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Mr. Toot is the mascot not only of the North Iowa Band Festival, but also for Mason City as a whole. His image has appeared on everything from T-Shirts to business cards to city light poles. Now his image also appears on the geocaching map just south of Mason City Iowa. Each of these puzzles will include a fact or story in theme with the art series. Some may also include a question or two for you to answer correctly to find the coordinates.
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While Mason City was engaged in an effort to establish a university, a rapid expansion of the city's public school system took place. The voting of bonds and construction of buildings was not without some interesting incidents. When the Lincoln school was built in 1904 to serve as a high school a legal limit made it impossible to bond the district for the full amount with the result that the school stood without a roof until warrants were issued for completion of the structure at a total cost of about $75,000.
In 1900 four rooms were added to the Garfield school, making eight rooms. The same year Grant school was enlarged and with the influx of workers at the brick and tile plants another addition was built in 1912. In 1910 the first unit of the McKinley school was built on North Federal to serve the cement plant and Decker districts. The Jackson school on South Federal was built in 1913.
On August 29, 1911, the school board received a petition asking for a special election to vote on bonding the district for $175,000 for a new high school. At an election on October 10, 1911, the proposition was defeated.
Mason City High School 1918 - 1966
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