The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-07


discussion on this proposition and ali
of the members seemed to think that
the tuition fee should be raised and
that outside pupils should pay tut
ton fer a full school year of nine
months. At present they only pay
tuition for the number of months they
may attend school, while the board of
education has to be prepared to give
them school facilities for the entire
year. A motion was made that the
tuition for outside pupils to be fixed at
$27 a year for the grade schools and
$40 a year for the high schools After
further discussion the motion was
withdrawn and the matter was re-
ferred to the teachers committee with
instructions that the committee report
as speedily as possible on the question
at a meeting of the board which Will
be called when the committee is ready
to report.
Colonel Norton, from the teachers
committee. reported the designations
OF the following teachers: J. Z. King
of the Monroe school, to accept
position in Kansas City, Kan; Mrs.
Beth Warner Null, to accept q posi-
ton in the State Normal school; Mrs.
l. M Zellers, of Clay school, to spend a
year in Seattle; r. T. Hargreaves. of
the high school, to accept a position in
the state university. and Miss Dora D.
Stoker, of the high school, who moves
to California.
At the suggestion of the committee
these teachers were elected to posi-
tons: Mr.. J. H. Hoehner as teacher
of mechanical drawing in the high
school at a salary Of $50 per MONTH
". Z. Mcdonald as a teacher Of Latin
in the high school to succeed Mr.
Hargreaves, at salary to be fixed ac-
cording to the schedule, and Miss
Patience Bevier to succeed Miss Stoker
at salary to be fixed according to
schedule.
Mrs. Ella Collins, Miss Eima Holmes
and Mrs. Lottie Case. of Oakland, ap-
peared before the board as a commit
tee to advocate the esta blishment of a
savings bank sort of a system in the
city schools. This plan has been tried
with some success in Oakland where
during fourteen weeks Of its operation
last year the pupils in the schools de-
posted the sum of $156.61 with their
teachers Mrs Collins said that in
teaching the boys and girls to save
their pennies the schools would be
making great strides IN the develop
ment of good citizens. She said that
in some localities where this scheme
had been tried the cigarette habit had
been decreased among boys BY fifty
per. cent and that in Oakland a corner
grocer, whose chief business was the
sale of candies. gum and5ztuf like that
to the school children, had been forced
to go out Of business after the school
the Oakland schools.
Miss Holr1es, who is a teacher in one
of the Oakland schools. said that the
opera ton Of this banking system only
took about ten or fifteen minutes time
each Monday morning. that being the
only time when deposits were received
and that it interfered in no way with
the classes She considered it a most
estimable plan.
Mrs. Collins urged that If it was
established in the schools that many Of
the children would have tidy sum at
their command when they graduated,
a sum which would help them to 20
and 1t also might come in handy in
EN- ergencies while they were in school
President Mallory told the women
that the board would give the matter
thorough consideration at some future
time.
At the request of L. T. Gage. the
Iaker of the school census in the civ.
he was given additional time in which
TO complete his work. Mr.. Gage told
the board that It would be safe to esff-
mate the children of school age now
in the city at 1880 as compared with
1892 last year.
A motion was adopted directing the
clerk Of the board to advertise for bids
for the coal supply for all Of the
schools of the city for the coming win
ter ana these bids are to be received
and opened by the board at its meet
ing in September.
superintendent Whittemore present
ed his annual report TO the board.
ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT.