The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-25
TEACHERS AND SALARIES
They Are All Where They Were
Before Last Nights Meeting.
SCHOOL BOARDS SESSION
A Fixed Schedule OF Wages Strikes the
Trustees as Being a Pretty Hard
Proposition to Contend With
So They Adjourn.

~ VI tI'N idct 'N'h /
ing in regular monthly session. and it
was in one sense an annual meeting of
importance. inasmuch as IL was sup
posed that a stan Of teachers would be
elected, a salary schedule fixed and
other routine business done that is usu-
ally transacted just before the close of
the school term. A session that con-
tinued until nearly midnight resulted.
for the greater part. in an unanimous
conclusion to adjourn till Friday night,
when il is believed that the business
at hand will be finished.
The board was fun, every member
being present. President Tuttle called
the meeting to order and the newly
elected clerk, Mr.. Nadeau, read the min
utes OF the previous meeting, which were
approved. Communications were read
and applications for ~janitor received and
placed on file. one communication was
from Principal O'Malley Of the Carroll
school relative to an increase Of his sal
airy. No action was taken. Miss Ne
Laughlin was granted the privilege to
use a school room for a summer school.
A request of "A COMMITTEES of ladies to
use a room in the Bryan school building
during the summer vacation i'm which
to conduct an Industrial school was
granted. The communication was signed
by Mrs. Sergeant, president, and Mrs.
Odson, secretary.
Superintendent Stapleton made an oral
report. He said that seven pupils were
ready for graduation. He recommended
that Janitor Darby's son be paid for
services rendered last month. He stated
that next Monday being a holiday dec
Grafton day.. the school would be closed.
7, nl,l 4Iat A.. LAa,l .,..n
its sanction OF the circular sent out by
the Maine martyr monument committee
relative to the suggestion that children,
II they so desire, may contribute not to
exceed 10 cents each to the fund. The
superintendent stated that ordinarily
he was opposed to subscription papers
circulating among school children, but
as this was an extraordinary occasion
he thought II would be well to allow the
children to subscribe. He wanted the
pupils, however. to understand that it
was not compulsory for them to con-
tribute-the ciECular from the commit
tee states plainly that IL Is for the pupils
to decide. subscribe or not. The idea
was. primarily. for the pupils to sign
the blank provided in order that the
signatures may he placed In a niche
under the monument. He referred to
he old furniture of the ruined Lincoln
school in use in rented rooms and want
ed to know what disposition the board
wished TO make Of IL. School will close
on June 3. and IL is advisable that II he
removed by that time So that rent will
not hay to be paid for it's storage in
the rooms where IT Is now used. He
also recommended that alterations he
made in the Central school building to
conform to proposed plans for a lab
oratory there. One Of the suggestions
made by the superintendent was in re-
gard to a truant officer. He said that
some parents had sent excuses for their
children's absence. and he knew from
observation that those same children
were out hiking when their parents had
said that they were i'll. And again. he
said. some boys stay out Of school for
the purpose OF roaming about town,
playing marbles and playing nickel-in-
the-slot machines and otherwise acting
in "A disgraceful manner. All this prob
ably while their parents think hat they
are at school. He offered this as a sug.
gestion. and didn't think that this
board would act on il. His purpose wa:
TO show that IL ever the serrices of q
; truant officer were required they arr
: now.
The board ordered a warrant draw
for $50 in payment for the ~janitor serv'
> ices of young Dewey. Ii Also agreed
with Mr.. Stapleton as to pupils con
{ tributing to the Maine martyr fund. l
was ordered that the superintendent
oversee the removing of the furniture
. from rented rooms. A m an'
MIR Stapieton were empowered TO max,
estimates of cost Of repairs To the Cen
A trail school rooms for a laboratory.
A recess was taken in order In Civ
Q a committee time to confer with tn
2 theater management In regard To Sc
curing that house for holding gradual
ing exercises the first week In June
n The committee saw l.. @. Smith, VIII
said that he did not have exclusiv
! power TO let the house. but assured !
L that the house could be had.
DIR. stephens. for the o.
teachers. reported. recommending tn
{ reelection Of the present corps o
teachers. and also the selection OF thre
additional. Misses Dias. Evans and Har
denbrook. and one substitute, Miss She's
z Up to this time everything had gon
e along without interruption. However
in the matter OF teachers there was n
ag-Zl. xAd-therp WAS Inaral