The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-11
CUT IN WAGES.
Teachers Must Take Less for
Their Services.
Reduction Is from Three to Five
Per Cent.
FEW CHANGES MADE.
Nearly All the Teachers Are
Reelected.
Principal Field, of Lincoln,
Quits to Practice Law.
FEW CHANGES MADE.

At the adjourned meeting of the board
of education. held last night, the teach !
ers for the coming term were elected and
the salaries of all teachers and employees
of the city school system were reduced
from to ; per cent
The board felt that the flood and the
subsequent conditions will reduce the
income of the schools from taxes ma
terially during at least the coming year.
Besides this the board will be to con-
siderable extra expense in cleaning and
repairing the three schools which were
inundated in North Topeka. The mem
bers of the board favored as small cut
in salaries as possible and the schedule
of reductions finally adopted was as fol-
lows:
That all salaries of 500 per month and
over be cut per cent.
That all salaries from SIS to $95 per
month (both inclusive) be cut per cent.
That all salaries from $50 to $40 per
month Cboth inclusive) be cut 3 per cent.
The salaries of the teachers and en-
plOyes OF the schools for the fiscal year
ending June 1, 1908 amounted to $97, 900.
The percentage cut in salaries will re-
duce the total amount TO be paid in
salaries from $1,000 to So. 800. The board
decided that all teachers entitled to an
advance in salary under the regular
schedule should receive the advance be-
fore the percentage reduction is made.
The board passed the following reso-
luton;
Resolved, That the board extend its
thanks to the superintendent, principals
and teachers for their faithful and eff
cient service during the past school
year. The board deeply regrets the
necessity for cutting salaries below the
schedule rate, even by small. percent
age The superintendent is requested to
make known to the teachers the prob
ability Of diminished total appraisemenu
or assessment and the impossibility. I'M
der the law, of increasing the rate of
levy"
The board accepted the resignation of
NJ. l. Field, principal of Lincoln school.
who leaves the principalship to enter
the practice of law in Topeka. W. H
Wright principal of Quincy school, was
elected to succeed Mr. Field and f. F.
Stanley was elected principal of Quin-
cy school to succeed Mr. Wright. Miss
Bessie Maxwell. of Branner school. re-
4 signed. Miss Ada Fulcher Miss Louise
Mcclellan and Miss Mary Patterson
f (colOred) were granted leaves of alb
sence, and Miss Blanche Stewart, Miss
Annette Leonard, Miss Gertrude
4 Knowles and Miss Inez Wood (colored)
I We're elected to the vacancies Miss
Blanche Hawley was elected clerk 10
/ the principal of the high school to sue
! coed Miss Winifred Campbell, resigned
4 The teaching force elected and the
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4 fOllOwS:
High SCHOOL,. D. Whitmore. Prinei-
pal, Z. H. Heacock. Vice Principal.
Nlola Troutman, Effie Graham.
J ley, Alice B. Patterson, Anna S. Doug
/ las. Elizabeth Davidson. A J. stout
/ Lou Lou Nash. Daisy l. McCampben Eva
4 Schley, ". G. McCfaw. Annie r Mon
teith, Edith Moore, Winifred Wander
pool. Anna Marie NelIis. H. L Miller
Rlcnard Hargreaves, Mary Lakin. Wins
ifFed Everingham Lutte J. Embleton.
tiant school-E. A Simerweu prin-
! clpal; Frances Brown, half time Quincy
ana Grant. Anna Kelley. Nell Cham
bers, Ina Harkins. Laura Beverly. Alice
Dallas elizabeth Root Manetta Burdge.
Ellen Heartburg, Jessie Hoover, Maude
Pattison, Lizzie Altman.
Quincy school-E. F. Stanley. princi-
pail Nina Mccall. Maude Bishop Per
tie Brown Estella Darby, Jessie Dean.
Jennie FaTnsworth, Grace Root. Mary Z.
Miller Nina Moore
Lane schools. 6. Watkins, principal:
Robert De F'rantz Hester Hawkins,
4 Beck
Lincoln school-W H Wright prin
Fannie George. Marie Hagan, DolIie
Martin, Margaret Haggart Martha
I SpurlOck, Jane T. Cleland. Ellen Mel
drum. Eva Collins.
Madison school-R H Wade prin-
cipal: Nathaniel. Sawyer, Inez Wood
Sadie r. Mclean
Branner school. H Mcbride. prin-
cipaI Catherine Flynn. Mabel smith.
Lila Latham. Mabel Wade. Gertrude
Lewis. Minnie McMurtrie. Lydia Barnes
! Margaret Maxwell. Grace Woodford,
Catherine Lux, Mary Cochran. Princie
/ Macarthur.
Parkdale school-Linda R. Haines.
principal. Lou Tilson. Mabel Chambers,
Laura E. Mcclure Jean Koontz.
! Washington school-John L. Harri-
son. principal. r. Ridley, Euis Morgan,
Julia B. Abbott.
Monroe school-Fred Roundtree. prin-
cipal; Henrietta jackson, Felicia Davis,
! Matte Page
Garfield sehoolzCarrie Goddard. prin-
cipal: Anna K Palmer. Anna Banks,
AIDA Smith. Kathryn Crawford, Mabel
Pond, Gertrude Moron. Alice Mccoy.
/ Van Buren, school-E1izabeh H Guy,
/ principal. Lima Bresette
Jackson schooI-Fenella Dana, prin
cipal. f. H. Roudebush-
Polk school-Elizabeth Tharp, prin-
cipal Marie Westerheld. Gertrude Gent,
Clara F. Laubach. Jennie Clarkson,
Sadie v Leeper. Elizabeth Davis, Ida
Macferran. Flora Bunker, Harriet
Thompson. Ella Zimmerman.
Euclid school-Madge Moore, prin-
cipal; Ethel Aldrich, Ada Kennedy, Ida
Hosack. Nellie Lercher, Elizabeth
Eby, Maude Scheerer-
Lowman Hill school-Lola Graham.
principals Jessie Donnen, Mamie
4 Schencl1. Belle Stage.
Douglas school-Mary e Langston,
principal
Buchanan schooI-C. F. Clinkscale
principal; Gaitha Page, Belle Fort Mary
lJamison.
clay schasl-O. P. McCnntock. princi-
pal: Mildred Hazeirigg, half time Clay
/ and Harrison; Helen T. Butterfeld.
Mary Monteith, Ida NJ Zellers, Harriet
Van Amburg, Anna NJ Hagar. Alice
Gentry, Elmora McCay, Clara Plummer,
Edna Guy, Beulah Lee, Abbie McElroy-
Iva "a ole
Allie Whitmore. Matte J. Dugan
Sumner school-Ceo. H. Mays prinei-
pal: NJ L Tuckerman. Callie Newell,
Catherine Quinehe, Irene B Russell.