The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-15
HIGH SCHOOL
 COMMERCIAL
 COURSE ADDED
Important Action by School Board-Tuition Fee Rais d. Teachers EIected-Other
 WeStport News

W S0ARO4L 4NVWS
 Westport, May 15-A number of im-
 portant matters were acted upon at
 the meeting of the school board Tues
 uay evening and the teachers were
 elected for the coming year.. One of the matters which will be of interest
 to the citizens of the sur-rounding
 rate for tuition for pupils from other
 towns from $40 to $50 per year. The reason for this action Is because the
 school is costing more and it is be- neVed the towns which take advant-
 age of the High school should pay a
 fa1r proportion of the increased cost
 At present there are about 30 out-of-
 town pupils attending the Staples
 High school and if the number re-
 mains the same during the next school
 year it means an addition of $500 to the town treasury
 Another important matter. acted up-
 on was the decision to incorporate a
 full four year commercial course in
 the High school curriculum For
 some time partial course, teaching bookkeeping and commercial arithme- tic has been established, but the course will now be made complete, and
 students at entering will elect whether they wish to pursue the commercial or academic course. This is believed to be step in the interests of more practical education as the majority Of the pupils who attend the school
 intend to enter business. and only q | few intend to enter college and the professions The new course will 1 commence with the fall term of the
 school and will be thorough in all re- spects. Following are the teachers who were chosen for the next year, all being re- appointments. There are three va 4
 cancies, one in the sixth Rra de. and two in the Greens Farms school which have not yet been filled:
 Staples High Schoo1-F. J. Bates,
 principal; Irving Townsend, Misses
 Ruth Hall, Esther Parker. Elizabeth 1 Chatfeld; Grade VII, Anna Good
 Grade VII, Catherine McCann; Grade VI. -; West Saugatuck, Ethel. 1 Sniffen. Ethel Langenberg; East Saul
 gatuck. Elizabeth Mclaughlin, Alice LeDan; Cross Highway. Maude Greene,
 Mary McNerny; Bridge Street, Mary
 Cassidy. Dorothy Adams. Merle Wit
 cox, Ruth Coyle; West Long Lots,
 Rachel Weed; Greens Farms, Ella Frances Scharff.
 1 This evening in the Library hall there will be parents meeting at
 which Supt. G. C. Bowman win deliver an address on the public schools and the entire matter of the school system of the town may be talked over.
 The exhibition of work by the pu- pills of the public schools opened to-
 day at the school in the town build
 ing and proved very interesting,
 large number of the parents and oth-
 CTS interested in the schools availins
 themselves of the opportunity to See
 the kind of work being done in the schools. The exhibition will continue tomorrow. The exhibition of Art in
 Schools also going on in the same room will close Saturday. It has proved very successful.
 The Boys Athletic Association of the
 Staples High School will give 8. pork and beans supper at the school house
 Thursday evening, May 29, and expect to have a large attendance. Supper will be served from to g o'clock, and
 an entertainment will be provided The public is cordially invited.
 The will of the late Sarah Louise
 TYlliou was admitted to probate yes
 terday by Judge D. B. Bradley after a hearing at which there was no opposi- ton The will disposes of an estate
 estirnated at between $25 GOO and ESQ.,
 900. and the entire estate is left to the daughter of the testatrix, Minnie T. Grippen, of Bridgeport, who qualified as executrix.
 Mrs. J. G. Hyatt lost a pocketbook yesterday containing a small sum of
 money and some papers more valuable
 than the money. It is probable that if was left somewhere she had been
 shopping, or fell from the buggy in which she drove nome 4he hAl0Sl
 will confer a. favor if it Is returned to the office of the town clerk. Tomorrow evening the Holy Name
 Society of the Church of the AssuEnp- ton will entertain at National nall with an entertainment and danc1ng' A large number of tickets have been sold and a large crowd is expected to attend.
 walter Duffy spent yesterday in Bridgeport.
 Two new Hnenen, J. E. Marlin ana I. E. Fitzpatrick of Bridgeport, have been added to the force of the West port Water and Electric Co.,, owing to the large amount of work being done about the town.
 Fred Jennings and Owen Feeney spent yesterday in Bridgeport. This evening at a special conmunl- cation of Temple lodge, F. & A. M. the B. A. degree will be conferred up on four candidates
 Mrs. D. B. Bradley has been the guest of friends in New Haven for several days past
 Harry R Sherwood and E. c. Nash were among the witnesses who tesrl- l fled yesterday in the suit of Horace | M Gray against Albert Mossman, both 1 of NorWalk. for islander, which is be- | ing tried before the Superior court in Bridgeport.
 The drawbridge in State street broke
 down yesterday shortly after l o'clock and the pig ITOl4Sy SNA9 "SA - den to cross 1t, and passengers had to be tran nsferred walking across the bridge The bridge has been under going numerous minor repairs for sew eral days.
 MT. and Mrs Wilbur Thomas have returned from their winter in the South and will open the store at Compo Beach during the coming week, and will also reopen the pavilion in the nea-. future. The pavilion has been in charge of MT Thomas for a number Of years.
 There is considerable activity at Cornpo Beach. many of the owners of places being at work getting them
 ready for occupancy during the sum mer and some of them are already oc-