The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-10-06

were at least so per cent of the pupils
who had supplied themselves with pri-
vate collapsible metallic drinking
cups.
To Hire Executive Agent.
The committee on school betterment
made the following report which was
accepted: 1--WE believe that the num-
Der Of teachers now employed and the
increasing demands Of the superin-
tending will require all the time of
the superintendent. Therefore we
recommend that the superintendent
be relieved of detail work of purchas-
ing supplies, supervising the heating
and ventilating plants, including care
of boilers, ETC.; accounting for and
transferring of text books and supple
mentary readers, and such other cleri-
cal work as may be- done by an ex-
ecutive agent. We recommend the
employment Of an executive agent who
shall act as purchasing agent for the
board of education, keep all records
and accounts of the board, supervise
janitors and other employees of that
class, have charge of the transfer Of
heating and ventilating systems and
perform such other duties as may
from time to time be assigned by the
board"
The contract for the supply for the
fuel for the winter at the various
buildings was let to D. M. Strate re-
presenting the Washburn Ignite Coal
Co. The Washburn company was the
lowest bidder and they will furnish
Ignite coal, subject to the order Of
board during the winter at 1925 a
ton. The other bidders were Magill &
Co., Chesley Lumber & Coal CO. and
the Interior Lumber Co.
Janitors Want Raise.
Since the last meeting some Of the
janitors in the employee of the board
had requested a raise In their salaries
The custodians had argued that the
teachers salaries had been increased
and that they should be placed on a
sliding scale basis similar to the
teachers sliding scale, which would
cause them to get an increase. The
board, however. has during the year,
retained all the janitors at their full
pay, thing which it has never done
before. This in itself is a raise for
the janitors and they had not realized
it before seemingly. Then again there
are plenty of good janitors looking for
the jobs of the present holders of the
positions.
The high school orchestra made IL
written appeal to the board for funds
with which they might pay an in
structor. The board referred the mat
ter to the superintendent who is to
report back at his pleasure. A re-
port of the Fargo free kindergarten
was received and accepted.
Substitute Teachers.
The question of employing substi-
tute teachers and the salaries of the
same was brought up for discussion.
The matter was referred to the teach
ers committee which held meeting
at the close of the board meeting.
Money derived from the mechanical
drawing department last year was left
undisturbed but the supply committee
will probably devise a plan to use this
money to pay for supplies which are
needed. The supply committee de-
cided to continue the methods used
last year in furnishing the students
in the mechanical drawing department
with lumber.
Sweet Accepts.
The board received the acceptance
Of w. d. Sweet as member of the
library board. Mr.. Sweet was chosen
at a recent called meeting of the
board. He win fill the vacancy made
by the death of Frank J. Thompson.
A large number Of bills had acc
cumulated during the last two months
and the greater part of these were all
lowed at the meeting The treasur-