Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-22
SHORTAGE Of PRETTY
SCHOOL MA ANS
HERE? NOT MUCH!
Fully Score of Pretty Central
Alumnae Want to Become r
Teachers of City

Possible shortages in the supply of
pretty school ma'ams for Harrisburg
school district needn't bother the au-
thorities any for some time to come if
the action of the board of directors at
it's first post-vacation sessions last
evening has any significance.
And the supply can be filled with
out drawing upon the 'way-from- home
product at that
For in addition to the changes that
were made in the teaching staff II, \
the substitute lists and Teachers
Training School graduating class of
1914, twenty-five applications of en-
bryo teachers who are just as pretty,
were received for admission to the
training school. Twenty of them by
the way are graduates of the class OF
1914 and there is one each from l9l 3
and 1910. Principal w. S. Steele
came up from Mt. Gretna especially
to put in the applications.
The school board session was brief
although the directors finished big
program of their own affairs and lis
tened to demonstrations o1 a win
dow shade salesman, vacuum cleaner
representative and to request for
more janitor service at the Technical
High School. Bills for the various
maintenance departments of the dis
trict that accumulated during the sum-
mer totaling S19,S65.26 were author
lied to be settled.
Board Awards Contract
The board let a contract to install
new boilers in the Cameron building
was awarded to the Harrisburg Boiler
and Manufacturing Company at its bid
of $500 and $392 was allowed remoV-
ing present ones and setting up the
new ones. And the boilers in the
school buildings of the city were in
sured for three years with the Hart
ford Boiler Inspection Company for
S445. Permission was granted Mt.
Vernon Council, No. 333, Independent
Ord of Americans, to present and
raise the flag on the new Shimmel
school building in Seventeenth street.
The request was made through George
Washington Straw, the secretary.
Two of the veteran teachers of the
grade school staff of the city We're pro-
NOTED to assistant principalships last
evening upon motion of Director Ken
nedy when Miss Emma Beatty and
Miss Sue Sparrow were elected re-
spectively to those positions, in the
Harris and Webster buildings.
Changes in Teaching Staff
Some sixty odd changes in the
teaching staff were recommended by
School Superintendent f. z. Downes
in assignment of teachers for the year
and these were all adopted by the
board. Following are among the
changes:
Mrs. Nellie C. Straw, Central HigN,
to grades; succeeded by Mrs Nettie B.
Fox, Woodward Special; Miss Martha
Fox assigned to Lochiel Open Air
School, vice Miss Reilly transferred by
her own request to regular school;
Miss Emma~C. Miller to Foose build
ing. to replace Mics Briscoe resigned;
Miss Helen. fourth grade Harris, re-
placing Miss Martin resigned; Miss
Mabel Charles, transferred from first
to second and third grades Harris;
Miss Carrie Reilly succeeding Miss
Charles. Miss Sue Sparrow will move
from the fourth and fifth grades
| Webster to the sixth and seventh
| grades of the same school and her old
place will be taken by Mrs. Nellie G.
| Straw owing to the resignation of Miss
Spong.
Miss Mary Bechdolt, sixth and sew
enth grade, Lincoln, to Woodward
! Special replacire Mrs Fox; Miss
Anna O'Connell, sixth and seventh
grades, Lincoln, transferred to eighth
grade in the same building owing to
! increased eighth grade enrolment;
Miss ZeIla Book, fourth and fifth
grades, Lincoln, to go to the grade
vacated by Miss OConnell, and Miss
Media Woods to the grade vacated by