The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-07-23
CONTRACTS AWARDED.
The School Board Lets Several
Small Jobs of Repairing.
Supt. Varney Recommends the Is.
tabIlshment of Two New Grades.

tabIishment of Two New Grades.
The special meeting of the school
board last night was attended by all
of the members except Mr.. Cray.
The vote cast at Saturdays cleo
tion was canvassed and found to be
as already published. T. r. Coughlan.
S. B. Wilson, Lorin Cray and Mrs. B.
D. Smith were formally declared
elected for the ensuing two years.
Each of the judges of election were
allowed 81 and each clerk 50.
President Williams announced the
transfer of Mr.. Keysor from the
finance committee to the committee
on school property, and the addition
of Mr.. Parry to the finance COM
mittee.
Bids for doing repairing were open
ed as follows: Z
Rubenstein & Groemer-Reshingl-
ing Franklin building, sl90.45; build
ing new stairs, using old material so
far as possible for the latter, $27; lay.
ing new floor at Union building, using
No. Georgia pine, $40 per Thousand
feet. II
]. and F. Observation-Disclosures
Franklin building, except tin work.
S199.25; outside painting, s75; stair
way on rear, SIS, if new S45. 7,
Richard Hughes & CO.-Reshlngling
Franklin building, No. l clear pine
shingles, S186, with No. cedar, S17D:
flooring the Union building. 81 per
square.
James Notwithstanding Frank
lin building with best red cedar
shingles, 1920 per thousand, or SO IL
the board furnishes the shingles, or
Sl6O in all, if the board furnishes tin
for the cutters; and do any other
work at S1.75 per day.
Joseph Manderfeld - Painting
Franklin and old part of the West
Mankato woodwork and tin two coats,
window stills one extra coat Of oil, re-
purifying the old sashes, $50.
o. Throdahl-Painting Franklin
building, furnishing best material,
$105; West Mankato building, $780, Is.
81. D. Misunderstanding Franklin
building, furnishing material and
painting two coats of pure white lead
and linseed oil, and two coats of the
best mineral paint on the cutters,
1853; West Mankato building, 1877.
On motion of Mr.. Fletcher, the
painting contract was awarded to Mr..
Manderfeld, the contract to call for
the best material, pure white lead and
linseed oil, etc. ~ q
Capt. Keysor favored white cedar
shingles for the Franklin roof.
On motion of DR.. Davis, the con-
tract for shingles was awarded to
Richard Hughes & Co. for Sl70,
white cedar shingles to be used.
The flooring of rooms in the Union,
building was talked over, and it was
thought best to lay the new flooring
over the old, land to use three inch
quarter sawed Georgia pine, which
can be procured at s22 per thousand.
This will probably be done by the
day. Capt. Keysor will have general
of all the repairing to be
done.
F. Willis jerks appeared before
the board and presented the adyan.
tages of his patent door holder so we'll
that the board voted to buy eighteen
large ones, at $3.50 dozen. The vote
stood four for to three opposed. i
Superintendent Varney favored the
establishment of seventh grade in,
the West Mankato building, saying
that it would have an attendance Of /
rs. II this was not established, Is
would go to the Pleasant Grove build,
ing, to join the grade Of so already
there. With natural increase of 10,
the grade would be too large for one
teacher to handle with good RESULTS
Supt. Varney also favored the estab.
lishment Of seventh grade in the
Franklin building. There are As in
the seventh grade at the Union, and
l5 would be added from the Franklin.
At the latter building there will be
Is In the seventh grade and % or Bel
IN the sixth. 71S<~ il
The board talked over the situation
Ind it was the general opinion that If !
seventh grade is formed in West
a new second grade teacher
should be elected, and the rest
promoted grade. In regard to the
transfer of one of the
;eachers to the Pleasant Grove build
ng, Supt. Varney said that his in
designations had shown that the work
lone in the school compares favor
lbly with that of any school in the
,ity, and he would not favor changing
,eachers.
Supt. Varney asked the board to
Ippoint committee to examine the
ystem of students reports with
Jew to obt aiming more modern