The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-07-28
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD or
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
ocaIa. Florida, July Is. 1911

Ocaia, FLORIDA, July Is, 1911.
The board of public instruction in
and for Marion county met at their
office in the court house at Ocala on
the above date in special session pur-
suant to adjournment on July g. All
members were present and acting as
foMows: w. ID. earn, chairman, b.
r. Bitch and J. S. Grantham, mem
bers, and J. H. Brinson secretary.
Minutes of the last meeting read
and approved.
Mr.. Bitten reported coming to Ocala
on July Fourth for the purpose of at
tending the last board meeting which
was held on the 3inst., but notice of
change from the regular time having
failed to reach him. 1t was ordered
that he pc paid the regular per diem
and mileage for one day on this ac-
count.
Mr.. Geo. Ellis, supervisor, and Mr..
VIM. Boyd, patron of the Andalusia
school, called and asked that the
board have the school house ceilied
and provide some means of water
being secured. 1t was reported that
the pump which had been put down
was failure in getting water. They
suggested that the pump be taken
up and returned to the county and
that well be dug. 1t was figured
that it would require 1000 feet of lunl-
Der to cell the house. Action on re-
quest past over for the present.
Mr.. Frank Lyle called and present
ed two $1,000 warrants for the inter-
est to be paid which was done by
drawing county warrants for the
amount. Action on paying the face
of one was passed over.
Mr.. Ellis requested that Miss Dol
I've Rowell be assigned to the An
dalusia school as teacher.
Mr.. ]. F. Parker. one of the trus-
tees of the Cotton Plant school, call
ed and presented letter to the board
from his daughter, Miss Leila Parker,
who had been elected teacher of the
Cotton Plant school, in which she de-
clined to accept. The trustees recon-
mended Miss AltahuTa Beck for the
place.
Mr.. J. B. Trotter called and request
ed that there be a school established
not far from the site of the old Home
land school. The matter was discuss
ed and action passed.
A delegation of the patrons of the
Fairfield school and the citizens of
the community called with Hon. NJ. L.
Payne representing the building COM
mittee appointed to attend to the de-
tails of erecting the Fairfield school
house. He presented two plans for
the consideration of the board and
after examining them in detail and
discussing the merits of each, the
board adopted the plans submitted or
recommended by the committee and
the committee was authorized to pro-
coed along these lines and to contract
for the lumber and supplies and
send bills to the board to be paid
when endorsed by not less than two
members of the building committee
and two of the trustees The plans
were accompanied by a bill for the
lumber of the proposed building and
prices. The trustees were authorized
to advertise for sale and sell the Fair
field school house and two Tots be-
longing with it, after due notice, they
to reserve right to reject any offer
not satisfactory. The proceeds of the
sale of the old house and lots are to
be applied toward the erection of the
new school house. The selection of
suitable teachers was left to the
board
The board adjourned for dinner.
Tuesday Afternoon Session.
The board met at 1870 with all
members present and acting.
Mr. E. F. Smith, chairman of the
board of trustees of the Dunnellon
school called in company with Mr.. B.
r Sanders and presented a petition
signed by large number of patrons
of the Dunnellon school. asking that
lir. B. r. Sanders be appointed to fill
the unexpired term as trustee of Mr..
L. ]. Clyatt. removed from district.
The position was declared to be vac
ant by the board and the petition for
the appointment of Mr.. Sanders was
granted and he was ordered to be
commissioned accordingly.
The matter of the territory en-
braced within boundaries that were
claimed to have belonged originally
to the Dunnellon district but which
for some time had been included in
the Buck Pond district was taken up
and discussed freely. The following
resolution was adopted.
WHEREAS, it has come to the
notice of the board of public instruc-