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Show vacant as supervisor of tho manual training department of tho hlfih MhooL The appointment of Mr. Thatcher was made by the board upon the recommendation of Superintendent Superintend-ent Mills. The architects having charge of the building of th now Ogden high school reported that tho building of tho high school is progressing very satisfactorily. Ho nskec that the board take action toward to-ward the contracting for the wiring of the building for electric lights and also for the installation of clocks for tho entire building. Tho board authorized au-thorized Mr. Hodgson to draw up tho plan? for tho wiring and advertise for bids for the same. SCHOOLS TO CLOSE IN MAY INSTEAD OF JUNE FOURTH AS PREVIOUSLY INTENDED Report of Results of Arbor Day Planting Plant-ing Shows Surprising Amount Done By City Schools The board of education decided last night that the practice heretofore in vogue with the graduating classes, to give a dramatic performance as a part of the graduating exercises, be abandoned aban-doned and that the exercises be confined con-fined to such program as best promotes pro-motes the work of the courses they have pursued in'' school. The matter was brought to the Immediate attention of the board by a petition from the officers of the graduating class of the high school that the class be permitted permit-ted to present to the public, at the graduating exercises a drama. The expression came from Superintendent Superin-tendent Mills. President Browning, Vice-President Coulter, Asael Farr and Kyram Pingree of the board of education educa-tion that such entertainment at the cIt-o of the school is Improper, uncalled un-called for and not iu keeping with the spirit and purpose of the educational system of the city schools. This means that the graduating class of the hlgn school will not be permitted to put on a theatrical production on fiaduatlon day. I Tho. time of the termination of the 6chool year was also passed upon by the board, it being decided that the school year shall close on the 28th day of May. It was generally expected expect-ed that tho school year would close on or ahout the fourth of June, but i alter due consideration the board con- : eluded that it would be better to close, the schools on May 2Sth. The clerk was aut horded to ask for bids for the furnishing of school supplies sup-plies which will be done by circular lotters to parties who are in a posi tion to bid on the supplies required. The finance committee reported cash on hand at the present time in the sum of $110,310.12 and that the teachers' teach-ers' payroll payable today amounts to $0,215.15. It was stated by the clerk that there are two other payments to teachers to be made before the end of the t-chool year. Dr. Coulter, chairman of the san-itaty san-itaty committee, reported that since the last meeting of the board only one case of contagious disease had been made known, that being a case of chlckenpox. It was said by members of the board that this is the first in-stance in-stance ln the history of the city schools that such favorable report had come from the Eanltary committee commit-tee In his report of Arbor Day exercises Superintendent Mills stated that the day was duly observed in all the schools of tho city with appropriate exercises and instructions regarding the importance of tho day and that the planting and general cleaning of home and public places was as follows: fol-lows: Trees pianted 3138 Shrubs planted 4057 Vines plauted 2527 Lawns planted 693 Rose bushes planted 394S Kinds of flowers planted 4183 Yards cleaned . , 2754 Professor .Frank Thatcher, an instructor in-structor at the State Agricultural college col-lege at Logan was employed at a salary sal-ary of $100 per month for the balance bal-ance of the present school year and for next year, to fill the vacancy of B. F. Cannon, who left his position |