The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-13
SALARY SCHEDULE ADOPTED.
ALI Janitors are Reelected for the New
Year and Board Orders Site for New
Building Purchased at a Cost of 49,
40o-No New Building This Year.

Many new teachers for the schools
of the city were elected at the meet
ing of the board of education on Tues
day evening. The schedule for sal
aries Of teachers which has been pend
ing before the board for more than
four months was accepted and adorted
and the board decided to purchase at
q cost Of $8,400 a site for a new
school building IN the south and west
portion of the city. The new school
site adjoins the Bond Woods and it
is considered one of the most available
sites for school in the city. There
is ground enough in the tract to pro
vide for fine school grounds and if
the members of the board see fit por-
tion of it could be sold off at profit
to the board. 1t is not the intention
Of the board to build new school
this year OF next year, but the mem
bers felt that site for the proposed
building should be secured while athe
land could be bought at reasonable
price.
Interest in the meeting conferred
in the selection of new high school
teachers The designations of Miss
Kate /. Smith and Miss Ethel Far
rill, teachers of English in the high
school, were accepted and Miss Maude
Yule was granted leave of absence
Tor one year. She will leave late in
July for Europe where she will spend
the year travelling.
To succeed Miss Smith the board at
the suggestion of the high school com
mittee elected Miss Lillian H. Evans
of Berlin, Wis, who for the past three
years has been in charge of the de-
partment of English in the high school
at Winona MINI. Miss Evans was
graduated at the University of Wis
consin and during the coming summer
she will attend the graduate school Of
Harvard University to better complete
her work. Miss Elizabeth G. Pearce
formerly of the Winona high school
and a graduate of Northwestern Uni
versity was elected to fill the vacancy
in the history department caused by
the leave of absence being granted to
Miss Yule
Harry w, kim, graduate of the
Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Pc
oria, Ill, was elected as head of the
manual training department to sue
coed E. E. Better Mr. Kim has not
only been teacher of manual train
ing, but before adopting the profess
sion he had seven years of training
as a wood patternmaker in shop work
He is expected to carry out some Of
the plans of the board to make the
vocational training of the schools of
greater value to the boy students
Miss Mary L. Young Of Danielson,
Conn.,, was elected as supervisor of the
domestic economy department of the
high school. She is a graduate of the
Simmons College in Boston and for
the past three years has been in charge
of the domestic science department. of
the Walla Walla high school. She
comes to Kenosha with the highest
possible recommendations and is de-
clared to be a leader in her profession
in the country. This new department
will be opened at the high school with
the opening Of the new school year.
The board voted to add the teach
ing of chemistry to the high school
curriculum and a teacher for this work
will be named at the next meeting of
the board. This will not require an
increase. in the teaching force as the
board named but one English teacher
and the work viii be divided SO as to
permit the addition of chemistry with
out the additional expense of another
teacher.
All Of the janitors now employed in
the schools We're reelected for the
year, small increases in salary being
allowed in keeping with the regular
schedule for janitors. The board de-
eided that the use Of paper towels and
liquod soap should be made general in
schools. For the past year this has
been trieo out in a few of the build
ings and it is thought that the uni
versal use Of these supplies will prove
distinct advance ia the work of the
schools Of the city.