The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-20
Topeka Independent Company
Secures the Contract.
MEMBERS ARE TARDY.
Much Difficulty Experienced i'm
Securing Quorum.
Judge Carver Objects to Sunday
Work In Building.

IF each member of the board of ed
ucation received a salary of $500 {
year for attending every meeting per.
haps the members would all come,
said w. H. Wilson at the meeting OF
the board last night at S:55 O'CLOCK
when but five members were present
At nine o'clock Col. ]. D. Norton ap-
peared and the board lacked one mem
Der of a quorum.
II want to leave at 10 o'clock an
nounced Judge Carver.
why not let the reporters vote
proxies of the absent members Ut all
meetings so we can have QuoruIps %
asked E. E. Roudebush.
The reporters will agree to vote the
proxies or anything else necessary.
Meetings of the board Of education are
tiresome enough but still worse when
one has to loaf around till $3.50 o'clock
before the seventh member necessary
for quorum can be entfced away from
some ice cream social. At the last
meeting the board awarded a 1915 con-
tract without a quorum present.
AS nothing else was going on Judge
Carver said that he lives in the same
block as the nigh school building and
that last Sunday a tin smith locked
himself in the school building all day
Sunday Judge Carver said the noise
was disturbing and he wished the prac-
tice to stop.
At 9:21% o'clock j. W. Gleed a: rived
and a quorum was present and the
board proceeded to award contracts, on
bids received, for school supplies for
the coming year.
The contract for supplying paper was
awarded to the Topeka Paper company
and for pens and pencils to the Hall
Lithograpning company and the Zercher
book company.
The Topeka Paper company's price
for practice paper was 90 cents; Plo-
drawing paper, 51z cents; heavy
newspaper, II cents
The Hall company was given the
contract for supplying Eagle pens at
26 cents a gross, high school pencils
at $3.50, toilet paper at $3.50.
The Zercher company was awarded
the contract for Eagle drawing pen
ellis at $3.50 and Esterbrook pens at
80 cents a gross.
The contract for changing the clos
cts in the Polk building from one
part of the basement to another, in
order to make room for manual train
ing. was awarded to -Conklin & Gus
tafson for $500. I p +a@ -.
The board received a bid from the
telephone companies for installing a
telephone system in the high school
and manual training school The In
dependent company bid $72 for six
Bell company's bid was $84 for six
telephones. The board plans to have
switchboard installed and tele-
phones in rooms of the two buildings.
This will be in addition to the pneu-
matte signal bell system being in
stalled at a cost of 1915.
Would it be good scheme to see
what rate we could get for telephones
in each of the ward schools?'' said
Mr.. Roudebush.
eff that is done the telephones
should be on a private line system, so
that only the teachers and superin-
tendent can use Them" said Mr.. Will
son.
eff we conclude to install phones in
all the ward buildings that can be
done later and we can award this
contract tonight" said Judge Carver.
The board voted unanimously to m
stall the Independent private tele-
phone and switchboard in the high
and the manual training schools with
six telephones in each building.
The school children and teachers
will be moved, signaled and ordered
about by compressed air, signal bells
and telephones.