;rounds, and two stone walks, each six (eet wlde, trom the main entrances of the High School building to the stone sidewalk in front. Toaccominodate the cightl ürammar School grade iu the High Schoo building, it was necessary to have additional room, and the board has CHUSed : substantial movable partition to be built across the south end of the chape], whlcl will fornlgh the adlitional room requirei for the eighth grade. As Iliis iartitioi can be easily opeiied it will not prevent the use of the chape! wben the eutire roon is reqiilred for public purposes. HIGH SCHOOL. Our High School bas acqnired a nationa repmation. It has ee.ised to be merely local nstitution. It gathers ts students trom nearly every section of the country The tnitlon collected last year - ïnainlj IVom High School students - reached the sum of' $",!)() 1 - a largcrsiini probably thati is collected as tuition in any public Higli School In the country. The amount of tuition collected each year for the last ten years bas been as follows : 1874 $%80 ¦1875 4,029 187B 4,101 1877 4.ÓH7 1878 _ 5,289 1879 4,803 1880 4,813 1881 5.160 J882 5,685 18 3 5,iK)l SPECIAL ItECOMMENDATIONS. At the last anniial meeting the sum of si c hundied doll irs was voted t purchase a lot opposlte the vva front of the High School building on whieh to build a residence for the janitor. The lol has been purchased and puld for.but as moreground was secured than was offered last year, the sum of seveii hundred dollars was paid. At the animal meeting last year tbc Board were als) instrueted to make a temporary loan of twelve hundred dollars to erect a resitlence for the janitor; tliis bas not been done and tlie board recommend that tlie gum of twelve hundred anl lil'ty dolíais he raised by tax tbr the purpose. The Board, i after fnfl investigation of tlie subject, are sutistied that steani-heatinir should be gradually adopted tbr all of our school buildings; it would be a taving in expende aud conduce greatlv to the comfort and health of om cliildren. We therefore recouiinend that the smn of twelve bundred aud fifty dollars be mised by tax to provide iteatu-ueaLiug apparatus lor the First Waid building to be put liibeforetbe opening of tlie next school year. The total anioiint voted by tax last year was twentythree tliousand eight hundred and litty dollars, and should the items tor janitor' s j house and steain-heating in the flratward ', be voted, the total ainuunt to tie rutead ; tliis year will be twenty-two tliousand and live hundred dollars, or one thoua&nd three hundred and ftfty dollars lesa than last year. For fuither Information in relation to our schools we refer to tlie rport of Superintendent Ferry herewith submitted : Our schools are in a very flourishing and profperouscondition;tliey are all that a generous and intelligent public, an able Superintendent and a faithful and compitent corps of Teachers can inake tliem. The Board of Trustees have cndeavored to manage the business att'airs of the district ' with economy and care ; to keep our ! schools abreast witb the progress of the i times, and free from party or seetarian iutluence, to the end that in the future - as in tlie past - they niay be supported witb just prlde by all classes of our citiens. Hespectfully submitted, By order of the Board, WILUAM D. IIAKIUMAX. Josei'h T. Jacobs, Prealdeut. Secretary. Anx Arbor, September 1, 1884 "Quitting advertising In dull times is like pulling down a dam wheti the water is low. When trade revives, it will rush by liiii who does not stay it with ready custoiners. The waj' to have sucli alwnys on hand is through advertising." AVhy is it that the real good tilintas of tliis world are orenerally the cheapest? But such is the tact. Every one knows that good cold water costs f ar less than rye whisky (or corn whisky either) and is a tliousand per cent. better ; the price of a small box of cigars will buy a good book that wili furniih food tor thought for a whole week ; a gallon of old brandy costs more than a barrel ot flour; you can sleep in a church on Sunday momlng for iiothing, if yon are mean enoujch to do it, but if a young man gons to tlie circus and hears tom-foolery "with bis gal, it costs him a and a full hand of poker very often coets more than the price of the Courier for forty years, and the latter is br more entertaiuing and profltable. Tliis talk is ;ood "hom sense.1'