El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-02
School Opens September 5.

Last night being the first Monday
night in the month the city school
board met and President Race ordered
the secretary to call the roll. There
being quorum present the board be-
gan work.
Secretary Pew read the minutes of
the last meeting, which were accepted.
Supt. Putnam was call on for his re-
port. He said he had held the exRmi-
nation which is required for the teach
ers for the schools of FL Paso. The
following teachers had passed most
creditably and he recommended that
they be given permanent certificates
to teach in the city of FL Paso: Mrs.
B. b. Bailey, Miss Mary L. Stanton,
Miss Mamie Lyons, Miss Allie Fitz-
patrick, Miss Lille Cole, Miss Mary
Gallagher, and Miss Julia Logan.
The question arose at this point as
to whether the board had the proper
authority for the granting of the per-
manent certificates and after some
hunting around in the books and doc
uments in the room Supt. Putnam
found the necessary pamphlet on the
school laws OF the state and found that
the board had the power, so Secretary
Pew made the motion that the board
give those who so deserved by their ex-
amluations the permanent certificates
bQeN were l. NC iuO-
ton was duly seconded and carried
There are some more" said Mr..
Putnam, "who have not had their ex-
aminations and 1 would suggest that 1
examine them on or about August 10Th
so then il we find some one not quail
fed we will have time to secure the
services of some one else who is"
This was put before the board in
shape OF a motion, and carried. Those
who have not been examined are Miss
Florence Wilson, Miss Gertrude Lobb,
Professor w. III. T. Lopez, A. G. Muir
ply, Mrs. A. c. Murphy, and Miss Lii
lie Smith.
Professor Putnam stated to the
board that from come unaccountable
cause he had overlooked at the last
meeting the fact that during the las.
trim of school Mrs. Hodges was due
52l for substitute teaching and Mrs.
Leigh Clark was due 50 for the same
service. He asked that these two
amounts be allowed, which was done,
and the secretary was ordered to draw
warrants to cover same.
Supt. Putnam stated to the board
that he thought the board had hereto
fore lost money in the taking OF the
scholastic census and that this summer
he had himself looked after the matter
very carefully and he didn't believe it
was ever done before as carefully as it
was done this summer. The state only
allows the census taker two cents head
for each name enrolled aud as the
whole number was only 206o the work
was done for the sum of S4l. 30. On &C.
count of the trouble that Census Taker
J AXE Catlin went to to get all the
names possible he thought that Mr..
Catlin should be given more than the
amount he had received from the state
All the members of the board who
were present thought as did Prof. Put
nam, but thought as it was a vol rntary
matter it would be better for the whole
board to act upon the matter, SO it was
laid over until the next meeting.
Professor Putnam stated that before
the next term OF school they would
need some supplies such as ink, chalk,
etc. The matter was referred to the
external committee.
The sealed bids for the printing Of
teachers report blanks and other
blanks that were necessary for the use
of the schools, which had been called
for, were opened. The bid from the
Times Publishing Co.lwss for printing
only and the amount for that was $36.
rs. The next bid was from the HER
AID News Co., which was for print
ing and paper too. The bid for the
printing was S32.75 and the $50 pounds
of paper was cents sper pound. The
Hull printing house bid was the low
est received, being s2S.75 for the print
ing and cents per pound for the
$50 pounds of paper needed.
The bid from Hull's printing house
being the lowest received, on motion OF
Mr.. Foster the contract was awarded
to them. Trustee y. @. Foster being
recorded as not having voted on &C.
count of his connections with the HER
AID News Company.
Secretary Pew read a communication
from Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Murphy, in
which they stated that while they were
pleased to receive the notification of
their services being retained for the
coming year, they didn'tfeel able to do
the work for the same amount which
they had hereto fore been receiving, as
the work was more now than it was be-
fore, but hoped that the board could