The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-16
WANT EN- CLEANED,
School Teachers Ask the Board to
Provide Soap and Towels for Use
of Dirty Pupils.
CURRICULUM MUST BE REVISED

ART must be Added to the List of Studies
Before the City Schools can Obtain
Money From the State-Matn1as Werve
Chosen Janitor of the New school-Seats
ordered Bought.
The meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton at the City Hall Tuesday night
was an interesting one. There was
just enough of soreness apparent
among some of the members to make
the routine business pass off without
getting monotonous and quite little
business was transacted in short
time.
The first thing of interest was
brought up by a letter from Miss
Adams, who asked that the Board order
the purchase of a full supply of soap
and towels to be used in cleaning up
dirty pupils. Miss Adams backed up
her demands upon the Board by the
| announcement that recently one of the
pupils came to school so dirty that he
was not fit to associate with the other
children. The teacher made a visit to
the home of the boy and found, much
to her surprise, that there were no
utensils in she house whereby the boy
could remedy the grievous fault.
The Board at once took hold of the
matter and the committee on supplies
was ordered to see that the things
needed to secure the cleanliness of the
pupils were at once purchased for the
various buildings. The question of
appointing an official washer for each
building came up and Commissioner
Ho1derness moved that the matter be
| left entirely with the janitor.
This motion was seconded by Com
missioner Newman, but the President
was not in frivolous frame of mind,
and declared the motion out of order,
and the matter of washing the dirty
pupils will probably be left with the
teachers.
The next matter to be taken up was
the election of a janitor to take charge
of the work at the new Gi11ett school.
Twelve applications were presented
for the Office and after number of
ballots Matthias Werve was chosen for
the important position.
A1etter was received from the state
Attorney General, stating that the
curriculum of the High school was not
large enough to allow the city to secure
the aid of the state funds and further
stated that before the fund could be
secured the Board would have to add
the study of "Theory and Art'' to it's
course. AS it is matter of nearly $500
to the city the study of ''Theory and
Art'' was at once added to the curricu
1unasof the High school.
Under the reports of committees the
committee on supplies reported that
the Andrews School Furniture COM
pany of Racine had made them
proposition, offering to supply the
furniture for the new school at the
same rate as had been charged for the
seats in the Dening school. The offer
was accepted and the committee order
ed to make a contract with the Racine
company for the furniture.
The usual number of bills were pre-
scented and approved. In this cOnnec-
ton tI1e discovery was made that the
financial condition of the board was
not at ali promising. While the board
has money on hand it is more than de-
manded in order to meet the contracts
now outstanding. One of the members
of the finance committee stated this
morning that meeting would be held
in the near future at which time an
effort would be made to arrange.a plan
by which all the running expenses of
the schools could be promptly paid.
Peter B. Bigart, of Milwaukee, who
is installing the new heating plant in
the Gi11ett building, asked that he be
allowed 500 on his contract. This
matter was referred to the committee
on grounds and buildings. At the
urgent request of the president of the
Board Chief of Police Owen. O'Hare
was appointed Truant Officer for the
ensuing year.
At the close of the elaboration of
the evening the matter of the purchase
of the hardware for the new building
was brought up by Commissioner
Scho1ey who alleged that Commissioner
Pinzger had taken the matter into his
own hands and had made a contract
for the hardware without consulting
some of the members of the commit
tee. The protest failed to cause an
argument and the matter was passed
without comment. The board then
adjourned to meet a week from next
Tuesday evening.
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