The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-08-27

All OF the members except Mr.. Par
ry were present at the special meet
ing of the school board last night.
Rouse & Co. were allowed the bal
ance of 1918 on their contract for the
building of the annex to the West
Mankato building, and $19.25 for ex-
tras. The contract price was $1,722.
All Of the bills for repairs to the
buildings were allowed, as follows
Lambert Lumber Co., lumber for
Union building, Sl74.96.
r. Hughes & Co. ,reshingling Frank
lin building, s176.
L. N. Holmes, laying new floors in
Union building, S53.1S.
j. A. Lewis & Son, Timing on roofs,
including S45 for a gutter on the
Franklin building, S94O1.
Joseph Manderfeld, painting, new
lights, ETC., 1903 49,
T. R. Coughlan, friedrich, fre-clay,
lime and cement, SIG Is.
The repair bills. aside from the
West Mankato contract, amounted to
SS37.37, and Secretary Brewster re-
ported that S1,517.97 would be left in
the special fund after paying the bills.
| Mr.. Fletcher said that the board
could not be too careful in giving all
chance 10 bid on work. He refer
red to the guttering of the Franklin
building, where there was no compe-
tition. He said that if all are given a
chance to bid and do work no one
could criticize the board.
Mr.. Coughlan said that the cutters
was the only thing where others were
not given a chance, and that it was
not discovered that new cutters would
be wanted until it was too late to call
for bids, as the building might have
been damaged by rain if the work had
not been done at once. The bill was
a reasonable one. He was in favor of
having competition wherever possible.
President Williams also said that if
there had been time, bids would have
been called for. When Lewis & Son
were told to do what work was neces.
sary it was not thought that the gut
tiers would have to be replaced.
| Several small bills for merchandise
furnished the schools were allowed.
| DR.. Davis said that it would be well
to do more work on the West Mankato
school grounds, trim the trees, etc.
The grounds are in bad shape at pres.
emit. On his motion, the committee
on property and expense was author.
lied to have hundred loads of gravel
placed on the grounds, at twenty
cents load.
Superintendent Varney said that he
had arranged the course of study in
the high school so as to provide book.
keeping in the senior year for those
who do not intend to carry their edu.
cation further than the high school.
Mr.. Fletcher had brought the matter
up at the previous meeting and none
of the members of the board had said
anything against it. The other
seniors would take chemistry in place
of bookkeeping. If the board does
not like the plan it can drop it after
this year.
Prof. Varney said that he had
Strengthened out the lower grades OF
the Pleasant Grove building, which
he had found much mixed up and not
distinct grades. He would give Miss
Keysor those entering, Miss Durkee
those that were there and not pro.
NOTED, Miss Parry the first grade,
Miss Dougherty the second, Miss
Brewster the third, Miss Williams
the fourth, Miss Lewis special grade,
Miss Iceberg the fifth, Mr.. Gregg the
sixth, and Miss Dredge the seventh.
Miss Lewis and Mr.. Gregg would have
about the same work. At the mid.
year examination their pupils would
be divided and the brightest put into
seventh grade work. This would