The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-22
School Board Retains Prof. Pierce as
Manual Training Teacher.
Miss Marie Burmeister Chosen to Sue.
coed Miss Firestone.
Board Votes to Graduate Class oil
Iwenty.nine This Spring.
West Mankato Grounds Sodded, Trees
Planted and Water Provided.
From Thursdays Daily.


The school board held an adjourned |
meeting last night, the only absent mem
bers being Messrs. Coughlan and Davies.
The resignation of Miss Emma Fire
stone as teacher of the sixth grade of |
the Pleasant Grove school was received |
and accepted. Miss Marie Burmeister of |
this city was unanimously elected to |
fill the vacancy, and her salary for the |
first year was placed at S45 month. |
She is graduate of the state normal
school, and has taught six years at New
Ulm and three years at Brainerd, the
superintendent of the schools of both
places giving her excellent recomend-
ations. She is now teaching at Brainerd.
Mrs. Smith stated that Prof. Pierce
of the manual training department has
received an offer of a position at the
state training school at Red Wing at
/, a salary amounting to about 81 POO a
year. He would remain in Mankato if
his salary was raised to 800 a month.
He is now receiving SIS, but the board
F, recently raised him to $50 On Mrs.
Smiths motion the board voted to pay
him 800 a month, there being but one
+, opposing vote, and one not voting.
Before the vote was taken, President
Davis stated that a number of promi-
nent citizens had urged that Prof.
Pierce's services be retained, if possible.
The matter of fixing the ianitors'
salaries was left until next meeting and
made a special order for the time. One
new application received, but it was not
opened.
Mrs. Smith, for the school committee,
reported in favor of the purchase of
general supplies for the stock room to
the amount of about 500, printed blanks
to the amount of about S35, office sup
plies to the amount of about S35, book
binding to the amount of about $3.50,
and supplementary reading to take the
place of worn out books to the amount
of $780, The report was adopted and the
committee was empowered to make the
purchases. Three maps were ordered
bought and the matter of buying more
was referred to the committee on schools
and text books with power to act.
r.,
property and expense, reported that
Park Superintendent Blake has been en-
ployed to set out eleven elm trees on
the West Mankato school grounds at
81 tree. McLauren & Northrop, the
lowest bidders, had laid a surface water
pipe from the nearest mains to near the
center of the grounds for Sl2S and had
enclosed the tap in a box. H. A. Hurd
is to sod the grounds in front of the
building.
Superintendent Uline reported the fol-
lowing as beingf entitled to graduate,
having received the necessary twenty
eight credits and passed in all the re-
quired subjects: Willis F. Atcherson,
scientific course, 80 credits; Sadie Bar
ney, general %; Lora Bacon, latin "a;
Clifford Boynton, latin, 80; Jerry n.
Culp, scientific, 80; Cathryn Dougherty,
latin, Is; John L. Dodds, general, 80;
Della NJ. Gibbins, general, %; Helen
Hiebert, latin, %; Anna D. Hoy, latin,
80; Julia Marie Hub, latin, 80; Eda A.
Jensen, latin, 80; Anvil Johnson, general,
80; Olga Hildur johnson, latin, "a; Lot
ia Ebba Under, latin, %; Barbara Mans
field, latin, 81; Chas O'Connor, general,
IS; Lila Grace OdJard, latin, 80; Jes
sic B. Sanborn, latin, 81; S. Rose Staley,
latin, 81; Helen Siemens, latin, 81;
Edith Mae Sheldon, latin, 81; Nettie
Skuse, latin 80; James E. Swan, sci
entifc, 81; Helen A. Weed, latin, %;
Ralph B. Warren, scientific, 20; Chas
H. Wagon, scientific, 20.
> The board voted to graduate these
and also Carl Carlson, latin, 33 credits,
who is behind in one or two of his
studies; also Chandler Larkin, general,
25 credits, in case he passes the state
examination next week. This makes a
total of twenty-nine to be graduated.
Several others failed to get through.
The bills were allowed, and the board
adjourned. Most of the members re-
manned to sign the diplomas.