The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-22
INSTITUTE WEEK
For City Teachers to be Fixture
for Last Week in August.
THE CHANGE WAS DECIDED ON
BY tho Board of Education at its
Regular Meeting Last NIght-The
Rules Formerly Provided for a
September Date An Additional
Teacher for Webster School.
Routine Business Acted on.


A regular meeting Of the board Of
education was held last night, at which
little business aside from the routine
was disposed of. OF interest was the
change in the rules of the board which
stipulates that the annual teachers in
stitute shall be held in the last week
of August. This period was tried this
year and the change is permanent.
The board proceeded to business at 8
o'clock, with a bare quorum, eleven
members. The first proceeding was the
reading of the minutes of the last regu-
lar and special meetings, by Clerk Hall,
which consumed some little time.
Committee bills were ordered paid as
follows: Accounts. S5OS IS; public libra
ry, $ls5 22; buildings and grounds.
1887 %.
The clerk was instructed to purchase
fifty small order books for use of the
buildings and grounds committee.
Miss A. B. Wilson, public librarian,
submitted the regular report Of books
for the month of August. 1t showed a
total circulation of $3.50 books, of which
4772 were fiction; average daily circu-
latIon. 1876; in reading room. 1908;
amount received from fines S12.
Mr. Battelle offered resolution
which Instructed the committee on
buildings and grounds to advertise for
bids for coal for the school for the en-
suing year; the contract to be awarded
to the lowest responsible bidder en-
ployIng union labor. The resolution
was adopted.
A request to dismiss the pupils to-day
from lincoln school, to-day being
Emancipation Dny, was forwarded by
Principal F. B. Jones, and granted.
The committee on rules and regula-
tlons recommended a change in the
rules by which restrictions would be
put on children OF non-resldents of the
city, in relation to their attendance at
the wheeling schools. The amendment
to the rules was defeated.
Communications asking the boards
permission for children in certain dis
tricts to attend school in other districts
were referred to the committee on
teachers and schools.
Mr.. Dudley. on behalf Of the Webster
commissioners, asked for an additional
teacher, and Instanced the large classes.
In the last few months, he said, there
had been an influx of population in the
Sixth ward, owing to increased indus
trial activity Mr.. Dudley recon-
mended Miss Temperance Garden for
the position. The board granted the
Webster commissioners the power to
act.
Superintendent Anderson suggested
that the board decide at what time next
year the teachers institute would be
held. The board this year changed
from the first week in September to the
last week in August. Instructors could
be secured to more advantage II the
time of the institute was known early.
An amendment to the rules, STIMULATING
the week beginning on the last Monday
In August, was presented by Mr.. Dud-
ley, and Mr.. MIllignn wanted imme-
dIate action. which Mr.. Noble opposed
on the grounds that there was no need
of hurry. and that many of the absent
members opposed institutes. The
change was made, eleven ayes to one
nay.
Mr.. Ford offered a motion that a
special committee get figures on certain
articles not now mentioned in the con-
tract for school supplies, The motion
was in line with the sentiment of tho
finance committee. Lower prices could
be secured for lead pencils, etc, was
Mr. Ford's opinion. President Bowers
appointed on this committee: Messrs.
Ford, Battelle and MillIgan.