The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-28
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
IMPORTANT REPORTS S.UBMITTED
 BY VARIoUs COMMITTEES.

Appointment of Teachers and the Adop-
 tion of Text Books Occupy the Time
 Merrell's Vertical System of Penman-
 ship Adopted-Teachers in Biology App
 pointed.
 At the meeting of the board of edu- cation last evening the committee on schools, through the chairman, MT. Moran, reported that Miss Jennie l.. Klock, teacher in Orcahrd street school, who was assigned to room 8, grade 3a, declined to accept the position because she preferred to do work in the grade in which she was employed during last year, and recommended her reappoint- ment to room 2, grade 2c, Orchard street school, at a salary of $470; also the reappointment of Miss Grace A. Singer to room 8, grade Sa, Orchard street school
 The committee recommended that the salary of Miss Anna B. Gallup, room il, grade Ia, Dwight school, be fixed at $50O that Miss Hattie M. Strong be ap- pointed to room 3, grade 3, Dwight school, at a salary of $4S0, that Miss Annie McNulty's salary in room (, grade 5a, Welch school, be fixed at $450; that Miss Lillian E. Bradley be | +O da H WaIah school, at salary of $630; that the sal ary of Miss Josephine M Sheldrick, room 3, grade 2, Welch school, be fixed at $450; the appointment of Miss Kath- crime Raymond to room 2, grade la, Welch school, at salary of $500; the appointment of Miss Helena Robinson, r teacher In room 8, grade 6a Ferry street school, be made at a salary of s700 and that she be assigned to the | principalship of the building.
 | The committee recommended the Merrill vertical system of penmanship 1 to be used in the schools the coming year; that series of classics known as the English classics, published by May nard, Merrill X Co, be put on the sup | elementary list of books: that Smyth's | Old-Time Stories and Miss Burt's Lit tie Nature Studies and the eclectic school readings be placed on the list of supplementary text books.
 Tho committee further recommended | that the committee on supplies be au- | thoriZed to exchange enough of the old Franklin Elementary Arithmetics for l Southworth's Essentials in Arithmetic l to supply all the fourth grades; that enough of Swinton's Elementary Ge- ographies be exchanged to supply all the fifth grades with Fryes Primary l Geography; to exchange enough of the 1 old Franklin grammar school arithme- tic for Walsh's grammar school arith- metic, part 1, to supply all the sixth 1 grades: to exchange the old worn-out stock of Barnes History for Fishs
 Thomas and Montgomery's History.
 The committee recommended the ap- 1 pointment of Sister M. Geraldine Hig 1 gins as teacher in room la, grade 1, St. ! Francis orphan asylum, at a salary of i $350.. It also recommended that Rand
 X McNally's grammar school geogra- phy and Potter's grammar school ge- 1 ography be placed on the list of sup
 plementary text books
 The committee reported that the
 amount of money received from the
 state for the apparatus and library 1 funds was 1862, and recommended that
 the board appropriate an equal
 amount, making a total of $1,724, The
 money will be apportioned later. l The boundary between the Wooster
 and the Eaton sub-districts was rec | commended as follows: Pupils living 1 on Franklin street, between Summer 1 and Chapel streets, may attend school l either in the Wooster or Eaton district,
 but child will be compelled to attend
 the school he enters for the remainder
 of the year.
 The committee on special instruction recommended Fred C. Adams as teach l CT in biology in the Boardman Manual l Training High school: the acceptance
 of the resignation of Miss Sarah 10.
 Cook, Kindergarten teacher in Fair street school; the adoption of Bayer's
 Biology and Bennett's Latin Grammar to be used in the Boardman school; an
 appropriation of $25o for the biological laboratory in the Boardman high
 school and $175 in the THillhouse high school
 The call for the school election will
 be issued after the next meeting, which | ufill ha hold naxt Iueek ThIrSdaV