Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-24
CHANGES ARE FEW
Rock leland Board of Education AS
signs Teachers for the Com
ing Year
AND FIXES THEIR SALARIES
Two New Instructors For the High
School Are Chosen-Other
Business.


salaries for the year agreed upon at a
special meeting of the Rock Island
board of education last evening.
J. K Hart was selected as instruc-
tor of history at the high school sue
ceeding S. E. Dove, who has been
elected to the principalship of the high
school al Billings, Mont. and Noah
Knapp was appointed teacher of
mathematics and physics. He will
take the place made vacant by y. d.
| Hamilton, who goes TO the Dubuque
high school. Mr. Knapp recently com
pleted a post graduate course at Chi
cago university.
| Mrs. Louise Koch and the Misses
Elsa KOehler. Mabel Friestat and
Daisy Postlewait were appointed to
| fill vacancies that have occurred in
the grammar schools. Misses Edna
! Anderson. Genevieve thinner. Lille
Roth. Nettie Dodge and Jennie Cron-
holm were placed on the substitute
| list.
Manual Art IN Early Grades.
The board adopted a plan for work
| in manual arts for the first four grades
conceived by Miss Abigail Dean. the
drawing supervisor. and authorized the
purchase of supplies necessary. This
work is meant to form the basis for
the work under this heading from the
fifth grades through the high school.
The Prang Educational cOmpany's
Text Books in Drawing" were adopt
ed for use in all grades taking the
place of the old drawing books.
The following is list of the teach
ers as assigned and the salaries:
Superintendent. II. b. Hayden, 81
400; supervisor of music. f. l.. Phil
brook $500; supervisor of drawing,
Abigail Dean. $500; supervisor of man
ual training, Charles w. Kent, ST..
333.33: Office clerk. Carrie Z. Clement.
SO per month.
High school.
Principal II. e. Brown, $1.7OO; as
sistant principal. Mrs. Cora l.. East
man. $500; German-French. Augusta
Hellpenstcll, 1855: biology. Alice
Rush. $3.50: English. Rose NJ. Clark.
$S55; English-algebra- Bertha llama.
$500; commercial. \. J. Wanner, $50;
mathematics physics. Noah Knapp,
$7G5; history. J. X. Hart. $7G5; assist
ant in manual training. Jacob G. Mil
Ter. $3.50; librarian. saba Mae Lid
ders, $25 per month.
Hawthorne school.
l.. c. Daugherty. principal. eighth
grade. $1.1O0 per year; Mary +. Entri-
kin. eighth grade. $75 per month; Har-
riet l.. Henderson. seventh grade, 500;
Margaret Wilson. seventh grade. $50;
Sara b. Hitler. sixth grade. $50: Lou
II. Harris. fifth and sixth grades, $50;
Mary Lannen, fifth grade. $40; Elsa
Koehler. fourth grade. S35; Maude
Robertson, fourth grade, $40: Elsie
Johnston. third srado $40; Emma Bat
ties. third grade. So: Mary A. Bren-
nan. second grade, So: Marion J.
Banding first grade. SEQ; Margaret
Rcpinc first grade. SEQ.
Washington school.
Emily Freeman. principal. first grade,
So; Dora Har;z. second grade. $50;
Bella f. Cooke. third grade. $55: Mary
Mills. fourth grade. 500.
Kembic school.
Mrs. l.. NJ. COpp. principal. fourth
grade. $40; Blanche Barnhart. sixth
grade. $55: Mrs. Louisa Koch. fifth
grade, S35; LOUclIa Stoddard. third
grade. $40; Nellie Kellerstrass. second
grade. $55; AIDA Z. Muse. first grade.
SEQ.
Lincoln school.
Mary Plat, principal. eighth grade.
81 ESQ per year; Lou ]. Philip. eighth
grade. SIS per month: odessa Wake
field. eighth grade. SG5: Jessie B.
Frick, seventh grade, SEQ: Julia Nj.
Anderson. seventh grade. SEQ: Frances
Oswald, seventh grade. 500 Ellen 8.
Freed. sixth grade. $55: Julia II. Chan
non. fifth grade. 500: Lillian Fitzpat-
ric. fourth grade. 500: Perpetua a
Major, fourth grade. $45: Miriam Hav-
erstick, third grade, S55: Bertha Bow
man. second grade. $55; Martha NJ
Huesing. second grade. $50; Bride NJ
Egan. first grade. SEQ; deaf school.
Meta c. Wittig. SC5.
Eugene Field school.
Sarah Johnston. principal. seventh
grade. $50: Lucy ~ Taylor. sixth
grade. s55: Eta Wakefield. fifth grade.
$50: Mabel FriesCat. fourth and fifth
grades. $50; Josephine Whistler. fourth
grade. $40; Natalie Thompson. third
grade. $50: Minnie Martin. second
grade $50: Emile II. DeSanto. first
grade SEQ.
Irving school
Annie Kirkpatrick. principal. sew
enth grade. $50; Leonora Witherspoon,
sixth grade. $55: Katherine Brennan.
| fifth grade. $55; Grace Noftsker. fifth
grade S15 Elizabeth StaIcl- fOrrr In
grade. SIS: Jennie G. Johnson. third
grade. $50: Lucia Huthmaker. second
grade. 500: Charlotte Kenworthy. first
grade. SEQ.
LOngfelIOw school.
Ida W. Lundy. principal eighth
grade. sS5; Anna n Johnson. seventh
grade, SIS: Mary 5. Dewey. sixth grade.
$50: Lila Fulsinger fifth grade. $50:
Minnie }. Frederick. fifth grade. SIS:
Agatha Npvi0 fourth c-rodo ego. CJ,-o