The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-29
City IT eWS
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HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS WILL STUDY
sTENoGRAPHY.
Supervisor of Writing Is Employed and
More Attention Will Be Paid to Sec
Z: ond of ''Three RELATIONSHIPS Of
Seats Were Removed to Accommo-
date Visiting Soldiers.

Typewriting and stenography will be
introduced in the high schools of the
city as part of the commercial course.
At a meeting of the board of education
yesterday it was decided to purchase
twenty-five typewriters for use in the
four high schools. A system of stem
ography was adopted some time ago
and the arrangements for the course
were completed yesterday by the ap-
pointment of J. R. Bayley as super
visor of writing. - This is taken to mean
that more attention will be paid to
teaching penmanship.' Mr.. Bayley will
draw ST. $50 year.
The board will probably retain the
benches, swings and other apparatus
provided by the Improvement league
for the playground on the Whittier
school lot. Mrs. George H. Richards
appeared before the board and sug-
gested that as the benches and appa-
ratus are on the grounds, and the league
they are until cold weather, and that
the janitor then store them away. The
matter was referred to the building
committee with power to act. H.
= Exhibit Pupils Work. -
j. =. Painter, supervisor of manual
training, reported that an exhibit of
the work of the manual training pupils
had been arranged for the state fair.
sured for about $3.50, as some of the
articles could hardly be replaced.
W. H. Adams, superintendent of
buildings, reported that 14,673 seats
had been removed in the various schools
in order to provide accommodations for
visiting soldiers. Something more than
5000 seats have been set up again.
Quarters were provided for 4,O44 SOL
diers in the twenty-five schools opened
for them. The janitors were allowed
full pay for the holiday they had on
The matter of making a school ex-
hibit at the Jamestown exposition was
referred to the committee ON supplies
with instructions to secure an estimate
of the expense. -. ..., :v..., .s>9>.,
Changes in Teachers. = F., -, :
The following changes were made in
the teaching staff: H.. ~.-,:..
Resignations- Ralph NJ. Albright,
East high; Helen D. Bodine, Longfel-
low. Della NJ. Crane, Irving; Maude G..
ant; Lillian Fuller, East high; Mary S.
Long, Adams; Byrdie Pindell, Peabody;
Agnes G.. Lowell, Alice " Steffens,
Monroe; Grace Talbert, Holmes; Anna
Vierling, Monroe.
Transfers Bentley, Hamilton
to Longfellow; Jennie B. Gas, jackson
to Irving; T: w. Breckheimer, Madison
to North high; R. L. Southworth, Sheri-
dan to East high; Kate j. Bartholf,
principal, Lyndale to Emerson; Irene
Joslin, principal, Clay to<Lyndale.E ~ :
Appointing fts-Laura Could, East
high; Harriet Bartholomew, Adams !;
Josephine Chowning, eCalhoun;. Gerald.
ine'Van Slyck, Clay; Louise IS. Burns,
Clinton; Alice Houston,s Garfield; ri en-.
ME M. Magnusson, Greeley; Ora Peake,
Hamilton; Hortense Wicks, jackson;
Nettie NJ. Roberts, Logan; Agnes Ell
ton, Lowell; Zelma Daum, Madison;
| Neoma Hoefing, Monroe;a Grace. b.
Sherwood, Monroe; PearlS'M. Saucer,
PRESCOTT; Jessie Monat, Sumner; Mona
| B. @Osman, Webster; John GP.s Granner,
manual training, Madison; * Merton R.
Libby, manual training, Sheridan. !