Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
Minor Items of Interest.

PRINCIPAL C. B. Cook, of the CHARTERS
school, has been laid up with rheumatism
for the past two weeks.
| Mr.. SAMUEL HARPER has been elected to
represent the Thad Stevens School in tie
| Central Board OF Education.
TIE handsome new $35, 600 school building
! for the Second ward pupils, Braddock, is to
be dedicated next month, if possible.
IT is probable that by the month OF May
| two or three rooms will be ready for oc-
cupancy in the new Allen school building.
Miss ALEXANDER, of the PEBBLES school, is
the first victim in educational circles to suc-
cumb to an attack of the grip, being out of
the schoolroom all week.
W. W. MoCELLAND is at work on a memor-
ial which the PEBBLES School Directors Will
present to the family of the late J. L. WILL
Jams, a member of the board.
sUPERINrfNDENr Morrow, Of the Allegheny
schools, is in communication with several
educational lights to appear on the pro-
gramme at big institute for the Allegheny
teachers in March. ~
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON held one Of his
division institutes at CHARTERS yesterday.
Prof. Hamilton and ]. H. Keener were the
speakers. The next institute will be held
next Saturday at Tarentum.
MRS VAN WAGeoNEN, the supervisor of
drawing, will hardly meet any classes till
February, but in the interval visit the
schools. Thereafter she will instruct the
| classes at the Franklin School.
AFTE R watching the irregular ebb and
| how of the supply of natural gas for the past
few weeks, the Lawrence School, Fifteenth
| ward, has returned to the use Of coal; also
the 0sceola School, Twentieth ward.
THE North School Directors, it Is said,
have agreed on the price they will take for
the North School, and also the, purchaser,
but till the final arrangements as TO the pay
ments, ETC., are completed the transaction
will not be made public.
THE Braddock Borough School Board at its
meeting Thursday night decided to establish
q night school. 1t will bs begun this week.
Prof. j. S. keifer, principal o; the Braddock
High School, and Prot. NJ. A. Eaken, princi-
pal of the First ward school, Braddock, will
take charge OF it.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT WALLER has called
a meeting of the city and borough superin-
tendents at Williamsport OH the 29th and
S0th instant, at which time the Executive
Committee OF the State Teachers Associa-
tion will meet to prepare the programme
for next meeting at Beaver Falls in July.
PRINCIPAL SNYDER of the Fifth ward
school, has been i'll at his home at New
Castle for the past two months; Principal
Lackey, of the First ward has been out of
school since the holidays; both gentlem en-,
however, expect to return to school next
week Prof. Arbuckle, of the Ninth ward,
has also been on the sick list.
THE Executive Committee of the Teachers
Guild held meeting yesterday and nomin-
.ated few additions to its select circle. The
next meeting will be called at the Franklin
school. Those who supposed the academy
had passed out of existence will be sur
prised to learn the next regular meeting
of the academy, in February, will be at the
above school.
NEXT Thursday at 2 P. M. at the Sterret
School hall Miss Elizabeth Wright, teacher
of physical culture, will illustrate the Swed-
ish system of gymnastics by class of pu.
pills There will also be Home Habits''
Tor the pupils. Two O'Clock is too early an
hour for the teachers of the city to attend
Miss Wrights instructive talks, but if they
desire to attend Miss Wright will taKe pleas
ure 70 have them ~ . later hou1.