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Show BOARD OF EDUCATION. Business Transacted at the Very Lengthy Session Held Last Evening. The board of education held a very lengthy session last evening. Much of the t.imfl was ocennied in pvumininu charts and other BCbool appliances offered for sale by agents. A lively and continued discussion ensued on the matter of appointing a teacher to fill the vacancy in the Timpanogos school occasioned by Miss Young haying hay-ing been granted the privil ege by the board to resign and accept a position as teacher in the academy made vacant by the inability o Aiiat-Ijaraen to fill tbe place, the latter lady being very ill. There were three applications before be-fore the board for positions in the city schools, Esthma Curtis of Payson, Gertie Thuiman of Provo and Carrie D. Smith of Salt Lake. Miss Thurman had supporters for the position, but finally a motion by Trustee Hardy ap pointing Mia Smith to fill the vacancy carried. Miss Smith cornea highly recommended as an able teacher. Her salary will be S40.C0 per month. Mr. Powelson, teacher in the Page school, will accept the position of teacher in the Mountain school at a salary of $47 60 ner month, an increase of $2 50 per month. He was Installed as teacher of the Mountain and Miss ' Miss Kellogg asked for a raise of salary from $37.50 to $10.00 per month after two months. Her petition was not granted, 8kelton & Co. proved to be lowest bidders on school supplies for the year, $55.12, and was awarded the contract. The matter of purchasing music charts was referred to the committee on supplies with authority to act. Contracts for repairing schoolhouses were awarded to tbe lowest bidders, as follows: J. F. Halladay, Franklin, $90 50; O. H. Berg, Webster, $75.00; A. A. Watson, Parker, $107.00. The work must be completed on or before September 14th. The matter of making needed repairs at the Page and Mountain school-houses school-houses was referred to the committee on grounds with-authority to act. J. H. Boshard was given the contract to haul coal and do scavanger work for the schools for the ensuing year. The board accepted an invitation . lk f PlUHOnf IT"! Oil. ward and will meet with them in a meeting on Saturday evening next at 7:30 o'clock to explain to them the necessity of sending their children to school at the opening of the term and of keeping them in attendance regularly regu-larly and to explain to them the provisions pro-visions of the compulsory school law, also the rules and regulations adopted by the board and to hear suggestions and propositions from the people of that ward relative to the running of the school is that waid as they desire, and other matters. The matter of securing an assistant for the teacher of the high school was referred to Trustee John and Superintendent Superin-tendent Rawlinga. Claims in total amount of $87.25 were allowed. One by the Provo laundry for 85 cents was referred back for correction. It should haye been for only 60 cents. The matter of securing pins for sliding doors and of baviDg partition painted in Parker schoolhouse was referred re-ferred to the committed on grounds and buildings. That committee was also instructed to solicit bids for painting paint-ing roofs and repairing gutters and pipes ot all the buildings. Two hundred copies of rules and regulations reg-ulations were ordered to be printed by McEwan & Feild, their bid of $9.80 for the j"b being the lowest. Board adjourned. |