The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1890-11-29


Meeting of the School Board.-The
County School Board held meeting at Tow
sontown on Monday, the president, Mr.: ). M.
Rankin, in the chair, and Col. Charles b.
Rogers, secretary.
A delegation from the I'd district was before
the Board to urge the expectancy of establish,
ing school at the intersection of Lyons Mill
road and Painters lane, in a house which the
trustees of the McDonogh Institute are willing
to give free of rent. Mr.. K. Bruce Hook acted
as spokesman for the delegation. The request
was referred to Messrs. Rankin, Benson and
Thorpe with power to act.
An application for new school building to
take the place of one now known as school 3,
district 10, was refused because no greater need
exists there than in many other Localities TO
which the Board is unable at present to extend
help.
Mr.. Rankin was authorized to consolidate
two schools-numbered and Gin the 18th
district, on the completion of the building now
in course of erection at Starr s Corner. Messrs.
]. Fred. Raphel, Benjamin F. Taylor, and A.
A. Blakeney were appointed trustees OF the
new school, to be designated as No. 2. Messrs.
Charles b. Rogers, secretary, and James J.
Lindsay, attorney of the Board. were directed
to sell the house and lot used by school as
soon as the consolidation is effected. They
were also authorized to sell the Shane school
house in the It'll district, which is soon to be
replaced by new building on an adjacent site.
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pointed trustees of school No. 8, 9Th district.
The Board authorized the payment to Mr.:
Jacob Shamberger of 81 900, for the erection of
a school-house at Evna, which is nearly COM
pleted.
Teachers contracts were approved as follows:
9Th district, school No. II, Emma Bull 9TH
district school No. 10. Annie A. Leib; 18th
district school No. g. F. S. Bachtel 18th dis
trict, school No. A. Sadie Spedden; school No.
II, Minnie Ruth.
1t was ordered that school No. 4, 18th district,
be closed, not having the number of pupils re-
ouired by law as the minimum. The secre-
tary was directed to notify the district trustees
that this school had been closed for the second
time while in charge of the present teacher,
and would not be reopened unless new teach
er be chosen.
A letter was received from the president of
the Western Maryland College offering to place
a scholarship in the college at the disposal of
the School Board. The scholarship will be
thrown open to competition as soon as the ne
cessary arrangements have been made.
The secretary was requested to notify all the
teachers of the county that they cannot at any
time close their schools on the order of the dis
other than those enumerated in the bylaws
issued by the School Commissioners.
Fine Country Seat Sold.-Messrs. Henry
N. Bankard and Hiram Woods, real estate
agents. have sold for Mrs. A. L. Van de Water
and Charlotte L. Drain, the fine country seat
known as "Radnor Park" situated on the
Windsor Mill and Franklin roads, in the LIST
district of this county, for $4,000. The pur-
chaser is Mr. H. L. Taylor, of Buffalo, n. Y.
The property originally cost about $4,000. 1t
contains about sixty acres of beautifully laying
land in one of the most attractive suburbs Of
Baltimore.