Show i PLANS OF THE JACKSON Devising Means to Raise 1621 Needed r Y 4 TEACHERS t ISSUE CHALLENGE y Offer to Play Basketball Winner Win-ner Take AH 1 I Assurance From Commercial Club Induced I In-duced School to Renew Attempts r At-tempts to Hun a Lynch assurance from the Commercial Commer-cial club was received that It would make up any needed deficit of the district dis-trict tho Jackson school had decided to close its doom for the school year on Friday morning As soon as the message mes-sage from Mr Harris was received Principal Bradford and teachers sent out the tuition blanks 1 prepared sometime some-time ago und when the children returned re-turned In the nftcrnoon they brought subscriptions amounting to 5100 About 1021 is I needed to complete the work and while only onefourth of the amount has been pledged by parents Principal Bradford believes that considerable con-siderable more can b ° raised If I a canvass can-vass of the district Is I made which will be done early next week BASKET BALL GAME Then the teachers of the school have decided to challenge any corps of teachers In the city to a game of basket bas-ket ball the school winning the game to lake the entire gate receipts Principal Bradford stated last evenIng even-Ing that parents who subscribed to the Jnckon school fund did It only on condition con-dition that the school continue the entire en-tire five weeks The district is a poor one and many parents while expressing sympathy with the movement to cons lane con-s the school work have stated that Itl is utterly Impossible for them to pay tuition for their children Others who paid the tuition stipulated on the blanks furnished that If the schools do not run the full time the money is to be refunded re-funded The proceeds of thc rummage sale i Held yesterday by the P E 0 society amounted to something over 590 PRINCIPALS MEETING TODAY All principals of the city schools are Invited to meet with Joseph A Silver vicepresident and Fisher S Harris secretary of the Commercial club at the club rooms this afternoon at I oclock to discuss the school situation and the plans of the Commercial club for raising needed funds President Glauquo of the Board of Education stated yesterday that the reason he did not sign the teachers warrants was because he did not get time to do It with the busy day the board put In The warrants were signed sign-ed yesterday TO CONTINUE GOOD WORK I A prominent member of the Commercial Commer-cial club stated last evening that ah impression had gone abroad that because be-cause the Commercial club had so to speak been snubbed by the Board of Education It would take no further action ac-tion toward raising funds to carry on the school work This he said is an entirely erroneous Impression as the efforts ef-forts of the club members will not cease until the entire amount needed is raised that the proposed concert will be given and that it will be the finest thing of the kind ever heard In this part of the country Just say to the people through your paper concluded the member that the schools are goIng go-ing to run and that the Commercial club will do Its share in seeing that the money needed Is raised |