The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-04-18
TEACHERS ELECTED
SALARIES RAISED
FACULTY FOR NEXT SES-
SION ELECTED AT
BOARD MEETING
FRIDAY.
SALARIES RAISED
Increase of Approximately
Twenty-Five Per Cent In
Salaries Voted; Only
Few Vacancies.

Few Vacancies.
Approximately an increase of 25
per cent in salaries for school teachers
in the city schools was allowed by the
board of trustees at special session
on Friday night.
Teachers for the next session were
elected, and other matters of impor-
tance We're transacted.
Prof. ]. c. Meadows was reelected
superintendent of the city schools, at
a salary of $4,000. Prof. T. A. Mid
dleton, Of West Point, was elected
principal of the Stephen d. Lee High
School, succeeding Prof. ]. c. Craw-
ley, who resigned to accept work at
Philadelphia, Miss, next session.
Professor Middleton will receive a
salary Of $2,40O.
Practically all of the teachers in all
Of the schools of the city were re-
elected, and there are only two or
three vacancies.
Salaries of High School teachers
were fixed at $1,000 minimum, and
$1,350 maximum; Junior High School,
$1,080 minimum; Franklin Academy,
grammar grades, and Barrow School,
minimum $1,000 Teachers in the
Union Academy, the colored school,
were granted an increase of twenty
per cent.
Mrs. A. 7. Sale was reelected
principal of Franklin Academy at a
salary of $3.50; Miss Mary Stokes
was reelected principal of the Bar
row Memorial School at salary of
$1,35O.
The following teachers were chosen:
S. d. Lee High School.
Mr.. T. A. Middleton. 49,. Principal
Miss Thelma West. English
Miss Douglas Olsen. ........ English
Miss Bessie Weaver. ...... History
French and Spanish
Mrs. Emma Stinson. . :. Mathematics
Miss Corinne Nickels. /. /. Mathematics
Mr.. C. N. Brandon. ...... Science
Miss Bonnie Jean Byrd. -. Science
Miss Katherine Cox. 80. Study Hall
Miss Maude Howard. ,Domes. Science
Miss liberia Smith. Commercial Dept
Miss DeWetta Burkett. Phys. Direc.
Junior High School.
Mrs. AT. Sale. e............ Principal
Miss Pauline Rouse. ........ English
Miss Gertrude Eckford. -. English
Miss Georgia Quarrels. $3.50. History
Miss Ethel Hardy. ..... Mathematics
Miss Bonnie Jean Byrd. =. Science
Miss Tillie Webb. ~. Study Hall
Physical Directors.
Miss DeWetta Burkett
Mr.. G. N. Brandon
Music Supervisor.
Miss Thankful Howell
Franklin Academy.
Mrs. A. T. Sale. ......... Principal
Miss Louise Gunter, Miss Ella Mos
by, Miss Adell Erwin, Miss Dorothy
Leigh, Mrs. M. C. Vandiver, Mrs
Laura Beard, Miss Mamie Locke
Mrs. Margie Patterson, Miss Olivis
Leigh.
Barrow School.
Miss Mary Stokes. ......... .Principa
Miss Beulah Smith, Miss Ruth Senter
Miss Maggie Perry, Miss Mary Eek
ford, Miss Ozie C. Jordan, Miss
Thankful Howell.
Airline Road School.
Miss Jamie Locke.
Union Academy.
(City School for Colored.)
T. P. Harris. s............... Principa
Hattie Coleman, English and Spelling
Bette Hughes. !. .Math. and SciencI
M. L. Hunter. .... Sixth Grad
jamie Hunt. ....,,........Fi Fifth Grad
Lula Roberts, ....... Fourth Grad
Lille Roberts. ......... Third Grad
Roxanna Mitchell. :. Second Grad
Rebecca Bailey y........ First Grad
Nora Bell Harris. ....... Primar,
sara walker. ....'.. ...i ihiai'
Anna Williams. Domestic Scienc
FORMER GOVERNOR HERE
Former Governor Theodore G. Bill
bo, of Poplarville, was among the Wis
itors in Columbus yesterday. MI
Bilbo was here on professional bust
ness. and while in the city he con
ferred with number Of his persona
and political friends.
Mrs. F. W. Jones, of Christ Church
49,