The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-08
A Regular Monthly Meeting
Last Night.
INTERESTING REPORTS
The Night Schools Continue to he Uasus-
cessful-The Public Library is Dsing
Rushing Children Must be
VasCiaated by April 10th.

A regular meeting of the School Board
was held last night with the following
members present; Messrs. Coury, Hanna,
Burke, Trezise, Manley, Titman, Ogden,
Davenport, Gallagher, Dewitt, O'Hearn,
Beddall and Muldoon.
A letter of thanks from people of
Turkey Run for the use of the school
house at that place for a concert was
read and filed.
A communication from the Board OF
Health, notifying the School Board that
on and after April 1, 1894, the ordinance
in relation to vaccination will be strictly
enforced, was read and the board decided
to comply. All children who wish to at
tend the schools on and after April 16,
1894, will be obliged to show certificates
of vaccination.
Solicitor Coyle said that in his opinion
the School Board had authority to make
such provision.
Mr. Gallagher stated that the presi-
dent of the Board of Health had in
formed him that in case parents are too
poor the borough will be obliged to pay
the expense of the vaccinations
Mr.. Gallagher suggested that the
physicians of town get together and make
arrangements for securing a supply of
the best virus obtainable.
Superintendent Whitaker presented a
lengthy written report showing, among
other things: Term enrolmeut-boys,
1906 girls 1854; total 276O; monthly
enrolment-boys, 1901 girls. 1879: total,
25l3; average daily attendance-boys
| 1880; girls, 1922 total 2l22 percentage of
attendance-Doys, 81 girls, SS; average
30; number of pupils present every
| session. 635; number of visits by citizens.
| IA IL.
Evening schools Term enrolment 473
monthly enrolment, 227 average attend
ance, III percentage of attendance rs
The report concluded as follows: "The
! attendance in the day schools has been
excellent, the best in the history of our
schools, and the actual school work has
been fully up to our standard, so | am
able to say that the month has been
very successful one. As yOu are aware
the evening school term expired last
Friday evening, March I'd Although
some good has been accomplished by
these schools, yet cannot report them as
success. As in other years, the attend
ance and the results have been unsatis-
factory and some very important changes
must be made in the future to make
these schools successful During the
month | instructed the teachers to gather
some statistics on the subject of vaccina-
tiou among our pupils. The following
figures show the result: Number of
children reported, 2407; number of vacci-
nations prior to 1893, SS7 number vaCci-
mated during 1898, 81; unvaccinated Jan
uary /, 1894, 1853. While the above
figures may not be perfectly reliable, they
are as correct as our teachers could secure
from parents and children. If they are
not correct they show one fact clearly
enough, and that is that there are at
least 1863 unvaccinated children attend
ing our schools
A report was read showing that to com
ply with the free text book law the board
has thus far expended S4,37399 this year
Mr.. Ogden presented an exhaustive
written financial report and also one on
the library. In the latter he said the
patronage of the public library is very
large, as large as can be cared for. On
Saturday evening it was so large that
the library committee was obliged to de-
eide to take steps to reduce it and has in
sisted upon pupils taking advantage of
Thursday afternoons and leaving Satur-
day evenings to the town people and
other patrons. This has produced very
good results. The library committee has
received considerable aid from the male
teachers in the work of distributing
books, especially from Messrs. Lewis,
Scheuhing and Burke.
Secretary Hanna read q communication
from Hon. Y. c. Schaetfer, State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction, stating
|
law, are for use in the public schools and
cannot therefore be used under any con
ditiOns whatever in private schools of any
| kind The directors have no discretion
in the matter, except what the law gives
to them and inasmuch as the law itself
| limits the use of the books TO the public
schools, the directors cannot consistently
| nor legally permit the use Of free text
| books in private or subscription schools
The circular adds that the patrons of
the schools are to be commended for the
! progressive spirit shown i'm the desire eN-
| pressed to have better educational adyau-
tages for their children than are offered
| by short terms of schools. The proper
course, however, to pursue in all such
cases, is to extend the term of the public
schools and thus give all the children the
advantages of longer annual terms, and
| free textbooks as well as free tuition.
| This is the correct solution of the whole
question and is in accordance with the
spirit of the laws governing the operation
of the public school system. Where fre5
| text books are i'm use the schools must be
free also, open to all children alike with
out any conditions or restrictions which
| the law itself does not authorize
One of the last acts of the meeting was
to instruct Solicitor Coyle to proceed at
once against the bondsmen of the late
John r. Higgins to collect the balance
due on the tax duplicates of 1919,