The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-07
REIMBURSEMENT of the Course Of
Study Necessary.
WEEK LATER
Date Sept. 90 But Will Shorten
Christmas Vacation.
Lively Clash Between Anderson
and SWendsOn.

September 20 is the date set for the
opening of the city schools next fall.
This was decided at the regular
monthly meeting of the board of
education held last night. Although
the logical time for the opening of
school would be September IS, on &C
count of the fact that the state fair
will be in full swing on that day, it
was considered wise to postpone the
date a week and cut off a week from
the Christmas holidays
The last item will be anything but
good news to the majority of young
sters attending school, as two weeks
as a rule seem only too short. How
ever, last year with the fair in prog
ress during the initial week OF school
there was a great amount OF confu-
sion. and it was impossible to complete
the enrolment for some days.
On account of the addition OF
business course in the high school 1t
was found necessary to readJust the
schedule of recitation hours. Three
plans were suggested by Super1ntend-
ent L. D. Whittemore,, one OF Whlcn
was the lengthening of the school day,
another the providing of additional
class rooms, and a third, which was
finally adopted to require the first year
students to attend an afternoon SEES
sion, which Will De nelu lIoAl dOOOt
o'clock to 4:3O.
Report Not Yet Ready.
SUPERINTENDENT Whittemore stated
that he has been gathering material
for the exhaustive report OF the
schools of Topeka which the board
had authorized some months ago, and
that he expects to spend the greater
part of the next two months at work
on this voluminous document which he
hopes to make a credit to the city of
Topeka.
been published by the school board in
wears such as other progressive cities
send out upon request, and the board
felt that it was high time that topeka
was falling in line so that reports Tor
interested persons upon request may
have the opportunity Of learning of
the manner in which the local schools
are carried on.
This report will contain illustration
of some of the more attractive or the
school buildings of the city.
A clash which became quite heat
ed was that caused through the dis
cussion of an investigation winch was
made by Frank G. Dreaming, former
member of the school board, who pc
lieved that the board had lost about
$500 in the past five years on account
of a contract with the Topeka Edison
company for furnishing light and heat
The contract price for power was 4 II
cents per kllOWdL nOuT anu IOI AlS III
10 cents, but by a clause in the fran
chise of the Edison company the
board was to be furnished power at
the fiat rate of cents per kilowat.
James Cuthbert chairman of the
building committee, said he had in
vestigated the matter. and learned that
after all a slight saving had been made
amounting to S63.57, instead of there
having been a loss, due to the fact that
the number of kilowat hours con-
iS greater than is
consumed for lighting purposes.
SwendsOn Stands by Guns.
E. H. Anderson said that when it
was thought that there had been
loss of $500 the blame was placed
upon his shoulders. and he considered
It unjust. S. A. Swendson stated that
he had given out the interview in re-
spect to the matter and that every
word of what he said was true An
derson then accused Swendson, who is
a member of the finance committee, of
not taking sufficient interest in the
bills to check them. but he (Ander
son) admitted that he had never
called a meeting of the finance COM
mittee, giving as an explanation that
It had been the custom for years past
for the committee members to look
over the bills individually when they
had time
"The truth of the matter remains. -
tee meeting is called and goes over the
bills we are not doing the work we
are called upon to do
Anderson-"Yes, but we can do the
work individually Just as Well"
Well. to make a long story short,
they had it back and forth for several
minutes, but gained nothing.
1t was voted to purchase so sets of
drawing instruments for the mechani-
cal drawing department at a cost not
to exceed 5000.
A. H Winter is to have an addi-
tfonal 5000 this year over and above
the $1,100 salary he receives as a high
school instructor. for supervising the
work in manual training in all the city
where manual training departments
have been established.
Miss Virginia Meade was chosen to
fill the vacancy in the domestic science
department of the manual training
school left by the resignation of Miss
Bechtel, and Miss Katherine McNutt
will take the place of Miss Lund berg
as instructor in art.
Janitors for the coming school year
were appointed with salaries as given
below:
w. G. Holloway, engineer of build
ings. $125; ]. w. Kempton, academic
high school, $65: ]. F. Herriott, aca-
demic high school, $50; John s. Miller,
manual training high school, $50; Ern-
est Il. HIckerSon, manual training high
school, $50; Cora Jackson, both high
schools, $35; Paul Cassavant, Branner,
$40; ]. F. Jordan. Buchanan, $45;
William Blithe,s Central Park, $50; G.
n. Morton, Clay, SIS; c. NJ. Carr,
Douglas, $25; w. ]. McNeal, Garfield,
SEQ; Fred Ehrhart. Grant. $65; Nell
son Porter, Harrison, $65; James Har-
ris Lafayette, $50: w. E. Voolfolk,
Lowman Hill. $65; Charles Jones' Nc
Kinley, $45; George Krisel Madison,
$40; John Hutchinson, Monroe, S45;
Henry Winterroth, Parkdale, $50;
George Richardson, Polk, SIS; Rich
ard Peek, Potwin. $65; Ira L. Wells,
Quincy, SIS; F. G. Ritchie, Quinton
Heights, $25; J. ]. Mathews. State
Street, $55; G. c. Kempton, Sumner,
SIS; F. w. Packard, Van Buren,, S25;
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