The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-16
BAR CARD GAMES
At SOCIAL CENTERS
Board of Education Unwill-
ing to Open Them TO Cards,
Smokes and Fisticuffs
AS Requested.
WANT TO KEEP BONNY HAME
Report of superintendent Shows Vast
ly Increased Enrolment in Schools
Many New Teachers Employed
TO Fill Vacancies.
WANT TO KEEP BONNY HAME

Social centers at the Kenosha schools
will not be opened for card playing.
Neither will the festive cigarette leave
its odor in the rooms and corridors and
ringside seats for fstcutfs will not be
handed out by the man al the door, for
the Board of Education at its meeting
on Tuesday evening turned down with
out debate the petition Of returned
soldiers to turn social centers into club
rooms where card playing, smoking and
boxing bouts would be permitted. The
Committee on Wider Use Of the Schools
failed to give it's sanction to the pro-
posed plan and the members Of the
board showed no desire to go behind
the decision Of the committee. It was
held that such an idea was certain
to meet with very wide opposition
on the part Of the people who be-
lieved that the schools were for edu-
.cational purposes rather than for the
offering Of pleasure clubs.
Will Keep Bonny Hane.
Tie meEtEseas IN tile 5osrd Cd 10
willingness to dispose Of the holdings
of the city at Bonny Hame farm and
the petition from the council asking
that the board order a portion Of the
land sold, was laid on the table with
out argument and without a record vote.
The members of the board believe that
this property should be kept as a site
for a real school plant which Kenosha
will build some time in the future.
Large Increase in Enrichment.
The report Of the superintendent to
the board showed a very large increase
in the enrolment of the schools at the
end OF September, the total enrolment
being given as 1927. This was an in
crease of 1,104 over the enrolment at
the same time as 1907, and an increase
|of $40 over the enrolment at the same
time year ago. It was shown that
with this very large increase in the
enrolment the need of further room
to provide for the proper education of
the children was acute.
Many Teachers Elected.
Announcement was made Of the re-
signation of Miss Ruth Hooper, who
is in charge Of the physical training
department of the schools. Her resig-
nation will become effective on the first
of November. The Misses Carlena J..
Michaelis and Mabel D. Vernon have
resigned to enter the University of
Wisconsin. Miss Margaret Telfar has
been relieved of grade work in order
to be permitted to give her entire time
to industrial work.
New teachers elected included, Mrs.
Maude E. Baylor, Misses Lois Gray,
Ruth I.illey, Vera Il. Hoffman, Mar
guerite O'Brien, Beulah Smith, Alice
Hagar, Julia de Boer, Helen Eastman,
Edna Bond, Jeanne Watson, Rose Cohn
and Mrs. Mary Pitcher Vale, Mrs. Har-
rietta Argyle, Mrs. Irmgaard Reckinger.
Commissioner began Resigns.
School Commissioners Edward began,
who has represented the first ward on
the board for the past four years, re-
signed ms posltlon, the resignation to
become effective at once. The two new
commissioners, George Anderson and
IA. B. Manthei, representing the fourth
and ninth wards, took their places as
members of the board Tuesday night.
Hardware Contract Let.
The contract for the hardware at the
Washington and Mckinley schools was
let to the Thomey Hardware Company
regardless of strong protest made by
6. A. Pope of the Dewey Hardware
Company. The latter company had been
the lowest bidder on the contract, but
the board held that the hardware Of
fered was not in keeping with the
specifications.
The resolution providing for free text
books did not come before the board for
action as had been anticipated.