Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Gossip OF the schools.

THE new four-roomed building at Glenwood
will be ready by November l.
THE assessment for the teachers the COMING
| year for institute dues will be per cent.
ALL the local school boards have decided to
furnish the Allegheny schools with the Ency.
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MISS X. ROBINSON. of the Sharpsburg
schools. has been elected an additional teacher
IN the Mt. Albion district.
THE new Tenth ward school building Of AL
legheny will be opened in two weeks. The
principal has not yet been elected.
TOMORROW evening the night schools will
be opened in the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth and Ninth wards, Allegheny, and will
continue four months.
TOMORROW evening the Ralston School
Board holds meeting. The attendance at this
school has decreased 80 considerably that II is
necessary to drop two teachers.
SUPERINTENDENT LUCKEY will address the
Normal Alumni on professional Zeal" at the
Miller Street building next Saturday at 2P. M.
A full attendance of members is requested
PROF. MORROW, ex-principal of the Fifth
ward schools and of the Slippery Rock Nor
NAL, will be the representative of the Praug
sy stem of drawing in Western Pennsylvania,
MISS GREvEs, who gave instructions in
drawing to the Allegheny teachers last year.
has been elected to supervise the study of
drawing at the Millersville State Normal
School.
ON Friday night Miss Mamie Cook, substi.
tute for some time in that district, was elected
as regular teacher in the Howard School, This
ends the long-drawn-out contest which occurred
at the September meeting.
The Permanent Teachers Examiner of
Allegheny comprise Prof. H. L. Kallenbaugh,
Prof. ]. b. Arbuckle, Prof. John Daniels, Miss
Alice Mcdonald and Miss Logan, Of the Fifth
Ward school, Allegheny. The examinations
Will be held In January.
The Grant school is to lose one of its most
accomplished teachers. Miss Lillian Hoag has
resigned and will be married on the 18th inst
to Mr.. Eiseman, of Allentown. Rumor has it
that before another moon is upon us another of
the Grant teachers will take unto herself a
helpmeet.
On Wednesday evening the Allegheny Board
Of School Controllers will elect supervisor of
drawing for the whole city, at a salary of $780,
As the Prang system OF drawing is the one
taught there. the company that controls it will
give 500 extra This position Is q newly Gre
ated one in the Allegheny schools.
THE Hiland district will request two ad-
ditional teachers at the next meeting of the
Central Board. At the Garfield school of this
district the four rooms now occupied are in
very crowded condition, but relief will be af-
forded this month when the four new rooms
that are now being finished and furnished, will
be ready for occupancy. New houses are
always in course Of erection in the Nineteenth
ward, SO that new pupils are received daily az
the schools.
MISS MURPHY. of the Lincoln school, re-
signed last Monday, and will be married shortly
to Mr.. Georgs Wagner. The three vacancies
existing in the school were filled last Monday
by the election Of the Misses E. II. Black, Susie
Brvar and Miss Wilson. The new rooms at the
Lexington building will be finished in q few
days which will relieve the overcrowded main
building, where there are l75 pupils IN No.
room, half Of them coming in the morning, the
other half in the afternoon.