The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-15
FAIRFIELD
Important School Board Meeting = Teachers Salaries Increased Action Regarding Students Who fail-Sale of the Lewis Morris Estate-Basebal
 Items /

s rs
 "A long and full meeting of the School Board was held at the library yester- day afternoon. An hour or two was spent in trying to solve the problem of teachers of this town have such a we'll earned reputation they are being sought after to accept positions else where, and larger salaries are being offered than they get at home. This perplexing question was also consid- cred at a previous meeting without reaching any solution One of our teachers. Miss Anna E. Rogers, has Model School at New Haven with a salary of $500 to begin with Two others have been offered each $500 to go else where. but the School Board felt that something must be done to retain them and it has been voted to increase their salaries. The result is they will remain The Board voted yesterday to increase in the sum of $50 annually the Hendrick. Miss Julia B. Banks. Miss Louise Schofield. Miss Matte Smedley- Miss Carolyn F. Griffith. Miss Mary E. Nichols. Miss. Mamie D. Walsh. and Miss Julia A. Francis
 In the matter of those scholars who go to the Bridgeport High School and fail to keep up with its requirements as pointed out in the Farmer a week or so ago. the Board voted to drop from the rolls those for whom the town is paying the expenses of an education at the High School. all who fall behind. In other words it will pay for the regular four years course, but no longer. If boy or girl cannot com plete the course in the, prescribed time. he or she must thereafter pay their own expenses if they continue to go to school This is but just to the tax payers. and is in accordance with the suggestions set forth in the Farmer when attention was called to the facts
 It is announced that at the com mencement exercises of the Sherman school. to be held on the 29th Of this month Rev. J. Irving Maurer. of the West End Congregational church. will deliver the address.
 As some of the boys and girls in town have expressed a desire to go to the preference to going to the Bridgeport High School. the Board has voted to leave it optional with the pupils which school they shall attend
 Marshall Smith, an aged colored man, well known in town. who has been a great suffered with rheumatism. and who was for many years in the em- ploy of MT. Wallace M. Bulkley. died yesterday morning at a hospital in Bridgeport.
 The clambake which is to be given by the gentlemen members of the Con gregational church. will take place be- tween the hours of and D. m. next Thursday, at the beach, at the foot of Penfield avenue. Mr. w. O. Burr has the roasting of the -clams in charge, which insures a. feast of good things.
 Four new teachers are still required to fill vacancies in town. This neces- sity is giving the school authorities considerable anxiety and a good deal of hunting.
 It was very fortunate for it's in mates that the automobile which turn \ ed turtle at Flint's corner. on. Sunday did not cause serious injuries The machine was going at good speed: the road bed was very slippery from the paste like surface caused by the rain and oil: and it is thought the driver of the machine did not know the road very well and came upon the turn suddenly This caused two of the tires to burst. and the accident followed Soon after man on mo- torcycle came along at a good pace: and fell from his machine near the same spot. Those who saw him, and the difficulty he had in remounting. concluded he was full of something stronger than water
 The latest important real estate transaction in town is the sale of the Lewis Morris estate. formerly the old