The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-20
COAL CONTRACTS LET.
BOARD OF EDUCATION ACCEPTS
BIDS FROM ONTARIO AND P.v.
Treasurer whitney Files His Re-
bort of Finances-ResOlutio
Abolishing Grades Passed-Pupils
From Outside the City Must Have
Meeting.

AT the meeting of the board of edu-
cation last evening, the contract for fur
n1shing coal to the schools was divided
between the Ontario Silver Mining COM
pany and the 2. V. Coal company. The
former is to deliver Weber lump at its
yards in this city for $3.45 per ton and
Weber pea for $500 per ton The con-
tract of the latter is for the furnishing
OF anthracite coal at $9.35 Der ton.
The Salt Lake Scavenger company got
away with the contract for doing the
scavenger work for the schools, although
the bid Of William Shovel for the same
work was 13 cents less. Aft and Cotton
voted in the negative when this contract
was awarded.
The application of five candidates for
committee on teachers and school work
Tor consideration and recommendation.
Treasurer Whitney filed mis- report for
the month of August as follows:
Receipts:
From Seventeenth ward Ecclesi-
astical association ........... 5 il, $50 90
Disbursements:
Warrants paid ...:.........-......s 4Ga2 SO
Overdraft, Sept. 1.......... ...... 3S5 60
A resolution offered by Mr.. Cotton at
the last session of the board was taken
up and adopted. The resolution provides
that the superintendent be directed to
abolish the seventh and eighth grades in
schools where the number of pupils in
each grade is less than twenty and that
the pupils below said minimum De as
signed to other schools. the intent of the
IN the lower grades.
A report from the committee on teach
ers was, received to the effect that where
as in the past pupils from outside the
city limits had been admitted 10 the
schools, the present crowded condition of
the various buildings made it necessary
for all such to secure permits of the su-
perintendent in the. future and all teach
ers were instructed to refuse admission
to such pupils without permit from the
SUPERINTENDENT.
as follows: Nellie A. Kraft was assigned
to the eighth grade of the Fremont at
a salary of $50 per month. vice william
Beeching, who did not call for his GER
Miss Edith A. woodmansee was granted
a, years leave of absence in order that
she may take 2 special course of study
at the Stanford university
Miss Evelyn Rideont is changed from
the Wasatch to the Jackson.
>, Miss Louise Harrison will go to the
bonneville to succeed Miss Iottia At
kinson. and will receive $50 per month
Miss Priscilla Smith was granted one
years leave of absence as requested in a
letter filed with the board some weeks
applied for a dismissal
Miss Myrtle La Due was appointed tenn
porapyy c teacher CHI; at the Wasatch at sal
petition was received from several
residents of that part of the city south
Of the Franklin school and vast of the
Rio Grande Western tracks at the last
meeting asking that their children be per-
mitted to attend school across the tracks.
In a report from, the teachers commit
tee on this matter, the members recon-
mend that the closets of the Franklin
school be taken out and class rooms be
| built, in their. stead, while outdoor clos
cts be substituted for those removed
After, some debate this was lost. The
board then decided to accept an offer
! from the Free Methodists for their build
ing on Fifth West and also instructed the
committee to look up two additional
rooms in that vicinity.
Bernard Howell was appointed ianitor
| of the Davis school, where. he is employed
as a teacher, with a salary of So per
month.
The average of attendance at the
schools as reported by the teachers and
! complied in the. superintendent's Office
/ for September 16 was read. as follows.
| Pupils, 8.S74; teachers 1856; average, 475
! This report was filed.
/ Appropria tons amounting TO s2,E5G55
were passed and the board adjourned for
| two weeks.