El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-05
TContipued From Yesterday.
BOND ELECTION.
Will Be Asked For BY the School
Board. Superintendent Put
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Will Be Asked For BY the School
Board. Superintendent Put
MANS Report.
The board gave evidence of satisfsc- |
ton with the report.
MIR. Martin took up the matter OF
raising the salary of Miss Hubbard and |
Miss Early Barlow. There was con-
siderable of discussion about what tn y |
should be paid. Finally Mr.. Martin
made motion to raise Miss Hubbard's |
salary from S65 to S75 to date from the
adopted. Mr.. Foster and Secretary
Pew voting, No, Their reason for vou-
ing no was that Miss Hubbard was a
new uuexperien led teacher and they
thought sheought to be paid the same
salary as the other new teachers,
Miss Barlow's salary was then raised
from The present amount to $15, this
tslso goes into effect on the lst OF Octo-
Der. The raise was given TO Miss Bar
low by virtue OF her transfer to the
Central school.
The matter of raising salaries of
teachers has given the board q great
deal of trouble as there are so many OF
| the teachers who think that some 9TH
err teacher is getting more money than
she is and not doing as much work.
| Mr.. Shelton m 4de motion that the
board was to make no more changes in
| salaries during the coming year. The
vote stood divided, so it was lost.
AS there ought to be some method
| by which the board could regulate the
| salaries paid to the teachers. Mr.. Fos-
ter made a motion that the internal
committee report a system by which
| this matter could be arranged. Adopt
ed.
Supt. Putnam stated to the board
| that at last special meeting of the
| body, he had reported that he could
only use fifty desks and they had given
him authority to order that number
| from Emerson and Berrien, but the
use thirty more, and not having time
to ask for another spe ial call of the
board he took tn liberty to order the
| extra number that morning SO as to
| get them in with the other order. The
board ratified the action of the super
| intendent.
Prof. Putnam also stated that he was
having a good deal OF trouble with the
| snitress of the Aoy school. He said
that she was getting So per month and
| b sd given notice If she was not paid
more money she was going to quit
The matter was not acted on. but it
| was understood that If she wanted to
quit she could do so.
| Here Superintendent Putnam asked
the board to give him a short leave of
absence, as he had been elected de-
legate to q church convention which
WAS going to be held at Waco stain g
that he had been superintendent here
for four years and this was the first
time be had ever asked for u leave
de wanted to go Wednesday and be
gone four or five days. A motion
prevailed to give the professor the
leave asked for.
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board have it's Finance committee
check up his books. A motion was
made and carried that it be done.
| Judge Blacker stated to the board
that Jake Catlin had made a strong
plea to him to get the money which
nsd been voted to his credit by the
board. AS this bill was to be paid out
of the tuition fund and there WAS only
one mon this tuition in, there Is not the
full amount which is due him on hand.
The board. however, instructed Prof
Putnam to turn over to Mr.. Cstliu
what money he had on hand of this
fund.
| Mr.. Foster made a motion that the
city council be asked to remit the tax
rs which were due on the property
which the school board had lust
bought, the amount is about S. Motlon
lcarried
| Under call from the president for
bills and communications the secretary
read letter from Mrs. Sudye Beall
Neff asking that she be employed by
the board as supernumery to the super
Iintendant, TO be used all the time but
only to be pa for the time that she
su bstitutes some teacher. Her COM
muuication had been recon mended by
the internal committee and was favor
ably passed on by the board.
Judge Blacker made a motion that
the school board appear before the
city council and ask that bond cleo
tion be held in the city to raise $780,
600. where oy the second ward could be
given school building which was
very much needed and also to erect q
q small school building in the fourth
ward to relieve the crowded condition
Of the M.sa and Santa Fe street school
The motion prevailed.
A communication was read from
Clara N. Cummings asking tn at she be
given some of the pupils OF the public
: school to teach as she had heard what
q crowded condition the schools were
in. She stated that she had a school
room all ready to take some of the pu-
pills and all she wanted Was S25 per
month. She said financial oircum-
stances compelled her to make such q
| low price for her services.
The necessity of the Children OF the
Central School having play ground