The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-09
PIPE OF PEACE 4
PASSED AROUND
School Board Abandons
War Tactirs Monday.
FINE PHYSICAL LABORATORY
Marion to Have Finest
Equipped Room in the
State.
Janitors and Building and Grounds
Committees Hold Center of Stage
mt Last E,,ning Scssion.-Ncw
Board Room Meets With Approval.

In the words of member Briggs
they passed around the pipe of
peace" at the meeting of the school
board last evening. Each member
took a nice long comfortable draw
and knocked on wood for fear 1t would
never again come their way.
Perhaps 1t was that the new board
room had a soothing influence within
its walls, but anyway, early in the
session the dove of peace settled
down in its midst and cooed undis-
turbedly until the close. General sat
islaction was expressed by the MEM
bcrs over their new quarters obtained
by removing the partition between
the principals room and the chem
lcal supply room OH the second floor
and transforming it into a recitation
and board room.
The building and grounds commit
tee occupied the center of the stage
during most of the session. The COM
mittce was authorized to have the
basement doors at the State street
building changed to swing out instead
of in, as ordered by the state school
inspector.
Authorization was given the COM
mittee with .. @. Briggs to make a
careful inspection of buildings with
view to ascertaining defects that are
affecting the insurance rates and re-
port to the board at the next meeting
The bid of a Chicago firm for fur
nishing chemical and physical sup
plies and apparatus was accepted.
Two hundred and thirty-eight dollars
was the sum submitted by the firm,
the lowest offered. Both Superlntend-
ent Hartman and Professor Marshall
declared that when the new apparatus
is installed the Marion High school
will be equipped with the finest phy-
steal laboratory in the state.
Contracts for supplying the window
strips were awarded the Golden Medal
company of Toledo, one of the two
firms in the country that manufacture
the patent strips.
Bills to the amount of $3.50 were
allowed.
The janitors, committee submitted
the following rules for governing these
employees:
Janiturs shall be allowed ono week
vacation TO be taken at one time or
at separate times aggregating this
amount of time during the summer
school vacation.
Janitors may quit work at o'clock
Saturdays.
New Years, Decoration day, Fourth
OF July, Thanksgiving, two days of the
county fair, Christmas and the after
noon of Labor day are allowed jani-
tors as holidays.
No janitor may leave his building
in charge of another without obtain
ing permission from the Building and
grounds committee or the president
of the board.
The rules were approved and ac-
cepted by the board.
Member Hill was authorized to call
the board to meet with the teachers
committee some time during the COM
ing week to definitely fix teachers
salaries. The board viii probably an
nounce their selections for filling the
vacant places on the High school fac
ulty early next week.
Having proceeded thus far without
there being need for clearing the
smoke Of battle away, the board pro-
badly thought ii wise to go while the
going was good, before the spell Of
the love feast SHOULD be broken.