Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-04
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

YESTERDAY was pay day for the city
teachers.
THERE will be a grand jubilee day this
month at the Liberty School,
IT is Prof Sleeth, and not Prof. Spear, who
has charge of the calisthenic class at the High
School.
THE commencement exercises Of the Beaver
Falls high school take place next Tuesday
evening.
PROF. ]. K. BAYNE, of the st. Clair schools
was called yesterday to Claysvllle. Washington
county, TO attend the funeral of his uncle, Mr..
Kerr.
The Washington School Board meets on
Tuesday evening to elect a successor to Miss
Davidson. the deceased teacher of the Wash
ington schools.
THE day preceding Decoration Day, the 9th
inst. will be observed as reception day at both
the O'Hara and Forbes schools. The Hiand
school will also shortly hold reception day.
CONSIDERABLE interest is manifested among
educators in the next meeting of the Central
Board, when DR.. Kearns' resolution to abolish
corporal punishment in the public schools Of
Pirtsburg will be discussed
The school reports for the month of April
show very big attendance at the schools.
Especially so at the Hiland School, Nineteenth
ward. Two additional teachers will be asked
for at the next meeting of the Central Board.
MISS AGGIE MCCANCE, of the Forbes school,
has resigned. Her marriage to Mr.. Brown, of
the Fourteenth ward occurs shortly. This
makes the third marriage for the present year
among the Forbes teachers. Miss Jennie
Acheson, OF the OHara school, has also re-
signed. In the month of June she becomes
the bride of Mr.. Melvin, OF Eichbaum Co.
AT the meeting OF the Teachers Guild held
yesterday, the following were admitted to
membership: Miss r. Terrence and L. Stein
ert, of the Grant School; Miss K. H. Lowry,
Miss Hutton, Minersville; and Lizzie McCabe.
High School, The Executive Committee Of
the guild meets next Saturday at P, M, at the
Central Board roOms TO transact some un-
finished business.
1HE three educational conventions to be held
Tuesday will all be love feasts. On that day
school superintendents are to be elected for
Pittsburg, Allegheny and Allegheny county.
The Pittsburg convention meets at the Central
Board rooms and Superintendent Luckey will
receive unanimous reelection. He has served
as superintendenL for over 20 years. Superin-
tendent Morrow will be elected without opDo5i-
tion and it is likely that his present salary Of
81 900 will be increased. The Allegheny county
school directors meet at the Ralston school.
Superintendent Hamilton has no opposition.
The salary for this office is not considered ade-
uuate and will likely be increased. The salary
of Pittsburg's school superintendent is $1,000 a
year while the school superintendent of Phila-
delphia receives 5000 and has several assist
ants.
THE following are the names Of the pupils
who stand first in the highest grammar rooms
of the ward schools: Thad Stevens, Cora
Turner; Forbes, Herbert May; Mt. Albion,
Edith Fulmer; Morse Thomas Charles; O'Hara.
Minnie Shelly; Liberty, Bertha Young; Mt.
Washington, August Ulrich; st. Clair, LOttie
Hopkins; Howard No. /, Maggie Hall: No. 2,
Bernard Sternmesck; MInersville, Charles Nc
Elhaney; Washington. Verona Graese; River
side. Nellie Dugan; Springfield, Christ Ludwig;
Birmingham, Eddie Knoell Franklin, Sadie
Aufiammer; Wickersham, Linnie Isler; Han
cock, Blanche Kelly; Duquesne, John A. Con-
nelly; Monongahela, Jerome Herman; Hiland,
John McN air; Humboldt, John Rudolph, Knox,
May Mckee; PEBBLES, Gertrude Cam; Moor
hirt; South, Jesse Edwards; Bedford, William
Stone; Luckey No. ], Willie Bell; No 2 Hugh
Lindsay; Ralston, Stella Scott; Grant, Deborah
Payne.