Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
GOSSIP OF THE SCHOOLS.

THE 25th Of June, at Idlewild. is the place
and date selected by the High School pupils
for their annual outing.
MISS LILLIAN COOPER, late of the Bellevue
school and Miss Siberian have been elected to
positions in the Second ward schools, Allie
gheny.
THE successful applicants on the late exami-
nation for provisional certificates will receive
their certificates In green by the end Of the
present week.
MISS JENNIE HANDLoN, of the Liberty
school, is to be one of the Pittsburg excursion
lists to Europe. The educational party sails on
the 9th of July
RECEPTION days will be held at the St Clair
school (No. u on next Thursday and at the No.
building on Friday. These schools will have
q picnic on the 18th inst
THE pupils of the rooms taught by the
Misses Lizzie Edwards, Berry and Sullivan. of
the PEBBLES school, will picnic in Blair's Grove
on the last day of school.
The Misses Bertha Zeigler and Stella
Schenck have captured the first and second
honors, respectively. of this years academical
High School graduating class.
So far the Birmingham, Knox, Thad Stevens
Inland, Moorhead. Humboldt, Mt. Albion,
South and Wickersham, have submitted at the
Central Board rooms their school exhibits for
the Exposition.
staff of teachers last Tuesday evening. Prof.
Bane and Miss Floyd were elected for three
years and the other teachers according TO the
grade of certificate they hold.
MISS HENRIETTA MARTIN, of the Grant
school, who was injured during the week by
the piano stool on which she was sitting bre ak
ing. is not seriously injured though she will
not likely be able to teacn again this year.
THE three Misses Cooper. Of Bellevue who
are school teachers, are at present anxiously
watching the oil market. They have an inter-
est in the Straw well, which opened with 900
barrels day recently and is now doing 2Oo bar
rels.
MISS ALICE SULLIVAN and Mrs. Parker
have been reinstated in their old positions in
the PEBBLES schools. This action does away
with the major portion of the controversy that
arose regarding the election of teachers re-
Gently in the Twenty-thlrd ward.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT D. J. WALLER
and Principal E. o. Lyle, of the Millersville
Normal School, were in the city, on their way
home from the California State Normal School,
where examination was in order. They VS.
tied the Moorhead, Normal and Public Cook
ing Schools
PROF.. c. B, WOODS, of the High School,
gives an excursion on the steamer Return next
Saturday evening to this years graduating
class, probably LOO in number. As yet only the
prellm1narl6S nave Deen arranged, Dut as fIln-
cipal Woods, aided by the young ladies and
gentlemen Of the High School, has charge of
the affair it will undoubtedly be great sue
cess.
G. MARcEL1No A. ELIzoNDA, of the Argen-
tine Republic, has sent q circular to Superin-
tendent Luckey written in Portuguese, which
translated asks for reports and educational in
formation about the Pittsburg schools and
State, as well. The man with the unpronounc-
able name wants this information to embody in
a report which he is preparing for the benefit
of his country.
ALTHOUGH Miss Cook, of the Moorhead
school, successfully passed the preliminary
examination as law student, she does not in
tend to give up teaching at present. She in
tends reading law during the next two months
of vacation, and while she is teaching next
year will continue her legal studies during the
evenings. If Miss Cook makes as good law
yer as she has q teacher she will astonish some
of her male competitors.
AT a meeting of the Industrial Committee
held yesterday, Miss Charlotte Ballou was
unanimously reelected teacher of the Public
Cooking School for next year. Her success
during the past year has been unusually graft
flying The cooking school class will be gradu-
ated next Saturday, and the exercises which
are to mark the closing of the present school
year are to be very interesting. Sheriff Nc
Candles. presents the prize for the best loaf
of bread. Mayor Gourley makes the presenta-
ton speech. Miss Ballou did not take any vaca-
ton at Easter time, IN order that she might re-
turn to her home, in Boston a week earlier
than the regulated closing of the schools in
Pittsburg.