The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-20
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
sFRrDAr EVENING, Nov. 10. 1869.

Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Present-Messrs. Boring, .Bickel, Bas-
Isett, Ewing, Hutchinson, Lancaster,
Launder, Mcclellan, Pollock, Phillips
and Stewart.
The President being absent, Mr.. Ian
caster was elected President pro fem.
The minutes of the preceding meeting
we're read, approved and signed. z
Superintendent Williams presented
his report. From it We learn that the
attendance and discipline during the
past month is as follows:
Number of pupils enrolled-Males,
lOO6; females, 9s3.. Total, 1889. r
Average daily attendance-9O6 males;
s5s females. Total, 1894.
Average daily absence-l0O males;
l25 females. Total, 225.
Per cent of attendance on enroll
ment-90 males; 81 females. Total, So
There were twenty.one days of school
during the month, and 167 visits were
made by officers and others.
The number of pupils in the several
branches are, alphabet, 1863; spelling,
1919; reading, 1893; writing, 1872;
mental arithmetic, s55; written arith'
metic, 700; natural philosophy, % !;
botany, 9; astronomy, Is; algebra, 60 !;
geography, 7OS; grammar, 275; history,
no; physiology, 81; geometry, 10; ia,
miliar science, Sc; German language,
$50.
Corporal punishment has been in
Aicted as follows: In Fulton, 5; Madi-
son, 81; Clay, O.; Union, %; Centre.
80; Webster, 50; colored.S 8. Total, 1873.
The amount paid for tuition is ST.
12s so.
The enrolment was less By Sc than
for the previous month.
The committee on Finance and Ac-
counts reported bills to tho amount Of
SAB 10, aud offered q resolution for
their payment, which was adopted.
A bill of J. NJ. Brodie of Sl037 90 for
extra work on First Ward school house
was referred to committee on Building
and Real Estate.
A bill of Nesbitt & Bro. of $50 80 was
referred to committee on Building and
Real Estate.
Bill of Chase & Son, of Buffalo, for
desks ard school furniture, for Sl506,
was ordered to be paid.
Mr. Bickel offered the following:
ReSolred, That the sum of $500, out
of the Building Fund levied for 1869,
be and is hereby appropriated to liqui-
date the debts due by the Board to the
First National Bank, Merchants Ma
tional Bank and Wheeling Savings In.
siitntion, and that the clerk be directed
to issue orders to pay the same at ma
turity.
The resolution was adopted.
A communication was received from
c. 6. Rost, Offering himself as teacher
Of music in the public schools, at sal
airy of $40 per week. The communica-
ton was referred to committee on Text
Books.
A petition from the lady teachers OF
the First Ward School asking for the
salary due them for time lost while the
school house was being built, during
the month of September, was read
On motion of Mr.. Bassett the petition
was referred to the committee on Sal.
aries for report.
| Mr. Lancaster (Mr. Pollock in the
chair) called the attention of the Board
to the necessity of night school, in
Webster township school house, under
the direction and supervision Of the
Board of Education.
Mr.. Ewing moved that the matter be
referred To a special committee of three
for examination and report, Mr.. Lancas
ter to be a member Of the committee.
The resolution was adopted, aud Messrs.
! Ewing anu hCSlClIdu "clC
the other members of the committee.
Mr.. Ewing moved that the trustees
of Webster township be authorized to
grant the use of Webster township
school house to private parties for q
night school until the above named
committee shall report. The resolution
was lost.
On motion of Mr.. Ewing the commit
tee on Building and Real Estate and
Superintendent were instructed to visit
the new Fourth Ward school house and
examine the foundation now being built
in Union township. 1t appears that a
soft, springy spot has been found at the
northwest corner of the proposed build
ing, and it is proposed to remove the
corner some fye feet further south.
The motion was adopted.