The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-06-17

kind of apparatus; the number of
volumes in the library and their
value, and any other information
they may deem necessary, or the
blanks furnished may require.
(School Law, Sec. 2O.) They shall
also furnish the board estimates of
all improvements necessary for
repairs of building and for the
preservation of the furniture and
grounds under their charge. (Sec.
15)
2. The trustees of each sub-dis-
trict shall meet at the school houses
of their district on the third Mon
day in July, or as soon thereafter as
practicable, and appoint teacher
or teachers for the coming session
of their school. In such appoint
ment at least two of the trustees
must concur, and such appointment
shall be in writing in the form of a
contract which shall state that the
trustees, whose signatures are affix-
ed, met gether as required. The
said contract shall then be submit
ted to the board of education for its
approval, or to the president there
of when the board is not in session,
and when approved by either, it
shall be filed with the secretary of
the board within one week after ap-
proval. If the appointment of any
teacher be otherwise than at II
meeting authorized as above, the
board of education may declare such
contract illegal, even after it has
been approved by the president of
the board, if the board shall so de-
clare before the time named in the
contract for the beginning of the
school. Any teacher SO appointed
may be removed by the trustees or
by the board of education for in
competency, neglect of duty, in
temperance, profanity, cruelty or
immortality. (School Law, Sec. 13
-Amended)
3. In permitting the school-houses
to be used for any of the purposes
named in the law, the trustees must
have written contract with the
party or parties using it, for the
proper care and security of the
property against any damage or in
reference with the daily exercises
of the school.
BEGINNING BooM.-We note
that the first move the "boom towns"
of West Virginia are making, is to
pave their streets with brick.
Brick paving has come to be rec
ognized as the ideal street bed for
town. 1t makes the prettiest, most
durable, and most economical street
paving that has yet come into use.
1t solves the problem of a good
street within the. reach of a small
city or town.
The cost is not much, if any, be-
You'd that of sandstone macadam,
and the durability is probably twice
that of the latter. 1t is smooth,
tight, healthy, and most easy of re-
pair. The brick itself will last the
life-t time of a generation. If put
down on a good foundation, it will
need but little repair during that
time. 1t is in the nature of a per-
manent Improvement, which is
always the cheapest although the
original cost may be little more
than temporary one.
1t would doubtless be regarded as
extravagant for us to undertake
brick paving on an extended scale.
1t would go beyond our means to
attempt to pave all our streets at
once. Yet we opine that the public
judgment Will, before long, approve
the policy of introducing brick
paving gradually as our streets shall
show need of repair. The cost of
repairing with brick, as we have
said. is not much beyond that of re-
pairing in the usual slip-shod fash
ion. 1t would be economy to make
the repairs permanent at small in
crease of cost.
Brick paving can be put down in
the best manner at about slips per
square yard. If this were begun on
our principal streets as they need it,
in the course of few years, the
problem of good, smooth, solid
streets all the year would be solved.
See the advertisement of DIR. C.
w. Jamison in another column.
He offers the Improved Chester
White Swine for sale, for breeding
purposes.
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