Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-04
MISS MILLER, COUNTY sUPERIN.
PENDENT, CALLS MEETING OF
SCHOOL PRESIDENTS.
ARE TO FIX SALARY OF
NEWLr-APPolNr DEPUTY
Supervisors Decline to Allow supsrin-
tendent Deputy, So She Appoints
Ore Under New Law That Wont Into
Effect July +schooI Board Presi.
dents Must Meet to Fix Salary.

Refused a deputy by the board Of
supervisors, Miss Gertrude E. Miller,
county superintendent of schools, has
appointed one anyway, and has d.
recred the auditor 10 call meeting Of
the school officers of the county to
have them fix the salary of the new
deputy. The county superintendent is
acting within her rights both in max
ing the appointment and calling the
meeting.
Both moves are authorized by law
that went into effect July 4, but nelth-
er would have been taken advantage
of by Miss Miller if the supervisors
had consented to the superintendent
having deputy.
Miss FuIarton Named.
So. backed by the law. Miss Miller
took the deputyship in her own hands
and appointed Miss Edna Fularton.
Miss Miller hopes that the county
school officers, khen they meet Sept.
10. will fix salary Of not less than
$50 and perhaps as much as S1o
month for Miss Fularton. To make
more certain that they Will do So Miss
Miller has addressed a letter to the
school officers who will attend this
meeting. and has personally solicited
them on the subject.
What the school officers will do re-
mains to be developed at the meet.
ing. They might make the deputEship
very undesirable by voting salary so
small that no one would want to be
deputy.
Il believe they will do the fair
thing, said Miss Miller this fore
noon, in discussing the coming meet
ing.
Is Climax of Differences.
The initiative Miss Miller TOOK un-
der the new law is the climax OF dill
ferences she and the members OF the
board of supervisors have had almost
ever since the county superintendent
took office last winter.
Under the long superintendent OF
Miss Mary Hostetler the supervisors
had become accustomed to never oelns
asked to pay for extra help ana 1or
unusual expenses for the maintenance
of the superintendent Office.
When Miss Miller went into Office
the supervisors were surprised 10 re
ceive bills from her for extra help ana
other expenses, s1y tiA0
At first the supervisors protested mild
" later they declined fatty to pay
some of these bills, and last montn
ont off a. charge of $14 for the help OF
Misc Fularton. whom Miss Miller had
an, n,oved TO do stenographic work.
The Supervisors have contended
that MANY of the bills Miss Miller has
presented were unnecessary, and ohey
foil RI understand why the superln
tendent can not manage the ONCE as
economically as did Miss Hostetler.
MISC Miller insists emphatically that
~ Tho axnense she has incurred mas
baen necessary for the Office. Tor tHe
welfare of the schools, and the promo
tio, of school work. The SUPERVISORS
bou,arer can not see the situation IN
that light.
Automobile is Wanted.
.,onp the first things Miss Miller
wanted after she went into office was
on au1omobile in which to visit the
schools or the use of machine, il the
! county bought one. The county dlo
NV one for the county engineer, but
Miss Miller has not been allowed to
,,se IT. Miss Miller has recently re-
I ,aved her request for an automobile
! DCr the super SiooAo
taken the request seriously.
Miss Miller does not feel at all hiho-
| " toward the supervisors.
"1,be only opposition I have had in
thu county school work." she said this
,ftsrnoon has come from the super
visors."
Miss Miller charges the Supervisors
| with not doing, as supervisors, what
! they agreed to do as members Oh the
county board of education.
Meet in Court House.
The meeting Of the school officers,
| to fix the salary OF the deputy, IS 10 De
held in the court house at O'Clock
Sept. 10. Each school board OF the
county is supposed to be represented
by it's president, or in his absence ny
(, some member of the school board Sc
lected by the board.
| This body will comprise thirty mem
+; bers, if all are present The following
| is the list Of school board presidents
who will comprise this meeting:
Henry Gummert, Greencastle; c. F..
Arney Iowa; II. A. Weissenburger,
| Jefferson: C. H. Outland, LeGrand; J.
w. Rank, Linn; w. Warden, Logan;
G. E. Clapsaddle, Liscomb; H. E.
| nerva; w. c. Heintze, State Center;
C. s. Lewis, Taylor; Charles Wyatt,
Washington; AL Leroy, Liberty; Lee
Blink, Eden; DR.. H. j. Whitehead,
Bangor; T. P. Low, Marion; Carl Ben
son. Timber Creek; Charles Lynch,
Vienna; J. Harry Scurr. Gilman; H. D.
johnson, Liscomb; T. I. WATSON, city;
G.. A. DeButts. Melbourne: II. 8. Ian
dis. Rhodes; E. NJ. Wentworth, State
Center; e. B. McRill, Albion; e. NJ
Mills, LeGrand; A. Brackney, Cien.
ons; B. S. Kinds. st. Anthony; ]. r
Howard, Clemens; J. w. Speas. Fergu-
| son.
| The same law that gives this body
! the right to AK the salary Of the depu-
ty. also authorizes it to appoint the
county superintendent. Hereafter the
county superintendent will not be
elected, but will be appointed by this
body.
! Prisoners Sssn q esiIs PLANE.