Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-31


 The public schools of Douglas open Monday. August 30. for the ensuing school year.. All things seem to bs [, readiness for a successful year.
 Tn the high and grammar building there will be at least sixty new pupils. The Fifteenth street school building uill be exteremely crowded 50 that three classes will for a time have to Ls satisfied with half day sessions. In tie Second street school. with two roms, there will be but half day ses- s'pns for all the pupils. some taking the forenoon time and others the af ofnoon. The total number of Doug. las school children last year was 1856. and this year 22ss.
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 The plan for the new building to ls built for the colored children calls ior a one-room building about 32x3e .. the ground and built of brick. It s4l be located probably in the north. 2, Il part of the city, as that is neares; |. the greater portion of the colored p pulation.
 It is expected that the Sunnyside st hool builling, to be built soon, will n. [ only accommodate the children O Il at addition. but also will accommodate n. my children from the extreme north eiid of town, in order to relieve the ltth street school, which is nov C. swded.
 The Pirtleville school facilities have b. en extenoed over what they wer is st year by the securing of a one rt om building near the persent four n om one.
 Until the building for the coloret children is finished. they will be ac commodated in the high and gramma, school building. They will occupy tht r,os1 last year taken by the domesti, ait or sewing school, which will b, moved temporarily into the basement ti the manual training room. A force of men and women wer esterday dusting. mopping and in ey cry way putting the school building g Into apple-pie order for the chiIdrel When school opens Monday morning Frequent mention has been made O
 he Est of teachers in the past weef cr ten days. but there are always som changes in the last few days befor school begins that cannot be foreseel earlier, and there will probably b two or three, this year. after schoe commences.
 One of the most impotant feature ( f modern school work is to be inaus 'uated in Douglas this year. Tn ;eacher who has been selected for will take another place for . coupi f weeks until the arrival of a teache to replace her The work referred s that of special helpfulness to bacl ward children. The teacher selecte 'or that is Miss Edith Gilbert. who's 'e1ease from the Seventh stree ,chooI for this purpose will occas.o
 ne or two shifts of other teachers.
 The reach of the department of m sic and drawing. under Mir A. Fl. Wa, aer, will he increased by the additio of Miss Katharine Christy. as ass's !ant
 Miss DTsta Cook will continue a l,.rirsry supervisor.
 | Miss Ed'th Miller. colored, graduat lof the Mississippi State Normal schoe and lately special student at Chic' go University. will have charge of th colored children.
 | The other special teachers are M Earl Chalfant in the Manual Train.n department, who began last year an is a graduate of the Stout Manu' Training school. one of the 1eadin ones in that line in the United States Miss Nellie T. Adams. of the Domesti Science and Art or Cooking and SeN ing department. who comes to us ft the first time. graduate of the sam '