The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-30
SCHOOL TRUSTEES MEET
Very Little Business Was Trans
acted Last Night.
AFFAIRS IN GOOD SHAPE
Several Communications Were Received
and Referred : Miss Peters In
crease OF Salary-Butte
Teachers Club.

The school trustees met In regular
session last night. but there was not
much business transacted because there
was nothing 20 be done. Everything is
moving along with grace in the school
world and the board of education says
that the goose hangs high. There was
q communication read from a head of
. family in Butte who is supporting
some OF his out of town relations chill
dren and giving them educational ~
0ortunities. The clerk has been charg-
ing tuition against the children in ac-
cordance with the rule OF the district
made ard provided in such cases. As
a. was shown that the city uncle In
tended to keep the children indefinitely.
he was allowed to send the children TO
School without charge.
Another communication was from
Farson. Leech a. Co. bankers of Chi
cago, relative to school bonds. The
brokers notified the board that the
amount of bonds II required could not
at present be furnished.
Miss Nora Peters. a teacher In the
Neaderville school. asked the board by
1etter to take some action In n mat
Ter of increasing her salary to conform
20 the experience she has had in the
schools. She submitted three letters OF
Recommendation. The petition was re-
ferred to the teachers committee. on
motion OF Mr.. Burke IL was ordered
that the holiday season begin at noon
of the 23rd and close Monday evening.
Ian. .
= superintendent Hendricks reported
Mat the Butte Teachers club had pre-
pared a programme of exercises for
Friday afternoon. Dec. %. which the
club has set apart as the annual Butte
Teachers club day. The day will be
devoted 20 instruction. business n a
uocial hour or two. The following II the
proposed programme:
Exhibition of actual school work from
Zach room 10 the sixth grade. Written
work in all grades. including the
twelfth year class. The following rep
resentatives were elected by the teach
ers az the building meetings Monday.
h 18th inst: One teacher TO prepare
and read a paper or a discussion; one
teacher to represent h building on the
general committed OF arrangements.
Principals are not eligible. under the
rules of the club. 90 election To Offices
or as representatives, but are entitled
20 vote.
The programme arranged by the
<eachers is as follows: Music. instru-
mental and vocal: Miss Sue Baldwin.
high school department. our Flag"
Miss Lillian Paschal. high school
grades. THE Man from Mars" Miss
Florence McNeel. Washington school.
'Music I'm the Public Schools" Miss
George McNeel. Lincoln school. step
ping Stones in L~iterature:" Miss Mile
Coffin. Garfield school. The Evolution
of a Good Reader" Miss Anna Lang
eton. Baine school. Eugene Field:
Miss Jenny Robinson. Franklin school.
Language" Miss Mary Brown. Grant
school. "Elocution:" Miss Ella Boland.
Monroe school. Power" II. J. Cooney.
Jefferson school. Patriotism and CIV
ics I'm the School Room" Miss Mary
Healy, Adams school. THE RESPONSE
Utilities of a Teacher" Miss Nellie Spill
ler. Madison school. Child Culture:"
Miss Edna Gorham. Greedy school.
Tact In Discipline" Miss Jennie Thir-
loway. training class. Advantages Of
Normal" training class. physical Gull
ture drill.
General questions will be discussed as
Follows: school Affairs" Chairman
<Jos. v. Long. c. H. Lane n D.. Dor
ais: The School Laws" Trustees II. l..
Clinton and J. X. Macdonald; Art In
struction in the Public Schools" Mrs.
Clinton NJ. Moore: THE Finances of
District No. l." Thomas Richards.
clerk: THE Physical Sciences" Prof.
Leonard: Needed Legislation" Trus-
dee NJ. ]. Burke.
After adopting the superintendent's
report and granting him privilege to
rent a piano for the ccasion the menu
beers drifted OF int an informal dis
cussion relating To the subjects assigned
them for the club day exercises. After
talking for IS minutes. Chairman Long
suggested that further talk be deferred
until club day. Mr.. Lane thought II
would be well TO continue the discus
sion, saying IA practice makes per-
fecf. The superintendent further re-
ported that a transfer Of pupils from
the eighth grade OF the high school had
been made TO the Adams school.
Contractor Whiteside OF the new
school building at the corner of Atlantic
and Galena streets was present and
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