The Weekly orb., 1899-07-09

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 Miss Stowe's room-Grade l. Entire enrolment. ................. 174 Monthly attendance. .............. 82 Cases tardiness. ............... 323 Per cent of attendance. ce.............. S9
 Summary for Entire School.
 Entire enrolment. ................. 5l9 Monthly attendance. e............ 321 Cases of Tardiness s................. 968 Percent of attendance. e............. 93
 Tho enrolment of the present year is but 30 more than that of last year, which reached 4S9. The attendance of 1899 exceeds that of 1898 by s2H. The greatly increased attendance is certainly encouraging. , The three primary schools show an attendance of 237. This attendance
 warrants the employment of two more
 teachers in the primary department, and that number of additional teachers have been employed. The beginning primary will still be conducted on the halliday plan. The next two rooms which will in charge of Miss Warning and Miss Hill, will be run till the after noon recess, at 40 p. m., when they will be dismissed. These teachers will devote the remaining hour to drawing and writing in the grades above.
 In the two grammar schools l36 pupils
 have been enrolled, and 95 pupils have been in attendance throughout the year. No additional teachers will be added to the grammar school during the year.
 Seven pupils have com pleted the gram. mar school course, and are now ready to begin regular high school work. The grammar school course will likely be in- creased to nine years at once; graduate pupils could then enter any high school and receive one years credit; or they could enter any California normal school upon their certificates of gradua- tion, which is no small advantage. All the first class California grammar schools have nine years course. The addition of two teachers to our force, and the readjustment of work, will enable us to make this great forward step at oncs, and put such course in operation the coming year. Parents who are sending their children should consider this.
 The "Pioneer Class" has not only left an honorable record for faithful work, but have raised about $l50 to be app lied on the purchase of a new piano for the use of the advanced grades. If each class will follow their goood example, few years will see our school supplied with many objects of beauty or use. No more commendable custom than this can be inaugurated and followed in any school.
 ! know no better time or place to call attention to the continued efforts of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to provide suitable buildings in which to carry on the schools of Bisbee. Their generosity should be remembered.
 When the first building was erected in 1892 it consisted of three school rooms and small room for library. The school grew so rapidly that the library room, though far too small for school room, had to be turned into one, and the library and museum pushed to one side.
 In 1898 brick addition of two large rooms was erected, and one room put to use. In 1899 the other was put into use, and it was found that the school building, though recently en- larged, was far too email for the great number of children in Bisbee.
 During .his vacation the old library room will will be enlarged into lull- sized school room, and four large rooms will be erected above as a second story. The school. building will then contain ten school rooms, and will be one of the most convenient and commodions in the territory. Not the least improvement will be school hall, made by throwing two school r~oms into one by means of ] moveable partition, and of great con vrnience in many ways. When the building is filled, in another year or so, then iJ will be :ime to talk of other school buildings up and down the can yun, @her towns in Arizoua have 'pent from $2O, QUO to $25, ,OO0 to provide no better facilities. By the liberality [ ,f the. company the people have been 'ellevsd of this considerable taxation necessary to provide the buildings. 1 Why not show your appreciation of the .ayor done by exhibiting your willing ,ess to bear some increase in taxation y voting a special tax next March to