Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-30
TO TEACH THE DEAF.
Rock island Board of Education
Orders Establishment of a
New School.
MISS wITTIe FOR INSTRUCTOR
Teachers are Assigned for the
Coming Term-Bids on
Plumbing.

The board of education last night
voted favorably on the petition for
the establishment of a school for the
deaf in Rock Island Supt. Hayden
was instructed to open the school
in location of his own choosing and
to ask for the appointment as in
structor of MissWittig, of Davenport,
who has been teaching in Chicago.
The teachers of these schools are
named by the state superintendent of
public instruction.
The resignation as teachers OF Miss
Mary j. Holland and Miss Mihnie
Brindle, the latter of whom has been
married, were accepted. The vacan-
cies were filled by the appointment of
Misses Agatha Nevin and Clara Free
man.
Bids on the high school plumbing
were opened and action postponed
till the next meeting of the board.
The bids are: Edward Lamp, 81. 675;
Channon, Perry & Co.. 81. 900; Blake
IL Murphy. 81 $50; Allen, Myers &
Co., IS. 100; Henry Stengel, Sc. 205.S7.
Teachers Are Assigned.
The assignment of teachers to build
ings and grades for the current school
year is as follows:
High School,. +. Darby. princi-
pal, civics and economies; Cora l..
Eastman, assistant principal. Latin;
Rose Nj. Clark, English; Alice Rush,
biology; G. A. Wendell, history;
Augusta Hellpenstell, French and
matics; Henry L Brown, commercial
branches; +. G. Maui, English and
algebra; Charles w. Kent, physics
and chemistry.
Hawthorne-L. c. Daugherty, prin
cipal, eighth; Mary f. Entrikin, as
sistant principal, seventh and eighth;
Harriet E. Henderson, seventh; Julia
NJ. Anderson, sixth; Jessie D. Frick,
sixth; Sarah b. Hitler, fifth; Eliza
beth Kennedy, fifth; Louise Dart,
fourth; Lulu Harris, fourth; Mary A.
Brennan, third; Jennie G. Johnson,
second; Maude Z. Luckey, second;
Margaret Repine, first; Marian j.
Blanding, first.
Washlngton-Emily Freeman, prin-
cipal, first; Harriet Jenkins, second;
Bella F. Cooke, third; Mary Mills,
fourth.
KEN ble-Mrs. L. NJ. CopP. princi-
pal. fourth; Mary Walker, sixth; Belle
McConochie. fifth; Blanche Barnhart,
third; Nellie +. Kellerstrass, second;
AIDA Z Muse. hrst.
Lincoln - Mary Platt, principal,
eighth; Leu j. Philip, assistant prin-
ciPal, eighth; IdessaWake field, eighth
Mary l.. Carter, seventh; Emma Rod
erick. sixth; Mrs. Eta Wakefield, fifth
and sixth; Bertha Williams, fifth;
Ellen S. Freed, fourth; Marian Hav-
erstick, third MarthaHuesing. second :;
Bride NJ. Egan, first; Bertha Bowman,
first.
Eugene Field-Sarah Johnston,
principal, seventh; Lucy A. Taylor,
sixth; Frances Oswald. fifth; A. Lii
liam Fitzpatrick, fifth; Mabel +. Levey,
fourth; Natalie +. Thompson, third;
Minnie Martin, second; Emelie II. De
Santo. first.
Irving-Anna kirkpatrick. princi-
pal, seventh; Leonora Witherspoon,
sixth and seventh; Anna Bennett,
fifth; katherine Brennan, fourth and
fifth; Elizabeth Stelck. fourth; Emma
Battles, third; Luella Huthmaker,
second; Charlotte Kenworthy. first.
Longfellow-Mrs. Ida w. Lundy,
principal, eighth; Anna n. Johnson,
assistant principal, seventh; Mrs.
Mary S. Dewey, sixth; Julia II. Chan
non, fifth; Lila NJ. Fulsinger, fifth;
Minnie j. Frederick, fourth; Agatha
Nevin, third; Susie c. Lee, second; ;
Jennie l.. Wilcox. first.
Horace Mann-Edith G.. Noftsker,
principal, fifth; Margaret Wilson,
sixth and seventh; Natalie Mirfield,
fourth; Clara Freeman, third; Clara
Harrington, second; Kate A. Moo uaid,
first.
Grant-Dora + Newton, principal.
fourth; Anna r Bromley, third; Dora
Hnrtz, second; Helen Pryce, first.
Substitute Teachers-Maud Bear.
Clara Grandin, Anna Major, Minnie
Quayle. Clara Redecker, Bertha
Hanna, Grace Hall.
The board after approving the as
signment of the teachers, rearranged
the boundaries of the school districts
in the east end of the city to be as
follows until the completion Of the
high school:
Eugene Field-From the river
south, including both sides of TWEEN
ty-fourth street, to and including
Eleventh avenue extended east to
Thirty-fourth street, and north to the
river.
Longfellow - Thirty-fourth street
and the west, with Eleventh avenue
extended on the south, east to the
city limits. and north to the river.
Horace Mann-All south of and in
GLIDING Eleventh avenue and east of
Twenty-sixth street and its extension
over the bluff.
Supt. Hayden states that this new
arrangement is intended only to meet
temporary conditions and is made in
the confidence that school patrons
will appreciate the existing emsr-
gency and cooperate in the plan.