The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-10-10
SCHOOL BOARD PROCEEDINGS.

tell and j. B. Thompson.
Inc minutes OF last meeting were read, cor
rected and approved as corrected.
Inc Superintendent read the report of the last
examination of teachers, which was approved and
ordered filed. 1t follows:
To the Honorable President Members of the School Board
of Bosser Parish:
Your Committee OF Examiners, with respect beg
leave to report that at the examination of appli-
cants for teachers certificates held in obedience
to the requirements of the State Board of Educa-
ton on the 10Th, 30th and 31st of July, 1907 the
following named applicants were examined and
granted certificates as follows:
White Teachers First Grade: Misses Ludie
Platt and Minnie Robinson, Messrs. w. ]. Davis
and E. D. Burgess. Second Grade: Misses Nav
Merritt, Nettie McCranie, Allen Sibley, Leila
White, Alice Cason and Mr.. w. r. Hatcher Third
Grade: Misses Terril Lowe and Mintie Matlock.
Colored Teachers-First Grade: E. B. Morgan.
Second Grade: Maggie Washington, Carrie Roam.
Hessie Player, Emma J. Banks Ella Washington.
lnez Pilot and Fannie P. Williams. Third Grade:
Alice Allen, Martha Irving and j. Humphrey.
Respectfully submitted,
Jos. E. JOHNSTON.
w. A. ZEIGLER.
]. H. BELcHER.
A petition from the patrons of the Miller's Bluff
and the Russell School asking for the consolidation
OF the said schools read and, on notion duly
carried. The consolidation was ordered.
1t was then moved and carried that when a deed
to the School Board for one acre of land selected
for the new site of the Miller's Bluff Russell
School be presented to the Secretary of the School
Board, he is authorized to draw warrant to cover
the expense OF removing the old school houses and
erecting new one, not to exceed $50; same to be
made payable to the contractor upon the approval
of his account by the chairman of the building
committee.
i Moved and carried that S45 per month be allowed
Mr.. S. S. Rounsaval for transporting the children
from the Houston neighborhood to the Haughton
High School, when an average of ten is made.
It was further ordered, on motion and carried,
that the Dixie Cross Roads neighborhood be
allowed school OF transportation to Benton High
School, an average of ten required.
Moved and carried, that the Haughton High
School having the required number of pupils, is
allowed an additional teacher.
Moved and carried, that the children of the Cook
neighborhood be allowed transportation to the
Plain Dealing High School, at S35 per month.
Moved and carried, that the resolution granting
District funds be and is hereby rescinded and in
lieu thereof school be located at said place and
sum out of the Ninth Special District funds for
necessary appliances be allowed.
The colored people at Gilmer and at Antrim pre-
sented petitions asking that school be located at
each place. No action was taken.
The following petition was then presented and
read:
To the Honorable President of the Board of
School Directors of Bossier Parish, La:
We, the undersigned legal voters and taxpayers
OF said parish, desire to have your honorable body
create special school district in said parish with
the following boundaries, to-wt:
Beginning at point on the Louisiana and
Arkansas State line, being the northeast corner of
section 5, township % north, range IL west, thence
south on section line to the southeast of
ton 70, township %, range IL west; thence west
one mile section line to the southwest corner of
said section 20; thence south one mile on section
line to the southeast corner OF section 80; thence
west on section line one mile to the south
west corner OF said section 80; thence north on
section line one-han mile to the northwest corner
of southwest quarter of said section 3d. thence west
with the north boundary of School District No. 8
to the center OF the Cotton Belt Railway track;
the said railway to the Louisiana and Arkansas
State line; thence east along the said State line
to the point of beginning.
To this end the signers hereto who are resident
property taxpayers OF the proposed district, nvOk-
ing the law set forth in Section Is of Act pa of
1902, petition your honorable body to adopt reso-
luton creating and establishing the said district.
Petitioners desire that the revenue arising from
special taxation in the said Sixteenth District be
equally divided between the Heffner and the Line
School. Moreover, they desire that the property
of Newt Goodwin, James Keoun and Green VIM
get lying in said, district be exempt from taxation
unless it should become the property of some per-
son residing in the district.
S. DAVIS CIV. Barnett
c.. A. Heifner, ]. E. Rogers.
j. F.. Barnett. Jessie O. Adams.
John Heifner. w. H. Barnett.
T. IT, Malone w NJ Pevton