Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-12
PUBLIC SCHOOL EXHIBIT
READY FOR INSPECTION
Work Of Pupils May be Seen al
High School Next
Wednesday.
CITY DIVIDED INTO NEW DISTRICTS
Report of Special Committee Adopted
by neutrality-suspicious. for Com.
mencement Exerclses In June
Good Average Daily Attendance In
All the Buildings During Month.

superintendent of Schools w. C.
Morton announced to the school board
last night that the city public school
exhibit for the jamestown Exposition
was practically completed and would
he put on exhibition in the High
school building next Wednesday from
10 o'clock in the morning until
O'Clock in the afternoon SO that the
people of Newport News may inspect
the work of the pupils before 1t is
sent to the Exposition for installation
In the educational building.
Scores OF school pupils. practically
all of the teachers and principals,
Superintendent Morton and a special
committee of the school board, COM
posed of DR.. Cooper. Mr.. Hawkins and
Mr. Barrett, have been working hard
ON the exhibit since the opening of
the present school session and IL Is
believed that it will be second to none
among the school exhibits ut the Elk.
position.
The exhibit will be shipped to the
Exposition grounds the latter part of
next week and will be installed before
April 90, the opening day OF the Ter
centennial.
The board met in regular session
In the High school building last night
with President Pickett in the chair
nnd Messrs. Cooper Harrison, Allen
Snld Hawkins present.
III Preparations For Commencement.
ptainr the recommendation of Superin-
sh s3nt Morton the board directed the
havp and regulations committee to act
ne 29lhe superintendent and Principal
ulc J High Schoal r. Randolph Jones
NC OF Snr2etIs arrahec .nents i1r tic;
EQUAL commencement exercises of
'Me High school, which are to BIZ held
In June. The board APPROPRIATED 500
to defray the expenses OF the com
Chairman Harrison of the finance
committee reported that the board
had a total of ss,Ss7.37 available for
conducting the schools during the re.
naming two and one.half months of
the present school sessions. or that
amount s7,400 will have TO be paid
out In salaries for teachers and other
employees.
Mr.. Harrison also reported that his
committee had rewritten insurance
to the amount of $14,400 on white
school No. s and s1475O on white
school No, 4.
New Districts.
The following report of the special
committee, composed of Messrs. w.
-, Barrett and Edwin Phillips and DR..
w. f. Cooper, to redistrict the city
was adopted:
BE 1t ordered by the school board
of the city of Newport News, subject
to the approval of the city council.
that the boundary lines of the school
districts be so amended and changed
as to read as follows:
The city of Newport News shall
be divided into three school districts,
the number and boundary of which
shall be as follows:
First district-The first district
shall embrace all the territory in the
city south of Thirtysecond street and
West OF Jefferson avenue with boun-
daries, north by Thirty-second street.
east by Jefferson avenue, south by
boundary line between the city and
Warwick county and west by James
river.
Second district-The second dis
tr!ct shall embrace all the territory
of the city north of Thirty-secopd
street from the river shore to Jeffer.,
son avenue; with boundaries north by
f1fty-seventh street and Thirty-sixth
street east Of the railroad. east by
right of way of Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway Company to Thirty-sixth
street and Jefferson avenue between
Thirty-second street and Thirty-sixth