The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1908-10-17

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signed, at the same salary.
Miss jennie Dean of Montgomery,
La. a Normal graduate OF several
years experience, was appointed
teacher of the ninth ward school in
the place of Miss Maggie Brice, re-
signed, at the same salary.
Il was decided by the committee ap-
pointed to investigate the situation at
Laurel Hill to continue that school,
and Miss Dorothy Maltby, a first
grade teacher of Jackson, Miss, was
appointed to teach the same at a sal
ary of fifty dollars per month. The
gallery of this building was repaired
at cost of $3.50
A contract was made with Mr.
Louis Palmer to run conveyance
from his home to the Grange Hall
school for forty-ive dollars per
month. This avoids the necessity OF
building another house and maintain
ing another small school.
Miss Florence Smith, who secured
a certificate in the July examination,
was appointed assistant teacher OF
the Grange Hall school at a salary OF
thirty dollars per month.
Two closets were built for the
Grange Hall school, two for the
Freeland school, and two for the
Poplar Springs school.
Two hundred and fifty dollars were
received from the administrator OF
the estate of Mrs. A. Teutsch as q
memorial to her husband. A set OF
fine library cases to cost about one
hundred dollars has been ordered for
this purpose.
The first week of the present school
year was devoted to the Parish lnsti-
tute under the control of the State In
stitute Board. 1t was conducted by
myself with the able assistance OF
Miss NJ. Z. Trousdale of Monroe and
Mr.. J. E. Gaurdia, now of the State
Normal faculty. Every teacher fol
the schools of the parish, except the
two who were in the State Normal a
the time, was present and a goot
weeks work was done, which enabled
. all the teachers to begin the years
work with a sympathetic acquaintance
q with each other and definite under
standing of what they are expected tt
accomplish this year.
All the white schools except the Ca
Island school opened at the appointe'
:, time with large enrolment, in sever
/ al instances, far in excess of the sam
/ year ago.
. The colored school in St. Francis
y vile was opened on October 9Th wit
= W. H. Wilkinson as principal at
salary of forty dollars per month, an
Lottie H. Ringgold assistant at TWEEN
. ty-fve dollars per month.
A school improvement league wa
10 organized by the patrons and teach
ers of the Julius Freyhan High Schoc
# with about forty members. An entht
,r siastic meeting was held yesterday a
ternoon and steps were taken to 81
cure funds to help the board proviC
some of the necessary things for tt
school. Monthly meetings will |
held, by means of which hearty COO
Grafton and mutual sympathy will !
maintained between the teachers ar
80 the parents of the children, and tn
o. must result in great good to all CO.
cerned. l hope to have league orga
lied in every community in the paris
and by this means secure an enthus
siastic school spirit all over the pa
ish. Manp things are needed in eve
school in the parish, and the childr'
ought not to be hampered in the
work by the lack of these and be col
PEELED to wait for years for them UNI
the board can save enough out of
limited funds to supply them.
The imperatively necessary repai
o. 81 which ought to be attended to at on
&c are q floor for the Solitude scho
and ceiling for the Wakefield schoe
,ot | must insist upon having these put
no at once. A large attendance in t
a Grange Hall school demanding
;th employment of an assistant teach
ho demands also an additional room I
va the building, or the disposal of I
ia old building and a new and adequ;
rt one being built, one of which reco
~ mend being done as soon as possib
~, 1 Signed, A. M. HENDoN,
Parish Superintendent
mo- The report was, on motion, adopt