Evening journal., 1913-07-17
INCREASE THE
SCHOOL TAX
Newark Educators increase
the Rate This Year so
Cents on $lOO
DEMAND FOR SERVICES
OF PROFESSOR GRANTHAM

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWARK. Del, July 1.-THE
Board of Education at special
meeting Tuesday night fixed the
school tax rate at SO on the s1Oo
This is an increase Of 80 cents over
the rate of last year.
The board issued the following
statement relative to taxes. In view
of a recent decision that the assess
ment of automobiles was within the
legal rights of the board it has been
decided that the assessment on ma
chimes shall be 40 per cent of their
retail cost for new machines so per
cent for machines two years old 25
for three years and 20 for four years
and succeeding years. This assess
ment will apply to all the standard
cara The only exception viii be in
some of the cars that are no longer
made.
I'm view of the increase during
the last few years OF the teaching
force and graded increase OF salar-
les, prospective repairs and other
extra expenses during the coming
year the rate will be So. Although
this is a little in advance of last
year, il is still less than the prevail
ing rate in incorporated towns
throughout the state
The board has prepared a table Of
receipts and expenditures for the
past FIVE years to show the increase
In expenses. In 1909 the total re-
ceipts were S9.69967 and last year
Sl5.617.10. of which amount s2,425
represents money that had to be
borrowed near the close of the year
to meet expenses and that amount
will have to be paid out of the taxes
this year. The real increase in re-
ceipts was only about $4,000 while
the increase in the salary of teach
ers alone of last year over 1909 was
nearly $4,000 The enrolment is i'm
creasing from 25 to 30 a year and it
is consequently necessary to secure
additional teachers from time to
time Some of the rooms it is said
are now oyercrowded and there real
ly should be extra teachers this
year
Demand for Prof. Grantham.
Professor Arthur E. Grantham,
agronomist at the Delaware College
Experiment Station. has evidently
attracted wide attention In his work
here as he has had a number of or
fers from institutions in other states.
Within the last few days he was Of
fered the position of agronomlst at
the Experiment Station at Washing
ton State College. He also declined
this offer and will remain in Della
ware.
W. c. FELTON,. assistant horticultur-
ist at the experiment station has re-
arsra 20 Hnn Inr
extension department of the New
Jersey station. He will take up his
new duties October I.
Professor and Mrs. Harry Hay
ward will sail from Boston July %
for Liverpool. They will be gone al
of August and will spend practically
the entire time travelling in Scot
land
Edward Herbener, a local photo
grapher is attending court at Ches-
tertown. Md. as a witness for the
plaintiff in the case of A. j. Willis
a contractor VS.. the County Com.
missioneis. It is an action TO re-
cover for a bridge built by the plain
tiff
At a meeting Of the local W. c. T
L. tomorrow a box of groceries anC
supplies will be packed for the Girls
Industrial School in Wilmington.
Company r, of Newark, Organized
Militia of Delaware. will leave here
early Friday evening for the hike tC
the site of the annual encampmen
below New Castle. -.
For some days a large number o
FIVE cent pieces have been circulat
ed In Newark which were suspected
of being counterfits They are the
new Buffalo nickels and when an of
dcer OF the Newark Trust and Safe
Deposit Company consulted an ex
pert about the nickels, he stated thai
the die had ben somewhat changed
from the original coin but that tn,
me examined was not a counteriiit.
The NJ. r. Church Sunday schoo
will hold its annual picnic at Bran
dywiwne Springs Park on July "A.
Personal-Mrs. Lou Springer II
entertaining Miss Anna Beckus, o
Harrisburg at her CleN Gland avenu,
home-Aliss Edith Harrison, OF Phil
ldelphia. has been visiting relativel
nere-Miss Marion aCmpbell has re
turned from a trip to friends at Den
on, Md.-Miss Elizabeth Grimes II
spending the week at Paxinora Inn
Wegadt Mountain, Easton, Pa.-Misl
Florence Colbert is visiting friends
it Bridgeville-Mrs James G. Duffy
Of Philadelphia. is visiting her par