The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-10-11
RESTORE BIBLE TO HIGH
! SCHOOL; BOARD ACTION
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Action taken by the board of ed
ucation last night will restore the
reading of the Bible as a part of
the morning opening exercises of
the high school. The practice of
reading the sacred book was dis
continued the latter part Of the
school year, John E. Regain being
the objector, claiming that the law
prohibited the reading of the Bible
in the public schools.
At the meeting of the board last
night George Scherer made a mo-
ton to have reestablished the read
ing of the Bible in the high school.
This motion was carried unani-
mously without a word of discus
sion.
The reports of the treasurer and
secretary had been audited by Ac-
countants Bert Hauck and P. H. Jor-
dan, and Accountant Hauck was
present and made his report. He
said that the reports tailed exactly
except that $25 rental from Beth
duy SCluludly lOI IHc oiu hiSh
school apartment seemed to have
been omitted from the report of
the treasurer A motion to publish
synopsis of the secretary's re-
port in two daily papers was
adopted Accountant Hauck and his
assistant were paid $12.75 for their
services.
Standing Committees Appointed.
President Hughes appointed the
following standing committees:
Schools and Text Books-Mrs
Smith. chairman; George Scherer
and DIR. j. S. Holbrook.
Property and Expenses-Dr. w. A.
Beach, chairman; L. c. Jefferson
and j. E. Regain.
Finances-Mr Davies, chairman /;
Mr. Jefferson and Mr.. Scherer.
In his report from the rules and
regulations committee, Mr.. Scherer
made changes in sections 1, Z, 25
81, %, 80, AZ and A. Otherwise
the laws and rules and regulations
were adopted as they were before
Measures will be taken to have 500
copies of the new laws, rules and
regulations printed and distributed
in all the rooms of the Mankato
, public schools.
The resignation of Miss Radichel
as teacher of the sixth grade, Union
school, was accepted and her sue
cessor, Miss Selma Heglund, began
her duties yesterday. Superintend
ent Sperry brought up the subject
of raising Miss Edith Anderson's
salary to $50 per month, on account
of the fact that she has served in
the Mankato schools for six years
and according to the rule she is
entitled to that amount. Miss Ida
Lewis, whose salary was raised to
$50 this year for the same reason
came to Mankato in the middle OF
the term six years and a half age
and her salary was raised at the
beginning of the present term, but
Miss Anderson's salary was over
looked on account of the fact that
the records did not show she had
been in service quite as long as
Miss Lewis. Upon Mr.. Scherer's mo-
ton it was decided to raise Miss
Anderson's salary from $3.50 to
$50 per month, beginning with Oc
tober 1. Mrs, Belle Williams pc
tition for $50 per month was laid
on the table until the next meeting
pending investigation.
Janitor Wanted Help.
E. H. Agnew, the janitor at the
high school building, asked that he
be allowed another man during the
winter on account of the fact that
he was unable to do all the work
after winter set in. He said that
his time would be completely oc
cupied by sweeping in the day time
when he should be making repairs
that were always on hand. He
thought that man could be hired
to help him for $40 month and
accordingly a motion was passed
setting aside 5000 for five months
wages for this helper during the
winter months until April 1.
The matter of the tax levy was
then taken up and it was decided
to levy the same as last year, six
mills for the general purpose fund
amounting to $4,000, and four mills
for the special purpose fund, amount
of $1,000 to keep up the running
eApSuSeS vi the SCuOOl lOf TIE Gil
suing term. 1t was found that a
sub fund of the improvement fund
amounting to $1,000, was left over
from the building of the new school
house and Mr.. Scherer suggested
that this be returned to the tax
payers, but the idea was abandoned
because it was thought that they
would become insubordinate anG
demand more. After some discus
sion it was decided to have this
turned into the special improvement
fund.
| School Will Be Closed. -
| Superintendent Sperry brought VI
the subject of closing the schools
during the meeting of the South
ern Minnesota Teachers association
to be held here November 9Th and
9th The schools will close Fri
day, November 8, and the teachers
are especially urged to attend
these meetings.
| 1t was decided to utilize the
space in their green house offered
by the Windmiller company for ex
| perimenting in the agricultural de
partment. Superintendent Sperry
says that there are now fifty-two
students in that department and