Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-09
OPEN SEPT. II
Date Fixed by Board of Education
at Regular August
Meeting.
JANITORs ALL REAPPOINTED
Purchase of Additional Land for Play
Ground at Horace Mann School
Ordered.

board last evening the board ordered
the purchase of six lots adjoining the
Horace Mann school, on Thirty-seventh
street and Fourteenth avenue, the price
being $1,000. This action was taken
pursuant to a petition from the Bluff
Improvement association last spring,
asking that additional grounds be pur-
chased for the school. so as TO provide
adequate school play ground, and make
il possible in the futrue 10 enlarge the
school if desired. The committee who
had the matter in charge reported last
| evening that it was advisable TO pur-
chase the property. and T. Richter &
Sons, of Davenport, turned over to
| the board the abstracts and deeds TO
the property 1t will be remembered
| that the original building in this dis
trict was a twO-story frame building.
Since the erection of the new modern
school of nine rooms the grounds which
were sufficient for the small school of
less than a hundred pupils are entirely
| inadequate for a school of nearly 400
enrolment.
| Orders Repairs.
The committee on buildings report
ed that the repairs are now under way,
and will be completed in time for the
opening of the term. The report from
the inspector of steam boilers, covering
rthe heating plants of the five largest
school buildings, showed that the heat
| ing plants are we'll kept up and only
minor repairs will be needed to put
the heating plants in condition for the
coming year.
Arrangements were made to have the
repairs necessitated by standing water
in the basement of the Washington
school made at once. Mr.. Seidel was
appointed a committee with power to
act Superintendent Hayden made a
report to the board, showing that the
advance canvass of the fall enrolment
Il indicates that the increase will neces-
state the installation of additional
desks. Authority was given him to pur-
chase SO new desks and furnish an
additional school room for the fall
term.
The appointment of teachers was
postponed until a later meeting, F. c.
Denkmann and J. w. Stewart both be
ing absent yesterday. H. H Hull pre-
sided.
Bids were received from local deal
ers for supplying coal for the schools
but as several of the lowest bids were
so close, the committee on fuel and
heating was directed TO consider the
quality of the coal and place the con
tract to the best interests of the city.
| The date of the opening of the
schools for the fall term was fixed fol
lSeptember II, and the customary vaca
ton for the holidays ordered. This
gives the regular SO weeks of school
and provides for the close of schoo
June next year.
The use of the high school auditor
ium and such other rooms in the higl
school building as may be needed wa!
granted to the county superintendent
for holding the regular county institute
which is To be in session from Aug. 2
to Aug. %.
JanitOrs ReappOinted.
The janitOTs of the several school!
were reappointed for the coming yea
at the same salaries as last year.
High school, Michael COlligan, sal
airy. s135.
Hawthorne, George Kale, salary, $50
Washington, Peter Beselin, salary
$S5.
} Kemble, Henry Goedecke, salary, $43
Lincoln, J. c. Fry, salary 1913.
Eugene Field. w. H. Bleuer, salary
$4s.
Irving, D. w. Stephenson, salary, $4S
Longfellow, William Anderson, sal
airy. $52.
Horace Mann, a. F. Greaser, salary
SIS.
; Grant, William Kroeger. salary, $35.
Bills for the month were allowed a!
follows:
Peoples Power company .......$ 12 81
Rock Island Lumber & Manufac-
turing com ahyA ........... 40.SI
Henry Darts Sons .......... 1871;
NJ. Schillinger ........... go
Rock Island Hardware company. 1922
ChannOn & Dufva .....!.. ca
Donaldson Saw company ......- 5.4u
; L. S. McCabe & Co. ....... 27.7;
) Hartz & Bahnsen company. 200
Western Union Telegraph COM
pany .......... ............. 40:
Charles E. Hodgson ....... 54.0t
II. d hdyueh -.-...--... IU.l
Rock Island Cornice works. ..... 52.1l
Paragraph Printing & Station
cry company Observation-Disclosures. 45.0j
Henry Gaethje Observation-Disclosures. 10
Kramer & Co. Observation-Disclosures. 31.2I
John T Noftsker ........... &c 81
RObbs Express company ..... Z,
Central Union Telephone COM
pany --.---.. .--...--...-... go
Rock Island Wood works $500. 81
. The CaXtOn company . g
T. J. Flynn .........-..... g.
. Licensed to Wed.
. Michael T. Murphy .-.-..... Co,
/. Miss Mabel McRoberts Co
: SEVERN Anderson ........M olin
: Miss Amanda c. Carlson $500. Molint