The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-14
PORTABLES FOR PRAIRIE 1--we.
Board Will Not Be in Control of Man.
agement of Hannah School Next Sea-
Business Manager to Be En-
ployed to Make School Purchases.


Hard working teachers of the city
schools Of Kenosha failed to get
definite action on their request for
additional salary at the meeting of the
Board Of Education on Tuesday night.
tt was suggested that all teachers
working for less than one thousand
dollars a school year, be given a bonus
Of fifty dollars, but the matter did not
reach vote The discussion of the
question by members Of the board in
Dictated that it would not meet with
favor, but the teachers are to have a
chance to present their cause in detail
and the matter was referred to the
committees on teachers and finance
with the understanding that a report
will be made to the board at an adj
iourned meeting to be held on next
Tuesday evening. A strong presenta-
tion Of the cause of the teachers was
made and while it was indicated that
many Of the members of the board
believed that the teachers were en-
titled to some consideration on account
OF the vast increase in the cost of
living, they held that there was no way
that the board could meet the request
with the present appropriations.
The Hannah school on West Prairie
avenue, will probably not be operated
under the direction of the Kenosha
Board of Education another year, as at
the meeting of the board on Tuesday
night it was declared that conditions
Of operation had been very unsatisfac-
tory and that on this account the board
would consider the erection of portal
Bile buildings on West Prairie avenue
to take care Of the children of that
district of the city. The committee on
buildings and grounds was instructed
90 purchase the property or secure a
lease ON it and at the same time give
some estimates on the cost of the
portables The matter will be taken
up at the next meeting of the board.
Kenosha schools are to aid the Lamb
school to the south of the city and the
committees of the board were in
structed to make some plan by which
twenty pupils of that Pleasant Prairie
school may be admitted as tuition
students to the Lincoln school with
the opening Of another school year.
A report from Superintendent of
Schools Mary D. Bradford showed a
vast loss of time. BY the students of
the schools on account of contagious
diseases during the month of May.
The number of school days lost reach
ed the high number of eight thousand
three hundred and sixty-six. Members
of the board took exceptions to the
suggestion that the school nurse work
under the direction o. the department
of health and this matter will be made
the subject Of special communication
by President Whitbeck of the Board
of Education. 1t was evident that the
board is DESTROYS to cooperate on
plans for more healthful Kenosha,
but the board members feel that they
are now giving such cooperation.
Summer school in Kenosha this year
is going to be a real school as reports
to the board showed that there had
been applications from one hundred
and thirty-three students for work in
the Senior and Junior High schools and
FIVE hundred and seventy-two students
for work in the graded schools. 1t is
expected that the summer colony of
students will be increased materially
bv the coming of children from the
the various parochial schools in the
city. The board voted to continue
the open air school during the entire
summer 1T was shown that conditions
Of pupils in this school made such
a plan advisable.
The old question of the employment
Of purchasing agent came up in a
report from a committee which did not
suggest the employment of purehas-
ing agent, but "business agent
The plan is to have one man who will
not only act as truant officer, but
who viii have charge Of the pur-
chase Of supplies as well. This plan
Is to be carried out.
In the long list Of routine work to
come before the board was the employ
ment Of all Of the janitors for another
year and the allowing Of the usual
bills. No definite action was taken in