The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-17
BOARD OF EDUCATION
A Busy Moosing OF tho School Mag.
nntos Last Night.
.ATWENTy THOUSAND, DOLLAR LOAN.
Vas Authorized to DO Mado by rho
Finance Commlttoe-An Expianu.
tlon of,tho Cause OF tho Depleted
Board Treasury-Proi. BIRCH Elect.
oil a Member In Place OF Victor
Ro.cnburs, Deooasod-othcr lIusi.
ness Tratsaotod.

Last evening a regular meeting Of tho
city board OF education was hold at tho
boards room, in tho Hub building, a.
which nearly all the members wero
present DR.. Ulrich, tho president. oc-
cupied tho chair. 1t was q very busy,
though short session.
Tho committee on accounts reported
bills amounting to Slol a. which wore
ordered paid by the board.
Tho committee on public library rec.
commended bills. SOS O., ordered paid.
Books amounting to 800 wore ordered
purchased for tho library.
Tho committee on finance made It's
report, among other matters recon.
mending that the request OF tho board
Of education OF Fulton for a pso-rsta
chare OF the apportionment Of tho
school fund Of Washington and Madi.
uon districts. on accoun. OF certain
pupils in the vicinity Of Fulton attend.
ing tho Fulton schools, DO granted, tho
sum thought equitable By the commit.
tee being $50 So. Tho report was
adopted.
The finance committee introduced n
resolution rs follows:
RtSotred, That the board OF education
authorize the negotiation OF loans o to
exceed $4,000, the money to be bor-
rowed ut such times and ia such
amounts az may be found necessary to
meet the demands Of tho schools, tho
time OF said loans not 10 extend beyond
November l, 1895.
Such action, 1t vas explained, is
found necessary, because the board had
placed the school levy last July at too
low a figure, 20 cents. The board the
last three years has lowered the levy Is
cents. and to-day's financial stringe
In board affairs is caused by too much
economy. The deficiency will have to
be made up in tho levy OF July, 1895,
and until funds from that levy are OBJ.
tainable, the proposed loans arc necss.
sary. The resolution was passed.
The committee on teachers and
schools, which had been directed to look
into tho matter OF excessive competition
in several of the grammar schools, 70.
ported in the shape OF resolutions, to the
effect that after the close OF the present
school year the frs, aud second honors
in each sub-district DO discontinued;
that tho principals in each sub-district
be required TO devote no. less than
thirty minutes in each week 10 each
room, and not more than sixty minutes
to the graduating class; that the prin-
cipals be required to conduct the exam
inatiou for promotions in all grades,
and when necessary make promotions
out OF the regular order; that each sub
distric. shall have not more than two
representatives on the commencement
program me. these to be chosen by the
principals. with approval OF the super.
intendent, such selections TO be made
with reference to ability as speakers
and readers. rather thai to their
scholarship; that the aalutatorian and
the valedicsorian be selected in rotation
from the different schools in tho city.
Mr.. Maxwell suggested that consider
aIion OF the resolution be postponed
until next meeting. Colonel Miller, OF
the committee, explained that the pas
sage OF the resolution docs put the
changes in effect, as changes in the
rules require n months notice, and must
be passed unanimously. The motion to
postpone was lost, and the resolution
was passed.
superintendent OF schools, Prof. W.
II. Anderson, made his report for the
month OF April, as follows: