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The initial salary of $500 paid mex perlenced Normal school graduates has often been criticized. The committee believes that the maximum grade sal ary should be increased to $3bO and that $450 should be paid the second year for satisfactory service The facts mem toned in the previous paragraphs should be borne in mind in relation to this matter also. Providence. Worces- ter, Cambridge, Lowell and probably many other cities require of candidates additional training or experience after leaving the normal school before they can be considered for regular appoint ment in the schools. This experience is sometimes gained by irregular and un- certain substitute work in the home city or by regular teaching elsewhere. The minimum salary, therefore of $450, $500 and S65O paid in those cities is not paid any teacher for her first year of teaching, but for her first year of ser vice as a regularly appointed teacher in the schools of the cities specified. The committee recommends, in preference to this practice, that normal school graduates of creditable record receive regular appointment every year as pro- bationary teachers at the salary of $S50, with the opportunity of receiving $450 the second year, if they prove themselves, worth it with the further annual increase of $50 until their max imum salary Is reached. It should be remembered that at almost any speci- fled salary an inexperienced first-year teacher is risk"
 In introducing the probationary idea, it is the intention of the committee that probationary teachers shall re- ceive special supervision from super visors and supervising principals. that special teachers meetings shall be ar ranged for their instruction, and that the year shall be a year not only of practical experience but also of special training for work in the schools.
 By the new schedule the maximum salary of teachers of unclassifed rooms | is placed at S7O0. As these rooms are chiefly for non English speaking for | eign children, and present many diff. l culties not found in other rooms, the l committee believes that the increase i of $50 is justified, Special teachers of manual work, sewing and cooking in the grades are placed at $500, $500 and S70O respectively. All these teachers especially the first two, teach children in large number of rooms in all parts of the city, the committee considers that their responsibilities entltle then to at least this salary.
 | The maximum salary of kindergart- ners has been placed at $650, an in. crease of $50, the same as that of prin. ary teachers. except that asslstani kindergartners and teachers of single kindergartens are recommended to re- ceive $500, an increase of $lOo over tht present salary.
 The committee recognizes the maxi mum salary of S2,500 for supervising principals and intends that this salary
 shall be reached in due coure, by the formal increase of $100 each year, al
 the discretion of the committee, This salary was formerly paid, and, by the rule of the board, has been for many years the regular salary of this posi-
 tion. For several years, however, this
 maximum salary has not been paid
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two positions are positions of much re- sponsibility, the laboratory work is of much more exacting nature than or dinary classroom teaching, and a large amount of valuable material and ap- paratus is under the personal care and supervision of the heads of these de- partments. The committee will prob ably continue to recommend increases in individual cases, as heretofore.
 JAMES T, MORAN,
 JOHN D. JACKSON,
 JAMES F. WHEELER,
 Committee on Schools
 The report was accepted and laid on the table until the special meeting of next "Wednesday evening. Considerable discussion arose, however, despite the fact that definite settlement will not be taken up until next weeek. The list of appointments for the coming year were also presented and this list con- tained one column showing the sal aries to be received by each teacher under the new schedule when the board of finance shall have appropria- ted the money for the increase and an other column showing the increase and rate of pay for next year until the board of finance shall make the new schedule operative.
 The board agreed that 1t would prob ably have to retain the teachers from September until January without the increase of the new schedule but 1t was hoped from Jan, on to pay the new rate. Col Ullma1 wanted to know what the committee intended to do if the board of finance did not appro- priate money for the increase from the first of the year. MT. Jackson stated that his understanding was that the old rate would continue if the increas- ed appropriation was not given, Col. Ullman took up the cndgels against this. He declared himself in favor of the board of education ap- pointing the teachers from January definitely at the schedule which 1t adopted and If the board of finance did not appropriate sufficient sum to pay l them, he would run the schools at that rate as long as possible and then shut them down.
 Mir. Jackson objected that the board of education could not force the hand of the board of finance by telling 1t how much it must appropriate for sal aries. The Colonel replied by stating that the charter made 1t the duty of | the board of education to appoint | teachers. "It isn't the business of the board of education to shirk its duty" I he declared.
 He further inquired into the contract 1 10 be made with the teachers. He was 1 informed that the contracts to be sent | to the teachers after the appointments are made next week would be so arr ranged that the teachers could accept the present salary and also the raise ! when 1t was forthcoming.
 1 Col Ullman especially insisted on the power of the board of education to determine the salaries itself and It's duty to do so. Either the salaries as adopted are all right, or they are wrong. And if they are wrong we have no right to put them up to the | board of finance at all"
 Samuel R. Avis and three other ninth warders appeared before tho board last evening asking the board to recommend to the board of finance the building of an assembly hall in
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\ hope of the committee that many teachers in the lower grades will pre- para themselves to take positions which may become vacant in these grades.
 Tn revising the salary schedule the committee has. compared extensively l, the salaries paid In other cities, es- pecially those of approximately the same size as New Haven In the con- sideration of this report, the board will doubtless find the following informa- tion of interest and value relative to teachers salaries in some of those cities. This information was obtained from personal correspondence and from official school reports and rules and regulations of the cities mentioned.
 The population of each of the cities given below is that of the census of 1900. The population of New Haven .snsyf snsyf that census was 10S,027
 Worcester, Mass, (pop 12S125) mini mum $500 maximum grades, Is, $65O; grade g. $75O Corresponding to grade 8, New Haven).
 Cambridge, Mass, (pop.) 97,434) mini mum $450; maximum, grades 1 to 8, $7O0; grade g, 800,
 Springfield, Mass (pop. 69,272) mini mum, $450; maximum, s650 in all grades. A merit system, however, ex- ists here, by which teachers of excep- tional ability may receive maximum of $700, grades 1 to Sl $750 grade 8; ss50 in grade g. About 30 teachers are now receiving the merit salaries.
 Rochester, N. Y, (pop. dS1,67S) mini mum, $45O; maximum, in all grades, s70c
 Fall River, Mass. (pop. 105,762) maxi mum primary grades, $52O; grammar grades, $56O.
 Lowell, Mass, (pop. 94,SS9) minimum $65o; maximum, all grades $7OO.
 somerville, Mass, (pop, 6s,272) mini mum, sS0O maximum gradeS 1 to 8, $65o; grade 9, $70O.
 Syracuse, N. T., ( pop. 117,498) mini mum, $500; maximum, all grades, $750.
 Paterson, N, J. (pop. 111,529) increase by years of service; first year, S425; fourteenth year and thereafter, S900.
 Providence, R. l., (pop. 19S, ,6S5) mini mum, $500 maximum, $75O; grades to 8 inclusive, $90O, grade 8,
 Toledo, O., (pop. 1S1,S2 increase by years of service. First year, 1850. An nual increase, $50 from s350 to $550; $2J from $550 to $S5O,
 Tn Hartford, Conn. Owing to the ex- istence of the district system, there Is no general salary schedule.
 The actual average salaries paid in the different grades in several cities investigated, for the presenp year, are given below. These figures were ob- taind in part, from the offices of the board of education in some of the cities, and were computed in part by the committee from school reports and official information furnished from others. The committee cannot vouch for their accuracy in all eases, but be lieges that they are approximately ac- curate.
 New Haven-Grade 1, s5S6i grade ?, SAG; grade B. s45S grade 1, 510; grad, 5, $577 grade 6, $627; grade :, $692 grade 8, $731.
 CambridRe, Mass.-Grades, 1, an 3
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owing to lack of funds. The commit tee now recommends that, henceforth, this be not only the formal but the ac- tual maximum salary for the position of supervising principal. The duties of supervising principals are of an ex- acting nature requiring, to a large de- gree, wisdom, skill and experience in administrative and supervisory work. The committee believes that, in general our present supervising principals are performing the duties of their positions with exceptional ability and fidelity and that salary of $2,bO0 is not ex- cessive for the nature of the work they do.
 In closing its report on the grades, the comittee wishes to add that natur- ally increased salaries will mean for the city better schools. The commit tee recommends these increased sal- aries not only because teachers deserve better pay but because the city should secure for It's schools increasingly ef- tlcient service. The comimttee has every reason to believe that our schools are doing work of excellent quality, that there are few incompetent teachers to-day in the employ of the board. In fact, the opinion has been expressed many times by those who have visited our schools that in no other city in the country are so good schools maintained at so low cost There are, without doubt, some inefficient teachers in our schools who should be replaced. It is the purpose of the committee to in struct the superintendent, upon the adoption of the new schedule, to dis continue, after fair trial, the services of any indifferent and incompetent teachers in the schools and to secure for the schools the most efficient ser vice that the salaries paid will obtain.
 High school.
 The committee has made no attempt to establish schedule of salaries for the high school It regards such a schedule as unnecessary and in many Iways impracticable, The varying de- grees of ability which will always be found among the teachers of a high school like ours, the difference in the importance of many of the departments of the school the varying responslbil- ities placed upon many of the teachers, the much larger supply of teachers in some subjects than in others-al these things must be taken into account in adjusting the salaries of high school teachers. Under these circumstances the committee believes that high school salaries should be determined mainly by the value of individual teachers to the school and by the ease or difficulty with which their places can be filled should they retire Length of service, while factor, should not be deter mining influence. The committee be- lieves that this attitude is in harmony with the prevailing practice in high schools generally, outside of compar. atively few of the largest cities.
 For the new schedule the committee recommends a total increase of $5,27y in the salaries of high school teachers over the salaries paid during the pres ent school year, 1906-1907. This amount it has apportioned among the various teachers as indicated on the schedule of appointments.
 The committee recommends a salary of S1,SOO for the heads of the depart ments of physics and chemistry. These
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old schedule and sa5o when the revi- sion goes into effect
 Helen w. Beecher, Charlotte A, Maur- CT Jessie R. White. Edith E. Flint, La yina L. Moran, Marie H. Peters. Flora M. Clarke, Gertrude A McKeon, Lucy M- Kittredge, Bertha E. Sandquist, baum, Ida Ia L sfS simpson Eila Hse W E0swsn sssse Alicia L. Woir, Helen l.. Bonney, Mae B. Flynn, Marie c. Vandervelden, May A. Shanley, Anna E. Sullivan.
 The terms of school for next year mittee as follows Fall8term,, Septem- Der to December 20; winter term, January 2 to April 10, and spring term, April 20 to June 2i total; 195 days On October IS will be held the teachers convention. November 2S and 29, and February 12 were recommended as hol- idays.
 As Washington's borthday next year lfalls on Saturday, LincOlnis birthday is substituted as holiday but the observ- ance of the latter Is not to be regard ed as precedent a3
 The following sessions were recorn- mended for the evening schools; Sep tember 80 to December 20, and January to January 24 Colonel Il1lman fa- vored increasing the length of the sec ond term, and the matter will be con- sidered by the school committee Following is the list of appointments of teachers presented to the board with the salaries recommended:
 Appointments and Salaries.
 The first figures given show the sal- aries that will be paid each teacher next year until the increased appro- priation is made by the board of finance, the second the salaries that will be in effect after the increase is made by the board of finance under tho new schedule and the third the in crease over the salaries now receiveda
 WEBSTER SCHOOL.
 John G. Lewis, principal, $2S0O; s2,- 300. Room 12. Ada T. somers. $7bO: SSOo $5e Room 12 Clara A. Hurlbut, $500; S550. Room Il, Hattie Schulhafer $7Oo; $750; $50. Room 10, Ruth Gorham, S640; $7G0; S6O. Room g, Catherine M. Downs. $500; s65O; $50, Room 8, Adella F. Baldwin, $500; ss5o; S100. Room z, Catherine L. schmahl. s55O; $65O; S100. Room 6, Lottie w. Sloan. s525; $650; $50 Room 5, Anna A. Kelly, $400i $500; $15c. (Room 4, Katherine Roche, $S50; S45o; $50 Room 8, Ellen T. Lynch, $500; ss5o; s15O. Room ?, Ruth olm- stead, $500; $S5O; $50. Room l. Mary J. Alden. ss0O $s5O; $50. Room A. $S5o; S450; 150. Room B, $500; $500; $50.
 SCRANTON STREET SCHOOL.
 Room 16, Elizabeth Hodgdon, princi- pal, 1000; $1,15O, $50. Room IS, Mary D. Andrew, s55O; s65o; $1OO Room fl, Julia A. Malcolm, s7OO; s75O; s75. Room 1s, Anna Hove, $65O; SIPS; $125. Room F, Eliza A. Benham. s64o; s7OO; $7o. Room Il, Sarah s. Wilson, ss4O; $7OO; sSO. Room 10, Mary A. Mallahan, ss2o; $s5O; s8O. Room g, Marion ocain, s55O; s65O; s150. Room s, Bertha sturges, $4OO; $500; $15O, Room '. Laura E. Lampson, $5SO; sS50; $12O Room G., (continued on Third Page.)
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Sale of The Gallagher & Muller Stock.

This selling offering Upholstery Goods Curtains Foreres
 Pictures that Merchandise of the highest grades included lin are One Half under the Gallagher Muller figures For people pie who bghtening home after cleaning Sale
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the new Ivy street school. The follow ing vote was adopted in regard to the
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NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER JUNE

Real Featherweight Wavers; produce the Marcel Wave, 2Oc. set.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09
SIMPLE HOME RECIPE.
Mix This Simple. Helpful Recipe at Home
and Try il. Anyway.

What will appear very interesting
to many people here is the article
taken from New York daily paper,
giving o elm. prescription. as for
INFLATED By /. noted authority, who
remedy to cure almost any case OF
backache or kidney or bladder de-
rangement, in the following simple
prescription. if take before the stage of
Bright's disease:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce Compound Kargon, one ounce
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. three
ounces. Shake we'll in bottle and take
teaspoonful dose after each neal
and again at bedtime.
A we'll known druggist here at
home, when asked regarding this pre-
scription, stated that the Ingredients
are all harmless, and can be obtained
at small cost from any good pre-
scription pharmacy, or the mixture
would be put up il asked to do SO.
He further stated that while this pre-
scription is often prescribed in rheu-
matte affictions with splendid results,
he could see no reason WHY it could
! not be a splendid remedy for kidney
and urinary troubles and backache.
as it has peculiar action upon the
kidney structure, cleansing these most
important organs and helping them to
sift and filter from the blood the foul
acids and waste matters which cause
sickness and suffering Those OF our
readers can make no mistake in Civ
ing it trial. ALL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09
The Many Sided Printer.

The versatility Of printers is aptly
illustrated by the following advertise
ment which appeared in western pa
per:
"Wanted.-By printer who is capa-
BILE of taking charge of publishing
and printing plant position as fore
man. Can give valuable advice to per-
sons contemplating marriage and has
obtained wide reputation as trance
medium. Would accept an appointment
as pastor of a small Evangelical
church or as substitute preacher. Has
had experience as strike breaker and
would take work of this character
west of the Missouri. river. Would
have no objection to forming a small
but select class of young ladies to teach
them in the higher branches or to give
them information as to the cause of
the Trojan war. Can do odd jobs
around boarding house or would ac-
cept a position as assayist of mining
company. To dentist or chlropo-
dist his services would be invaluable.
and can fill with satisfaction a position
as bass or tenor singer in Methodist
choir Address, ETC."
What the result of this advertisement
was l did not learn.-Lippincott's.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09
Kindness of the
Company.
By TRAY ALLISON.
Copyright, 1907. by Homer Sprapue.
By TRAY ALLISON.
Copyright. 1907, by Homer sprague.

The telephone bell rang, and the To-
cal manager of the Possible Accident
Insurance company put the receiver to
his ear with one hand and stifed a
yawn with the other.
Eyes, yes" he answered, then sud-
denly on the alert at the reply, rail
road accident five miles east of SYRIA
cuse? Has our policy in her pocket?
In dangerous condition? Unconscious,
you say? All right! / will look up
policy 1884 Immediately and communi-
cate with friends
He suddenly remembered that IL was
the luncheon hour, and for the moment
the force consisted of only himself and
the Office boy.
''Come here, Tim," he. called to the
other visible representative. Hold
down this desk and the telephone while
hunt policy"
He ran the cards in the file case
mo. 9S34-Louise Bradley, aged twen-
ty-four-orphan-n near relatives
beneficiary st. Johns church, Calves
ton, Tex"
''Humph! Seems there is no one to
notify" he muttered perplexedly. "Gal-
weston Is decidedly distant, and the
church board might have to hold a
session before it could come to her aid.
Seems queer for girl Of twenty-four
to have no relatives at all-got mixed
up with the Galveston food, l sup
pose"
He gazed at the card abstractedly,
wondering the best course to pursue,
for the company was supposed to be
able to cope with anything unexpected
that might arise. If there were no
relatives to notify, 1t could at least see
that she had proper medical attention
''I'll go myself-too much Incidence
is boring me to death-first accident
we've recorded today And an hour
later Richard Hartleigh, representing
the Possible Accident Insurance com.
pany, boarded train that would put
him into Syracuse In two hours.
When he reached the improvised hos
pital, a farmhou~e Whose doors had
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09
Notice of Appointment.

NoJlce OF the appointment of an admins
ira rix of the estate of Lysander Bowman
deceased
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber
has been duly appointed ADMINISTRATIVE ofths
estate of
LYSANDER BOWMAN,
late OF Burr Oak township, in the county oi
Winneshiek. state of Iowa, deceased. intestate
and has taken upon herself that trust by CIV
ing bonds as the law directs. Ali persons hav
ing demands upon the estate of the said
deceased are required to exhibit the same
and persons indebted 10 the said estate are
called upon to make paymentto
SARAH BOWMAN,
Administrative
G. N. HOUCK, Attorney.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa. Oct 3rd 1907. 4l-4
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09
Notice of Appointment.

Notice of the appointment of an Executor
of the estate of Gro Olson Bjelland, Dece sc |.
Notice is hereby given that the subscriber
has been duly appointed xecutor of the
estate of
GRO OLSON BJELLAND
late of Pleasant Township, in the County OF
Winneshiek, State of Iowa, deceased testate
and has taken upon himself that trust
as the law directs. All persons having
demands upon the estate of the said oe-
ceased are required to exhibit the same;
and persons indebted to said estate axe called
upon 10 make paymentto
1874. EDWIN HOVER,
Executor
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa. Sept. 23rd 1907.
G. -. Il ICE, Attorney.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09

"And We'll frame policy No. yS34 ana
hang 1t in the house the company pro-
vidss," she said softly.
"You bet we willv' shouted the man
ager Of the company.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09
The Irish Face.

If asked Where are the prettiest
girls in the worldY' l would reply, I'm
Limerick, Ireland" says one who has
studied the feminine sex in all lands
There are freshness of face, lustrous-
ness of eyes, healthfulness Of color
and complexion about the Limerick
girls that carry off the sweepstakes
trophy. The Limerick face is the per-
lection of female beauty-a human
ceramic without blemish.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-10-09

The peach was originally a poisoned
almond. It's fruity parts were used
to poison arrows, and for that pur-
pose were introduced into Persia.
Transportation and cultivation have
not only removed its poisonous quail
ties, but turned it into the delicious
fruit we now enjoy.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-13
URGES QUICK KILLING
or CONSERVATIVES

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. May ID
a storm is promised in the medical
world over the advice given by Dr.,
S. Augustus KnOpf of New York,
one of the foremost authorities in
the country on tuberculosis, to the
National tuberculosis congress.
He advocated that dying con-
sumptives should be given NOR
phine in heavy doses to quickly
kill them. After eXhorting against
the use of creosOte in treating tu-
berculosis, Dr.. Knopf is quoted as
saying;
"One thing | wish to say at this
point is that it is my practice, and
il is Your sacred duty, when you see
a dying consumptiye before you. to
give the sufferer morphine in
plenty, that the end may come
quickly and painlessly."
This declaration was applauded
by many of the listeners.