The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-08-18
INSURANCE FOR SCHOOL
BUSES
Board OF Education Awards
Fleet POlicy-Teachers APP
pOinted-JanitOrS Named
Schools Reopen Sep
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The Board of Education met in
regular session on Tuesday, August
Sth. Those present were Mr.. Fred
Lewis, President; DR.. T. B. Moore.
Vice-president, and Mr.. J. E. Croth-
ers.
| The minutes of the regular meet
ing of July 18th were read and APP
proved.
The Board again considered bus
insurance for the fleet OF buses car
rying school children in Cecil coun-
ty. Representatives of a number of
I Companies were present, presenting
the merits of this insurance ind
their respective Companies. After
consideration, the Board awarded
the insurance on all the basses to
the Lumberman' Mutual casualty
/ Company, Mr.. William H. Lerends,
General Agent, Baltimore Md. This
insurance is to cover the fleet of
twenty-five school buses carrying
hildren in Cecil county. 1t is to be
ritten in the name of the Board of
education. including owners of the
busses. 1t is, also. to contain a
clause granting governmental i'm
munity on behalf of the Company to
the Board of Education of Cecil
county. The Board of Education
decided to pay one half of the insur-
ance so taken out and the bus own
ers TO be required to pay the other
half
Bids for furnishing anthracite coal
to the schools of Cecil county were
opened. The contract for this an
thracite coal was awarded to c. A.
Benjamin C Company. of North
East. Md. at the price of $1,000 per
ton for stove coal; $3.50 per ton for
pea Goals. and $685. per ton for
buckwheat coal.
The scholarship to Charlotte Hall
School which had been awarded to
F. Reed Hartnett was declined by
him. 1t was then awarded by the
Board of Education to the next
highest competitor, Charles McKin-
ney, of Elkton, Md, subject to con-
firmation by the State Senator of
Cecil county.
The janitors to the schools were
Appointed as follows: George Bid
die High School, Frisby Boyer;
Chesapeake City High School, c. A.
Beiswanger; Elkton High School
(white) and Elkton High School
(colored) ]. E. Nickle; Elkton Ele-
mentary School and Howard Street
School, c. Ganzmann. ST.; Kenmore
High School, Edward Mackenzie;
North East High and Elementary
Schools, Robert Biddle, ST.; Rising
Sun High and Elementary Schools,
E. Hughes Keilholtz; Perryville
High and Elementary Schools, Nor
man McMullen; Calvert High
School, c. L. England.
Additions at Elkton High School
(white) for sanitation, and Elkton
Colored High School for sanitation
were authorized to be built.
Permission for farmers in the in
terest of wheat control to use the
school houses for meetings was
granted to Mr.. j. 2. Miller, County
Agent.
The following were appointed ele-
mentary teachers in the Cecil coun-
ty schools: Miss Rose Ricupero,
Miss Helen Dunn and Miss Rebecca
Biddle.
A letter from the Elkton High
School Alumni Association to the
Board of Education was received.
Request for years leave of abb
sence from Mrs. Louise McCauley
Bair was refused.
Sanitary repairs proposed by the
/ County Board of Health in which
the material for the outdoor toilets
to be erected according to specifca-
lions by the Board of Health and
labor used in the erection of them
paid under the Recovery Act for the
one and two-teacher schools, was
considered. The Board of Educa-
ton would not engage in this enter
prise because they did not know
when the money available for the
payment of this LABOR would be re-
turned to them.
Schools were authorized to be
opened on September 6, 1888 and
closed on June s, 1884.
A delegation from Port Deposit
and vicinity appeared before the
Board of Education and asked that
transportation for colored children
attending high school In Elkton,
Md. be- arranged The Board did