The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Session to be Opened Monday Nor
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| uc lSuCDerS.
The public schools will be opened I'M
on Monday morning, the 18th instant.
and it seems to be general desire ON the
part of both teachers and school officers
that parents prepare their children for
| the session and see that they enter school
on Monday morning. Parents should
| see that their children are furnished with
the necessary supplies during the week,
and thus be ready to cooperate with the
teachers and school officers in every way
| possible to make this coming term. the
most successful of any within the his.
tory of the Roanoke schools szSEisa]
Among the most important steps to be
taken is to see that when the schools
open the children are ready to enter
and begin their work for the term. If
this is done much trouble and worry will
be saved to the teachers, and good be-
ginning will be the result, which is half
the battle. A child, in order to keep up
with its last years grade, must be ready
to start with the grade and not expect
the whole grade to be held back for n
week or two weeks. All children who
are thus Kept out of school with the ex-
pectation of going on with their grades
at any time they may enter, may find
when IT IS too late that they were mis-
taken and may be compelled to fall back
to lower grade; hence the necessity of
beginning when the school opens
The school officials are doing all in
their power to give to the people of our
city good schools, in fact it is their inten-
tion to give to the people, if possible, the
best schools in the State and all this is
possible if the people will do their duty
and co operate with the school board and
teachers.
The board has recently placed n new
and costly heater of the most approved
style in the Commerce street school and
made such other improvements as were
necessary. Repairs have also been made
on the Gilmer street school and Belmont
school houses The greatest improve
| ment of all is the Melrose school. The
old building has been abandoned, and the
Wertz building on Park street has been
remodelled and turned into splendid
school building. Three large splendid
rooms are located on the lower floor,
with an abundance of light, and four
rooms on the second floor. The desks
are all in place and the building is now
being cleaned up and will be in perfect
readiness by Saturday. 1t has seating
people of the Northwest the advantages
of a safe and comfortable school building
for their children.
The board has made it point to secure
only the very best teachers and instruct
ors obtainable, and in this way alone
have they succeeded in building up the
schools to the standard TO which they
have attained The following is list of
the teachers engaged for the various
|. schools:
High school: Prof. j. p. Mauzy, princi-
pal, and Misses u. X. Wyant and Cora NJ.
Board assistants. This school will have
at least 100 pupils, and if it were posi-
BILE should have one more teacher.
Commerce street school; Prof. E. r.
Shank, principal; Miss Fannie Fish
burne, first slant; Miss Annie c.
Stevens, second assistant; Miss Alto
Funkhouser, third assistant; Miss l..
X. Terry, fourth assistant; Miss l.. C.
Briggs, fifth assistant; Miss Kate Stone,
sixth assistant; Miss Luck Boswell, first
primary; Miss Jennie Hilleary, second
primary teacher
Gilmer street schools Prof n. p.
Painter, principal; Miss n. S. Alexan-
der, first assistant; Miss Cornelia Saurs,
second assistant; Miss Annie Workman,
primary teacher
Belmont schools Prof j. w. Miller,
principal; Miss M. G. Crisman, first as
sistant; Miss Minnie Pace, second assist
ant; Miss NJ. S. Hawkins, third assist
ant; Miss NJ. NJ Kindred, fourth assist
ant; Miss Julia Billiard, primary teacher
Melrose school: Prof G. S. Hawkins,
principal; Mrs. b. f. Spence, first assist
ant; Miss Nora Hartwell, second assist
ant; Miss Lillian A. Eckloff, third assist.
| ant; Miss f. S. Williams, fourth assist
ant; Miss Emily WEIGH, fifth assistant;
Miss Fannie d. Carnefix, primary teach
| er.
Substitutes: Misses Bessie Hartwell,
Shellie Shumate and Lila w. London.
| Fifth ward colored school: Prof. D.
| w. Harth, principal; Miss Lucy Addi-
| son, first assistant; Jno. W. Trainhan,
second assistant; Mrs. s. d. Oliver,
third assistant.
Third ward colored school: Prof. T..
t. Henry, principal; j. Riley Dungee,
| first assistant; Miss NJ. II. Barnette,
second assistant; Mrs. Julia NJ Johns
| ton, primary teacher.
JEW ISH NEW YEAR.
Yesterday was Jewish New Year, bet
ter known in the Hebrew tongue as Rach-
ha-chone, and was generally celebrated
| as holiday by the Hebrew people Ten
days from yesterday they will celebrate
another holiday, known as. Yum Kippur,
| and the intervening days will be days of
repentance. Two weeks from yesterday
the feast of the tabernacle will take
place. The day will be divided between
prayer and feasting, and in olden times
it was the rule to camp, eat and drink
out of doors.
Col. j. S. Browning, of Pocahontas,
was in the city yesterday, having made a
campaign speech at Pulaski the night be-
fore.
E. It. Humphreys and family left last
night for Norfolk to spend their vacation.
Mrs. w. C. Williams visited Hollins