Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-17
FIGHT FORA SCHOOL TEACHER
Was an lG.ates4ag Feature Of Last
Nights Board Meeting.


Other Subjects Of Importance
Considered - Routine Business
Transacted.
A lively fight over a change in the
grammar department. at Madison pub
Tic schocl WIS The principal feature of
the regular monthly meeting of IRE
Beard Of Education, which was held
lsa. nigae, and the usual routine BUSH
ness was trarcaoaed. After the reading
OF ths mi1ntes accounts ware reported
Win favorable recommendation and or
derod PAID as follows: Accounts, $220.7s;
public library. SS4C.18. The Public lii
brary Committee Was authonlzedto pur-
chase books TO the amount G, $4S.75.
The Finance CommGGse submitted the
annual estimate Of expenditures on the
sch,12l building and library funds for
IN eensung year, sa5Galg the following
tc.als: school fund, $89,S3O; library
fund. $3.50. TIE valua ion Of property
returned for city taxation will amount
to aEcut $4,000 600. The school fund
ucrtcn o. the Staiis diaIibu,able school
furd viii be about S13,124.26. This
committee offered q resolution fixing uhe
levy fer scEccl fund at SO cents, and
fer the library flFcd three cents ON the
S1OO valuation Adopted.
Tire Committee On Salaries recon-
meH5ed Hla,. The sa'STisS for the coming
year be the same as last, and uhai6 $50
month be paid 10 teachers who nave
taught less than ten months in some
ga5od school Adopted.
The report Of tiae Committee on Text
Books was rext cClstdereA The con-
tIact fer furnishing books, stationery
.ari supplies fer The ensuing year was
awarded 10 Carrie Bros. The Commit
tee ar1 Supt. Anderson recommended
that the Plaug system a. drawing be
uses in all grades, end TIE recommended
NCn WAS C5ncWied in.
In;ke German Cspaomer's IN the pub
lie schools. the Beard reappcinted the
tsaCG5rs recommended by t..e Com
mljtse On German Language, as follows:
Anna LoCSer, Mrs. T. A. Ber'schy Mss
F. K. Krautsr; substitutes. Misses Dora
Christensen and Carrie Fritsche
The Committee On Buildings ard
Grounds received a proposition from the
Central Glass Company for the sale OF
property adjoining the Cay annex
building on FOuuteenth street. for S.
SEQ, possession to be given April /, 1897,
The pressed. owners to move all Old
buildings The Committee WIS not sat
isfied with this offer, and recommended
tiat the Board make an offer Of $4,000
fer the ground. When the report WIS
read Col. Miller brought the objection
herstof0re urged, that inaSmCch Is mosc
CT the pupils via live around the M,l,
the proposed new building should he
located en- McCuNCch street. Members
Of the Committee stated tha't a suitable
site could not be Obtained further cut.
The recommendation w3s adopted after
considerable discussion.
The Board accepted the proposition
CT the Johnson Electrical Service Com
pany for temperature reputation in
MaCtsoH school, at their bid Of $1,000.
The system works automatically. and IS
said to be an exce'ier. invention.
An adverse repclc by the Committee
en- Teachers and ScLJCs IS, on the request
Of Washington Commissioners for an
aC'&.oral teacher in ,le grammar room
was referred back 10 The Committee
The discussion over ne report Of tie
Committee showed RI the Committee
ac,-l under q misUrGc standing o. the
situation in that achCcl. Washington
school has bu, one teacE,sr in \ grade,
HlhC'e ali C NET schools have two.
The clerk rsad the report CT Supt
Anderson for the month, CT which the
following Is an abstract: Enrolment
or tie month. 4,1G6; average daily al
tendance. 1873; average daily absence,
246: average daily nCn-member, 149;
pCrcen, age Of attendance, Washington
SO. Madison 81, Clay "a, Center 90, Web
SCR 80. RitcA,e 81, Lincoln 81; pupils Gu
rcllej since September 1st, 1926; CASES
Of tar5rno9s. teachers 7, pupils 249; per-
fec. in Attendance, 1913; paid for IN
9.ruct.on, S6,OS5
In tine German department the en-
rollnCLc for the month was 442; classes,
81 ; pupils CT German pareRItage, $50; not
CT German parsaJ2ge, 1877; paid for IN
strucion, Sl95.
Miss Lucy Robinson, supervisor and
teacher Of music, also presented a report,
which was read and received.
The report OF Librarian Wilson show
ed a total circula1ion of books for the
month OF 1850, average circulation per
day. 17G; circulation in reading room,
913; received from fines, $40.
The Board then took up the APPOINT
ments OF teachers in the different
schools. All the reports of local com
missioners except those of Madison we're
confirmed. They were, in the main, the
same as last year, and no objection was
offered. Madison was passed and came
up last, Notwithstanding the others We're
read in regular order This fact brought
M. Buchanan TO his feet with an in
quiry as TO why this had been done.
The clerk. in answer to his questions,
said it was merely On oversight, and he
had not been instructed 10 pass Madi-