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

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until the fee shall have been paid.
Permission was granted to thos
who are not financially able to max
this payment, to get an excuse from
the ward director in which the schoo
IS situated / desire that you pas
| vote today approving of the way
am carrying out your instructions
concerning the incidental fee.
/ wish to acknowledge the receip
of a copy of the recommendation
by the State Board of Education
that: One-teacher schools be limit
ed to five grades, two teachers tt
seven grades, three teacher school,
to eight grades and four teacher,
to nine grades. / present these rec
concentrations for your considera
| ton.
| Last year, you will remember, thai
public schools took q very prom
inent part in the exercises held on
School Day at the parish fair on No.
vember 8, 1913. We have been in.
vited by the managers Of the fair
to do as well for this year, but ,
feel that 1t will be impossible, TO,
many reasons, some of which ! viii!
mention.
Last year we had about ten weeks
in which to make preparations an6
this year we have scarcely four
Because of the short time and the
heavy rains have had very little
time in which to visit the schools
and make arrangements for any ex.
hibits. also object to having tht
results OF my second effort fall short
OF my first. Still believe that with
good luck we will be able to have
q number of creditable articles or
display from the Covington and E
few other schools. wish to express
my hearty approval of the parish fai1
and to state that desire to assist In
any way that any patriotic citizen
can. but the lack Of time, and be.
Cal; e the first two weeks of school
each year must be siyeu up to or
ganization, makes me see the Inn
possibility of doing as we did last
year.
Is to the progress made by the
building committee for the Coving-
ton high school, I wish to say that
after a. great deal of careful though
and Investigation, we selected the
firm Of Nolan & Tore, Of New Or
leans. as architects to prepare plans |
and specifications. After q careful |
search for suitable location for the
school, in which We took into con.
ssderation the cost Of the land, its
location, and ease with which sew
ar system could be installed, we de-
cided uron the lot formerly owned
by the town and used. for school pur.
'os se The title to this lot has been
to the school board and
he tyan1fer Is new matter or rec
'rd. After deciding upoh tl1A eits f
Ind securing the title to It, it be-
;ame necessary to have the partly
brick building demolish-
ID, in order to be able to get brick
or use in the new building. Fo,
his work we received the following
lids:
Covington, La, June %, 1913.
Parish School Board Of st. Tammany
Gentlemen:-I propose to demel.
81 the unfinished school building II
;ovington. La. as follows:
Take down the entire brick walls
md piers to the ground level, the
rick to slide down on boards. and
tn erwise handled carefully, to re-
luce the breakage to q minimum
III of the whole bricks to be clean
9 IN the ordinary manner, allowine
bout one-eighth of the old mortar
0 remain. Pile the brick In good
traight piles SO that they can bs
ounted. have the pressed bricks sen.
rate from the rough. Pile the brok.
n bricks In separate pile, none Of
ne bricks are to be moved more than
90 feet away from the building
lumber to be taken down In d care
VI manner, to be piled in straight
lies, not to be carried more than 1OOl
set from the building. Nails are
OF to be removed from the lumber.
The different sizes are to be SEN
rated, all the good lumber, to be
sparated from the bad. None OF Q
le lumber is to be piled ON sticks. :
ere CT the unused brick or lumber )
TO be moved. t
VIII take out employers liability
gainst damages from workmen EN-.
Dyed on the works. l will do the 1
'F'a work. paying all labor. etc.
Y the consideration of one thousand
frsy-five S1,d35.H6) dellars.
hoping this will be satisfactory. G
,main, r,
Yours truly. !,
c. v. oUAvE. n
Covington, La, July S. 1919.
inerintendent of School Board. Gov.
ingtcn, La, L
Dear sir:-I agree TO demol;sh tho F
ok building which is situated or r
Avenue and Silver street G
lsa to the ground and to clean al R
a9to bricks and also to furnish 7
md to the amount of five hundred e
Jars.
also agree to stack bricks ten feet
r1n the fence. All bats and mortar
= be left as it falls. l agree to dc
o above work for the sum of one C
Esand ($1O00) dollars and in two
the first payment when F
isdsng is down and next payment F
zen the work is completed.
Yours respectfully.
C. DUVOISIN,
General Contractor.
Govington, La, June 80, 1913.
.ri-h School, Board, Mr.. N. H. Fitz-
Slmons. Chairman.
Gantlemen:-I propose to demol-
of Gibson street and H
en- the town lot at the corners of =
the present brick structure situat-
lfeTson Avenue to the ground level Fl
clean and pile on site all bricks
1T can be used after old structure
demolished tako ont anN v;1o -, O.
mos. Joint sills, and other ma =.
81 that may be in the building, to
me Of demolishing. All for the NJ