The Newtown bee., 1895-04-05

The thlrd in the series of examina.
 GioLs or candidate for teacher in Gray,s Iiain district was holden at the town
 cleIKs cf1ce in Newrown Street, on Sat- uruay or last week. The meeting was
 Gaiied TOT 10 o'clock forenoon of that
 oay. some delay was occasioned by
 Waitlng Tor a full board. Messrs North l present, and at II o'clock, as candidates
 were in waiting, the meetingswas organ | lzed py appointing E. L. Johnson chair man. Soon MT Corbett came in. The HrsI Duslness done was to hear the re. port of the school visitor who has under
 ms supervision the schools in Palestine ana Hopewell. The report was favor
 able and the board instructed the secre.
 tary to issue certificates to the two eeachers Tor the summer term without
 examination. It was stated that MT
 Brew had been heard from by telephone,
 that he was in 'Danbury to attend flu.
 neral and would reach town on the II .37 1
 train from the north. Four candidates
 were waiting to take the examination. |
 The papers for reading, spelling, geog- |
 raphy, grammar, history and physiologr i
 were submitted to the Board for approV- |
 al and was accepted without alteration |
 with one exception. In physiology it
 was requested that two questions be |
 stricken out and questions relating to
 the effects of narcotics and alcohol upon
 the system be submitted. That being done, the papers were passed oyer to the candidates and work commenced. Some were there by special request, pre- sumably TOT the purpose of avoiding if possible the necessity of calling any more meetings for the same purpose. So that the result would not have to depend entirely upon the failure or success of one person. Work moved along smooth ly and it wa ear 4 o'clock when the candidates were, Ndy and waiting for other work. The sr1dy assigned to MT Brew was arithmetic, but as he was not present, and no one was found who could tell whether he was in town or not. 1t was not thought best to delay the work at that late hour, and paper of arithmetic questions was submitted by D. G. Beers, which was adopted and passed over to the candidates. Work had been going on some little time when MT Brew came in and, finding set of questions had been submitted in place that the questions already submitted and being worked upon should be with drawn, and his take their place. No action being taken, the questions upon which the candidates were working were snatched from the table, and. them in his hand, he claimed his statutory right to conduct the exam nation in arithmetic with the questions he had prepared. No one who voted for the resolution substituting MT Brew's questions in lieu of MT Brew's absence, saw fit to move to reconsider. The work Was temporarily suspended until the reading and spelling exercises was completed. MT Brew laid the paper 5lat had been snatched from the table. back before the candidates, but wished it understood that he should claim the ( right to have them take the examination
 n his paper also. No second set of arithmetic questions were accepted, and 1t was past o'clock when the work was |, turned over to be passed upon by the : members of the board. The papers all ', showed most excellent work, two of ! 'hem far above the average required and ] he other two falling but a very little , short of it. On motion of Mir Corbett : ;o adjourn until next Monday night to 7 further examine the papers before fi- ; nal action, objection was taken on the ground that it was unnecessary and night cause further delay in opening
 he school and the motion did not pre- ( vail. little later second motion was ' made to adjourn to Monday night but a vas not carried. It was then moved hat certificate be given Miss Helena Sherman to teach the school in Gray's Plain district for the remainder of the l chool year, Beers, Wright, Northrop G md Johnson voting in the affirmative lorbett silent and Chairman Brew voting n the negative. It was then voted to
 djourn without date. Thus ended the $ hird chapter of the series of examina- ions for Gray's Plain school.