The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-21
DISTRICT SCHOOLS
BOARD OF CONTROL FOR FIVE
 HOLD MEETINGS.
Presidents Are Re-Eiected Meet inGs Without Unusual Event--Ii- brary for Third District--Other
 Board Meet Today.

Il - The annual meetings of the five boards of control of the nine District Agricultural schools were held yes | terday afternoon in the Capitol, al | which financial and other reports were made of the work of the institu- | tions and the presidents for the next | scholastic years were elected. These
 schools were those of the First Third.
 Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Congressionai Districts.
 The presidents of all five of the col leges were reelected for the ensuing year. They were as follows: First District. W. F. Monk; Third District. pr. C. J. Owens; Fourth District, G.
 H Thigpen, Fifth District. l.. V. Vann.
 Sixth District H. o. Sargent.
 The salary of Mir vann was fixed al
 S1.560. while that of the other tour
 collegs Is uniform at sl,500. The
 Board of Control of the First District
 school elected W. F. Nichols as the agriculturist at a salary of $1,000 an-
 nually.
 Meetings of the boards of control of Second, Seventh. Eighth. and Ninth
 District Agricultural schools will be
 held this morning in the Capitol. The same order of business will obtain thIs morning as ruled yesterday. The boards of control consist in all cases of the Governor as chairman. and the State Superintendent of Education ana the Commissioner of Agriculture. These members were present at every meet ing of the board yesterday. Besides these State officers the boards have as members two other appointed citizens of the respective districts.
 The minutes of the board of control of the Third District school show that a proposition to establish a h. brary to cost S,5000 at Abbeville Is about to mature. If plans authorized yesterday are executed. and 1t is near ly sure thing, Abbeville will be sup piled in the form of an appropriation from the State Treasury of $1,200. a subscription of Abbeville citizens amounting to s1,25O and the gift of s2.Soo to the enterprise by Andrew Carnegie.
 The First District school is located in Jackson: that of the Third District at Abbeville; the Fourth. Sylacauga; Hamilton. All members of the sev- eral boards which met yesterday were present with the single exception Of one of the members of the Fourth District school
 Another important general resolu- tion adopted at each of the board meetings yesterday was to the effect that the two local members of the OO0AaS tOBCNnSH Wiln tue OI the schools have the authority to nom mate all members of the faculty, the president, of course, being excepted. as he is named by the full boards Of control at their annual meetings. These teachers also hold for the next school year and have their salaries fixed by the same three men who nom mate them. The nominations when made are immediately sent in to the executive committee for approval. Tne executive committee of each school is composed of the Governor the State Superintendent of Education and the Commissioner of Agriculture and In- dustries.
 Another rule uniformly adopted at the meetings yesterday was that the local board members and the presI- dents shall get together as early as practicable and look into the advis- ability of separating the common school grades from the regular grades of the District Agricultural grades of each college, This rule. 1t is under stood, will be adopted at each board meeting as the situation seems to ap- ply in each city where the Agricultur- al schools are locted.
 The following are the names of the members of the respective boards ar control who met with the State offi- cials at the Capitol yesterday in reeu- lar annual session:
 First District. J. B. Williams and E. Fl. Warren, of Jackson.
 Third District, NJ. V. Capps, of Abbe- | vile. and G. H Malone. of DothaH.
 Fourth District. J. M. Thornton. of | 
 Fifth District, M. Hohenmerg and J | M Jenkins, of Wetumpka
 Sixth District, J. T. Jackson and | Judge W. R. White, of Hamilton.