Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-17
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ton of cities and towns consisted OF
two members elected from each ward.
Under the provisions of section 1f9
of the new law, the boards of educa-,
ton are composed of five members
elected at large by the qualified cleo
tors thereof, who shal be elected I'M
the year 1908, two for a term of one
year, two for a term Of two years, and
one for a term of three years. Every
year thereafter there shall be elected
each for a term Of three years, w
members Of such board, except In
years which are divisible by three,
when one member shall be elected,
and each shall serve till his successor
is elected and qualified. Provided that
no member Of the city council or board
of trustees shall be a member or the
board of education" The selection or
such school board shall be on the third
Tuesday in June instead of at the time
of the regular spring election. This
method of selecting schoo officials
wipes out the existing boards ana
Starts~with a new slate in June. There
Is where the trouble is likely to show
up. 1t has been the custom OF school
boards to select the teaching force
early in the year to let the
know where they stand for their next
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old board was better able to judge
which one of the teaching force should
be retained. AS half the old board
remained, it was a continuing board
and could legally make such con-
tracts. The question Of present boards
contracting for teachers which will be
under control Of entirely new boards
in the next school year, was subm1tted
to Attorney General Clark, and he,
referred his inquirers to an opinion
by Attorney General Pyle in 1899,
which is against such contracts, and is
in substances: THE school year be-
gins July l of each year, and If during
the life Of the old board, teachers were
employed for the coming year, the
board which had the right to control
and manage schools, would be prevent
ed from employing such teachers SO
far from the management and control
of the schools. Accordingly it has
peer held that the school board act
ing in good faith will the district, can
make a contract for the service of a
each where the term commenced
during the life of the board hiring
such teachers, but where the term
lapses over into the official year of
their successors, but cannot make a
contract for the teaching of a term
which begins during the term OF their
successors"
Doane Robinson, superintendent OF
the census. has returned from a trip
to the southern part of the state to
look up the reasons why returns are
not made to the department more
fully and promptly. He says he found
that the delay in most cases is or the
part of justices of the peace, before
whom the certificates are made, and
who do not, in many cases, make any
return until the report is late for the
work. and in some cases neglect to
make any return at all. He is looking
into several cases of neglect, and in
tends to apply the penalty in case the
neglect is shown to be wilful on the
part of such officials.
The state appraisement board has
completed it's work in the counties in
the southern part of the state, where
state school and are to be Offered
next month, placing the minimum al
from S35 to SAG per acre in the diff
ferent counties. Mex week the board
will make the appraisements in the
northern counties in which lands are
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large number of endowment lands,
the general average will probably be
somewhat lower than those lei in
the southern counties.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed for the Independent Publishing
company at Fort Pierre, with a capt.
tai of $1,000. ~Incorporators, M. L.
PARCELS. Manuel sylvia and Fred A.
Mix This is the company which is
to publish an insurgent republican pa"
per at Fort Pierre.
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Gov. Crawford has appointed Mi%
Emmer Cook, of Huron, a member of
the woman's board of investigation Of
charitable and psE& Estitutjons. He
has appointed G.. c.. Clark, Of Lowry.
game warden for Dalworth county.
Gov. Crawford granted parole to
w. L. Wells, sentenced from Dawson
county on a charge of forgery, and to
Richard Goddard, sentenced from Gus
ter county on a charge Of horse steal
ing.
An ~extradition warrant was granted
recently on application of the govern
or of Wisconsin for George Tyler, who
was arrested at Mobridge on charges
Of wife desertion and bigamy.
The town of Mellette has organized
as a city under the general laws of the
state, and has filed with the secretary
of state a notification OF such change
in its corporate existence.
Peter j.. Bents. of the Woonsocket
Times. has taken q place on h field
force of the state land department.
beginning his services the first of the
present month.
The filings in the government land
office in his city for March, while not
up to the rush work of a year ago,
showed 2O2, or over $4,000 acres,
making about a township and a half.
For the same month there were 10S
cash entries and 10 final homestead
proofs, passing fina title from the
government to claimants of 10000
acres, or nearly a township. The con-
test business continues to be active,
and claimants need to keep well with
in the provisions of the law to be GER
tain of their claims.
While the prohibitionists announced
their intention to test the fee pro-