Knox School, Thief River Falls, MN, Part Three

1906 Knox School is mentioned as being on the east side.

Janitor Bailey, of Knox School, has been suffering from ‘felon on his tumb’

It takes 32 seconds to evacuate Knox during a fire drill.

Knox 337 students, 8 rooms, 42 per room

Knox was a different school district. Consolidating of District 57 and District 107 happened in 1900. Now all schools were in District 18.

1918 No room for kindergarten at Knox, a church is rented.

1920 Plan for new school accepted by board. The old Knox School will be wrecked and a 14 room school will be built from brick. No name has been selected for the new building. See what they have done? Built a school, sold it to the Catholics, built another school in 1908, now they are tearing THAT down and making the school that was demolished in 1996.

1920
EDITORIAL Keep the name Knox for the school being built on the east side. After all, Knox gave the land to the city for the school building attaching no strings. Knox raffled off another lot and the money earned was used to buy a bell for the school.

East side residents declare against the name change; want new school building called Knox.

The building of the new Knox School will be started on Monday. The new structure will be forty feet east of present site. The old brick walls of the present building will be used in the new structure. Cost to build $71,000.

Knox School will be ready to use on January 1, 1921

Charlie Knox, for whom the Knox School is named, was married in Minneapolis. The old timers will recall his bride was a school teacher in this city when Knox was a resident here.