Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1896-01-23
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The Board Adverse to the Purchase of the
Grosscup Property.

The Board Adverse to the Purchase of the
Grosscup Property.
The monthly meeting of the Board of
Education was held Monday evening,
Jan. Goth.
Members present-Messrs. Lambert,
McGear, Souder, Hancock (President)
Woodruff, Jonas, Nichols, Sites and
Supt. Turner.
Minutes of the last meeting were read
and adopted.
Superintendent Turner reported as fol-
lows: Balance Dec. 16, 1895, S666.l3. Re-
ceived from City Treasurer, $4,000 Total,
"a, ,66613. Paid out for teachers salaries.
S3,557.00; janitors' salaries, S1O4. 16; books
and supplies, $3.50; apparatus, 5000; re-
pairs, sl64.l4; furniture, $3.50; incident
ais, S52.96. Total, S3,955.46 Balance,
S710.67.
The report of the Supervising Principal
was read and filed. The arrangements
made by the Supervisor for Photograph
Concert were endorsed.
The following bills were ordered paid:
G. Ell. Platt, $3.50 for microscope, etc;
Edgar j. Barnes, SS5.67 for building book
| cases, ETC.; Evening News Co., S35.67 for
printing and advertising; Bridgeton Gas
Light Co., S1.62 for gas; George w.
! MCGOWAN, $3.50 for blanks; C. C. Let's,
Sl4.5l for painting, etc.; George w.
MCGOWAN, Sl4, services as Secretary;
Smith d Conover, s1S.16 for lumber,
| labor, etc.; Reeve d Fithian, s75. 90, books.
stationery, etc.
| The Secretary was instructed to codify
the resolutions passed since the adoption
| OF the rules, and the Committee on Books,
stationery and Printing have the same
printed.
| The Supervisor asked for instructions
in reference to the rule requiring teach
ers who absent themselves to pay stipu-
lated sum to the person who acts as their
substitute. He said there was a teacher
who had been away from her post sew
eral times and he had acted as her sub
stitute. He did not think, that as he was
already in the pay of the Board, he should
receive the substitutes pay, but in JUS
tlce to the other teachers, who are COM
PEELED to pay their substitutes, he thought
she should be required to pay the same
amount as others, and the money COW
cred into the funds of the treasury
The opinion of the Board conceded witt
that of the Supervisor and the rule va:
ordered enforced in the case of the tea h
er referred to.
On motion the annual school exhibits
were continued.
On motion of Mr.. Woodruff, the toilet
rooms of Pearl St. School were ordered
heated with steam.
Mr.. Jonas from the Joint Committee tc
secure increased school accommodations
reported the committee had met with
Councils committee, and that it was
agreed to recommend the building of q
six-room building in the north end of the
city, and other building in the Third
ward. The report was received and the
committee continued.
A publishing agent presented the merits
of biographical work to the Board
which was referred to the special COM
mittee on school library.
Mr.. Turner called attention to the sys-
tenn of bookkeeping which he thought
should be superseded by another, better
adapted to the needs OF the pupils. On
motion the matter was referred to the
Committee on Teachers and Text Books
with instructions to make an examina-
ton into new systems of book keeping
with power to act.
The Committee on Teachers and Text
Books were instructed to purchase sup
Elementary readers for the 4th and 5tt
grades.
Upon a motion to recommend the pur-
chase of the Grosscup property for schoo
purposes, the yeas and nays We're called
as follows: Yeas, 2, nays, 6; absent, 4;
excused, l.