Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-07
THREE NIGHT SCHOOLS OPEN
Sessions Commence Monday on Order
Of the Board Of Education.
TEACHERS ASSIGNED 10 WORK
Twelfth Warders want LOthrop
School Annex Moved to site North
of Fort street, and Request
VIII he Investigated.

Three night schools for the public will
open in Omaha on Monday night, in con
formity with a resolution introduced by
DR. Vance and adopted by the Board OF
Education last evening. The night schools
will be open Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday
and Thursday evenings of each week from
1880 until $3.50 o'clock.
Last year night schools were conducted in
the Comenius and Kellom schools, while
this year the L~eavenworth school has been
added. Miss Louise Adams will be the
principal of the night school at Comenlus.
Miss Alta Peacock at the Kellom school and
Miss Cebella Schaller at the L~eavenworth
school. The following teachers on the I'M
assigned roll will be engaged in the night
work: Lucretia Bradley, Eolia Nichols,
Helen Thompson. ollie Richey, Ellen Thorn
gate. Elizabeth r. Parke, Nina Doyle,
Carrie Robertson. Fannie Myers, Minnie
Esplin. Josephine Carroll, Emma Edling.
George stamas, #. H.. Beedle. w. H. New
man and Alice Coulter.
A delegation from the Twelfth Ward I'm
provement club appeared before the board
and asked that the annexes at the Lothrop
school be moved to a site north Of Fort
street and between Twenty-fourth and ThIr-
ueth streets so as to accommodate some
400 small children who now walk TO the
Monmouth Park school. The school district
owns a site on Brown street, but the club
wished the annexes to be located farther
north. The matter was referred to the
buildings and property committee and
Superintendent Davidson.
Lehmer Wants to Know.
J. r. Lehmer presented a communication
to the board asking for an explanation of
the purchase of twelve fire ~extinguishers
of a foreign firm for sl5 each when he had
offered extinguishers OF the same character
and approved by the underwriters for 80
each. w. H. Christie, who was authorized
by the board to make the purchase, stated,
that he was apprised by the local fire de-
partment that the extinguishers he bought
we're of a good make and therefore he
bought them. The submission of a number
of bids by local firms Of -extinguishers at
prices ranging from SO to 50 caused the
board to consider resembling the purchase
Of the Christie consignment. but as the ex-
tinguishers had already been shipped It
was decided that the order could not be
r~escinded.
Mr.. Lehmer, however. succeeded in
getting the board to undertake to get his
money for the furnishing OF material to
the new Vinton school. The board has
been holding back some $1,000 Of the con-
tract price due w. ]. Gray & Co. Of Min
neapolis, the general contractors, until
the firm should pay local firms which
furnished material. This the Gray COM
pany has as yet failed to do. Upon petit
ton Of Mr.. Lehmer the board decided to
forward to Gray & Co., a warrant for
1856 upon the furnishing to It by Mr..
Lehmer of a receipt from the Minneapolis
firm showing that 1t had paid Mr.. Lehmer.
Secretary Burgess read a list OF credits
on the roposed Omaha View school where
by a saving of S0,0ee will be made by
making some. alterations in the original
plans. The original eoniSset was for 500, COO.
The board ADJOURNED TO meet on Wednes-
day night TO open bids for the addition
to the high school, AZ the same meeting
the board win decide whether to have the
names of candidates for membership on
the board placed on the voting machines
at the general election or whether they
shall be elected by the use of ballots and
the Australian booth system. 1t is OPP
tional with the board.
The board decided TO pay judges at the
recent primary election 81 each for their
days work, the 81 paid by the county and
the 81 paid by the city totaling the usual
IS for the service.