Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-10-09
SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS
MONTHLY MEETING
County School Commissioners
Transact Routine Business.
THE BORDER LINE DEFINED.
Howard County Children Allowed to
Attend Anne Arundel Schools.

rhe Board of School Commission
ers Of Anne Arundel county met yes
terday in regular session, and after
hearing and approving the minutes,
transacted the following business:
IL was ordered that the president
and secretary be empowered to bor-
row So, for seven days at per
cent. to enable the treasurer to pay
the teachers salaries for September
James Colbert offered to make the
necessary repairs at colored school
Ia for the sum of SIS. The offer
was accepted.
James Howard reported that his
health had so improved chat he would
be able to take up again the duties
of janitor of the Stanton colored
school, and asked to be allowed to
withdraw his resignation. The re-
quest was granted and he was told to
take charge on October IS, Malcolm
Weems the present acting janitor to
remail until that time.
The trustees of school 1874 were
authorized to repair the roof of said
school,
The Board employed Black & Co.,
to audit the books of the School Com
missioners Office for the past fiscal
year.
A stove was granted to colored
school IA.
Miss Nellie CLANCY was granted
one blackboard, the same TO be deter.
mined by the requirements.
The Superintendent reported to
the Board the attitude of the Howard
County School Commissioners in refer
ence to children living near the bor-
der line attending the Anne Arundel
county schools. The Board having
examined the law, concluded that they
had no right to exclude said pupils
and decided to allow them to attend
our schools for the current year and
to make demand on the Howard
County School Board at the end of
the school year for their proportion of
the maintainance of the schools in
question.
Schools 2-5, S-S, S-3 and 81 having
raised $40 each for a school library,
the same amount was voted them by
the Board, as Requires by law.
The request of Miss Marie Welsh,
teacher of school 6-3, for an assistant
was not granted.
Emory johnson was appointed trds-
tee of colored school 7-3, vice Alfred
Harris, refused to serve.
The request of the teachers and
pupils of the High School to be al
lowed to use the assembly hall of said
school or certain games, was granted
on the conditions named in the COM
munication of the principal of Octo-
Der s, namely, that they be at their
own expense to protect the walls
lights, etc.
A new stove was voted to Miss
Maud Fisher for school 81.
The request of Miss Himmelheber,
of the High School, for two additional
typewriters was granted.
The requests of the principals of
the digh and Grammar Schools for
certain maps was held over for furth-
er consideration.
At the regular meeting on August
Is, the Board voted to put Maury's
biographies on the list OF text
books. Yesterday the matter was
reconsidered and it was decided to go
back to Frye's Biographies, as Mr..
Lee Carey, the agent for the publish
ers of Frye's biographies agreed to
take off the Boards hands at cost
price the Maury books which had been
purchased and received. The superin-
tendent was instructed to ship the
latter books to CHM & Co.
Arthur Dawson of Brooklyn, Md,
was appointed to the scholarship in
the Maryland Institute made vacant
by the resignation of Miss Olivia MUIR
ray.