The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-10

lips at last nights meeting of the
board, over the matter of pupils from
No. 1S school, Grammar Il grade, pro-
NOTED to Grammar A and instructed
to report at No. 16 school, going to No.
IA school instead.
A decided preference exists among
West Scranton students for No. II, and
there is an antipathy for No. 16. ii was
claimed last night. but after a very
animated discussion of the matter, the
board passed Mr.. Jennings motion that
the superintendent be requested to fol-
low out the rules set down by the
board for the transfer of pupils from
one school to another. The vote stood
1873, Messrs. Phillips Evans and Ey-
non being the only ones to vote
against the motion.
Controller Eynon in discussing the
question stated that there We're re-
ports of incompetency on the part of
Miss Fitzgibbon, the teacher in charge
at No. IL, but Mr.. Jennings declared
that Superintendent Howell had cx-
pressed a favorable opinion regarding
her ability and that statements to the
contrary only came from idle gossip.
MEET NEXT MONDAY NIGHT.
The board will meet again Monday
night i'm adjourned session. Mr.. SChIie-
fer having moved for another meeting,
shortly after last nights session was
called to order. 4 communication was
read during the early part of the meet
ing from the county commissioners.
notifying the board that there We're
$500 600 of outstanding bonds upon
which the board is said to have as
Sumed the taxation. The commits
si6ners have been directed by the state
board of revenue commissioners to
positively return the bonds for taxa
ton. and the controllers were notified
to appear at the county Office for a
| hearing,
A letter from Attorney Reedy accom-
panied this. Mr. Rccdy had arranged
| for a meeting with the commissioners
AT o'clock this afternoon and advised
the board to authorize an appeal from
| the assessment, if the finding of the
| commissioners was against the con-
| tention of the district. The tax will
amount 10 s1,S00.
MIR. SChriefer moved that the matter
| be referred to the finance committee
and the attorney Of the board. A let
| ter was read from Superintendent
Howell in which he advised the pur-
| chase of two hundred mental arith-
| metiCs, and was referred TO the text
book committee, and several members
| of a delegation of citizens from Lin
coin Heights and the Round Woods
were then given the freedom of tho
| floor Mr.. Rumble, their first speaker
| declared that there are about two hun
| dred school going children in that dis
| triCt, and the schools of LaCkawanna
| township, which they have been at
| tending, are now so crowded that the
| majority of young people have been
| crowded out. The parents, therefore
| petition the local school board to grant
| the privilege to the children in the
higher grades of attending at No. l.
or No. 80 schools.
J TO HAVE A CONFERENCE.
Several other members of the dele
| cation spoke along similar lines, and
| Mr.. Barker then arose and declared
| that the petitioners, as taxpayers in
| Lackawanna township, We're i'm posi-
ton to demand school facilities there
| and moved the matter be referred &c
| the teachers committee. Mr.. Gibbons
| here took the floor, calling Mr. Ian
gan to the chair, and declared that H.
had visited the Heights and in investi-
| eating the matter. found that the
board would be willing to confer with
| the township board Oh the matter. He
| therefore moved that the children be
admitted to the West Scranton schools
particularly in the higher grades pend.
| ing "A settlement of the matters by &
| conference. Mr.. Barker withdrew his
| original motion, and Mr.. Gibbons mo.
| tion was passed Mr., SChriefer ther
| moved that the secretary invite the
| LaCkawanna board to meet the teach
ers' committee at Thursday nights
| meeting. This was also passed.
Mr., Jennings then reported for IN,
| high and training school committee
| lit recommended that as the boarC
has secured Il stock of costly drawins
| Instruments. al d in the past many o
| these have been lost or broken through
the negligence of the pupils. this yea
each stuGent entrusted with the in
struments be required to make a de
posi of $3.50, their full value, which
will be reimbursed when he returns
the set in good condition. The com
|
sion as Post graduate students of Mich
ael TlaniCan, Joseph Rafter, Lucy Gil
| gallon, James Neeld, Mabel Lohmann
| MSer kabatChnick, Griffith Thomas
Annie NJ. Boland, William f. Mckee
LizzIc Il, Callahan, Eugene Tropp an,
Sohn TiEhe.
| The committee also advised tn,
binding Of one hundred school books a
80 cents each at a West Pittston bind
erv, and the appointment of Miss
| Davis, d Bucknell graduate, as an ad
| ditional teacher on the substitute list
owing to the sudden illness Of Prof
| Beaumont, of the High school faculty
| The committee furthermore recon-
mended that the kindergarten teach
ers be given permission to meet week
| Is i'm the high school and that Mis-,
| Christine Fellows be made assistan
| teacher i'm the training school. Thi!
recommendation was largely due I,
the splendid work of Miss Fellow,
last year in the training school.
| REPORT ADOPTED.
The report was adopted and Mr.. Bar
ker then reported for the teachers
committee. lie recommended that tn,
salary OF the music teacher be fixed a
81 200 a year and that the salary o
| Miss Anna Munson, of Grammar
grade, No. IA school, be raised 10 $50
month. The committee also recon-
mended that the board adopt a resolu
ton 10 the effect that it deprecated tn,
custom sometimes adopted by teacher!
in soliciting individual members of tn,
board on the question OF adiustmen
of salaries, and that the board direc