Vermont High School - Comet Yearbook (Vermont, IL)

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'rms ct ggi' pp e 1910 The South School Building HISTORY The construction of the South School lluilding was begun in the fall of V866 and completed in the following spring. Martin Mercer was the con- tractor. The building then contained three rooms and tivo halls. The large room on the second Hoor was used by the high school and the lower floor by the grades. ln 1894 an addition consisting of two rooms. one above the other was added on the west side. The lower room was used for the primary grades and the upper as a recitation room for the lligh school. The original rooms .in the hrst floor were given to the intermediate and grammar grades. The addition was built by David Beal. In IQO4 the senior class of this school and that from the lligh school in the north district were graduated together in order to lessen expenses. lt was afterwards suggested by Principal lf. XY. Dunham of the south school and Principal C. Shields of the north, that a union of the districts would be of great advantage in advancing the efficiency of the school system in Ver- mont. 'ln IQGS a petition was drawn up to effect a consolidation of the two districts. The subsequent vote decided in favor of the proposition. Since then the south building has contained the union High school, the primary, and the third and fourth grades. ln tooo considerable improvement was' made on the building. A steam heating plant was installed, the rooms papered and painted and unused room on the first floor fitted up for an additional high school recitation room. a large laboratory cabinet built, a platform put in the assembly room. a new desk and 45 tablet arm chairs installed. Through the efforts of the lllini Literary Society a fine new piano was placed in the High school, and the upper floor wired and fitted with electric lights, N. D. B. ,II. SIX

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'lllli eOM12'1' mio The North School Building 1- W' l HISTORY Une night in the year 187: there was a great disaster in the quiet little village of Yerntont. ln that year it was decided, through the generous efforts of the School llireetors, to put a hot air heater in the North School lluilding. .Xs there was no baseinent in which to install tl1e furnace. excavations were begun. The work was about eonipleted when to the great consternation ot everybody concerned the building. whose walls had been weakened by the mining operations, eollapsed. The rnin was complete so it was neeessary to 'rlan an entirely new building. It was then that work on the present edifice began. The contract was given to ,lohn Sinith. a well known eitizen of Yer- mont. The new structure was finally completed and remains to-day practically the same as when built, barring the ravages of age and usage. The hot air heater installed in IQO4 and an oeeasioual coat of paper and paint represent the improveinents added. Prior to 1905 the school contained all the grades and a lligh school. The grammar grades and the High school occupied the second lloor, the priiniiry and intermediate grades the tirst tloor, while the baseinent was used for heater and fuel 1'OOlllS and a bad-weather play room for the children. Since the union of the north and south districts in IQOS the building has been used for the grades alone. The primary classes use the south rooin on the first Hoor, the hfth and sixth grades the north rooni. The seventh and eighth occupy the south room on the second rloor. while the north room is used for a basketball and play room. N. D. l3.'1I. SEVEN