The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-29
School Board Picks Henry
A. Hartman.
THE VOTE IS UNANIMOUS
Truant Officer Makes His
Report.
Rah Rah Boys win be Brought Face
to Face with the School Board
Members to Explain Their Actions
of a Few Evenings Ago.

The fight to oust II. l.. Frank as
superintendent of public instruction
had its elimination Monday evening
in the election of Henry A. Hartman.
of Boulder, Colorado, as superintend-
ent for a term of two years at a salary
of $1,000 for the first year and $2,1OO
for the second. The board of education
first threshed out the matter in two
hour caucus so that when the election
came up 1t required but two minutes.
Mr., Hartman's term will commence
July /. 1910. He comes to Marion high"
ly recommended and the board MEM
bers that out of fifty or more APP
plcants for the position they have
selected the best man for the place.
The motion to elect Mr.. Hartman was
made by Robert Pennell. The vote
was unanimous.
AS requested by the board p 8.
Wilson superintendent of buildings
and grounds, submitted IA report of his
work as truant officer since the open
ing of school year. The reports shows
that 1882 case of truancy have been
reported. Forty-hve notices have been
served on parents and forty-five on
pupils The truant officer has taken
twenty pupils before Probate
Judge w. s. Spencer. Five of these
were sentenced to the Industrial home
but all sentences were suspended dur
ing good behavior.
In his report Mr.. Wilson compli-
mented Probate Judge Spencer for
his efficient help i'm assisting the
truant officer to eliminate the practice
of skipping" school and in keeping
wayward boys in school. Superintend-
ent Frank also rendered valuable as
sstance to the officer
The truant officer reported that
some of the excuses fond mothers
give to save their children from
trouble are amusing. He also runs i'm
to trouble occasionally when irate
parents threaten to chase him from
the house Mr. Wilson says that by
holding his temper and using diplo-
macy he has made friends of the
angry ones and concludes by stating
that he has always found THAI you
can catch more flies with sugar than
with salt"
A bond for $4,000 furnished by each
of the five banks in the city was re-
ceived, approved and placed on file.
At the request of Principal *. II.
Marshall of the High School, the
board considered the cases of seven
high school boys and five outsiders,
who last Tuesday committed some
rah rah depredations at the school
, On that occasion the boys climbed on
TO the roofs of the buildings painted
e a strip of IL in the colors Of the
Junior class and adorned the building
. with streamers. Some damage was al
!, so done The principal investigated
I the case and learned the names OF
all of the students concerned. Only
: three were members of the Junior
: class.
e The members of the board expressed
themselves as against this sort of
D practice and several were In favor OF
g suspending all Of the seven and talk
I ing action in the courts against the
: five outsiders. After much discussion
= it was moved that the superintendent
II and the principal suspend all those
y students concerned Until meeting OF
\ the board on Wednesday night when
the students must come In and show
y :, cause why more drastic action should
= not be taken by the board in dealing
" with the case 1t is likely that the
/, board will deal severely with those
- unprecedented at this time as II is fear.
ed that there may be other demon
strations of n similar nature.
"a The board members reported In ia
,t vor of annexing the Rosewood and
Glenwood additions into the city
m school district and II was decided Il
,s confer with the township board OF
o. education on Saturday. If the town.
ship board is willing these two ad
10 dltions will be included and larg,
r number of pupils win no longer have
3. to pay tuition to attend the loca
In schools. This change will be made be
IN fore the census enumeration.
ye AS Arbor day falls this year dur
ig ing the spring vacation 1t was de
r. cided to observe 1t next Friday Th'
ne buildings and grounds committee wai
ry instructed to furnish trees for thu
ne various buildings These will be plant
nd ed with appropriate ceremonies.
T. IL was decided to appropriate 81
Tor commencement invitations for tn
n senior class. Each student will b.
n given a certain number and those win
desire more must pay for the addition
al ones.
Gas bills for the past month amount
q 10 %3OO2 were approved and ordere'
~ paid The amount is s6l.OS less thai
the same period Of last year
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