Evening journal., 1913-01-01
NEWSY DOlNCS
OF ''TlT CASTLE
Board 0i Education Cuts
Short Vacation Of
Children
COMMEND PUPILS
FOR GOOD WORK

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEW CASTLE, Jan The Board
Of Education at its meeting last even
ing decided to reopen the schools to-
morrow morning. AS the teachers
are paid only for the days they are in
school 1t was deemed best not o al
low two additional holidays. Under
the existing law a teacher to entitle
her to a months pay must teach
twenty days in the month. The Board
is compelled TO hold back checks of
the teacher until they have taught for
twenty days and even at the end of
the school term the teachers lose
pay unless they have taught twenty
days
Prof Cross reported the following
pupils deserving of special commen-
dation.
Eighth grade-Annie Burris. Mary
Moody, Bertha McCallister. Florence
Burris, Mary Gilman, Esther Vining
Amy Smith, Marian Munson. Marion
Boys Gertrude Ingram. Matilda
Wolfe, John Whiteside John Sharp
Walter Kern
Miss Carnagy- Berry. James
Wilson, Alice Jemison Allen Toppin
Annie Truitt Leah Glandon. Francis
Bryson, Frances Burris
Miss Wilhelm-Oliver Jones cd
ward Challenger Sarah Bryson. Vo-
let Clarke. Frank Kerns. James King
Ida Lennox Lillian Proud Paul
Stremple, Edward Truitt. James
! White.
Miss Willis-Charles King. Joseph
Cannon, Charles Cannon. James
Hickman, Elizabeth Mckay, Esther
! Berry. May Mcdowell Edna Deemer
Albert Wilson, James Miller.
Miss Lunt-Mildred Berry. Marga.
{ ret Bull, Jesse Davidson. Elberi
Jones James Loveless. David Miller
Douglas Proud. Robert Roth
Blanche Sibley, Edna Rhoades.
Miss Cooley - James Shepherd
Eugene Myers. Walter Ferguson. vii
liam Thompson. Anna Fitch Mabe
Pinder. Elsie Waer, Edith Bruce
Florence Townsend.
Miss Platt-LeOna Herman. Harri
EFT Barnes, Cortland Pinder. Albar
Ritchey, Beulah Whtlock. Elizabetf
Madden, Susie Hutchinson, Bert Toul
son.
Miss Davis-Andrew iKlchinsky
Serena Greene. wilma Anderson. Jo
seph Whiteside. Mary Davis. Beatric,
Jones, William Louth.
Miss Deakyne-May Jones. Ann;
Louth, Maude Anderson.
Ordinance Amended.
When the City Council passed IN,
ordinance on October 3. 1893. giving
the New Castle Trolley Company tn,
right to lay it's tracks on certain
/ streets the route was i'm Orange Il
| Delaware and then by Union to Soutl
/ street. Soon afterwards the compan,
had the ordinance amended so tha
/ the cars ran up Chestnut and in Sec
/ ond and out Sixth street instead o
I on Union street. That amendment
was not recorded on the ordinanc,
/ book and at a special meeting o.
/ City Council last evening two read
/ ings were given to an ordinance
amending the original ordinance S,
that the New Castle line will have
the right to operate on the streets
on which are its tracks a present.
General Manager J. T. Hambletor
when spoken to last night regarding
| rumors of the sale of the New
Castle Company said he could moi
say anything regarding such rumors
because he knows nothing as to the
truth or falsity of them.
City Council last night directed the
clerk to notify Superintendent Ungel
of the Delaware Water Improvement
Co. to make repairs to Delaware
street inside of twenty-four hours
Council viii now take up the ques.
tion of the town water supply fur
nished by the company Council wants
enough water in the tank at all times
to guarantee the proper pressure.
Miss Helen Hance and Frederick
! Peach, of Camden, n. j., were mar
ried here yesterday at the home OF
the brides father John NJ. Hance
The young couple are popular and
Mr.. Peach who formerly resided here
is now a business man in the New
Jersey city.
Mrs Mary Armstrong died yester-
day morning at the home of her SON
in-law. Aaron Willis Mrs Willis
and Mrs. James Boyle were her chill
dren and they and several grand chill
dren and great grandchildren sur
vive.
William u. Ferris Edward Leonard
Edward Gormley and Albert Kirk are
among the new years shooters in
Philadelphia today
The New Castle club held its an
nual supper last night and ushered
the year 1912 over the border of time.