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Show OGSEN'S GAIN IS IN THE SOUTH ' In commenting on the new school census, which will be completed wiCh-In wiCh-In a day or two, Superintendent Mills says that while the total will show an increase over the report of last year of about 200 names, several of the districts of the city will disclose a decided decrease, showing a peculiar pecul-iar shifting of population from one Quarter of the city to the other. The report will show that the south side is growing at almost a corresponding corres-ponding loss to the north side of the city. One of the northern school districts dis-tricts will show a loss of 170 names Tills Bame district will show that G5 houses are without tenants. The superintendent su-perintendent states that this largo number of vacant houses is partly due to the fact that many of the people of the district are spending the sum mer away from the city and that theso houses will he occupied again in the fall. While there are a large number of unoccupied nouses on the beuch, Superintendent Su-perintendent Mills says that this is almost entirely due to summer traveling trav-eling and camping out. The many people now living in the canyon greatly great-ly increases tho number of unoccupied houses in. the city. ' There Ts a general tendency notice able, however, for the city to grow-southward grow-southward rather than toward the north. During the pat.t year it is estimated es-timated that noarly 300 new residences have been erected In the south end of the city. The school census enumerators state that there Is a decreaso in the school population of the Third ward and a gain in the Second, which is considered unusual from the fact that the Second ward Is fast becoming a wholesale business center. The Third ward being largely a farming district, it was expected that it would show gains over last year. Some of the enumerators are in tho canyon today to make a count of tho children there, so as to determine whether thero are any who have not been listed. The census-taking has boon thorough In every detail and, It Is said by those having It in hand, that none of the children have been overlooked. The city schools will open September Septem-ber 5, final preparations for the opening open-ing now helng made. The school houses are all in good condition and the coal bins will be filled as soon as bids are ncccpted. The clerk of the board of education has been instructed instruct-ed to get bids for the furnishing of coal and for the placing of window shades in tho Ixrln Farr bciiool, which is just now helng completed. This school will ho ready for tho beginning'- of the school year. The board has decided to removo tho annexes to the Madison aU(' Grant schools, they being neoded no longer because- of tho erection Qftue new bchool building on upper Twenty-KocomI Twenty-KocomI street. These annexes arc lyiitieof Jumbor'awl ,cap be easily ffaUHl sjusim IJJioy'wMH hc'UlTvto lDif" highest bidder" ffieiif TBrtlflf Filigree "fch'ool addition has been lot to Bateman & Doylo for $1,200, the work to be done Immediately Immedi-ately so as to pormlt tho foundation to settle well for the walls of the 1 LLW nine rooms to ho erected next year H Tliis annex is being built largely from , . the proceeds of the sale of the Cen- y tral school building to the Elks. pj' George H. Butler lias been given the J H contract to convoy the students from inftl the Chipp and Broom Bench districts -l If ' to the Mound Fort school. The lit- ' & l H tic frame school houses in those dis fl lH tricts have been abandoned, the hoard f (jl o education and Superintendent Mills affH deciding that It is cheaper and better lill to furnish transportation for the itH children to the Mound Fort school. Ill Miss Florence Hirst's resignation as ijl teacher of English in the High school ll has been accepted and her successor ( will be selected within a short time. lil Miss Hirst resigned because of a mat- ' jH rimonlal engagement she entered into lH a short time ago. IH County Clerk Samuel G. Dye has fc jH reported to the city board of educa- jH tion that the school tax levy for the jl Ogden schools for 1911-1912 amounts tH to $121,300. H ni mwaaU |