The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-17
.YHH BOARD OF EDUCATION
Meets in Regular Monthly ses-
sion, but has Little
OUTSIDE OF THE ROUTINE
To. Attend To-.The Library Quarters
to Continue Where They Are,
School statistlcs.-Llbrary Mat
tiers OF Much Interest,

The Board Of Education met in regu.
lar monthly session last evening, The
Committee on Public Library presented
a bill OF 81 6S, which was ordered paid,
The following appointments were re-
ported for confirmation: First Assistant
Librarian, Miss Annie V, Sage, at a COM
pensation Of $40 per month"; Second AS
sistant, Mrs, Carrie Crawford, at $40 per
month; Harry Phillips, Janitor Of the
Library, at $50, and Of the Boards
rooms at $40 per month, These APP
pointments were all confirmed They
are all re,appointments, the parties hay
ing served in the same places for two or
three years past,
The committee reported further that
it had received from Mr., W, p, Heiskell,
from whom the quarters occupied by the
Board and Library are leased, anotier TO-
the effect Neutrality-suspicious. ofthepres'
ent lease on March 81, 1901, a new lease
could BIO made for term Of five years at
the rate Of 500 per annum, an advance
OF 500 over the present terms, The
committee recommended that this offer
be accepted at once, and the same was
agreed to after some little discussion.
The almost unanimous conclusion reach
cd, was that 1t was,folly to look for any
thing like liberal dealing from the pres
ent Council, which apparently has a
settled penny-wlse pound.foolish policy
that 1t proposes TO adhere to in the mat
ter Of the transfer Of the old Court House
property to the Board Of Education for
library purposes. The terms offered by
the city combined with the amount the
Board would have to expend in fitting
the place up so as to make II suitable for
the purposes OF the library, are so ex'
Cessiye us to make 1t out OF the question
for the Board to accept the same,
The Committee on Public Library re-
ported further, that owing to the expira-
ton Of the contract under which it had
been purchasing books for the Library,
| 1t had seen ft to communicate with sew
eral booksellers and publishers in order
to obtain their rates Of discount on one
years purchases, which would aggregate
1000, and recommended that q con-
tract DO made with Stanton 4 Daven-
port, their discounts being 80 per cent
on regular publications, excepting sCien.
titlc works and books Of that nature, on
which a discount Of 20 per cent is allow,
ed. Tho contract was ordered awarded
to this firm,
The Committee on Finance reported
that Miss Belle Mendel was entitled to q
refund oftaxes paid by her on m erron-
eous assessment on personal property,
amounting to$lO 81 in 1887, amounting
TO 81 50 and recommended thatthe same
be refunded TO her which was ordered
done.
This committee also reported in the
matter OF the application OF the Fulton
school trustees for the taxes paid to the
city by the parents OF children living In
the city andattending the Fulton school,
that taxes to the amount OF 500 10 were
paid by the said parents, and that the
allowance OF the State Distributable
School Fund made on account OF the
city children attending the Fulton
school, aggregated $l22l. The commit.
tee recommended that the Clerk be in.
structed to pay To tho Fulton school
authorities these sums, amounting to
S77 "a, and the same was ordered done
Superintendent Anderson's regular
monthly report for the month Of April
was read and ordered filed. The follow
inc fipurnH ara taken from IT,