Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
SITE FOR A new
SCHOOL ON THE
HILL is BOUGHT
Board of Education Closes Deal
for Tract at Head of Twen-
ty-fifth Street.
TOTAL COST is s2,5aa.74
Step Was Taken as Result of Associa
ton Activity - Salaries of the
Teachers Are Fixed.

The board of education last evening
took the preliminary steps for the eX-
tension of the school system of the
city by the purchase of a site for a
j. new building on the hill. The newly
acquired property of the school dis
trict is located on Eighteenth avenue.
between Twenty-fifth and Twenty
sixth streets. 1t has frontage of
1898 feet on Eighteenth avenue and
900 feet on Twenty-siXth street. IL
was purchased from three different
property owners, the total cost of the
tracr being $2,53S.74 Anna A. Heisel,
Herman Kahn and Charles UllemeSer
were the former owners of the land.
Preparation for Future.
While it is not expected that the
board will take any immediate steps
toward the construction of a new
building on this site, it is certain that
1t will not be more than few years
before the enrolment of the schools
will be so great that the new building
will be a necessity. With the annex
and the annexation of further tracts
in prospect. and the rapid growth of
the city otherwise. the enrolment of
the schools is steadily increasing. and
additional room is required
About a year ago delegation of
the Sixth Ward Bluff improvement as
sociation appeared before the board
of education. and advanced arguments
10 show the wisdom of the purchase
of a site at once, in order to be pre-
pared for the time when the construc-
ton of a building will be necessary.
The committee was armed with sta
tistics to show the logic of its posi-
ton. and was given favorable consid-
Grafton by the board The result was
the action of last evening.
Salaries Are Fixed.
The board fixed the salaries of the
teachers and other employees as fol
lows:
Supervision-H. 3. Hayden. superin-
tendent, S2,400; Abigail Dean. super
visor of drawing, 5000: E. l.. Phil
brook, supervisor of music, 1915; Alba
G.. Hill, director of manual training
$1,000; Mrs. Emily F. McCurdy. di
rector Of domestic science. 1913.
High school-H. Z. Brown, principal
$4,000 per year; Cora L. Eastman. as
sistant principal. Latin. sos per
month; Augusta Hellpenstell. French
and German, $1OO; Alice Rush. biolo
gy, 500; Emelie Mertz German and
English. $S5; Clara E. Barclay. alge-
bra and English. SS5; Ada NJ. Hoe
beke. Latin, SIS; Litta. D. Jackson
English. $50; Thomas NJ. Coen. alge
bra, SILL; Ellsworth f. Burch com
mercial branches. SILL; Linus l.
Harms, manual training, sS3.33; War
rem T. Powell, history, SS5; Lenore l.
Negus, English and history, SIS;
Stella A. Anderson. English, $751; An
ton ID. Udden, mathematics and phys
les, $50; Myrtle Summers. librarian
$z5. ~
Hawthorne school,. c. Daugherty
principal, $1,000 per year; Mary E. En-
trikin, assistant principal. Sth grade
$50 per month: Lou M. Harris I'll
grade. Sos; Margaret J. Wilson. 18th
grade, SOS; Sara B. Hitler, 9th grade
$50; Maude Robertson. 9th grade, $50;
Mary Lannen. 5th grade, SEQ; Emma
l.. Battles, 9Th grade. $50: Augusta S
Dart. 4th grade, $780, Elsie B. John
ston Sd grade, $50; Winifred Hun
toon. Sd grade, $50; Mary A. Brennan, I'd