The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-04
pRooErp1nas OF rHE SCHOOL BOARD.
FAN Term to Begin September 10-Resigna-
ton of Examiner Diffenbaugh-Prof
Geo. A. Davis His Successor.


At the meeting of the School Board on
Monday, in obedience to call Of the Presi-
dent, all the members were present. DR..
Reindollar and Mr.. Prugh, who had been
six years from August l, reported that they
had qualified and taken out their commits
sions.
The committee appointed to visit Wood
bine and adjacent districts asked for further
time.
Necessary repairs at various school houses
were referred to the Commissioner having
the district in charge, with instructions to
have them made.
Miss Alice Eppley was appointed assistant
teacher at Middleburg school.
The secretary reported that the agreement
with the Frederick county Board for the in
terchange of pupils living along the county
line had been ratified.
A committee consisting of Messrs. Sling
luff, Anderson and Reindollar was appointed
to audit the accounts of the treasurer for the
school year ending July 81, 1894.
1t was ordered that the Fall Term of school
begin on Monday, September 10, and the
County Teachers Association meet on Fri
dav, September Z.
Mr.. James A. Dffenbaugh, who was recently
appointed Special Deputy Collector OF Gus
toms a: the port of Baltimore, rendered his
resignation of the Office Of Secretary and
Treasurer of the School Board and Examiner
of the public schools, as follows:
WESTMINSTER, July 30. 1894.
To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF COUNTY
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS OF CARROLL COUNTY
Treasurer Board
Commissioners and Examiner of the Public Schools
of Carroll county, the resignation to take erect on
Tuesday, 81 July 1894.
In voluntarily surrendering a trust which re-
luctanty assumed in obedience to your unsolicited
suffrages. on the 9TH day of January A D. 1884, and
which have held continuously since that date,
cannot withhold an expression of my admiration of
the intelligent, energetic courageous and skillful
manner in which you have administered the public
school affairs of the county, and Of my gratitude
for the generous and delicate consideration winch
you have constantly shown for my feelings and
wishes.
l deem it impossible that the interests of the
public schools could have been better placed than
in your hands, or that my surroundings for the
laborious and exacting duties of my otfice could,
under the circumstances, have been more fortunate
Every means Of enlightenment, LOT your w op5
every suggestion looking 10 the Improvement OF
the schools or to the proper care and expansion OF
the school property, has secured your coruiai
welcome and your earnest and effective support
While this is not the place for elaborate statistics
no consideration of propriety can forbid brief
summary of actual results accomplished by your
labors which must ever stand to your credit
In the school year of 1888, the year before my
services Examiner began. there were in operation
in the county lis schools with total attendance OF
GAO pupils, occupying lS2 rooms, and employing
1875 teachers at an aggregate expenditure Tor
teachers salaries of SS1 ,627.06.
In the school year of 1894, which will close TO-
morrow when my services as Examiner VIII enc :
there were in operation 1873 schools with total al
tendance of 6940 pupils. occupying l5S rooms, ana
employing 162 teachers at an aggregate expendl-
ture for teachers salaries of $50, 920.s0.
npriOd
increased from to r. and the cost of their mante
nance for year from 81 ,404.06 to s2S4g7s
The increase in the number of pupils, the dllapl-
dation of many school houses, and the advance IN
general intelligence and elevation of taste through
out the county have laid the school treasury under
and for repairs TO the old.
During the period under review, there have been
erected 1 stone IL frame and so brick houses. en-
bracng 50 rooms at an aggregate cost to the county
of S2S.295.71, but having an actual value OF more
than $4,000. In the same time the sum OF 81 1926
and the sum of SIS, 1884 for furniture
These figures show an expenditure, in ten years
and seven months of $50 1861 for visible and
tangible Improvements in the school property, and
actual increase in the value of that property OF
at least $4,000. The increased efficiency and useful
of the schools the improvement OF the teachers
and the general broadening and enlightenment OF
public sentiment which the figures imply and sus
gest may be seen and felt but cannot be estimated
in fiscal values
1t is proof of your excellent management, and
it must be source of great satisfaction TO you that
Notwithstanding this enormous increase in the
value of the property and the better equipment and
increased efficiency of the schools for which you
have paid you have been obliged to add to the debt
of IS 1000 which you found standing against the
Board when you came into office, less than Sl4nOo
This sum would have been materially enlarged hao
not the County Commissioners, with commendable
generosity and public spirit raised the annual levy
for public schools from 81 900 TO $1,000 and made
at several different times special appropriations
for special necessities and had not recent legsla
ton added TO the school funds some SiOOO per
annum from license fees.
IN
of you which no other association or environment
can destroy, with interest in school work which
no other line of public duty diminish, assuring
Won thar shall feel honored by your commands
for whatever aid may still be able 10 give you,
and invoking upon the great interests you nave IN
charge and upon yourselves, both officially ana
personally, the best blessings OF Heaven, having
borne faithfully my full share of labor and care IN
this service, desire nothing much as an honor
able discharge ] have the honor to be, very re-
-f>N''''''' 'N'-' N JAMES 4. DrFFENRAuGH.
The resignation was accepted, and Presi-
! dent Grimes made touching and eloquent
response. assuring the retiring Examiner that
the Board regretted to part with him, and
that his services TO the school system of the
county and the state were highly appreciated
| by those who were capable of judging, and
that he carried with him into his new field OF
! labor the confidence, esteem and best wishes
! of the County School Commissioners.
The Board then went into an election of a
successor to Mr.. Diffenbaugh. Applications
and testimonials from NJ. Elias Walsh, Esq,
of Westminster; Prof Edward Reisler, OF
Union Bridge, and Prof. George A. Davis, OF
Mount Airy, were read and considered.
Prof Davis was unanimously elected, his
term of service to begin on Wednesday,
August /, 1894 Orlando Reese was unani-
mously re. elected Assistant Examiner for the
eleventh term, of two years each, to begin
also August l, 1894.
The Board adjourned to Tuesday, Septem-
Der 4, next.