St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-07-13

Said Tax, and
Covington. La, July 6, 1912.
The Parish School Board met In
rceu;ar session in the Superinten
Dents ONCE on the above date with
President C. A. David in the chair and
al members present.
The minutes OF the last meeting
were read and approved.
The superintendent's report fo'
The quarter ending June 80. 1912,
WAS read and accepted. It is as
follows:
To the Honorable President and
Members Of the Board of School
Directors Of the Parish of st. Tam
many, Louisiana:
Gentlemen: In this, my written
report of the school conditions in
this parish, / wish to include SOME
matters that I think should be placed
On record IN this office.
All of the schools of the parish
have closed, the teachers have been
pAid and We must now turn our at
t1ntion to the matter of financing
and arranging for the schools Of
smother year At your last meeting
you authorized the re-opening of the
Eplsom and Middle Roads schools
for another month. This was done,
but while the Folsom school COM
pleted the month, the Middle Road
schools had to be closed because of
thsir inability to keep up the attend
ance to the legal average. us
Il viii be remembered that your
honorable body instructed me ut your
lant meeting to pay Mr.. III. J. Smith
the amount Of $500 from the Cow
ington special school fund. as his
expenses In the cause OF H. j. Smith
aud g. r. Tolson W. Parish School
Board. / wish t0repOrt that have
refused to do this because OF the fact
that our attorney informed me such
an act would not be legal, rs this.
money comes from special tax that
was voted solely for building school
house and not for other purposes.
IL my action meets with your approx
u, I desire you to pass a.vOte to-day
% that effect, and then give me your
instructions, ~ Mr.. Smith has very
THU % your body for action.
! have had several interviews with
vari0us patrons of the former Black
we'll school In regard to the reopen
ing Of school in that neighborhood.
they are now thoroughly convinced
that they would not be able to keep
up the average should one be re-
located there, and they will. not ask
for school, but do ask that the
hoard will assist in paying the ex-.
penses necessary to send the child
rem TO Folsom. II
For several years what is known
% the Line Graded school in the
Afth ward has been run by Washing
ton and st. Tammany parishes, each
sharing equally in the expenses, as
shout the same number Of pupils
come from each parish. This wac
the agreement made between former
guperintendents Bateman and Mes.
sick for the year Just closed This
parish kept fts part of the agree
msnt. We engaged male prifci-
pal for so . month and 9 lady as
Distant for $50 Z month and assumed
The supervision Of the school; thet
being q part sof the agreement. We
advanced the entire amount of these
teachers salaries, expecting that we
would be paid by Washington parish
one half Of this amount as had been
the case IN former years. At the
end OF the seventh month, with TIA
parish owing us 1870. suggested
that the Washington parish children
rem&tn at home. The stiperintend-
ent OF that parish agreed to this
and then ! was able to discharge
the prMcipal and by giving the as
Blstant SO extra We continued the
school for the eighth and ninth
months with one teacher. The point
I wish to call your attention to, Is
the fact that We have an unpaid
claim against Washington parish for
$40 and do not recommend that
wos make any new bargains with
Ghet parish until this claim is adj
The following IL the copy of
letter received from Hon. A. NJ.
Smith the Supervisor of Public Ac-
counts ct Baton Rouge, and whose
duty 1t IL by law to check and audit
every quarter the accounts Of each
Parish Superintendent:
4 BATON Rouge. La, June I, 1912.
Mr.. e. p. Lyon, superintendent OF
Education, Covington, La.
Dear Sir:-fn examining your re-
ports filed with this Office at the end
or each quarterly period. in conlpli
ance with Act NJ. Is of 1910,
found It rather difficult to determine
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