Evening journal., 1908-04-01
NEW CASTLE
HAS FIRE DRILLS
School Children Get Out Of
Buildings There in
Short Time
speeIal e rHE EvENINa JoURNAn


NEW CASTLE, April 1--.superin-
tendent Holloway last evening re-
ported to the Board of Education that
the compulsory attendance law has
shown a marked improvement in the
attendance at school In the different
grades the attendance during four
months shows an increase from 3 to.
8 1-2 per cent. over the corresponding
months last year.
Mr.. McGrory, chairman Of the COM
mittee on school buildings, reported
that the fire drills in the schools are
perfect. A test was made in the High
School without the teachers knowing
anything about it and the pupils from
the five rooms filed out in thirty-siN
seconds. The children in No. 2 school
left that building in forty seconds. Mr..
McGrory was much pleased with the
manner in which the teachers and chill
dren so successfully left the building.
So far as he can see there can be no
fire in the schools as the heater fues
pass between brick walls in the cellar.
But to prevent any and all trouble all
doors will be changed 20 swing out.
Superintendent Holloway in his re-
port presented the names Of the fol-
lowing children as deserving Of special
commendation:
High School-Mary Moss Eva Dea-
kyne Mabel Clewell, Pauline Wilhelm,
Flora Downey, Edna Slack, Ruth Stew
art, Regina Walls Myrtle Denning.
James Taylor, Emily Lunt, Aimee
Bross, Briee Vallette, Maude Denning.
Eighth Grade-Evelyn Smith. Morley
Smith, Lee Clothier. George Madden.
Irene Wise, Mildred Stoops.
Seventh Grade-Mary Biggs, Ida
Lank, Louise Moody, Bessie Miller,
Earl Bacon, Frank Harrington, Francis
McFarlin, Grace McCaughop, Elizabeth
Bacon, Josephine Clothier, Minnie Hen
dler.
Sixth Grade-Elizabeth Bacon, Flor
ence Toppin Fannie Perrem, Martha
Perrem, William Tibbftt, Minnie Beck
Margaret Forrest, Edward Naylor,
Maggie Hendrix
Fifth Grade-Dorothy Rigg, Clara
Sterling, Charles Biggs, May McNally,
Eleanor Cross, Daisy Gicker, Estella
Sibley, Elmer Ingram. Bessie Gear,
Louise Gickers. William White. Daisy
Deats. Vaughan Lancaster, Isabella
Clark.
Fourth Gfade-victor Biggs, Ma
tilda Wolfe, Gertrude Ingram. Eliza
beth Bull Katie Hufnal. Edith Mar
shall, Beatrice Haman, Russell Cole,
Margaret Hickman, Marion Bacon,
Hugh McCaugnan. Leonora Lank
Third Grade--Susie Downey, Marion
Munson, Hattie Barnes, Vance Mitch
ell. Robert Banks. Elwood Gooden,
John Sharp
Second Grade-Anna Davidson. Mil
dred Heney, Jean McCaughan, Eliza
( beth Madden, Alberta Rash, Mary
Windsor, Helen Wooden, Samuel Cole,
George Kern, Charles Ingram, Irene
Davis.
First Grade-Bella Churnside, Nellie
Churnside, Emma Soy Helen Moore,
Harry Newlove, Robert Newlove,
James Shepherd, John Leach.
! Miss DealSyne's School-Sadie Fer
guson, Ella Green, Victoria Machie-
vich, John Whiteside, Annie Connor.
Lillian Pusey, John Ludwig, Edith
Montgomery, Margaret Carswell.
Miss Dyer's School-sara Whiteside,
Mary Wright, Willie Clark, Elizabeth
Mccullough, Amanda Mccullough,
Ethel Louth, Mabel Conner, Catherine
Bratton, Maude Anderson, Agnes VIII
mot, Mary Rattle, Lillian Ludwig, VIII
/ liam Dawson, Helen Whiteside.
President Phillips and Secretary A.
NJ. Wise were reelected for the com =
| ing year The teachers and janitors
win be elected at the May meeting.
News of the City.
Many New Castle people went to
Wilmington today to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Megginson. The funeral SER
mon was preached by Rev. Charles A.
Hill of St PauPs Church, Wilmington.
Contractor Painter this morning
commenced the work Of grading Chest
nut street.
John Atkinson, collector for the
Home Insurance Company is ILL.,