The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-08
MAIN LINE FOR BOISE NO acK[Y TEACHERS
Contracts of Employment Call For
Bills of Health.
NO CHANGE In WRITING
TEACHERS TO FILL VACANCIES
ELECTED LAST NIGHT.
Smoke Consumer Will Be Tried at the
Lowell School Building-Delay In
Completing Addition to Emerson
Building VIII Not Prevent Pupils
From Commencing Next Monday.

From Commencing Next Monday.
Hereafter teachers in the public
schools Of Salt Lake will be required
to possess themselves of certificates
showing their physical conditions 10
be not detrimental to the welfare Of
! the schools. Action to this end was
| taken by the board of education last
evening in adopting a new form Of
contract. recommended by the COM
mittee on school law, for teachers TO
execute.
The most radical departure in the
new form is found in this clause: AT
any time, upon request, the second
party (the teacher) agrees to furnish
to the board certificate of a reputa-
BILE practicing physician. to be desig-
| mated by the board. showing the state
of health of the second party; and II
at any time the physical condition OF
the second party shall, in the board 5
opinion, be prejudicial or injurious TO
the welfare of the schools. this con-
tract may be Immediately terminated"
The contracts will require service
until June l, 1900, at the schedule OF
salaries applicable to each teacher.
Another recommendation by the COM
mittee was adopted, declaring that no
change be made in the use of the Shell
don system of vertical penmanShip the
current year.
Candidates for Teaching.
Applications to teach were received
from the following and referred to the
committee on teachers and school work:
Mary E. Hill, Elma Douglas, A.
Woodson of Salt Lake City; NJ Mease.
Vernal; Ella c. Davidson, Rockport;
Lola B. Brown, Lawrence, Kan; Jane
C. Tunnel, Manhattan, Kan; Effie
Graham, Topeka, Kan; Fannie A. Ba-
ker, Alice Davis, Elizabeth E. H.
Greene, Fannie A. Hall, Chicago; Mary
L. MCGOWAN, Florence ]. Kane, Mil
waukee; Jessie L. Durbin, Cuyahoga
Falls. o.; N. F. Daum, Dodge City,
Kan; Louise De Ian, Glenwood
Springs, Colo; Mary E. Hosford, Ober-
lin, o.; Luman S. Roach, Dodgeville,
Wis; Mrs E. G. Rollins, Winifred Rol
Inns, Superior, Colo; Ray p Saffol1,
Los Angeles; Laura ]. Walker, Ather-
ton, Ind; H. Lawrence Noble, Phila-
delphia; Earl ]. Kelsey Omaha; Mar
garet King, Des Moines; Ella Z. Hol-
lenbeck, Aberdeen, S. D.; NJ. lone Car
roll, Toledo o.; Stella r. Fox, Wolcott,
Ind; Margaret Mccoy. Rensselaer,,
Ind; Harriet Ostrom, Minneapolis:
MdTy u. 66dUl, bGdIQSlOWu, Mai
H. Kenny, West Duluth. Mimi
designations and Burroughs.
Writing from Brazos, N NJ, Mona B.
Biggs requested a leave of absence
from the teaching corps for another
year. Leaves of absence were also
requested by Louise Harrison, Geneva
Egbert and NJ. Grace Lung.
designations of the following teach
ers were reported: w. P. Havenor.
Katherine L. Craig, T. S. Pendergrass,
Helena East, May w. Pearse, George
Mavor, Florence Horne and Jennie
Molinelli Holt.
Both designations and requests for
leaves of absence were referred to the
proper committee.
The following recommendations by
the committee on teachers and school
work were adopted:
That j. T. HARDWOOD, director of art
in the High school, be employed during
the six school hours of the day at a
salary of 500 a month.
That Miss Ruby Armstrong be tenn
porarily employed to do clerical work
in the principals office at the High
relieving Principal Clark of routine Of
flee work and enabling him to teach
one class period daily.
That the tuition charged nonresident
pupils be the same as heretofore, SIS
yearly for the grade schools and S4S
for the High school.
That the boundary line between the
Franklin and the Riverside school dis
tricts be changed to Third South street.
That the following be employed as
teachers to fill vacancies in the grade
schools. at the monthly salaries stated:
Alta Virgins, $40; Alma Whitaker, Eff
fie Riddle, A. j. Ridges, S65; Frances
Thompson, Celia Gettings. Mrs. M.
Amey, $50; w. D. Prosser, Thomas Nc
Kay, Carrie Erickson. sos; Amy Wood
son, $50; Edith Folsom, s45.
That Miss Jessie Goddard of London
be employed to teach English and ma
.thematics in the High school, at a
salary of 800 monthly, to succeed Ray
E. Chase, resigned.
That J. W. Minor be re-employed as
truant officer, at monthly salary of
Contractor Behind.
The Pacific Lumber company, con-
tractor for the erection of the Emerson
school building annex, notified the
board that it would be impossible to
complete the work in time for next
Mondays school opening, but that
certain class rooms would be in condi-
ton for temporary use. This. it was
suggested, could De done Wifnout ar
cepting the work until completion ac-
cording to contract. The communica-
ton was referred to the committee on
buildings and grounds.
On recommendation of the committee
on teachers and school work, it was or
dered that double daily sessions for
pupils of the seventh and eighth grades
residing in the annex district be held
in the Emerson building, as a tempo
rary arrangement, to accommodate pu-
pills who formerly attended the Hamil-
ton school.
Will Try a Smoke Consumer.
On recommendation of the committee
on buildings and grounds, authority
was given to purchase two American
stokers or smoke consumers for the
Lowell school building, at a cost of
$1221 The smoke consumers are to be
lete civ inst led and in rarclraar.