Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-22
EMPLOY HOME GIRLS.

School Board Held Meeting Last
Might Present Complement Of
Teachers Retired Positions .Ac-
cepted-Three Additional Teachers
Elected-AIl Bismarck Girls.-Arch-
itect Engaged.
The city school board held meet.
ing last night, primarily for the pur-
pose of engaging an architect to draw
up plans for an eight room school
building to be erected this summer at
a cost of not more than $4,000.
Mr.. Albrandt, architect from Fargo,
appeared before the board and was
accepted by the same for the work
outlined. He will draw plans for the
new building in compliance with the
desire Of the school board and the
matter will then be submitted to the
voters to ascertain whether or not
they will bond for the necessary
amount to carry out the building pro-
ject.
The new building is an absolute ne
cessity. Professor Moore appeared
before the board last night and was
heard in connection with the build
ing project. He showed up the
crowded condition Of the schools,
the unfit condition of the Fifth
street school building and the ex-
cessive work that was being done
by many of the teachers in the pres
ent force. In the various grades in
the city the attendance ranges from
forty-seven to sixty-nine pupils to the
teacher when a grade is considered
to be about thirty-five the maximum
number of pupils that should be as
signed any teacher if the individual
pupils are to be given the amount of
attention due them.
1t was shown that three new teach
ers would be absolutely necessary to
the welfare of the scholars next year
and with the facts before the men,
bers of the board they elected three
new teachers picking out daughters
of the city in every instance.
Miss Edna Winchester was the first
one chosen and will be rendered an
assistants position in the high school.
Miss Winchester started her school
days here and graduated from the
high school in June, 1899. During
that summer she taught in one of
the county schools after which she
went to Carleton college at North
field, Minnesota, completed full
collegiate course and graduated last
summer. She is now holding the po-
sition of principal in the Buffalo,
Mimi, high school and has been Of
fered another term there.
Miss Gail Wade and Miss Myrtle
Brown were then chosen for the
other two positions. Miss Wade is
another Of the energetic young ladies
of the city and one who has worked
her way by teaching through practi-
cally all her school courses. She
graduated from the high school here
with the class of 1898, the first class
graduated by Prof. Moore and taught
country schools to make her way
through the normal. In 1892 the
finished the normal course at Valley
City. Since that time she has taught
in the schools at Churchs Ferry,
Wheatland and is now teaching in
the high school at Enderlin. She has
also been offered the same position
for the next term.
Miss Myrtle Brown, though not
having spent all her common school
days in the Pfsmarok school, has
spent a large part of them and has
a distinguishing mark to her credit
in this line. She took and finished
the entire high school course, planned
for four years work, in three years
and graduated with high honors.
She like the others spent some time
in teaching in country schools and
then took normal course at the
Moorhead school. Graduating from
this school she took a position in
the schools at Thief River Falls,
Mimi, and for the past two years has
been teaching in Devils Lake. She
has also been reelected to her pres
ent position for third term and is
highly priced as teacher by the
school board Of that city. s
The board could not have gone
farther and chosen more wisely.
These young ladies have all started
their school work here having gradu.
ated here, have gone from home to
teach and the reports that have been
received Of their work in other parts