Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-17
SCHOOL BOARD MATTERS.
Holding vacatiOn-WiI Begin on Friday Next
and Continue Until Monday, ian. 3.

The board of education met last
night and fixed the holiday vacation
from Friday of next week to Monday.
Jan. g. Considerable other business
was also transacted Contracts made
by the committee on buildings and
grounds We're ratified as follows:
Utah Stove & Hardware company,
wainscoting and tile flooring in vesti-
bules, for S2G2.50.
Crager Wire & Iron Works, iron
gates and window screens. for Sl21.50.
Craig d Atkinson. stone floor in
boiler house and coal room, for 90
cents per square foot,
+. W. Madsen, window shades, for
$1S5.
W. s. Pierce, slated paper black
boards, for $50.
II. Dinwoodey. Furniture company,
two dozen Vienna chairs. for Si5.
The committee was authorized to
purchase the number of clocks needed
for the Webster school.
Superintendent OF Buildings Pinney
was directed to secure necessary help
to clean up the rooms in the new Web
ster building for occupancy the first
Monday in January. From now on the
steam heating plant will be kept in
operation to thoroughly dry the walls,
according to the boards orders.
The superintendent of buildings re-
ported the contract work for plastering
and masonry on the Webster schpol
building was satisfactorily completed
and ready for acceptance.
The employment of Richard Mace as
engineer and janitor of the, Webster
school building, commencing on Dec.
TO- at salary of s66.67 per month, was
authorized.
on accommodation of the commit
tee on teachers and school work, the
following was adopted:
That the resignation of Miss Anna
Nebeker, teacher of the beginners
grade at the Franklin school, be ac-
cepted: that Miss Anna Wade pc
transferred from the fifth grade of the
Lincoln school to the primary grade
of the Thirteenth school, and that In
Miss Wade's place, Miss Ellzabeth
Carothers be employed at n salary or
$50 per month; that Mr.. ID. ]. Kelly be
employed as teacher of the sixth graue
in the Lowell school at monthly sal
airy of $40; that Mrs. Katherine Par
sons be employed to teach the seventh
grade in the Hamilton school at
monthly salary of $50, beginning Dec
Appropriations aggregatins $lO,bl3i9
were made on recommendation OF the
finance committee. The principal items
were on account of payments TO CON
tractors on the Webster school build
ing. The expense of the recent school
board election amounted to 1852
The finance committee reported the
statement of Treasurer Barnett for the
month of November showing balance
on hand of s3,526S1, had been audited
and found correct. The receipt of 80
from N. A. Empey, Bishop of the Thir-
teenth ecclesiastical ward, for use of
premises belonging to the board FOR
three years, ending Feb. II, 1898 was
reported The receipt of s42.4s and
accrued interest in the sum of $I.0I ON
county warrant No. 1878. for refund
of school tax Illegally paid in 1894, on
the Franklin school property, was re-
ported
The sum of ssi from sale of old desks
was also reported, and the commit
tees action ratified
The following resolution, by Mr.. Col
ton, was adopted
Resolved. That the sum of 500. 400 and
accrued interests hereby appropriated
in favor of Wells, Fargo & Co., in pay
ment for 20 salt Lake City bonds,
bought at 81. 02 and interest. the same
to be paid when the bonds are deliv-
cred in New York; and that the presl
dent is authorized to exchange said
bonds for bonds issued by the board of
education.
Williams, Van Colt & Sutherland the
boards attorneys, reported that the de-
PENDANTS demurrer to the complaint
had been sustained in the action for
damages brought against the board by
Mrs. Everlll. and that the plaintiff
would not appeal. The court in sus-
tanning the demurrer, held that there
could be no recovery for personal in
jury unless there was an actual injury
to the person, as distinguished from an
injury resulting from fright.
The boards attorneys also reported
the final adjudication of the suits
brought to determine to whom the
money should he paid for the erection
of the Uintah and Bonneville school
houses. Filed.
Mr. Hansen moved that n sufficient
number of Fryes Complete Biographies
be purchased for the need OF the
schools, and that the president and
clerk be instructed to execute con-
tract with CHM & company, publishers,
for such purpose.
Action ON the motion went over until
next Wednesday evening, to which
time the board adjourned