Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-12
RECORD ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOLS
October Sets n New Mark for City of
Council Bluffs.

OctOOer sets n New mark TOT lily OF
Council Bluffs.
The statistical report of superintendent
]. II. Beverage, submitted at the monthly
session OF the Board of Education last
night. shows that the enrolment Of pupils
in the public school of Council Bluffs dur
ing October was greater than at any previ-
Gus time in the history of the schools. Not
only was the enrolment the largest. but
the average daily attendance passed all
previous records. The superintendent re-
port follows:
Entire enrolment. boys 1854. girls 2,794.
total $40. Monthly enrolment, boys 2.G0S,
girls 2,724, total 1892. Average daily attend
ance, 5,021. Per cent of attendance, S.9.
Number cases Of hardness, ISL. Number
neither absent nor tardy, 1855.
Arrangements for opening the new schoo,
at Seventeenth street and Avenue E by the
first of next month were made. Tho
boundaries of the new school territory were
decided upon and these show that the
greater number of pupils for the new school
will be drawn from the Avenue B school
and the remainder from the North Eighth
street school. The school will start with
three rooms open. The pupils attending will
be those in the first, second and third
grades. Superintendent Beveridge estimated
sixteen kindergarten pupils, thlrty-eight in
the second room and forty-five in the third
room as a starter.
Miss Claussn from the Washington avenue
school will be the principal of the new
school. Her place at the Washington ave-
nue. school will be taken by Miss Caroline
Blake Of Boone, Ia. who was elected last
night. Her salary was placed at $50. Miss
Blanche V. Peck of Nicola was elected a
teacher at the Avenue b school at a salary
of $50.
Tho salary of Janitor Mortensen at the
Washington avenue school was increased
from Sl05 to $40 yin account of the open
ing of the manual training room.
John Wallace was given the contract for
filling the grounds at the new school at
Avenue + and Seventeenth street on his
bid of IS cents a cubic yard, the dirt to be
taken from the old high school property.
Member Schoedsack. who was presiding
in the absence of President FINLEY, called
attention to the necessity of selecting a
site for the new school to be erected in the
eastern part of the city. He suggested
that this matter ought to be attended to at
once as the school should be ready for oc-
cupancy by the beginning of the new school
year next September. A commi tee to select
a. size VIII ne named at the next meellnB
of the board.
A communication from the kindergarten
teachers requesting that they be placed on
the same basis as the primary teachers
was received and ordered placed on file.
The granting of the request would permit
of the kindergarten teachers working w
to a maximum salary Of SO instead of to
only $50 as at present.
The report of Truant Officer Hener
showed that he had found some girls play
Ing truant, the roller skating rink at the
Dodge Light Guard armory having lured
them from school. Officer Hener notified
the owners of the rink not to permit school
I children in the place during school hours
and the manage promised to comply with
the order. Several children were found by
Hener working instead OF attending school
and these were sent back to school by him.
In cases where children remained away
from school owing to the lack of shoes,
footwear was furnished them.