Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-04 | Page 5 | Preparing for School Election

PREPARING FOR SCHOOL ELECTION five new board members will be voted for on wednesday december 2 salt lake nov 4 partial preparations were made at last nights mooting meeting of the board of education for the school election which is to toe be held wednesday dec 2 at which time five members of the board will be elected ono one from each of the flye municipal wards to take the places of the retiring mem members bera those who will retire are according to their districts C S martin A G giauque Glau que 0 IV moyle thomas joseph oberndorf for the clerk was instructed to post poat notices and to furnish supplies there was some discussion of the section in the report of the committee on teachers and school work which recommended the purchase of pianos for the jackson emerson and franklin schools newman opposed the adoption saying baying that it was gross extravagance trava gance that there were already enough pianos and more than could be taken care of cummings ad advocated v cocat the purchase declaring that the pianos now in the buildings are not available tor for all tho the advanced pupils are remote from some of the advanced classes and that the purchase of additional dit ional pianos is an economical step atop inasmuch as music must be a part of the ad advanced vinced work the motion to purchase the pianos was finally adopted by a vote of 5 to 4 nellie shermer and carlotta jennings were appointed teachers and those these were released from their contracts eva D pitcher mary pendray may myers corinne johnston lulu keyting clara larson the purchase of material for the high school manual training department at a cost of for the construction st of work benches for other manual training departments was authorized zed I 1