Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
Gosrfp Of the schools.

TEE Central Board meets next Tuesday
evening.
The Teachers excursion party to Europe
| now numbers IL.
MISS AGGIE MoCANoK, late Of the Forbes
School, will be married next Wednesday to Mr..
| J. Brown.
A NEW 1o-roomed building, costing in the
neighborhood of $50 600. is shortly to be erected
In the Liberty School district
Miss ALICE KE LILY, Of the Soho School, was
absent all week from sch ool on account Of ILL
| ness. She will resume her school duties to-
morrow.
MISS LEoNA ELLIOT Is the new teacher in
| the Springfield school, who succeeds Miss
Douglass, who was elected to position in the
| Liberty.
MISS H ENRIETTA MARTIN, ex-Assistant
Principal of the o'Hara School, is now filling
the vacancy that has existed for some time in
the Grant School.
MISS LIZZIE SMALL is additional teacher at
the Bellefeld School, due to the present in
creased atten dance. The Soho School gets
another grammar room.
THE Misses Maggie and Mary Lindsay, Of the
Grant School. have the sincere sympathy Of a
large circle of friends in the loss Of their
mother who died last Friday.
VISITORS DAY will occur at the three schools
Of the Liberty district in the morning on the
18th inst. In the afternoon a general lawn fete
will be held at the Liberty School
The three grammar rooms of the Birming.
ham school are to be entirely refinished.
Shorter hours of school work will also be in
order when warmer weather sets in.
PUPILS from the Forbes, Minersville Frank
lin Moorhead. Soho and Bellfield schools will
sing the national air at the Decoration Day ex-
ercises by Post l57 at the Minersville Cemetery.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT BLOOM. of
Northumberland county, and ex-Superintend-
ent Case Of Tioga county, were in this city
last week, serving on the United States grand
jury.
The pupils Of the West Lake School, Char
tiers township, gave an excellent entertain
ment at the West End Rink last Friday even
ing. The school term for this year will close
in about two weeks.
THE Lincoln School will have no reception
day this year, as has been the custom. nor will
this school prepare any work for the Exposi-
ton. Interference with the regular school
work is the cause assigned.
A NUMBER of teachers have been elected to
positions in the city schools the last week. OF
those elected Miss Minnie Robson takes the
place of Miss j: Aeheson in the O'Hara; Miss
Sadie Gordon, in the Forbes vice A. McCance,
and Miss Bell Blaekford, in the Washington,
succeeds Miss Davidson, deceased.
SUPERINTENDENT Hu9Us, of Westmore-
land county, was guest of Superintendent
Hamilton, Of Allegheny county yesterday.
Superintendent Hamilton Is to be found now
every Saturday at his Office at the Court House.
Heretofore bi-monthly visits were all that were
necessary.
FOURTEEN members out of Is attended the
meeting of the Executive Committee of the
Teachers Guild, held yesterday at the Central
Board rooms. 1t was star chamber session,
and the only information cleaned was that a
small list of names of teachers whose pedagogic
ability is prominent was prepared and will be
presented for membership at a special meeting
Of the guild called for the third Saturday in
June
THE State Normal School at West Chester is
enjoying a great boom. Five hundred and
nineteen pupils are enrolled at the present time
and the yearly attendance exceeds 700. There
are over $4,000 in the treasury. Thirty-three
counties in Pennsylvania are represented.
Allegheny county has one representative in the
person of Miss Annie P. Matthews, graduate
OF the High School. Ten States. are repre-
sented. Principal Philips is doing splendid
work.