Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-19
MUST GIVE A bigger BOND.
Board of Education Increases Security
of City Collector.
The Now Amount Nearly Four
Times as Great as the Old.
George w. Bowers Elected to Fill
Vacancy in Richie District.
Smoking to be Hereafter Pro-
hibited The Routine Business
Transacted.

The minutes of the previous regular ana
special meetings were read by the clerk
and approved. after which accounts, re-
ported with favorable recommendations
were ordered paid, as follows:
Accounts, S766SS
Public library, $7S.53.
The Board concurred in the following
named recommends tons of the public
library committee: That c. II. Quimhy $
bid of $3S625 for furnishing books and
periodicals 10 the public library during
the coming year. be adopted; and that
account of books selected by the com
mittee. amounting to $llS.32, be ordered
paid.
The committee on buildings and grounds
submitted a report that the resolution
passed AT the November meeting was not
sufficiently explicit. and submitted the
following. which was adopted without de-
bate:
Resolved That the committee on build
ings and grounds be instructed TO select
plans Cor the Clay annex building, said
building not TO have more than eight
school rooms. nor cost more than $li9lo,
and report at The next regular meeting Of
the Board
The clerk read the monthly report Of
Superintendent w II. Anderson. from
which the following extract is taken:
Total enrolment. 46o6. average daily abb
sence. 33G. per centaee of Attendance
city g. Washington 90. Madison %. clay
90. Union %. Centre ~. Webster 95. Richie
"a. Lincoln %; cases of tardiness. teachers
II. pupils 453: pupils perfect in attendance,
300: paid for instruction Sil99.
I'm the German department. the total
enrolment was ASS; Classes G3: pupils Of
German parentage 251; not Of German
parentage 2Sl: paid for instruction Sl95.
Superintendent Anderson recommended
that the Board supply the schools with
four hundred map tablets, at am expense
not 10 exceed $50 Referred TO committee
on text books for investigation
The report of the librarian for the
month showed total circulation of
6.9l9 books Of which number Clip We're
works of fiction average daily circulation
81: circulation TN reading room LOS,
amount received from fines Sl2.
Under the head Of new business and
on behalf Of the local commissioners of
Ritchie district. Mr.. Schaub took the floor
and offered the name Of Frank w. Bowers
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stanton an" Noo'e 'ooN '"s poS','o ''''''
must have been some good reason for
fixing the bond at that amount They
asked for information upon the point It
was stated in reply that the law gives the
Board authority to fix the amount of the
bond. that 1t was fixed at 10000 when
the amount of taxes collected was much
smaller than at present. and that # was
never changed.
Mr.. Noble moved TO refer the matter
to the finance committee for investigation.
Mr. Hubbard could not sec the wisdom of