The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-16
BoARD OF EDUCATION.
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
December Is, 1869. }

| President Hall called the Boaru To
order.
The minutes of the preceding meeting
were read, approved and signed.
The committee on Building and Real
Estate, to whom was referred the reso-
lution directing them to ascertain and
report the amount of extra work done
at Washington township school house
and the cost of the same, reported the
following extra work done by Mr..
Brodie: Stone work, S5965O; excava'
ton, 500; brick work, sl3949; belt
course, s3l7.s6; extra by storm, 5000;
making q total of S2053 IS paid and
allowed at sundry times. The commit
tee also reported that they had exam
ined the bill of Mr.. Brodie aud Nesbit
g. Bro, for extra work, referred to
them at the last meeting, and found
them correct. The bills make balance
due Mr.. Brodie of S1,O2l.59 and they
offered the following:
Resolred, That the bill of MIR. Brodle
for extra work done at Washington
township school house, as per bill rem.
dered November Z, 1869, SlO2l.5O be paid.
Adopted. ,.
Resolred, That the bill or Nesbitt Il
Bro, amounting to $50 so for extra work
at Washington township school house
and for contingencies be paid. Adopted.
The committee reported that the
Washington township school house. was
completed according to contract, and
offered the following:
ReSolred, That the Board of Educa-
ton do hereby receive from j. N. Bro
die, Washington township school house,
in accordance with the terms OF rbe
contract, and that the balance (So66)
due on contract be paid. Adopted.
The committee on Text Books, to
whom was referred the proposition of
Mr.. c. S. Root, proposing to give in
struction in vocal music in the schools
of this dietrict, reported that it was in
expedient at this time to introduce any
further study into the schools. They
offered the following:
Resolred, That it is inexpedient at this
time to employ q teacher to give in
struction in vocal music in the schools
of the District. Adopted.
The special committee to whom was
referred the proposition to establish a
night school, reported adversely. and
offered the following:
Resolved, That in view Of the reduced
coud ton of the finances Of the District
it is inexpedient at the present time to
establish night school under the au-
spices of the Board of Education. Adopt
ed.
The committee on Salaries to whom
was referred the petition of certain lady
teachers in the First Ward school, ask
ing that their salaries be allowed for
the month of September, reported in
favor of granting the prayer of the pc
titioners, and offered the following:
Resolred, That Misses Arndt, Phillips,
fancy, Oxtoby and Mcdonald, teachers
in the First Ward school, he paid for
the month of September, the usual
amount allowed to teachers of the re.
spective grades to which they belong.
Adopted.
The committee also recommended that
Miss Mcclure, who resigned her situa-
ton in the Fulton school, on the first of
October with reference to position in
the First Ward school to which she had
been appointed, be allowed the salary
to which she would have been entitled
had she been actually engaged in teach
ing during that month. The recem-
meudation was adopted.
The Superintendent of Schools re-
ported that there are 24O2 pupils en-.
rolled, the average daily attendance,
2l33; average daily absence, 269; per
cent. of attendance on enrolment, 50;
number of corporal punishments, SO;
visits by school officers and others, oil;
number of days of school, 20. There
were in the several branches of study:
Alphabet, 155; spelling, 2265; reading,
2074; writing, Ass; mental arithmetic,
1lOl; written arithmetic, 1881; geogra-
ply, So; grammar, 3l5; history, ll2;
physiology, %; natural philosophy, IS;
botany, 9; astronomy, IA; algebra, %;
geometry, IL; familiar science, 81; Ger
man language, 79l. There was $2652
paid for tuition.
The superintendent called the atten'
ton of tho Board to the fact that Mr..
Fuendling has over four hundred pupils
enrolled in his classes, his labors being
too arduous in attempting to impart in
struction in the German language to
| four hundred children, divided into nine
or ten classes, and he therefore asks for
an assistant to Mr.. Fuendling.
The committee on Accounts presented
balls to the amount of S793.2O and offered
the following:
Resolred, That the accompanying
bills amounting to 1913 20 be paid.
The President presented the bill Of
James Bodley for paving at Clay town
ship school house, of so. The bill was
ordered to be paid on the acceptance of
the work by the Commissioners of Clay
township.
The recommendation of the Supelin-
tendent of Schools in regard to provid-
ing an assistant for Mr. Fuendling was
referred to the committee on German
Language.
, Mr.. Lancaster took his leave of the
} Board in a few very interesting re-
|, marks, reviewing the action of the
3 Board during the time he had been con-
: nected with it, and wishing that. in the
, future as in the past, the good of the
J., rising generation should be the aim o
5 each member.
He was followed by Mr.. Boring, an
other retiring member, in similar