Evening journal., 1922-06-22
NEWS GOSSIP
OF new CASTLE
Board of Education Favors
Four-Room Building to
Relieve Congestion
APPROVE PLANS
FOR STREET WORK
Special to The Evening Journal

ing the local Board Of EdUcatioR
may use mony on hand at the time
the present school law went into ef-
feet on July /. 1921. and the
amounts then due. since being col
lected, amounting TO more than
$4,000, two two-room portable school
buildings will be erected on academy
plot situated west and directly in
front of No. . school building. This
decision was reached at the meet
ing of the board last evening. II this
provision is made for the housing Of
the higher grammar grades the seri-
Gus problem of coHgested school
rooms will be solved.
For several months the board has
been facing a serious problem Of
how to provide a place for the in
creased school attendance next fall.
The need of new high school
building is keenly felt by all inter-
es1ed in the local public schools. and
steps will be taken during the COM
ing year looking 10 a new structure
in which to house the students OF
the high school department for
1923-24. Petitions are being signed
by many OF those. having children
in the schools. and which will be
presented the Legislature providing
for the bonding OF the city for that
purpose. At the next election candl-
dates for the Legislature will be
asked TO pledge themselves for bet
ter school facilities in this city.
The legal opinion OF Frank deH.
Janvier will be asked by the board
on the question as TO whether or
not they may use the funds referred
to. The advice OF the State Board
OF Education on the matter will also
be asked. II the opinions are favor
able the board will Immediately pro-
coed 10 erect the two two-room port
able school buildings on academy
plot.
The question OF selecting site for
four-room school building in
which 10 establish a Negro graded
school. was also discussed at length.
The board members plased them
selves on record last evening as IA
voring one four-room building in
preference to two two-room build
ings for that purpose. when they
decided 10 get in touch with the
owner OF certain tract OF land
decided 20 inform the Delaware
School Auxiliary that the selection of
site or sites for school buildings
for Negro pupils would be made in
the near future. This problem has
also been given considerable study
by the board as for two years there
has been demands made on them
for better facilities for instructing
the Negro pupils.
Should the board tail to get an op- !
ton on the site FOR a four-room /
building they have two other sites in /
view on which TO erect two tVo-room I
buildings. The secretary was in I
structed to communicate with the |
Delaware School Auxiliary stating /
the situation concerning the location /
Of sites II II is found advisable 10 1
erect two two-room buildings the
site selected by the board on which .
to erect the one In the city proper.
will require condemnation proceed /
ines TO procure as the corporation
now owning il has refused TO con-
slider a sale of the property to the
board. As the local board ha. not
sufficient money with which 10
finance the condemnation proceed
ings the auxiliary will be requested
TO finance it should the local board
take steps to that end.
George W. Bacon. who was sus-
pended on May %. was reinstated
as janitor in charge OF the public
school buildings. George Williams.
who has been doing the janitor's
work was paid S35 and relieved OF \
his duty. All janitors for the sew
eral schools will be paid for June
and relieved OF their duties for the
summer. and Mr.. Bacon placed in
charge Of all school buildings for
the summer.
Prof. IT. E. Snavely reported hav-
ing received a communication from
the state Department. informing him
that the $500 appropriation for the
home economies department had
been placed TO the credit OF the To-
cal board with the county treasurer.
This is the final Appropriation OF the
year.
Miss Mary e. Putnam. OF Wash
ington. n, c.. was elected teacher in
the home economics department in
place OF Mrs Virginia Taws. re-
signed, n a salary OF s1575 a year.
The following bills were ordered
paid: VI. T. O'Neill. printing. So
Dodd Mead and Company. encyclo-
pedia. S136.SO; Cottrell and Leon ,
ard. caps and gowns hired for the ,
graduation class for commencement
$40; Keystone View Company. /
S53i.o7; Gimbel Bros. S92.5O: II. r. ,
Snavely $3.50 and W. F. Quartet :
and Company. s55.
Miss Margaret Snavely. a fresh :
man in the high school, who has ]
been making her home with her ,
grandparents at the Baldton, was
stricken unconscious as she entered
her home Tuesday afternoon. when Z
she had just returned from New
Castle. While her condition was
serious AZ first It was much i'm s
proved this morning. (
The pupils Of tho Dobbinsville ]
branch Of the Methodist Sunday
school, Mrs. Mary McCauley super {
intendent, enjoyed their first annual {
picnic at Riverside beach. yesterday
About 81 persons in all went on the
trip. basket lunch. games and
bathing featured the outing.
Harry Hewlett, who sustained S
fractured collar bone and has been '
under treatment at the Delaware l
Hospital, Wilmington. for two weeks
was able to return to his home on 5
West Fifth street, last evening. Mr..
Hewlett had the broken bones sewed g
together with a silver cord, as they q