The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-12-12
OUR SCHOOL INTERESTS
Official Report of the Proceedings at
the December Meeting of the
Board of Public Instruction
Ocala, Fla. Dac. 8. 1912.

Ocala, Fla. Dec 3, 1912.
The board Of public instruction in
and for Marion county, Florida, met
in regular session on the morning of
the above date with all present and
acting as follows: ". D. earn, chair
man, 3. r. Bitch and J. s Grantham,
members, and J. Fl. Brinson, secretary.
Mr.. j. p. Parker called and reported
that his daughter. Miss Leila Parker,
desired to tender her resignation as
teacher of the Shady school. The res
ignation was accepted and it was
agreed to supply the place as soon as
possible. The matter of the district
election to be held in the Cotton Plant
district on Dec. l was discussed.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
Messrs. Perkins and Redding, pat
rons of the Shady school, called to re-
quest that a teacher be supplied to fill
the place of Miss Parker, resigned,
and authorized the board to contract
with teacher with the understa nding
that the patrons would contribute s5
per month toward the salary.
The purchase of the lots for the pro-
posed buildings for Ocala was discuss
ed and the abstract for lots II and 19
was examined.
Mr.. W. ]. Crosby, one of the trustees
of the Citra school, called and made re-
quest that two recitation seats be fur
nished for their school, which was
agreed to.
The matter of the time for dismiss
ing for the holidays was discussed and
it was ordered that schools should
dismiss for the holidays on Friday aft
nd
sumo on Monday, January 6, 1913
Mr.. G. ]. Proctor, one of the trus-
tees and Mr.. \. B. Connor, one of the
teachers of the Belleview school, call
ed and asked that the salary of the
principal be increased to the original
appropriation of SIS which was agreed
| to with the understanding that the $40
| per month increase should be paid from
| the district funds. There was also a
request from the trustees of the Griner
Farm school that Mrs. L. p Mercer,
| serving as monitor, should have $40
additional, making a salary of S25 per
month. This was agreed to with the
understanding that the entire amount
be paid from district funds.
The board adjourned for noon.
| Tuesday Afternoon Session
! Mr.. Albertson of South Lake Weir
called and presented a petition from
a number of proposed patrons Of a
school that was asked to be opened in
the South Lake Weir school house He
made statement of the situation.
The matter of securing funds for the
purpose of paying for the lots pur-
chased by the county board for Ocala
was taken up and the board agreed to
| authorize the chairman and the secre-
| tary to make arrangements for secur-
| ing the funds to the extent of $4,000.
! In the matter of the petition for the
South Lake Weir school, the board
to decline to open the school for the
| present term. 1t was observed that
quite number of the proposed pupils
were already pupils of the Weirsdale
school.
| A letter from Mr.. J. H. Williams,
supervisor of the school at Juliette,
was pre- ahted in which he resigned as
supervisor. No action was taken on
the matter, hoping that the resignation
would be Withdrawn.
| The secretary presented a letter
from Mr.. C. w. NsSille, one of the
trustees of the DunndSo on school, with
reference 10, the provie rg of a sixth
teacher We school action was
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