The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-17
SCHOOLS
Reopen With a Greatly
Increased Enroll
ment
sO7 IN HIGH SCHOOL

mOuudy HlOTuluS lle UOyS anu gin
who had enjoyed the three months
school vacation in playhouses, on the
baseball grounds and by flying kites,
were seen hurrying along the streets
toward the different school buildings.
The mingling of the voices in the
crowded corridors told that the pupils
were again enjoying the companion
ship of their old schoolmates. The
teachers were also in their places and
hard at work registering the names OF
the pupils, after spending their sum-
mer's vacation in distant cities gath
ering new ideas from what they saw
and heard to help them in their teach
ing this school term.
Owing to the fact that the schools
were opened a week later this year
than other years, the teachers put
more vim into their work, and In
most of the school buildings at the
afternoon session, the boys and girls
were found diligently pondering over
their lessons
Superintendent Baxter was kept
busy arranging the pupils in the diff
ferent schools, and several had to get
along the best way they could as Mr..
Baxter was unable to visit all the
schools and arrange the classes, but
by this evening 1t is expected that
everything will be nice working or
der. Mr.. Baxter is experiencing some
difficulty by reason of some of the
rooms used in the other years having
been declared unsafe by the inspec-
tor of shops and factories and must
be vacated. This is the case with
the rooms in the upstairs of the
Washington avenue school and the pu-
pills who formerly occupied these
rooms must be transferred to the
North Cherry street school or to East
Fourth street, and several other trans
fers will be necessary.
At the Liberty street school the be-
ginners class has AZ enrolled, which
tsurpasses the records of all previous
years and one or two of the higher
grades will have to be transferred in
order to make room for the first grade.
A kindergarten class and the first
four grades were started in the Sum
NIT street school, which will relieve
the North street and Woodland avenue
schools.
This years enrolment, Of 6O46, is
| an increase of several hundred over
that of last year. The largest gain
was made in the high school, where
there were 807 enrolled at noon yes
terday. There is an increase in all
the high classes, but the freshmen
year with SO more this year than last
showed the largest gain. Last even
ing there were two classes in the
| freshmen year that were without
teachers and rooms and there seems
to be no available space. The other
grades of the high school have the
following number enrolled: Second
year, 2O4; third year, 141, and the
fourth year, 1T. There will be no
chemistry this year in the high school
| because of lack of equipment, and ii
| is also probable that there will be nc
French class, there being no demand
on the part of the scholars to take this
branch. The places vacated by Miss
Mumaw and Miss Taylor will be filled
by ]. A. Silver, who comes from
post graduate course in Harvard, and
A. D. Rankin, formerly superintendent
Of Euclid schools. Mr.. Silver will be
instructor in history and English in
the second year and Mr.. Rankin sci
ence and mathematics in the FIRST
year.