The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-19
BOARD or EDUCATION.


The Board of Education met last
evening, President Hall in the chair.
Present: Messrs Bickel, Carnahan,
Caldwell, Hutchinson, Hamilton, Laun-
der, Pollock, Pfarr, Stewart, Todd,
We;tzell and Zoeckler.
The report Of the Superintendent was
submitted as follows:
WHEELING, May Is, 1871.
To the Board of Education:
GESrLEMEN-Herewith / submit tab
ular reports of the Schools of the Dis
trict for the month of April. Your at
tention is invited to the following ab-
stract:
Total enrolment of pupils, 2,273; av-
erage attendance, 2,l54; average alb
sence, 2l9; per cent of attendance on
enrolment, 81 !; amount paid for tuition,
$2,763; number Of visits to schools by
officers and others 1872; number Of
pupils neither absent or tardy, 420.
Number OF corporal pupishments, As /;
number of pupils in the several branch
es of study alphabet l9l; spelling,
2,l72; reading, 2,ll7; writing, 1872;
mental arithmetic, l,l09; written arith-
metic, 997; geography, 6lS; grammar,
246 : history, 81; physiology, 26; nat,
ural philosophy, a. chemistry, 80;
U. S. Constitution, As; German Ian
guage. AS.
Now that the school year is approach.
ing its close, it will soon become neces,
sary to arrange plans or the ensuing
year. In doing this may it not be well
to inquire whether the educational in
terests of the city do not demand the
establishment of public High School !
In order that the matter may, at the
proper time, be duly considered BY the
Board, | would suggest the expediency
of instructing, the committee appointed
some time since with reference to this
object, to ascertain, and report to the
next regular meeting, whether the
, Lindsey Institute building may yet be
had for the public High School, upon
the same conditions offered by the Board
of Trustees about one year ago.
Respectfully submitted,
F. s. WILLIAMS, Supt.
The report was received and filed.
The committee on Accounts reported
bills amounting to 1926. Ordered tc
be paid.
The committee to whom was referred
the petition of female teachers reported
that, in their opinion, it was inexpedienI
10 grant an increase OF salaries. Re
port received and filed.
Bills Of Mr.. Yost, architect, for work
on Fourth Ward School House, amount
ing to $l20, were presented and referred
to the committee on Buildings and Rea
Estate for report.
Bills of Western Eureka Stating Co.
for stating blackboards in different
school houses, amounting to 1898, were
ordered to be paid.
Bill OF Dodson Bros, for putting slate
roo. on Union township school house
amounting to $54.SS, was referred tc
committee on Buildings and Real Es
tate for report.
A resolution authorizing the commit
tee on Buildings and Real Estate to sell
the school lot on the corner of Sixth
and Clay streets, was offered by Mr.
Bickel, and by the Board adopted.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Car
nahan authorizing the Clerk to employ
a competent person to prepare specitica
tons and make an estimate Of the cos
of an addition to Webster school house
Adopted.
DR.. Todd moved that the committee
on Buildings and Real Estate be in
structed to inquire il the Lindsey In
stitute can be had at the same rate al
heretofore offered. Carried.
The names OF August Weiderbusch
Michael Roth and VIM. Toner, were
presented as Commissioners from TIT
Eighth Ward. The communication
was laid on the table.
Mr.. Bickel moved that the election
of Commissioners from the Eighth
Ward be made the special order of the
next meeting. Carried.
Proposals were received from Geo
II. Grant & Co., Richmond, Ind; Or
mold, Thompson g. Co., Wheeling; c.
w. Dustin, Dayton, Ohio; NJ. w. Chase
Buffalo, New York; Robert Crichton
Novelty Machine Works, Parkersburg
w. Va, for furnishing Union township
school house with furniture-the furni.
ture to seat $50 pupils.
Mr.. Pollack moved that the proposals
be referred to special committee, to be
composed of the President Of the Board
the Chairman of the Building commit,
tee, and a member Of the Board from
the Fourth Ward, said committee to re,
port to the Board at the next meeting.
Carried.
Mr.. Launder was appointed mem
Der of the committee from the Fourth
Ward.
Mr.. Po,lack moved that when this
Board adjourn, it be to meet Saturday
evening at seven o'clock. Carried.
A communication was received from
the committee Of Arrangements on the
decoration Of soldiers graves, asking
that a public holiday be granted the
pupils and teachers of the public schools
on Decoration Day. Granted.
Adjourned.
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