The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-04-15
ELECTION OF TEACHERS
The School Board Completes the
Full Corps.
Nearly All Of the Teachers Are
Reelected.
Most Of Them Go In BY Unanim.
Gus Vote.
Net Increase in SalariesssFoots Up
Z to $500.

only changes occurring where IesiSha
tions have been handed in:
High School.
Miss Caroline Fullerton, principal, sal
airy raised from $3.50 to 5000.
Miss Esther Friedlander, Latin, SIS a
month.
Miss Emma C. O'Donnell, mathematics,
SO.
Miss Bonita Cornish, history, $40.
F. E. Crandall, German and mathema
tics, salary raised from $50 to $s5 a
month.
c. W. Angler, manual training, $40.
Miss Fannie Pitcher, music and draw
ing, salary raised from $40 to $75 a
month.
Eighth Grade.
Miss Lizzie Lewis, principal, $40.
Miss Grace E. Comstock, $65.
Miss Alma D. Wagon, $50.
Franklin.
Miss Minnie Bangerter, principal and
9TH grade, $65.
Miss Edith Anderson, 5th, $50.
Miss Della Gill, 4th, $45.
Miss Jennie Madigan, Sd, $50.
Miss Laura E. Beatty, I'd, $50.
Miss Frances Schrodeska, LIST, $45.
Miss Mabel L. Wood, primary, $50.
Union.
n nd
It'll grade, $50.
Miss Mary L. Willard, 9th, $50.
Miss Rose D. Thurston, 5th, $50.
Miss Jessie NJ. Houk, 4th, $50
Miss Isabel s. Beatty, Sd, $50.
Miss Margarita M. Kelly, I'd, $50.
Miss R. Hannah Jones, primary, $50.
Pleasant Grove
Miss Marie Burmister, principal and
It'll grade, $780,
Miss Anna Odjard, 9th, $45.
Miss Clara R. Kelly, 5th, $50.
Miss Jessie M. Harter, 4th, $45
Miss Lillian F. Hurd, Add, $50.
Miss Carrie A. Brewster, Sd, $50.
Miss Daisy Dougherty, I'd, $50.
Miss Anna E. Jones, LIST, $50.
Miss Inga Johnson, A primary, $50
Miss Alice G. Davis, primary, $50.
West Mankato.
Miss Ella Hodson, principal and 9th
and 7th grades, $50.
Miss Edith F. Taylor, 4th and 5th, $50.
Miss Grace Brewster, I'd and Sd, $50.
Miss Jessie B. Irving, lst and I'd, $40.
Miss Flory E. Wise, primary, $50
Following the rule of the board, those
grade teachers drawing salary of less
than $50 month were advanced S. a
month. These were Misses Laura Beatty,
Sehrodeska, Thurston, Houk, Harter,
Hud, Grace Brewster and Irving.
Miss Laura Beatty was transferred
from the fourth to the second grade in
the Franklin school at her own request,
succeeding Miss Lillian Schmitt, resign
ed.
Miss Gill, who was elected to the
fourth grade, is a resident of Mankato
and is a graduate of the high and nor
NAL schools. She has been reelected at
Red Wing at salary of $425. There is
ne certainty of her accepting the position
of fourth grade teacher, as she stated
in her application that she preferred
sixth or seventh grade work, and did
not care to accept anything under the
fifth. There were large number of
other applicants who would have been
glad to have had fourth grade work,
and were we'll recommended. Miss Gill
also stated that she could not hold her
Red Wing position open longer than
April 18th.
Miss Bacon, who was elected princi-
pal of the Union school, is graduate of
the Winona normal school, and has
taught four years in the seventh grade
at Faribault, and two years as assist
ant principal at Staples. She was elect
ed to succeed Miss Julia Blekre, who
resigned in order to attend the state uni
versity.
The Pleasant Grove school also gets a
new principal, owing to the resignation
of Miss Amelia Iceberg to accept the
position of principal of the North Man
kato school. Miss Burmister, now sixth
grade teacher, was elected to fill the
vacancy, and gets an advance of salary
of $40 a month.
Miss Odjard, who was elected to fill
the vacancy in the sixth grade, is a
daughter of o. Odjard Sr. of this city,
and is graduate of the normal school,
She attended Vassar college for two
years. She has taught in the Mankato
high school one year, at Red Wing five
years and at Dodge Center.
Miss Alice Hodson, who was elected
principal of the West Mankato school
a week ago, did not accept, as she
could not secure her release from the
Lake Benton schools, having accepted a
reelection there for next year. Her sis
ter, Miss Ella Hodson, was elected in
her place She is daughter of Thomas