The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-19
THE DISTRICT SCHOOLS
BOARDS MEET HERE TO ELECT
 TEACHERS.
Trustees of BIountsvilIe Institute Will Assemble Today at Capitol for First Time Under
 New Law.


 The eyes of all the teachers interested in the nine district agricultural schools VIII be turned to Montgomery for the next five days. Within that time the Boards of Control of each of those schools win meet at the capitol and elect the teachers for the schools.
 No general change of teachers Is ex- pected. but the teachers are naturally anxious until the danger period is pass ga. This election of teachers will be the first held under the new agricultural school law which places the agricultural schools under the direct control of the State administration. The present teach CTS were elected under the old order when the schools were controlled by board whose members were appointed rom the district in which the school was located. several of them in some instances living in the very community in which the schools are located.
 It has been charged on the floor of the Legislature that some of the schools were being strangled by local influences. The charge was uttered that the schools were community than of the whole district. The lawmakers were inclined to give heed to these charges.
 At any rate q law was passed placing the schools under the control of a board, q majority of which should be State of- icers, The law named the Governor. the Superintendent of Education and the Commissioner of Agriculture as the State members of the Board, For each of the nine Boards the law provided that two local members of the Board should be appointed from the districts in which the school Is located The State officers on the Board, being majority, have ssntrsl SsSar Sf the legislation which comes are members in, an advisory capacity.
 The schools, since the inauguration of the neg eaw, have been under closer supervisl6n than ever before In their his trrxr rhA f.>kn af krt, was instructed by the Board to take charge of the academic work of the schools and the Commissioner of Agri- culture was placed in charge of the agri- cultural work of the schools. Commis- sioner Poole and Superintendent Hill have prepared programs of the work they ex- pect to be followed in the lines over which they have supervision. The schools have been inspected by Messrs Hill and Poole and they are informed as to con ditions which exist at the various schools. They had long interview with the Gov ernor yesterday.
 The Boards when they meet will do more than elect teachers. The work of the schools for the coming year will be mapped out.
 The Ninth District Board will meet today. The school of this district IS located at Blountsville and Professor J. A. B. Lovett is its principal The local members of the Board are s. M. Hen drix and Richard Nation.
 The Boards of the Third District and the Eighth District will meet tomorrow. Special interest attaches to the meeting of the Eighth District because of the election at the meeting of a successor of Professor M, K. Clements, principal of the school. Professor Clements has re- signed to practice law. The local mem bers of the Board of this school which Is located at Athens are Theo Westmore- land and N. M. Rowe,
 The local members of the Third District School which is at Abbeville are M. ". Capps and N. B. Crawford