The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-07-25

Coin called and made request for
school to be located between Belle
view and Shady. 1t was later agreed
to furnish the necessary materials
for building a house 20x24 feet in
size.
Ben Wilson, supervisor of the COL
ored school at Wacula, called and
made request of the board to furnish
material for the erection of a new
school house on a lot for which he
presented a deed to the board, on the
Martel hard road. 1t was agreed
that if the community would raise
as much as $40 the board would fur
nish the remainder of the material
necessary to build the house.
Mr.. c. J. Proctor, supervisor Of
the Dallas school. called and made
request OF the board for help in
a new school house for the
Dallas school within about a quarter
Of a mile OF the old school house.
The new enc TO be on the new hard
road from Pedro to the Summerfeld
hard road. 1t was agreed for him to
have bills for the lumber prepared
and get deed to the proposed lot
and present TO the chairman and
secretary for action.
Messrs. J. F. Huffman and Joe
Fore, trustees of the Griner Farm
school. made request for desks to be
furnished their school The board
agreed to furnish "a new single
desks. The pump was reported to be
out of order and it was agreed TO
have some one examine and fix it. A
request was made for the salary of
the principal to be fixed at $65 per
month instead of $50, and it was
agreed to pay $50 from the county
funds and s. from the district funds
Mr.. F. Abate of the keystone
school, called and made request for
the board to purchase a lot for them
and furnish material for the build
ing of a school house. The matterI
OF the purchase of a lot was left to
the secretary to look after, the price
not to be more than $50 for the acre
1t was also understood that the board
would furnish the materials for the
house and the people of the COM
munity would do the work of build
ing.
Inasmuch as there was a petition
asking for the appoint
ment of Miss Bertha Snow as assist
ant teacher of the Pedro school and
since there had been a recommends
ton from the trustees not to appoint
any teacher from the community, It'll
was agreed to refer the matter to
the patrons for settlement and the
secretary was to notify them to hold
to select an assistant and to
make report to him.
The matter Of the removal of the
school from the present site of the
Narshville school was taken UP and
discussed and it was decided to con-
t;nue to operate the school at the
present site for the coming term.
n the matter of the fixing of the
pillars of the Pedro school house
and the filing in of sand, it was
agreed that the county would author
ize the fixing to the limit of SIS at
county expense. In the matter of
the request to meet with county
funds such amounts as might be con-
tributed by citizens OF the Pedro
community to apply on the cancella-
ton of their Indebtedness it was de-
cided that it would be an unusual
procedure that they could not under
take at this time.
Adam Mitchell and some of the
patrons Of the Evergreen colored
school called to present petition
asking for the removal Of the pres
ent SUPERVISOR 1t was agreed to
notify the supervisor to appear be-
fore the board at the next meeting
for the purpose Of being heard in the
matter.
The board adjourned until the
night session.
Night Session
Mr.. II, w. Nettles presented an es-
innate of the cost of the lumber for
the proposed house at Oak Hill and
was authorized to furnish same
when satisfactory deed should be
executed to the board.
Resignation Of Mr.. J. ]. Colbert
as trustee of the Sparr school was
presented and accepted and the re-
naming trustees of the Spar school
We're asked to call a meeting OF the
patrons for the purpose of recon-
mending a suitable person to be ap-
pointed in his stead 1t was also