St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-04-11

transferred the assistant to the Line
Graded school in the fifth ward and
now the former principal OF the Tn
ON Grove school is able to teach
all of the children attending.
While still believe that there are
children enough in this neighborhood
to require two teachers. and you and
will be glad IT they will attend SO
We may be justified in giving them q
second teacher, still know that you
are going to want to be certain OF this
attendance before we can again send
a second teacher. i say this because
OF the fact that W. cannot send t~a
teachers in a acnool Of twenty Or
thirty children and let one teacher
handle like number in some other
school.
l have received request from
some Of the patrons of the Ben Will
lams school to have you select q date
when they may all meet and elect
.i.w trustees. I would like to sus-
Cest that the date selected be one
eo:ning after the close Of tho present
term of school. The sudden leaving
OF the principal of this school caused
q slight break in the work. but now
everything appears to be going along
al: right with Mr.. H. T. Stafford as
their principal.
In the Line Graded school We have
our third principal and have every
hope that the term will be finished
with no more Interruptions. aave
vieited this school three times and .m
trying to do all that / consistently
can to help the school along.
wish to acknowledge the rece pt
OF ten dollars from the School lm-
provement League Of Abita Springs
for the benefit Of their school, and
l am going to ask you to appropriate
q like sum for library to be placed
N their higher grade room.
The new high school building here
and long before your next meeting
has come 1t VIII have been finished
by the contractor and accepted by the
architects and builuing committee.
At your next meeting the comm -ttee
will attempt to make full state
ment covering the entire cost of all
money spent n the construction Of
the building, as well as the demol.sh-
ing OF the old brick one and the NOV
ing Of the old wood one.
The long looked. for School Rally
came at last ushered in with tor
rent Of rain and went out with a
storm Of congratulations and best
wishes. do not care to make an
report Of the many little
that were attended to before
the rally could become the success
It was. Usually t g to some particu-
body or organization Of workers that
special thanks are due, but / do not
think that this Is exactly true IN this
case. 1t appeared to me that it was
indeed a parish rally with the good
people Of Cov.ngton as the hosts. !
Party or organization lines seemed to
dissolve and It was not School I'M
provement League or Progressive
Union, but the united body Of Gov
Lngton workers, who made every |
thing 60 and go right.
I do wish however to extend my |
special thanks to the comm ttee on !
and their assistants |
FOR the way they stuck to a job that |
1T times threatened to swamp them,
and l want also in no less degree to
hank the very efficient committee on
for the excellent man
aer in which they did all that was
hoped for in their line. don't have
20 enlarge upon the benefits derived
from this rally because the most
,keptical may see il he wishes, and
lon't believe that there is a more
perfect way of our seeing the feeling
If the people OF the parish along the
line of schools than In this manner.
A number of seven months schools
ire to be run for an eighth month
rom funds raised by friends OF the
Ichools. This l understand true
It Pearl River where the Progressive
League is the source of help; in Man
leville the Women's Progressive I'm
on is to give one month. The town
council OF Ab!ta Springs has provided
is usual funds for two months, and
have been told that the town OF
Mad .sonville is also to help their
,chool. In this connection l will give
! petition from the trustees and pa
rons of the Folsom school which is
Is follows:
Folsom, La. Feb. s, 1914.
Prof. E. E. Lyon, Superintendent, and
Members of the School Board:
Dear S:rs:-
We, the undersigned trustees and
PATRONS of the Folsom graded school,
hereby petition your honorable body
o continue said school for month
onger ii. e. months) out Of the
econd ward special tax.
Signed by five trustees and twenty
me patrons.
This is the day for us to open the
lids for Fiscal Agents for the next
wo years, and along this line Offer
he following letter from the State
relative to the
mount Of bond that the Fiscal
agent should give:
Baton Rouge, Oct. II, 1913.
)ear Super ,ntendent:
As you are aware, all banks acting
8 fiscal agents to parish school +
'oards are required to give bond.
The Attorney General rules that
he amount of the bond should be |
he average of the lowest and highest t
eposits Of the previous year, disre- f
,ard.ng overdrafts. "A
To Illustrate. If the lowest
mount in a bank to the credit of the
chool board, before reaching zero or
eas waR 800 and the greatest