Show BOARD OF EDUCATION the hoard board of education met in their new rooms in the eqberts el erbeck building bui laing on first south street september ath the rhe ladies literary club depre I 1 dented that they had leased for some years past the rooms now occupied by the school board that it would be inconvenient for the club to move and they asked that they still might be allowed to use the rooms on friday whenever it A would not interfere with the sittings of the board Referred to the committee on sites several applications to teach were referred to the committee on schoolwork without reading george G blair agent offered to rent the eagle gate schoolhouse school bouse for the sum of a year payable monthly accepted and contract ordered to be made the committee on examination reported the following named persons as being qualified for teachers and recommended that they be at once employed as their services were badly needed W A tarey carey A G glick W F jameson iua ian M frye hattie sears mattle mattie E mckay M D bowen G N mckay F stevenson jennie jarney carney frank evans H P burt emily A batt hattie randolph E B S hallock lizzie gibbs florence cook G A roberts W W barton D 8 L mccook alta westbrooke H A smith lillie gwin and they also recommended that temporary certificates be issued to the following person sif their services are required thereby qualifying them to teach in our schools for six months effle effie vickie clayton mrs helen krieb um aum mrs D M kelson emma Pi achel althea wheeler Wh etler rena larsen lizzie hyslop louisa sid bid dowa yOli ve delbridge Der bridge bessie kimball ada van woomer franc K wright A E kaucky report accepted the committee on the employment of teachers made the following recommendations reco m ions first they recommend that the following designated grades of teachers he be employed in the schools of said city for the ensuing school year to wit principals aRsi assistants stants to principals intermediate grade second primary and first primary second that the following prices be paid to teachers other than principals to wit fc 1 for first years teaching not exceeding 50 per month for school year of ten months 2 for second years teaching of experienced perien ced teachers not exceeding 60 per month for school year of ton ten months 8 for third years teaching or having two years experience not exceeding ceedie 75 per month for school year often often months 4 for assistants to 0 o principals not exceeding 90 per month third they further recommend that the principal ships be divided into first rot second and third grades to be determined from a consideration of the character of the labor to be performed and the responsibility to be assumed and that their compensation be as follows to w wit it 1 third grade principals 90 per mouth 2 second grade principals not exceeding per month 3 first grade principal snot exceeding in per month fourth fourth your committee recommend that it be distinctly declared by resolution of the board or otherwise that the grades of teachers and compensation hereinbefore recommended do not apply to the of any high school that may hereafter be established your committee appends hereto a form of control to be entered into with school teachers in accordance with the amendments by the school board adopted mr nelson made a vigorous kick against paying not exceeding 50 per month he thought the minimum should be fixed at 80 30 which was high enough he be thought in some cases mr said he be would not care to have it go out to be published to the world that we did not pay our teachers as much as we do our janitors he would rather pay a little more than the teachers were worth than offer such a beggarly pittance the whole scale ecale clear through was low and he be personally would rather raise their salaries mr pike thought 40 would be a good minimum mr nelson arose again insisting that 30 was good enough for the first year let their wages be beral raised seLl as they developed proficiency in ill teaching for trial teachers we should pay trial wages just as soon as they are worthy of it then t let their wages lie raised mr newman dij did not want any apprentices we had had good teachers in the p why should we place in the word minimum let 50 be the maximum and let the grading be done by the superintendent in his bis judgment mr nelson again objected the mayor thought good teachers such as we would care to entrust our eh children ildren to could not be got for less than 50 apprentices in his bis store etore got nearly that much again mr nelson rose in his wrath and claimed rat prices for rat teachers rhe fhe colonel was knocked out but he then made the point that he was not killed by a majority on the board he was paralyzed but was allowed to make his protest which he did and the report of the committee I 1 was adopted mr nelson reported showing that the aggregate school money to be received this year would be 2 03 mr pike offered a reo resolution lution protesting against the incurring of any expense exceeding save by a written contract adopted mr colbath submitted a report showing that the trustees trusta es of the nineteenth ward had agreed to turn over all the property to the school board and aad had also made arrangements range ments to co purchase the property owned bythe religious association of the same ward for they were hardly prepared re pared however to give the board immediate possession but subsequently came to the conclusion that in order not to interfere with the school purposes they would give immediate possession upon payment of 1000 which was needed to complete pom a church they were building the money was ordered paid the report being adopted mr colbath col bath offered a resolution ol ok to the effect that no schoolhouse owned or controlled toy by the board be used for any other purpose save that of education he said he had received applications from parties to hold bold public meetings ani and give dramatic performances he wanted to get an opinion of the board on the matter mr nelson was in favor of the resolution but thought it was a little premature because there were some unsettled questions the resolution was referred to the committee on school work A few minor details were attended to and the board adjourned the school board held another session september ath the following flowing fo report was submitted your committee on the employment of teachers present the following recommendations ions they recommend the following list of te teachers chers for employment in case they are needed and when they are needed be cause at the outset there will not be places tor for all who are needed la er the former list of teachers that was recommended for employment was tor for thirty eight persons we think that a majo ity of this list can be assigned at once for principals M D bowen bo wen W A carey W F jamison aft ada van wormer ida maye frye G A roberts lloyd porter W W karton barton E A koucky for other positions P F bothun lizzie gibbs alta westbrook hattie lewis lillie gwin H U webb florence cooke vickie clayton Ol ayton mrs D M kelson althea wheel er rena kena larson louisa D S mccorkle mattie lattiea Matt ieA A wilt jennie barney hattie K R H bradford effa riddle mrs heler helen krigbaum emma Pi bessie kimball lizzie hyslop alice kein olive Der durbridge bridge the superintendent was author iced to at once make such assignments of teachers as he deemed beat bt at pikes motion to the effect that the members of the board be allowed to make such suggestions as they deemed proper was adopted as being the sense of the board millspaugh said he be would be glad to toree receive elve suggestions suggestion ts but bat wanted to know whether such suggestions would corner come with mandatory force or not the chair understood that the suggestions would not be mandatory in their nature the clerk was authorized to hive hi ve a telephone put in the room of the board of education and he was also requested to take out a commission as notary because as one of the members said we need him in our business very much 1 A map of the city was also ordered purchased the following report leport was adopted gentlemen your joint committee on school work and school buildings t to 0 w whom born was ret erred the question of sch school 0 0 1 accommodations and the petitions of v various arious residents of the fifth ward and adjoining property beg to te report I 1 that in the matter ol of school accommodations there is a deficiency in nearly all the wards of the city that a statement of the accommodations required for the first grades graded of pupils has been furnished to the committee on buildings as a subcommittee sub committee with instructions and with authority to act at once in the matter of securing the needed accommodations and the joint committee recommend that their action be approved and that the committee on buildings be and aye are hereby authorized to secure such accommodations and make all necessary arrangements to secure them referring only for final action in the matter of signing and executing contracts to this board oard tt 2 that a part of the fourteenth ward schoolhouse now nearly completed be set apart in in which to begin the first term of the first year of a high school course and that the matter of Fe securing curing suitable ae accomma nations for a similar course of instruction in the eastern portion 0 01 i the city be referred also to the committee on school buildings with authority to act in the manner as therein provided for the other grades of that the approval and the adoption of this report ahall be construed as finally authorizing the committee to pledge the board as endorsing such action as they may deem necessary 3 the joint committee beg to report favorably upon the opening of school in that quarter of the city bounded on the east by eighth west on the south by tenth south and on the west by the city ilmi limits to with the proviso that the district as dealu defined ed is temporary districted and that t the h school accommodations therein can b be rented at a reasonable rate and with the further proviso pi aviso that the district as defined may as well be enlarged or diminished as nece saty alty may require and it is is becom mended that the committee on b build u ild he and are hereby authorized to act in the matter of therein securing the necessary essav IT accommodations lumo 4 during the joint committee meeting the committee on buildings reported as to the sixth ward that the first story of the sixth ward meeting house had been ten dered to them for school purposes by competent authority at a rental of WA per year or 35 per month that the rooms tendered are a id a and that those rooms are now fitted with black boards common sebooh furni furniture tum and heating apparatus the church board reserves the right to use the large room occasionally but will ag aggee ee not to inconvenience the school the joint committee recommends that a contract be entered into and the rooms secured and that the building committee be instructed to carry out this plat in a proper manner 6 5 1 ahe he Imil building ding committee reported ih joint session sension that competent authority had tendered them the use of the basement of the seventh ward meeting house on condition th it tle school board would fit it U up with a stove or heating apparatus and ans would agree to leave the same there when they vacated the premises also that no further rental would be charged your committee recommend that this proposition be accepted and that the committee on buildings be instructed to perfect this arrangement ran gement by suitable contract and secure the building also that this board give a v vote ote of thanks fr for the use of said building on said terms and that the clerk be instructed ted to inform the trustees of the church association of the seventh ward of this vote in this same the following table was submitted SJ 0 li os 0 d 91 0 o 0 04 III g I 1 09 i a Q 0 bev 0 0 V au S 0 CD N li 0 0 4 g 6 94 s ag a 0 4 sa ok Q a 0 aji E 4 P 8 1 72 88 2 93 25 93 3 59 98 8 47 1 4 20 84 81 54 90 60 5 S 80 69 09 6 IN 7 am 8 88 83 9 18 96 84 82 10 1510 06 11 6 12 9 arf 13 23 63 69 39 14 24 sold in 15 16 17 79 is 18 no 62 19 I 1 49 20 85 35 21 1 1 1 1 total amount of now new seats needed 2694 two cars care of new seats ordered 1100 total actually needed 1594 the board adjourned until thursday evening at |