The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-05-11
Property Owners in Fifth Ward
Demand Better School Fa.
ciIities for Children.
MANY TEACHERS REELECTED
Board of Education Decides to Elim-
mate the Music Work From the
City Schools for the Present
Mme-Other Business.

the regular meeting of the board of
education Monday evening petition
was presented signed by seventy
three taxpayers in the ward demand
ing that the council take some i'm
mediate steps to have new school
building erected in that section of
the city. The petition asked that the
new building be located west of Ridge
street and south of Pearl street. It
was represented by the petitioners
that many children in that section of
the city were being denied school
privileges on account of the fact that
the walk to school was a long one
and that the lives of the children
going and coming was constantly en-
dangered on account of the fact that
they were forced to cross a network Of
railway tracks.
The petition was referred to the
committee on building and grounds
and later in the evening this commit
tee presented a report recommending
the purchase of lot at the corner of
! Rowland avenue and Garden street,
/ for $3.50. No final action was taken
on this matter but it will be taken up
at the next meeting of the board.
! The committee on buildings and
! grounds reported the usual number
of repairs needed at the different
school buildings and they were order
! ed made. The committee will take up
the matter of improving the grounds
surrounding the different buildings
and a large number of loads of gravel
will be deposited on the different
grounds.
Superintendent Zimmers sent long
communication to the board making
several recommendations, among the
| number being recommendation for
a commencement for eighth grade
pupils. The board decided that such
a commencement should be held and
the superintendent was ordered to
purchase diplomas for use at this COM
mencement.
The superintendent urged that the
seven teachers who had been taking
double work be given an increase in
salary, and the matter was referred to
| the committee on teachers with power
to act.
The interest in the meeting center
ed largely in the report of the teach
ers committee and by a new rule
adopted by the board last night this
matter was considered in secret ses-
sion. In this secret session the board
decided to abolish the music depart
ment of the schools for the present
but it is possible that it will be taken
lup again later when the city is better
able to furnish money for such de-
partment.
The report of the committee on
teachers which was adopted in the
secret session is as follows:
Kenosha, Wis, May 8, 1905.
To the Board of Education,
City of Kenosha.
Gentlemen: - Your committee on
teachers reports as follows:
First-We deem it advisable to abo1-
ish for the present the position of
supervisor of music.
Second-We recommend that P. +.
zimmers be re-engaged as superinten-
ent of schools for the coming year at
a salary Of $3.50.
Third-We recommend that w. J.
Hooking be re-engaged as principal of
the Kenosha High school at a salary
of $3.50.
Fourth-We recommend for election
as teachers in the High school: S. w.
Murphy, $3.50; S. Edith Brown, $3.50;
Henriette Page1sen, $500; Madge Jeni-
son, $500; Cora Graves, $3.50, and Seba
Mou1ton, $500.
| Fifth-We recommend for re-en-
gagement the following of our corps
of grade teachers: C. B. Woodstock,
E. E. Better, principal of the Deming
school; Peter Peterson, principal of
the Frank school; M. B. Gilman, prin-
cipal Of the Weiskopf school; Eliza
Ibeth Fi1bin, principal Of the Gi11ett
school; Ada M. Tarbe11, Mrs. H. M.
Mckenzie, Ruth G. Murphy, Debora
B. Richter, N. Alice March, Marie
Heating, Margaret Metzgar, Viola
Huck, Anna McHugh, Anna M. Butch
er, Una Slater, Isabel Bailey, Harriet
L. Pau1sen, Hermena Hoehn, Olga
Miller, Edna Washburn, Edna Hold
erness, Alice E. Riley, Elsie Gray,
Ella Toner, Mamie Toner, Frances
Ka1tenbach, Anne Kroncke, Ella
Reineking, Nellie Adamson, Lulu G.
Lampe, Mabel Huck, Anna Stevens,
Margaret Telfar, Belle G. Cable.
Sixth-We recommend that Miss
Bessie Robinson take the room left
vacant by the promotion of Miss
Heating to Mr.. Woodstock's eighth
grade for the rest of this school year.
Seventh-We recommend that the
teachers retain, as far as possible and
advisable, the rooms and grades in
which they are now teaching the
right being reserved, however, to
make such changes in the placing of
teachers, as to grade, room or build
ing, as may become necessary or
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