Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
CLEAvELAND IS
SELECTED AGAIN
FOR PRESIDENT
Board of Education Holds An.
nual Meeting to Organize
for the Year.
KEMBLE NAMED AS CLERK
Standing Committees Are Appointed
and Other Routine Matters
Are Attended To.

The board of education held its an
nual meeting last evening to close the
work of the past year and reorganize
as a new board for the coming year.
All members were present, A. D.
Sperry taking his seat as a member
of the board. The usual attention was
given to the auditing of bills and
the financial reports for the preceding
month, this being the final auditing
for the fiscal year which closed June
80.
Under the head of communications,
DR.. Max Maxim spoke to the board in
the interest of the fourth International
congress of school hygiene which is
to be held in Buffalo, n. Y, the last
week in August and urged that the
board take steps toward sending a
representative of the community to at
/ tend this congress. DR.. Maxim called
attention to the program which will
cover the discussion of many of the
/ problems of school hygiene and santa
tation important to the physical we'll
being of the children. The board took
the request under advisement.
A communication was received from
Lewis & Kitchen of Chicago, making
recommendation for the Improvement
of the ventilating fans in the Lincoln
and high school building. With the
proposed improvements in the work
ings of these fans, the new heating and
ventilating system should be in good
condition to give excellent service this
next winter.
A proposal was received from H. B
Dodge & Co: of Chicago to install a
rolling partition at the Grant school
for $3.50. The proposal was accepted
This partition is to be placed between
two of the school rooms on the second
floor of the Grant building, which to
gether constitute an auditorium fol
occasional use, the partition to sep
arate the two rooms when used fol
regular school purposes.
A letter was received from a specia
committee appointed by the Rock Is
land Aerie of Eagles endorsing the
movement for the purchase of the base
ball grounds for public athletic parl
and expressing the hope that the mat
ter may be consumated and these ad
ditional play grounds made available
to the children and young people o
the city.
The bids for painting the interio
walls in the school rooms at the Irv
ing building were referred to the chair
man of the building committee witt
power to act.
The proposal of the Lloyd Thoma
company to make an appraisal of tn
school buildings of the city and fun
nish the board a complete and detaile,
statement of such appraisal was az
cepted.
The board ordered that the annua
report of school enrolment and al
tendance and the financial report @
the receipts and expenditures of tn
board for the past year be publishe
il the newspapers as usual, afte
Which the old board adjourned sine dis
A. G. Anderson was appointed chail
man protein and A D. Sperry was il
troduced as the new member of tn
board. The board then reelected +
H. Cleayeland as president and cor
tinued S. S. Kemble in the Office c
clerk. c. F. Channon was elected trea.
= urer and his bonds fixed at $50, O0t
: The tax levy for 1914 was ordered i
4 the amount of $4,000 for educations
= purposes and $4,000 for building pu
= poses.
Several bids for furnishing schoC
desks for two rooms in the high schoC
and one in the Grant school were r,
ceived and opened and the contraC
awarded to E. W. A. Rowles of Oh
cago for 122 desks and IS rears.
The following committees were al
/ pointed: Finance and auditing, A. /