The Ocala banner., 1912-07-12
BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
ocala, Fla, July 2. 1912.

members present and acting as fol-
lows: w. D. earn, chairman, B. r.
Bitch and ]. S. Grantham, members,
and j. II. Brinson, secretary.
Minutes of last meeting were read
and approved
Mr.. r. i. Perry. one of the trustees
of the Pedro school, called and an
nopneed the selection of Miss Sallie
Nichols as assistant at the Pedro
sch4pl.
Mn w A. Redding, one OF the trus-
tees OF the Charter Oak school, called
and requested that an assistant be
granted the school for the coming
term. 1t was agreed to allow the as
sistant TO start and if the average for
the first month is sufficient to justify
the county in paying the salary, the
county will pay the salary and con-
tinue the assistant, but if it is not,
the salary for the month taught will
he paid from district funds and the
teacher dismissed.
Mr.. ]. A. Jones. former patron of the
Oak Hill school, called and made re-
quest that he be transferred as a
patron from the Oak Hill school to
he is much more conveniently situat-
ed to the Fairfield school, the request
was granted
Mr. d. A. Walker, one of the trus-
tees of the Martel school, called and
requested settlement of a warrant held
by him against the Martel district for
$3.50. He was directed to present it to
the bank and it was ordered that a
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terest He reported that the trustees
had agreed that they would run the
school but six months thereby leaving
sufficient funds in the treasury to
operate full eight months next year
even if the average should not justify
the county in furnishing an assistant
teacher from county funds.
Calvin McMahan, supervisor of
Blaze Pond school, called and present
ed dimensions of house that they
wanted ceiled. 1t also appeared that
the we'll had caved and it was neces-
sary to have water provided and it
was agreed that the board would fur
nish the necessary pump material for
fixing the well and the people would
put down the pump themselves.
G. S. Mickens, colored, representing
the supervisor of the Clarkesville
school, called and discussed the size
of the school and the needs. 1t was
agreed to provide an assistant teacher.
An addition of fifteen feet to the pres
ent house was asked and it was agreed
to furnish $50 to apply towards the
material of the addition and to fur
nish the forty additional desks
Mr.. John Ballet, supervisor of Key
stone school, called and presented pc
tition for a new school house to be
erected for their school He was ask
ed to have estimate made as to cost
of building 20x22 feet and report at
next meeting of the board. Also to
ascertain where a suitable lot could
be obtained and cost
George Ross, supervisor of Mount
Royal school, called and made state
ment of need of covering. The Belle
view district had made provision for
giving $50 for the repairs. 1t was
agreed that the county would give $50
to apply on the purchase of material
and work on the re-roofing of the
house and to ask the district to ap-
propriate SIS to apply on the cost of
a we'll
Paul Williams, supervisor of Beth
1ehem school, called and asked that
the school house be recovered and
to make addition to the house. 1t
was agreed that the board would fur
nish material and the people must do
the work in a neat and substantial
manner.
Resignation of Henry Stephenson as
supervisor of st. Peters school was
presented and James Blye was APP
pointed in his place. The latter call
ed and spoke of the choice of teachers.
Mr. T. L. Holly called and presented
petition from patrons of the Marsh
willie school for his appointment as
supervisor in the place of Mr.. w. s.
Priest, who had moved from the com
munity. Petition was granted.
The board adjourned for dinner.
Afternoon Session
DR.. VIM. Griffith, one of the trus-
tees of the Dunnellon school, called
and presented estimates of the trus-
tees which caused discussion. The
trustees declined to make any provis-
ion for running the school beyond the
regular county term with district
funds for the reason that they die
not want to appropriate any district
principal that had been contracted
with. The estimates were left but the
board ordered them returned to bt
filled in by the trustees themselve:
for the purposes for which they wisf
the funds TO be applied
Messrs. Lambert and Clemons, trus
tees OF the Sparr school. called ant
presented plans for the proposed new
school house to be erected there
They mentioned bids that had beer
received and that they would accep
bid for erecting the house for s105O
They were authorized to draw VI
specifications and contract for tn,
building with Mr.. B. f. Minis. Tn,
payments were to be made by thu
board as the work progressed but a
no time 10 be as much as the worl
done was worth at the time, until tn,
final payment All available funds o
the district were to be applied on tn,
new building and for this reason tn,
school is to run for but six months
Several bids were reported on the OLD
buflding and il was agreed to keer