The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-19
Cecil County Board
Of Education
Amendments And Transfers
OF Teachers Schools To
Reopen September 4th


regular session on Tuesday, July
9th. Those present were Mr.. j. p.
Crothers, President; Mrs. Wallace
Williams. Vice-President, and DR..
T. B. Moore.
The minutes of the regular meet
ing OF June 18th were read and ap-
proved, and sundry bills ordered
paid.
The resignation of Miss Alice
l.. Rawson, English teacher in the
Elkton High School, was received
and accepted, with regret.
The superintendent read the
agreement which he had drawn UP
for the M. and M. Construction Com
pany to sign in connection with the
demolition of the old Chesapeake
City school and also letter receiv-
ed from the M. and M. Construction
Company accepting this agreement.
This was approved by the Board.
A letter was received from the
Cecilton volunteer Fire Company
requesting permission to hold their
carnival on the grounds of the old
school at Cecilton and to use room
in the school building to store mer-
chandise, This was approved by
the Board.
Bids were received from the fol-
lowing on the new bus route to be
established in the First District
from the Ponds Neck district to
Cecilton:
Joseph P. Short-$8.00 per day;
John Losten-$7.45 per day; j.
Reese Short-$6.9S per day; Rey-
nolds Mackie-$5.S9- per day and
worace B. Powell 60 per day.
The Board awarded the bid to
the lowest bidder, Horace b. Powell,
at his price of $500 per day.
Bids were received from the fol-
lowing on the new bus route to be
established in the Fifth District
from Jackson's Cross Roads to Bay
View:
John Losten-$7.95 per day and
John M. Lilley-$6.45 per day.
The Board decided both bids
seemed to be high considering the
distance to be covered 4 and, there
tore, rejected both bids.
A report was received from the
results of the scholarship examin-
atoms given on June goth. Subject
to the approval of the State Senat-
or. the Board awarded the tuition
scholarship to st. Johns College to
Harold M. Boulder, of Elkton, Mary
land. There were NO applicants for
the Blue Ridge and Maryland In
stitute scholarships.
Bids for furnishing stationery
and supplies to the schools of Cecil
County for the school year 1870
1941 were received as follows:
Meyer and Thalheimer, Baltimore,
$1,19O.72. The Dulany-Vernay Co.,
Baltimore, $1,173.34. The Paul
M. Adams Company, Baltimore,
ME-. Thomas R. Freeman, Agent,
$1,15O.62. The James T. Vernay &
Sons Co., Baltimore, $1,131.94.
The Board awarded the contract
to The James T. Vernay & Sons
Company, the lowest bidder.
The date for the opening of both
white and colored schools of Cecil
County was set for September 4th,
preceded by a teachers meeting ON
September 3rd. The date for the
closing of schools was set for June
10, 1941.
The following transfers and ap-
pointments we're approved by the
Board:
Miss Rebecca w. Biddle, Pran-
cipal of the Jackson Hall school to
the Cecilton Elementary School.
Miss Harriet B. Graham, Assistant
in the Cecilton Elementary school.
Miss Margaret H. Bouchelle, Prin-
cipal Of Harris school to the Elkton
Elementary school. Miss Mary Helen
Davis, Assistant in the North East
Elementary school. Miss Marie Price
from the, closed Ponds Neck school
to the principalship of the Pleasant
Hill school. Miss Sadie Cavanaugh
from the Elk Mills Elementary
school to the principalship of the
jackson Hall school. Mrs. Josephine
S. Cochran from the Principalship
of the Pleasant Hill school to the
Elk Mills Elementary school. Mr..
Carl NJ. Cochran from the Chesa-
peake City High school to the Elktou
High school. Miss JacQuetne Nc
Cauley, Home Economics teacher
in the Ctcilton High school. Miss
Gilmore r. Hardness, High School
Music Teacher. Miss Ellen Elizabeth
Lee, High School Music Teacher.
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