Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-04
SCHOOL
OPENS MONDAY
Board of Education Discuss
New Classes Mayor Com
mends Action of Board

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The opening of night schools IN
this city, the employing of Samuel ].
Henry to Ali the vacancy caused by
John H. Hitzelberg going into Z. M.
C. A. service, the condition OF the
sewer system a. School No. D, the
granting of a leave of absence 70 a
medical inspector and the refusing OF
one to Miss Ida Polensky. and the
reading of several reports by super
%intendent s. e. Shull comprised the
business coming before the Board OF
Education at its meeting last night
with the opening of the meeting
Secretary A. II. Crowell read a letter
from Mayor John F. TenBroeck COM
mending the board on the establishing
of O free evening school.
Principal of the evening school
Royal s. Predmore was present ana
informed the board that withtn@theI
past two nights forty-stE- people had
.baen registered to attend the school,
which opens Monday night in the
grammar school. This is a big In
crease over last years registration.
He informed the board that a church
in Easton street and a tobacco factory
within a block of School No. 8 had
rooms suitable for evening classes
and hat las year a class held at the
church had proven very successful.
He stated tina both the church n
tobacco company desired to hold
evening classes in their buildings and
asked the Board of Education to fur
ing teachers out of the school and
board did not favor the idea of TAX
in gteachers out of the school and
decided that II enough scholars could
be obtained in that section Of the city
they would open rooms in School No.
s for evening classes. He was In
structed to have the manager OF the
cigar factory canvass among h en-
ployes who might attend the school.
and to have q similar canvass carried
out by the church and If It is seen
that enough people will attend,
School No. 5 will be opened.
Samuel J. Henry, supervising prin-
cipal of B~lairstown, received the APP
pointment by the board at a salary
OF $3.50 as a teacher Of latin in the
high school to succeed John II. Hitz-
elberg.
Victor w. Main, of the building
committee, said people living near
School No. 0 had complained about
an odor arising from the overflow
from the septic tanks and he had
been notified of same by Health Off,
Ger Willsey. At the time the school
was built there was no sewer in the
street and 1t was found necessary to
build the septic tanks. Since that
time, however. a has been laid
and the health officer has notified Mr..
Main to have the school connected
with 1t right away
Mr.. Main said that he had visited
the school and looked over the tanks
and found nothing Objectionable with
them. He also said that he had been
informed by an alderman that the
sewer running through the street IL
| defective and has been advised by
| him not to connect the school system
to Ii. Mr.. Main was advised by the
board to take the matter up with the
city engineer.
Medical Inspector DIR. William HI.
Mccormick asked for a leave of alb
sence from his duties for the dura-
ton of the war. DR.. Mccormick re-
ports for service on the fifteenth of
this month. The request was granted.
A similar request was received from
Miss Ida Polensky, a teacher. Miss
Polensky's brother has a dentist Office
at South River and as he is drafted
into the service of the United States
Miss Polensky requested three
months leave of absence SO that she
might look after the office. 1t was
pointed put by Victor w. Main that
the policy of the board has been to
not grant leaves of absence where the
person themselves were not going d.
rectly into the service. A motion was
made and passed hat unless Miss
Polensky reported for work Monday
morning her position will be declared
vacant.
The secretary was authorized to
furnish the desired information to the
state commissioner OF education con-
corning manual training SO the SIS, 900
allotted to this district might be OBJ
tanned.
The following reports were read by
Superintendent Shut:
Monthly report: Total enrolment
for month. boys s.ss4. girls s,725: to-
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