The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-11
REFLECT TEACHERS
GRADE AND PRIMARY TEACHERS
AGAIN CHOSEN.
RETAIN MUSIC AND DRAWING

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| Special Branches--No Report on High
School Instructors-Four Designs
for New Building Presented
The Board of Education met in
regular session at the Central building
Tuesday night, all the members being
in attendance.
The announcement that report
would be made on the election of
teachers and that the plans for the new
North side building would be taken up
drew large crowd of interested spec
tators.
After the reading and adoption of
the minutes of the previous meeting
communication was received from Miss
Rowe, asking that six compound mi
croscopes be purchased for the use of
the botany classes. The petition was
granted and the committee on supplies
was ordered to purchase the instrn-
ments. While the instruments will
cost $120, they have been needed for
some time and will add greatly to the
equipment of the High school labratory.
The principal business of the evening
was the report of the committee on
teachers, who reported favorably on
the re- election of all the present grade
teachers at salaries fixed by tle graded
salary system recently adopted. The
committee also reported favorably on
the Encouragement of Mrs. Miller as
special teacher of music and drawing
for the coming year. In regard to the
primary teachers the committee re-
ported favorably on the selection of the
following, with the salaries fixed as
mentioned.
Miss G. Elizabeth Robinson, present salary
Miss Jessie L. Hubbard, :"
Miss Mile Utter.
Miss Olga Miller. ....... ............. 1880 90
Miss Belle BlackmOn. INSTRUMENTATION. $50 w
Miss Julia Portwine. ........ 361 90
Miss Anna Adams ........... 4lo w
Miss Alice Lance OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 5oO w
The committee asked for further
time in which to report on the question
of High school teachers. The report
of the committee created little debate
except that Commissioner Pinzger
made kick on the employment of
Mrs. Miller as an instructor in drawing
on the grounds that the teaching of
| this branch was an unnecessary eX-
pense to the board. Mrs. Miller's work
during the year has evidently made an
impression, as all the commissioners
with the exception of Pinzger voted to
accept the report of the committee and
to retain the teacher for the special
branches.
The board then went into session as
a committee of the whole for the pur
pose of discussing the question of the
plans for the new building. The
architects present we're each given ten
minutes in which to present their de-
signs and explain the plans.
Four preliminary sketches were pre-
sented by Architects G. A. Dickhaut,
of this city, Van Ryn, De Geleke, W.
D. Kimball and n. W. Buerning of
Milwaukee. No action was taken on
the preliminary sketches aud the en-
tire matter was lett over until an adj
journed meeting of the board to be held
on next Tuesday evening. The finance
committee we're ordered to have
meeting and present q full report Of
the finances of the board at the next
meeting.
The Kenosha High school were
granted the use of the Central building
for the Biennial reunion on June "a.
The old fight between the up town
and the down town members of the
board in regard to place of meeting
was brought up by Commissioner Burg
who moved that in the future all meet
ings of the board be held at the City
hall. Commissioner Newman objected
on the grounds that the City hall was
governed too much by politics and the
work of the board should be free from
any political restraint He urged that
the board should hold their meetings
under the influence of the schools as
much as possible and thought that
holding the meetings at the Central
school tended to preserve this influence
The board evidently did not care much
for educational influences for they
voted almost unanimously in favor of
holding meetings in the City hall.
The committee on buildings and
grounds was instructed to purchase
trees for the use of the students in the
Arbor day exercises. Each building
will plant one tree and tie students
of the New Deming schools will be al
lowed to decorate their bare grounds
with several naples. The board then
adjourned.
Whooping Cough.