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Show PICIPALSIESIGN FROM THE SCHOOLS OF OGDEN The board of education, at its meeting meet-ing last night, authorized contracts for the paving of Twenty-fifth street In front of tho high school and Central Cen-tral junior high school buildings, tho J. P. O'Neill company having offered to do the work for the same price as it Is being done for the city. The contractor also offered 5 per cent discpunt dis-cpunt for cash and tho board expects to discount tho bill when the estimates esti-mates are made, for the work. Dr. ISdgar Bates, tho school medical med-ical inspector reported that the chief condition of bad health among the school children were bad teeth, adenoids, ade-noids, enlarged tonsils and defective eyesight He recommended that the board employ a trained nurse to "follow "fol-low up" the work of tho inspector A communication from the state board of education containing a suggestion sug-gestion that the school children contribute con-tribute to a fund for the erection of a monument to the late A. C. Nelson, was read and referred to the school teachers. Resignations from .Principals Miss Willa Spurgeon of the Lorin Farr I and George Hobson of the Quincy school were announced by Superintendent Superin-tendent Mills. Miss Spurgeon is to return to her home in Kentucky and Mr Hobson is to take a course In college. A request for an adjustment of the high school clock difficulty was received re-ceived from the Ogden Electric Supply Sup-ply company and referred to an attorney. at-torney. Tho settlement of the water bills for the schools was taken up by the board on request of Frank J. Hender-shot, Hender-shot, bookkeeper for the city water department. The bill amounts to $737.C5. A number of routine bills were approved and one was not approved ap-proved This wag from a women who claimed $5 damages on account of her dress being torn by a wire at tho Grant school grounds. oo |