The Penn's Grove record., 1914-05-08
BOARD OF EDUCATION ELECTS TEACHERS
Proposition For New School House
Appropriation Started

except II. ]. Blohm. Mr.. cunningham
presided.
A few current bills were ordered paid
one Of which was for $36.36 from s..
Rushing Leap for drawing the resolution
Tor resembling the proposition toNpurchase
the Sack land Of six acres for school
purposes, getting option on lands and
legal services.
Bids were received for curbing} and
laying concrete walks around the school
property. but were referred back Tor
more definite specifications.
TEACHERS ELECTED
The following were elected teachers foF
the High Shcool: n
M. Alma Garrison, Latin and higher
mathematics; Ethel Peterson, German
and Sciences; Grace Brame, English;
Ruth Esperance, Commercial.
Miss Garrison has been with school
ever since it has been on the approved
list and has her position under the tenure
of Office act. The others are new. Miss
Peterson is a resident of Penns Grove,
was graduated from the High School in
1908, taught two years, has been at
BuckneIl College for four years and will
be graduated in June. Miss Brame is a
graduate of Dickinson College and lives
at Carlisle, Pa. Miss Esperance is OF
Westwood, N. J..
tGDAlGEA cCunnI |
The following were reelected: Lizzie
j. Kidd, 9Th grade; Anna F. Barber, It'll;
Clara L. Layton, 9th; Edna Cline and
Belle Hewitt 9th.
PRIMARY TEACHERS
were reelected as follows: Sarah f.
Ayers, Martha Paul, Lois Fletcher, Ruth |
Woodrow, Ruth Wilson, Elizabeth Diver,
Mabel Latting.
The following additional teachers were
elected: Emma Simkins, who will be
graduated from Trenton Normal School
in June, and Mrs. Ella Murlin White, of
Mullica Hill.
An additional teacher is thought neces-
sary in the primary and another will
take Miss Cline's pace, while she ie ex-
pected to teach the elementary hand
work in all the grades up to the 9th.
Ile supervisor also recommended that
a special teacher Tor drawing and pen
manship be elected. Miss Hoyer, all ap-
plicant received four votes, and the other
four votes were blank. The election was
deferred for a week.
SUPERVISORS REPORT
w. ID. Snyder, supervisor, in his re-
port stated that the enrolment in Penns
Grove school this school year was 800.
In the Township it is 100, 81 being in
Wiley School and 40 at Wright's.
The possible days attendance during
April was 10, 94l; days attended, 2,342.5;
tardy l24; truancy /.
The new county superintendent has re-
ceived the tests in studies not covered by
the State examination. They are in
physiology, reading and agriculture. The
reading tests use to be OH the technical
subjects of expression, but now they are
OH literature for the grades. Appropri-
ate literature has not been introduced in
ONE of the grades in Penns Grove
School. All those in the 9Th grade pass
ed excepting one in civics and one in
agriculture.
He had been informed that elementary
manual training which was dropped from
Penns Grove school this year, will be
required hereafter including the 9th
grade. The State department will issue
a course of study and give an examina-
ton which must be passed before the
pupil is advanced. Consequently provi-
sion will have to be made for it.
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE PROPOSITION
The matter of submitting another
proposition to the voters for an appro-
priation with which to erect a new school
house was discussed. A motion was
made that $50, 600 be asked for, but was
not finally passed upon, because w. A.
Summerill presented a petition signed by
a hundred persons, some of them being
the heaviest taxpayers in the Borough,
asking that the proposition to purchase
the Sack land of four acres be again
submitted to the voters. AS that made
another proposition to be considered the
matter was laid over to be considered at
the adjourned meeting next Monday
night.
Two thousand dollars of the $35, 900
are to be used to purchase more land. An
option has been procured on the Hagan
house and lot adjoining the Cunningham
lot which the Borough now owns OPP
posite the present school house, for ST.
500; also on VIM. Johnson's lot, adjoin-
ing the Hagan lot, for $500. The Cam
ningham lot cost $500. That will en-
large the ground on which the Board of
Education desires to erect a new school
house from about six-tenths of an acre to
about an acre of land. The back part
OF the Hagan and Johnson lots are low
and will need filling in to make it fit for
school children to play thereon. There
is no sewage outlet for all up-to-date
building on these lots.
The Sack tract consists of four acres of
high arabic farm land and two acres of
meadow onto which sewage can be dis
posed, p%rocurable for $4,000.
Corn and Home Contests
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annual Gloucester county boys corn