St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-10-11

and turned it over to me, for which
have given my receipt.
The Parish Farm Demonstration, OF
which I spoke in former report.
has arrived, and is now at work
throughout the parish. have asked
him to have one of the steam canning
outfits in operation at the parish fair
and to give demonstrations in can
ming. l believe that this would show
the farmers present what simple
process it is, and how easy 1t will be
for them to can most of their garden
vegetables. such as corn, tomatoes:
snap beans, string beans, sweet po-
tatoes, pumpkins, Okra, etc.
In a few weeks there will be three
new two-room school houses in the
sixth ward, and I wish to recommend
that you continue the good work by
building one like these three for the
Peace Grove school. AS you all
know the building at st. TammanT is
neither convenient nor is it owned
by the parish school board. The pro-
ceeds from the sixth ward special tax
for the coming year will be sufficient
to build the school at Violin-Single-
tary and also one at Peace Grove.
You gentlemen are all we'll aware
of the fact that you have beer try
ing to save money for the board by
appointing committees such as the
finance committee to attend to many
little matters that might have been
done by the entire board at special
meeting. I realize that your entire
object in doing this was to avoid hav-
ing a special meeting of the entire
board called, which would cost about
fifty dollars when the work could be
done by small committee OF two
or three at a cost of not over ten
dollars.
With the above facts before ne I
am met with the following letter
from Hon. W. N. Mcfarland, super
visor of public accounts, which will
explain itself. l shall ask you to
pass some vote in regard to this mat
ter, or l shall feel that I must de-
cline to draw warrants for any COM
mittee meetings whatsoever:
(COPY.)
Baton Rouge, La, July %. 1913.
Mr.. N. H. FitzSimons, President
0CHUUl DOdlu, SOt4u6IOnS AC1.
Dear Sir:-I am pleased to advise
that, in regular course, Superintend-
ent E. E. Lyon filed his report and
submitted vouchers covering receipts
and disbursements for the period
ending June 80, 1913. This report
called for the following:
Balance on hand April
/. 1913, 11,O33.92
Receipts during quarter 19,S93.99
Total to be accounted
for ... 31.027,91
Disbursements during
the quarter ...... 21,090.s1
Net balance June 3Oth $4,000
A careful examination of the re-
port and accompanying vouchers
prove the above amounts correct.
All vouchers were carefully ex-
amined and were in good shape with
the two exceptions noted below:
No. 1899, G.. R. Dutsch $40
No. 1890, C. M. Liddle 600
These payments we're made cover
ing mileage and per diem attending
lnCOtlu6 III AA0uCO NOAA1ltSOOS kAAO
said committee having been appoint
ed by the Board to open bids for the
fiscal agency.
l beg to direct your attention to
the legal opinion by Hon. S. L. Rich
ey, district attorney of the Thirtieth
Judicial District, which opinion is
concurred in by the Attorney Cen
eral. This opinion holds that no ex-
ira compensation is provided for the
president or members performing
any services other than attending reg
ular or special meetings of the
board. In the face of this opinion,
am unable to approve these pay
ments as proper disbursement OF
the funds belonging to the School
Board.
All vouchers submitted by Mr..
Lyon are forwarded to him by to-
days express, and I am sending him
q copy OF this letter for his informa-
ton.
Yours very truly,
w. N. MCFARLAND,
Supervisor Of Public Accounts.
At your regular meeting you voted
to pay one-third of the cost of build
ing a school house at Ramsay, pro-
vided the title of the land should be
made in the name Of the parish school
board and you would not be asked to
pay over two hundred dollars.
wish to report that the deed to the
land and other material have been
submitted to me aggregating the sum
Of $497.9O. One-third of this amount
would be $165.97, and have drawn
! check in favor of Mr.. Ed. Bailey
for labor on the building for $4,000.
20 this would leave 1851 Of our
third still unpaid.
l feel that the work N the schools
throughout the whole parish is get
ing along well, and that We are max
ng as rapid progress as we should
hope to make.
Once more thanking you for your
continued and uniform courtesy, /
reg to remain,
Very respectfully,
ELMER E. LYON,
Superintendent.
Moved by Mr.. Dutsch, seconded by
Mr.. Hansbrough, that the board go
IN record as being strongly opposed
o the recommendations of the State
Board OF Education as given on cir
'ular letter No. s. Upon the roll
all the vote was as follows:
Yeas-Dutsch. Fauntleroy, Hans
trough. Kahl, Parker, Crawford, Lid
lie. Dr.. Farmer not voting.
The following petitions were. re-
'elved from citizens at Maud and
Honey Island:
Honey Island, La, Sept. 10, 1913.
school Board, Parish OF St. Tam