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Show a settee be purchased as part of tho equipment of the office. The desk will be for his personal use and will be of a larger type than the one allowed him at present The board approved the recommendation and , authorized . him to purchase the articles asked for. The ' superintendent next recommended recom-mended the appointment of Miss Peters, Pe-ters, an instructor In the kindergarten kindergar-ten department, to the poslton of supervisor su-pervisor of that branch, of work. It was also suggested that Miss PeterB. who is at present In Chicago, be given power and permission to purchase or assist in the selection of supplies for her department. The supplies will consist of building blocks and other games used by the children In this grade. The recommendation was allowed, al-lowed, with $25 for expenses on her return trip to this city. Four names of graduates of the Og-den Og-den High school, were presented and recommended 'by Mr. Mills for scholarships. schol-arships. The young people desired information in-formation as to whether they would be allowed these scholarships, saying that their future plans depended to some extent on them. Superintendent Mills declared that they were worthy of the certificates and urged that they be allowed. The board followed his suggestion and the scholarships were granted by the board to the four. Tho "WILL MEET IN- CITY HALL HEADQUARTERS FOR SCHOOL BOARD BEING PREPARED. v At Session of Board, Fou Graduates Are Granted Scholarship New Teachers Elected. The Ogden board of education met la regular session last night and con- sidered the committee reports, with several recommendations by Superintendent Superin-tendent Mills and other officials of the operating department of the public school system. The first business before last night'a session of the board was the treasurer's treas-urer's report, which, was read and adopted. The document showed a bal- graduates are Misses Alice Gray, Frances Fran-ces Rogers, Luclllo Rogers and Lillian Sooy. A list of fourteen teachers, with a salary suggestion, was next offered by the superintendent for appointment appoint-ment for the coming school year. The list includes some of the teachers who refused to sign the contract offered them a month ago by the board, and other new candidates from Utah, Montana Mon-tana and Idaho, and tho n-ame of John A. Junk, an Instructor in this city, who Is recommended to fill a vacancy as principal. The board authorized Mr. Mills to net In the matter -as he saw fit, giving him the power to employ em-ploy what teacher he chose at tho salary sal-ary ho suggested. The list Includes the Misses Edith Billings, Jennie Hammond, Mayme Porter, Helen Browning, Anna Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Rachel Farley, Josephine Munk, Grace D. Cassatt, Mary Adamson, Ethel Butterfield, Mary L. Blhler, Em ma Holland and Anna Myers and John. A. Junk. At 9 o'clock the meeting adjourned to meet again in special session at S p. m. Wednesday, June 30, at which time the bills contracted during tho past school year will bo considered. ance of $09,632.23 on hand. This amount includes some $205 deposited with the treasurer this week, the samo being proceeds from the salo of school books during the past week. A recommendation from the committee commit-tee on supplies to purchase between 100 and 250 text books, to cost $2,117, was adopted. The' books are for use in the class room during the school year of 1909-10, and are to replace worn and destroyed text books mostly most-ly readers and language readers. The matter of insurance of the school building and contents was next read and referred to the finance committee. com-mittee. A bill of $13,440 for construction material ma-terial and week done on tho buildings of the city by the Eceles Lumber company, was read and allowed. The report attached showed that if this bill was allowed tho total amount paid on the work would reach the ' sum o, slightly more than $40,000. about $10,000 less than the sum total of tho I entire bill. ' Superintendent Mills reported that the work on the furnishing of the new headquarters of the boaid of education, edu-cation, which are being fitted up iu the rooms formerly occupied by the Veteran Vet-eran Firemen's association ia-ihe city building was progressing rapidly and to the satisfaction of all. He expressed the hopo that the board would be settled set-tled in their new hotye by the first of July. -The matter of telephone accommodations accommo-dations at the new office. of the board was next considered. The supeiintend-cnt supeiintend-cnt recommended that switch boards from both telephone companies be Installed In-stalled in the offices, to connect with each school house in the city. He declared de-clared that this arrangement would be a great convenience and a material aid to the proper transaction of the city's school affairs direct from the superintendent's office, which will be located in the new rooms. One com- j pa'ny objected to this private switch board arrangement, offering merely the usual telephone in common use. The matter was referred to the finance 1 committee with power to act. I Mr. Mills next recommended that a i new roll top desk, a filing case and I |
