The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-11-08
THE SCHOOL
DIRECTORS.
A Regular Meeting of the Board
Held Last Night.
NIGHT SCHOOL OPENING
The Term Fixed and Seven Teachers
Elected For the Schools High School
BOyS-WOn't Raise Salaries.

A regular meeting of the School Board
was held in the public library quarters
last evening with Messrs. Conry, Hanna,
Stanton, Lynch, Baugh, Davenport,
Trezise, Hooks, Burke, Manley, Morgan,
Muldoon, Dewitt and Lee in attendance.
The most important business of the
evening was,the establishment of night
schools and the election Of and fixing of
salaries for teachers.
Requests from Miss Jennie Gunter and
Frank B. Williams that their salaries be
increased were not acted upon, and re
quest for an increase of salary by James
McHugh, janitor of the Union street school
building, met the same fate. The board
was not disposed to interfere with the
schedule of salaries.
The statistical report of Superintendent
Whitaker for the month of October was
as follows; Term enrolment-boys, 1910;
girls, 1897; total, 2637. Monthly enrol
ment-boys, 1876; girls, 1896; total, 2531
Daily average attendance-boys, 913 girls,
1882; total, 2155. Percentage of attend
ance-boys, 90; girls, 80; average, 80. Pu-
pills present every session-521. Visits by
citizens-237. Visits by Directors-sO.
The superintendent added that the
change from monthly to bi-monthly ex-
aminations and the rating of examina-
tion papers by the modified percentage
system were giving satisfaction.
The committee on evening schools
| recommended that seven schools be
| opened-one in the West street building,
two in LloydIstreet, one each in the Coal,
White and Union street buildings, and
one at TurkeyIRun; one of the schools to
be boys evening high school. The com
mittee also recommended that seven
teachers be appointed, that the term
consist of four months of twenty even
ings each, commencing November 19tn
and ending March 21st. The report was
adopted.
The salaries of the teachers for these
schools were fixed at S35 per month each
for the high school and Turkey Run school
and SIS per month for each of the other
schools, the janitors to receive 81 per
month for one.school and $40 for two.
Lewis Hopkins, Jr., was made janitor
at the High school building for the bal
ance of the fiscaliyear
1t was decided that $1,000 worth of in
surance on school buildings be secured
from 7. T. Williams, David Faust and j.
j. Cardin.
1t was decided that the children of the
Hood and Gilbert families, residing on
Locust mountain, near the cemeteries, be
admitted to the schools of the borough
free of charge.
An election of teachers for the evening
schools was then taken up and after
three ballots Misses Sadie Baugh, Annie
E. McNelis, Maggie E. Palmer, Hannah
Scanlan, Lydia E. Eisenhower Katie
Brogan and Mary Whalen were elected.
The other applicants were Misses Annie
B. Bierman, Katie A. Eisenhart, Ida
Lewis and NJ. Jessie Glover.
Miss Eisenhower will have charge Of
the High school and Miss Brogan takes
charge of the Turkey Run building.
The evening school teachers will not be
required to attend the county institute,
which is to be held at Pottsville next
| week.
The board has granted the teachers the
privilege of taking the 9:10 a. m. train for
Pottsville during institute week, so that
their late arrival at the morning sessions
will be accounted for. Many of the
teachers will be obliged to go down every
morning and return at night as they can
not secure accommodations at Pottsville
Superintendent Whitaker will 90 to
Pottsville on Saturday and has volun,
teered to purchase tickets for the institute
series of entertainments for any citizen
who may wish to attend them. The
superintendent intention is, of course,
to act as agent only. He is not setting
them up for the town.