New High School
Wauchula, Jan. 6--Monday the contractors turned the new school building over to the County Board, which was accepted.
Prearrangements having been made for a short dedicatory service, a large crowd of the patrons assembled on the grounds at 9 o'clock and were escorted through the building after which they assembled on the east front of the old building where Prof. Shaver introduced the architect of the building, Long, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Wright and member of County Board Mr. Hogan, who made short talks.
The contractors Marshall & Sanders of Lakeland were congratulated by the patrons for the manner in which they completed the job.
New Year's Resolutions
It will be remembered on New Year's Day of 1914 hundreds of citizens of Wauchula wore badges bearing their New Year's resolutions, which was for a new school house, new depot, water works, sewers, paved streets.
All these have been acquired except the paved streets and money is on hand for that purpose.
Added to this there were voted $210,000 for brick roads for the district. This money will give about 100 miles of unpaved roads.
During the year, 180 new houses were built, ranging in cost from $500 to $5,000, two new brick and stone churches, costing $6,000 and $10,000, one three-story business block, all of brick and stone, costing from $6,000 to $16,000. In addition to this no less than fifty farms and many groves have been started within a radius of five miles of Wauchula and many of them have built costly houses.
Agriculture
The packing houses are slow to get started after the holidays and truck growers are getting a little nervous over the continued rainfall.
Wauchula High School
Wauchula, Jan. 7---The Wauchula High School resumed work Monday morning after a fortnight for Christmas vacation. There were a number of new pupils and two new teachers. The faculty now consists of twenty-one able teachers.
A crowd of patrons attended the opening as it was an auspicious day in the history of the school.
Architect Long turned over to the trustees the keys of the handsome new $15,000 school building.
Methodist Pastors
Rev. C. W. White, the new Methodist minister, with his wife and daughter, arrived in Wauchula Thursday afternoon, coming in an auto from Dade City, their former home.
Rev. J. L. Griffitts, late pastor of the Methodist church here, with his interesting family, left Wednesday for Cedar Keys, his new field of work.
This article was published in The Herald-Advocate (Wauchula, Fla.) of January 18, 2001.
May 13, 2001