Show TEACHERS TO PRACTICE ECONOMY BOARD OF EDUCATION SETS THE EXAMPLE it says it cannot afford to raise salaries of pedagogues gues and there fore will not from saturdays standard at a meeting 0 the board of education last evening the report of tho teachers committee recommending ahat no teachers salary be raised tor the present was read this action bas been deemed necessary by the board on account of the largo number 0 requests for raises that come becore the board weekly the report stated that the teachers more being paid all that could ibe afforded and that advances in salaries could not be made at present tho teachers knew what their salaries were to be when they signed their contracts the report and recommendations ot the teachers committee were adopted the finance committee reported having received on this years taxes and tho same deposited with the treasurer which after paying an overdraft left a balance 0 cash on hand tho sanitary committee reported six new cabes of diphtheria and one death from the disease in the city during thu past week superintendent allison reported that the wind storm 01 wednesday night had broken a number of windows and blown shingles off the roofs of some of the buildings and the repairs bad been made report accepted cep ted the teachers committee recommended the employment of sirs hattle MarkerT iVest and ruby jones as as the use of a room in the high school was granted for the civil service examinations ami nations on november IS the superintendents monthly report ft as received accepted and ordered filed in part it was as follows A boys 2191 girls 2239 to ial average number belonging daily attendance average dally absence 1811 percentage of attendance percentage of punctuality R S joyce president of the board of education deprecated the public and semipublic semi public funerals of victims of contagious diseases and more especially those who had died of diphtheria enst at present the city Is threatened with this last contagion the funeral of one victim was held at which an orchestra attended tho orchestra having been composed of the victims recent classmates several publications state that the funeral was largely attended by pupils from the school who were intimate friends of tho victim another funeral was held at which it Is announced that the services were well attended tha child was also a victim of diphtheria dr joyce thinks hat sentiment in these cases should be eliminated and while the spread of ahe disease threatens the city the vie alms of diphtheria should bo privately and quietly disposed of his idea Is to prevent a spread of the contagion and to render the greatest good inthe greatest number |