Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-08
WILBUR APPOINTED
On SCHOOL BOARD
Succeeds A. A. Moore, Whose
Resignation Was Presented
Tuesday Night
NO EXHIBIT THIS YEAR
EXHIBIT THIS YEAR
Board Turns Down Superintendent
Cranes Request For General Exhibit
of School Work-Turner Believes
Pupils Have Too Much Work, and
Would Cut Out Frils.

AlluIeW II. NliDuT, one OIL llle DeSL
known business men of the city, head
of the furniture firm of a. e. Wilbur
school board of the independent dis
trict of Marshalltown Tuesday night.
thru an appointment by the board. The
appointment was necessary in order to
fill the uneXpired term of A. A. Moore,
who had sent to President A. G.
Click his resignation, because of his
continued absence from the city.
Mr.. Wilbur's name was presented by
Mr. Turner, Immediately after the res
ignation of Mr.. Moore had been acted
upon, and there We're no other nomin-
atoms. The vote on the appointment
was unanimous, and Mr.. Wilbur will
act in the capacity of member dur
ing the remainder of Mr.. Moore's term
which expires in March. Mr.. Moore
was elected year ago. after his APP
pointment by the board to fill the re-
nnainder of the year of the uneXpired
term of F. L. Nicholson, who resigned
because he removed from the district
Der of the board, and has held the
craftsmanship of the committee on
buildings and grounds, and mem
bership on the committee on finance
and accounts. In his resignation Mr.
Moore expressed his qualification at
having been privileged to serve with
the present membership of the board.
with whom the relations have been
very pleasant.
Mr.. Wilbur, the new member, will be
perfectly at home on the board, as he
has served most efficiently one term
before, during the years of 1895, 1896
and 1897. He served on the differen.
important committees during his in
cumbency and was chairman of the
committee on teachers. Like Mr..
Moore, and the other members of the
present board, he favors the applying
of business principles to public affairs
and will conduct the business of the
district in the same successful way he
conducts his own. The selection of
Mr.. Wilbur by the board will undoubt-
eddy meet with the hearty approval of
the public.
No Exhibit This Year.
While the appointment of the sue
cessor to Mr.. Moore was the most i'm
portant business transacted by the
board at it's regular meeting Tuesday
night, it was in no way as interesting
from a spectators standpoint as the
action taken on the matter of conduct
ing a general exhibit III the schools
this winter, preparations for which
have been under way in the different
buildings for some tine.
Superintendent Crane brought UP the
question. and asked for action, one way
or another. The questi N had been
board, and the sentimel. then vas
Of holding the exhibit IN the different
schools will amount to an aggregate Of
about 500, and wh.'e this was one
OF the reasons why the board did not
consider the expenditure worth the un-
dertaking, it was not the only one
The expense includes the moving of tine
general exhibit from. one building to
another, lights, and 's.ellaneous ex-
penditures for supplies necessary to
place the exhibit before the public
gaze.
Nj. Tur:1el soiced the sentiments of
the opposition to the exhibit, and acted
as the principal spokesman He talked
plainly, too, and gave his personal
views of some of the WORK as it is at
present being carried on in the public
schools. Mr.. Turner though. that these
annual exhibits, aside from being ex-
pensive, took too much time from both
pupils and teachers out CT the school
work. Mr.. Turner believes that the
fundamentals in school work are being
neglected, and not enough attention is
being given to the common branches.
The general exhibit had been at the
worlds fair at st. Louis, and he had
seen it there. It was very beautiful,
and must have taken great deal of
work to prepare it. 1t was because of
the extra work that he objected, for he
into the exhibits other school work
must be neglected. He favors leaving
the exhibit work to the principals and
teachers Of each building, If they want
to exhibit the school work in quiet
way, and not make such great fuss
over a general public exhibit
While Mr.. Turner believed that per-
haps too much time was being de-
voted to manual training, he did not
wish to be understood as not favoring
training. He considers it all
right, and believes that certain time
each day should be devoted to it, at
any rate in the lower grades. He does
not, however, believe in running man
ual training to the extreme, and to the
detriment of other studies, equally as
if not more so, and this is
what he thinks is being done in the
schools at the present time. Mr.. Tur-
ner said that the teachers and pupils
were being overworked, and if exhib
its We're to be held they would have to