Evening journal., 1899-04-26
MEMO Uf new CASTLE
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS.
CONSIDERABLE BUSINESS DIS
POSED OF AT THE SESSION LAST
NIGHT.

CONSIDERABLE BUSINESS DIS
POSED OF AT THE SESSION LAST
NIGHT.
The Beard CT Education met last
night, the members present being
Messrs. Ellason, Mahoney, Deakyne,
Carrick, Philips, Ferris, Stewart, Man
love and Frazer. Inc regular order
Of business was carried cut and the
ccmmlttees reported.
The Committee on Teachers reported
prCgrass, and the Committee on Text
Books reported bills amounting to
S29S7, which were ordered paid. The
Committee on School Property report
ed bill for sixty cents, which was or
dered paid. The visiting committees
for schools Nos. /, and 3 reported
progress.
Orders were allowed for payment of
salaries for the month CT April to
teachers, substitutes, secretary and jam
itOr. Mr.. Ferris offered his individual
thirty-day note of $500 for discount to
pay the same. This, with the 5000 note
fer sixty days, will make $l,100 to be
met by May 2S.
The principals report was read and
approved. The report from March "a to
April %, 1898, was: Total attendance,
5O6; average attendance, 4OS; seating
capacity OF schools, els; number of diff
lercnt classes, II; number Of books
bought, 167; number Of punfshmen;s i'm
ilicted, 4; number applied for adms-
sion, Z.
Following are names OF these de-
serving special mention for dopcrt-
ment and progress: Frank Biggs, Viii
lie Hall, Preston Pruitt, Muriel Sudell,
Minnie Taylor, Charles Lank, Walter
Wilson, Mary White, Mark King, Mich
ael Rogers, Ada Townsend, Marie Ma
liney, Lucy DOngacre, Paul Weir, Ed
die GOrmley EDNA Hamme,l, Alice
Cooper Emma Bradley, Mary Sullivan
Kate Rodgers, Lily Abrams Alexander
Biggs, Robert McFarlin, George Duffy
Christopher Grier. Carrier Spear,
George Maxwell. Addie Nlurphey, Mary
Stewart, Harry Weggenmann, Annie
Lancaster Alma Dyer, Reda Shoop
Mamie Boyle. Ralph Walls, Bertha
Toner, Ethel Weggenmann, Una Sudell
Rosa Keegan, Mary Clark. John Toner
Frank Frazer, Helen Gallagher Mabe
C.ewell, Clara King, Mary DOwnham
Iva Willis, Louis Gemmill, Willard
Truitt, Eva Morgan, Margaret Will
helme Mona Toner, Reba Willis, Helen
Ford, Louise King Michael Reynolds
Mary BrattOn, Frank Reynolds, Emma
Johnson, Sallie McCue, Minnie Nicely.
ment, John Reynolds, Edmund Ryan
James Carswell, Mary Moran, Maggie
Ryan, Joseph Finnegan. John Tobin
Bessie McFarlan James Tobin Gran.
willie Ferguson, Mary TObin, ROber
Robbins Katie Madden.
Professor knowles addressed tn,
heard and asked for information i'm re
gard to the closing and graduating ex
ercises Of the schools. Mr.. Ferris
moved that the exercises he held OF
two nights, one for the graduatin,
c'ass and another for the under-gradu
ates In the discussion that followed
Mr. Ferris offered an amendment I,
his motion that the exercises be he,,
on two successive Fridays There wa
some discussion about this, and tn
amendment was withdrawn and tn
original motion stood This was car
ried, and then Mr.. Ferris moved tina
the graduating exercises be heldTon III
Friday preceding the last TUESDAY @
school, and the UNDERGRADUATES bol
theirs from 3 to the day previous. \
may he determined by the commftte
on closing exercises. The committe
on closing exercises consists of IN
Committee on Teachers and two add
t'onal members. The Committee n
teachers consists OF Messrs. Eliasor
Stewart and Ferris, and the two AZ
pointed were Messrs. Frazer and Ma
honey.