Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-06
Gossip of the Schools.


Miss MONTGOMERY has been elected TO
position in the Mt. Washington school.
THE many friends of Miss Emma Hulme, Of
the Soho School, condole with her in the loss
of her father, who died last Wednesday.
Miss JULIA MYERS. a well-known teacher OF
the Liberty School. and Mr.. Will S. Power, OF
the writing staff of the Press will be married
at an early date.
THE lower portion Of the city is SO rapidly
being filled up with business houses and other
encroachments of industry that very soon there
will be no population to attend the doWn-toWn
schools.
THE third class of the Public Cooking School
for the year will be graduated April ~ Secre-
tary Reisfar, of the Central Board of Educa-
tion donates the prize to the maiden who mas
the best loaf of bread.
THE successful aspirant far the vacant cadet
ship at West Point will not be known till some
time next week. Superintendent Luckey has
yet to examine two or three applicants who
could not complete the examination owing to
illness.
CIRCULARS will be sent out in 3 short time
to the school principals 'acquainting them with
the work for the school exhibit at the Exposi-
ton next fall. The matter will be prepared by
the schools during the month of May, not June
as was expected, which is the one always taken
up by final examinations.
The race for the position of assistant dray-
ing teacher at the High School promises to be
warm one. There are five who desire the posi-
tion-Miss Jennie Bostwick, of the Park School;
Miss Rayburn, a teacher in the O'Hara School;
Mr.. Boyce, Of Boston; Mr.. Wassel, a graduate
of West Point. and Miss Emmons, of the Four
teenth ward. The Central Board will fill the
vacancy on Tuesday night.
FATHER SHEEDY's parochial school opens
tomorrow. The directors Of the DuQuesne
9 Il II, ~
Sullivan till they see if they have any need of q
principal Last month the average attendance
at this school was ll9. Now it is expected that
the most of this number will attend the
parochial school, and there will be no need of
public school in the First ward.
ON last Thursday evening. the school chill
dren, over 400 in number, of the Millvale Bor
ough Public schools, presented Mr.. Christ
Horrocks, one of the School Directors, on his
retiring from the board, their autographs in a
book bound in blue silk cloth embossed,
and with the words in gold: From the Pupils
of the Millvale Borough Public Schools" The
board adopted suitable resolutions.
AFEw changes have occurred in the placing
of the Forbes teachers Miss Maria Moffat
who had charge of room Il has been elected
floating teacher, instead of Miss Jean Meyers,
who has been assigned to room 2. Miss Nc
married on Tuesday to:Prof. Pritchard, and will
take charge of room 8. The Others, up to room
l2, have been promoted in regular order.
THE changes contemplated at the High
School will improve the building very ma
terially. The first floor occupied by the iani-
tors family will be reconstructed SO as to make
two large school rooms dynamo room boiler
room and several wardrobe rooms, and the
library will be transferred from the second
floor to the first. The large stone entrance
will be removed to give way to an entrance on
the first floor.
WHILE the Judges Of the License Court were
wrestling with their list Friday night, the
Committee on Text Books of the Central Board
adopted the primary book on physiology, which
treats of the effects of alcohol and narcotics on
the human system more fully than the
one now in use. Both books, however,
are to be used. The adoption of this
book is but partial victory for
the w. C. T. U. ladies who wanted both the
primary and the intermediate books intro
duced. The W. c. 7. Z. ladies must have been
after the committee. for they passed a resolu-
ton requesting the City Superintendent to see
that the teaching Of physiology be carried out
in accordance with the hereauirements of the law.
Miss CARRIE PAISLEY of Liberty School,
Twentieth ward, daughter of Mr.. Samuel T.
Paisley, formerly superintendent of the FIRE
alarm, now superintendent of the East End de-
partment. received the highest number of votes
in the Times voting contest for the most popu-
lar school teacher in Pittsburg. Miss Josephine
Welch, Of West Elizabeth. received the high
est vote for the most popular teacher outside
of Pittsburg and Allegheny in Western Penn
sylvania and Eastern Ohio. Miss Sadie Nc
Elroy of the Perrysville avenue school, Second
ward, Allegheny, received the highest vote for
the most popular teacher in Allegheny City.
Miss Paisley receives a round-trip ticket to
Europe and 500 in gold as pm money. diss
Welch also gets a trip to Europe. Miss Nc
Elroy's prize is gold watch.