local taxes then so hard to pay, our people had compassion on their fellowmen and voted to provide them with work and at the same time gratefully accept the generous contribution from our Federal Government and we have the fine high school building as a monument of the occasion.

In 1955, the school board invited voters to meet with them for a discussion of a project to add a vocational agricultural course to our school system. The board met with a favorable response so that a bond election to cover the cost to erect a building and provide equipment for the course was called. The election result was overwhelmingly in favor and the Vocational Agricultural Training Department came to our school.

In 1962, the board was again confronted with a serious condition. The old school building, which was used for elementary grades only after the new high school building was completed in 1936, was found in such poor condition that it was dangerous to the small children in case of fire so that the board could no longer delay taking action to call for a bond election to provide a new elementary school building. This bond election met with the same strong support of the great majority of the people, carrying by more than eighty per cent. The new elementary school building, complete with the necessary classrooms, including band room, multi-purpose room and spacious kitchen for a hot lunch program, is a symbol of progress. It shows what people in a community can do when they all work together.

The issue of the Enterprise dated March 8, 1898, has in it an article treating on the public school problem faced at the time. School Districts 10 and 38 had several years before been taken inpart from what was originally District 5. Children living in the west end of District 5 had a long distance to go to Battle Creek and also a far way to either Districts 38 or 10. The voters decided to build a second school, costing $650.00 for District 5 to be erected one and one half miles south and two miles west of town at the northwest corner of the Henry Praeuner farm. It was used until the advent of the automobile for transportation when it was abandoned about 1915 or 1916.

The same issue of the paper reveals the enrollment for the period ending January 28, 1909:

205