The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-08
School Doinss.
(Omcial.)
OcaIa, Fla. June 4. 1906.

The board of public instruction in
and for Marion county. Florida, met
this, the fourth day of June. 1906, in
regular session, with G. S. Scott. chair
man, B. R. Bitch and ]. S. Grantham,
present.
Minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
Mr.. A NJ. Anderson, w. H. Ander-
son and Frank Britt, patrons of the
Ebenezer school, appeared before the
board and presented a number of
charges, signed by every patron of the
school except Mr. Ellison, against Mr..
r. E. T. Ellison as supervisor, and in
sisted that the board dismiss him and
appoint another After considering the
charges, the superintendent was in
structed to send Mr.. Ellison a copy
of the charges and request, that If
he desired to answer them to do so by
June 18th, at which date the matter
will be taken up for final action.
Mr.. Ellison's father appeared before
the board and denied the charges made.
Mr.. ]. K. Christian, a trustee OF the
Mcintosh school, asked that the Nc
Intosh school be made senior high
school and be granted four teachers.
Mr.. Christian also asked for aid to the
amount of $3.50 to help build the col
ored school house at Boardman, the
county TO give 800 and the district
$50
The board agreed to make the school
a senior high school. but deferred ac-
ton as to a teacher and aid for COL
ored school until special meeting of
June 18th.
Mr.. j. B. George, trustee of the
Frantville school, asked if they could
employ their teacher at $50 per month
if the district will pay IS per month of
the salary. The request was granted.
Mr.. c. J. Smith. trustee of the Weir
Park school, asked the board to assist
them in building a new $500 school
house. The request was deferred until
June 18th.
would assist them to the amount of
$11 to cell school house and build els
tern. the patrons would do the balance.
The Montague school. colored. asked
to be allowed to establish the tenth
and eleventh grades. The request was
granted.
The secretary was instructed to state
in the minutes of this meeting, that
at the regular meeting in July the
board will proceed to let contracts for
conveying children from and to the
following places: From Andalusia to
Citra; from South Lake Weir to Weirs-
dale; from the Blue Springs school
neighborhood to Dunnellon; from Cot
tage Hill to Fellowship; from Silver
Springs to Ocala.
That anyone desiring to bid for con-
veying children from and to the above
places, to have their bids before the
board by the first Monday in July.
The superintendent stated that num-
Der of schools were asking for new
seats. After considering the matter, it
was decided to ask all schools needing
new seats to put their requests in by
the special meeting in June, and if the
board could possibly do so, that it
would pay for one-half of the seats
needed if the districts would pay for
the other half.
The trustees of the Ocala schO j ap-
peared before the board and recon-
mended that all salaries in the Ocala
high school be left the same as last
wear except the salaries of the princi-
pal and first assistant. They recon-
mended that the principals salary be
put at $3.50 per month. and tina. the
FIRST assistants at 49, per month.
After considering the meter, the
board agreed to give the school as
whole $?5 per month more than last
year, lacking $40 per month of being
as much as the trustees had asked for,
and left the matter to the trustees as
to whose salaries it should be applied
to. The trustees then recommended
that if the board could not grant the
other $40, to make the principals sal
airy $3.50 and the first assistants SIS
per month, the trustees stating that
they would not be able to supplement-
any salaries.
A number of other applications in
salaries were before the board; they
were all deferred until the special
meeting June 18th.
The appointment of teachers was de-
ferred until after the 18th inst.
An election was ordered called, to
be held at Martel on July 18th, to elect
a trustee, as in the regular selection
to elect trustees, Mr.. Josiah Seckin-
ger and Mr. J. L. Miller tied and nei-
Their declared elected.
The board adjourned TO meet on
Tuesday morning at o'clock. On
Tuesday the board met per adjourn
ment with full board present.
The treasurer's report was exam
ined and approved. as follows:
Balance from last report. IS 2,49226
Received from A. G. Groom,
Compt.. tax sales. ......... 911S
Received from A. G. Groom.
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