The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
OFFICE OF the BOARD OF
EDUCATION
independent School
District of Virginia, MINI.
OFFICE OF BOARD OF EDUCATION
Independent School District of Virginia
Regular Meeting.
July Z 1911
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

Coffman. c. F.. Hendrick. J. H. Flem-
ing. Absent Joseph Rosklly
The minutes of the special meeting of
June 18th. We're read and approved
Under unfinished business the bill of
the Virginia Electric Power & Water
company which was not passed at the
last meeting was taken up. After d
discussion of the bill. on motion the said
bill was placed on the list Of bills to be
acted on by the board, after the mini
mum monthly charge of $16.0O for cur
rent for the Roosevelt was taken there
from.
The following resolution was introduce
ed by G. f. Hendrick
RESOLVED: BY the Board of Edu-
cation Of the Independent School District
Of Virginia. Minnesota, that the following
bills, audited by the Finance Committee.
be allowed. and that the clerk be and is
hereby instructed to draw ORDERS on the
Treasurer in payment of the same.
Virginia Transfer and Fuel COM
panN. fllel............ .......... $lSl q
American Exchange Bank, in
terest on ORDERS ..... 246 50
Eaton Drag Line. drayage... 100
F. Math+sOn livery for school. $50
Virginia Store company, school
supplies ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~. n
Tn. Virginia Enterprise, printing 1890
NJ l.. MutheSOn. school supplies ll.O5
La wrence Goodspeed Electric
company, repairs .............. l1.O5
The Model Pharmacy. school sup
plies Observation-Disclosures. 2.lb
Herbert B,rrchell. school carpen-
ter.June salary ................ 9l.oO
J. J. LeBorious. florist. school
supplies lOU
Alexander Ried & Company.
school supplies ................. 67.D
j. P. Rooney, grading Technical
High School grounds .......... 196. s.
Moved by j. II. Fleming, supported
by K. J. Mc(ihee, that the above resolu-
ton be adopted. Ayes: Helen E. Coff
man. Guy II. Moore. e. F.. Hendrick r. j.
McGhee, J. Fl. Fleming. Nays: None
Adopted July I, 1911.
The annual report of Superintendent
Lafayette Bliss was presented to the
board by the superintendent On mo-
ton duly seconded and carried the report
was accepted by the board and a sum-
mary of the same ordered spread upon
the minutes, and published.
items From the Annual Report of Super
intendent Lafayette Bliss. Virginia
Public Schools.
The total enrolment in the Virginia
schools for the year just closed was
:>:4, including 400 in the night school.
The number of pupils entitled to draw
the state superintendent of about five
dollars per capita was 252l. OF the 02
pupils not entitled to draw the appor-
tionment o29 were in the night school and
ranged in age from y to 81 years. The
total attendance in days by all pupils
amounted to 4O9.2222. and the average at
tendance in days By each pupil was
loU There were enrolled 76I pupils be-
tween and years of age: 1881 between
: and 49, 262 from Is to y years Of age:
26OS from ) to II: ana 14O7 from to Ii
who were nschoOl the entire ten months
the compulsory school law requires.
This law Of compulsory school attend
ance is very strictly enforced in Virginia.
or the IS teachers on duty. were men
and II women. The average monthly
salary of the men teachers not incluo-
ing the superintendent wis $685.; OF
the women $72.Gi.
Inc ETepafa tlOn OF the work or leacn-
ing is shown 10y the fact that Is teachers
are college graduates and s. normal
school graduates. most of the others
have attended normal schools or colleges
and hold first grade teachers certificate.
As to terms of service. ~ teachers have
taught continuously in Virginia for
three years or more and * for the past
> years.
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school supplies and apparatus Of every
kind are furnished free Of cost to the
pupils. The average cost for text
books per pupil for the year just closed
was 20 cents.
Two hundred trees were set out
on or around the different school
grounds this spring and the play grounds
about the Technical and Roosevelt
building have been graded with sand and
gravel in conformity with specifications
furnished by Spaulding Bros, of ST.
Louis; $50 books have been drawn from
the library during the year. Fines etc.
were collected amounting to 1872. Re-
ceipts from the Lecture Course committee
amount $643.OO: disbursements Of Lecture
course committee $6l5OO leaving a bal
ancc In the treasury Of $500. The class
play fund for 1871 amounted to SIT. Is
which will be used by the class in decor
ating the front entrance of the new
Technical building.
The returns from the State High
School Board examinations show that
1896 certificates were won by pupils this
year. One hundred twentysix pupils
were neither absent nor tardy during
the year
The growth Of the school population
Is shown by the total enrolment for the
past eight years which is as follows
l9O4-63O; 1885, 1860; l9O6-12l: 19O7-l425
1905 1880; lsO9-1S4s: -2215; 19ll-2S24.
Systematic and regular instruction
has been given in all the grades ane
high school in temperance hygiene thu
evil effects OF the use Of tobacco. frs
aid to the injured, and in the avoida nc,
and cure of tuberculosis. The publ,
schools are public trust. Physica
soundness is the basis of social schoo
progress. The children who are placed
under the supervision of the Virginia
school authorities are protected from
harm in every way possible. and particu
lar care is taken that they go through
the schools in such a way as not to impair
their physical health and vigor. No eff
fort or expense is spared to safeguar'
the moral welfare and physical healtl
Of all the children. In support to Thu
part OF the work the local board o
health. and physicians resident in tn
city have rendered valuable assistance
vacuum system of cleaning has beef
Installed in the Technical high schoo
mil nd Is &hak