The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-04-24

Board Of Education Held Regular
Meet Last Night
From Tuesdays Daily.

AtiG hhEu " N1C cluOOA bOoAN icot
evening, as follows, every one of the
new incumbents being elected on the
recommendation OF the superintend-
emit:
Kindergarten at Union school, Miss
Selma Heglund, transferred from the
second grade Of the Union school.
Second grade at Union school, Miss
Minnie Perrin, former teacher in
West Mankato school, now teaching
at Amboy; salary, $50. Miss Perrin
Is a graduate of the Mankato nor
NAL. At the time she left the Man.
kato schools, she declined reelection
on account OF i'll health. Salary, SIS
per month.
Fourth grade at Union school, Miss
Gladys Benner, teacher at New Au-
burn, residing in Mankato salary,
$50.
Seventh grade and principalship
of Union school, Miss Eta Boston,
teacher at New Ulm, whose home
IS in Mankato; salary. s65.
Other Teachers Elected.
Fourth and fifth grades of Pleas
ant Grove school, Miss Elizabeth
Deuser. teacher at Gilbert, Mimi.
graduate Of Mankato normal. re.
siding in Mankato; salary. s55. There
were six votes for Miss Deuser, DIR.
w. A. Beach being the one trustee
absent. Her salary was fixed at SIS.
Third grade of Franklin school.
Miss Eleanor Johnson, teacher at
Wells graduate OF Mankato normal,
residing in Mankato, salary, SIS.
Two positions in the grade schools
were left vacant. the sixth grade
of the Union school and the sixth
grade of the Franklin, the superin.
tendent requesting further time to
consider the candidates.
Asked For Release.
Miss Mary V. Murphy, principal of
the Union school. asked to be re-
leased from her contract to take this
position next year. as she had been
elected to a position in the public
schools of Minneapolis at a larger
salary. Her request was granted.
A communication was received
from Lynn E. Jones, assistant teach.
er of manual training, resigning this
position, the resignation to take ef.
feet on June 1. The resignation was
accepted.
The superintendent announced that
there were FIVE high school vacancies
yet TO be filed, the instructorships
in American history, science, English
manual training and commercial
branches. He had many applicants
but he was not yet ready to recon-
mend any particular candidate for
any one OF these positions. He said
he desired to have men teachers
for both the American history and
science. The teacher of American his.
tory was expected to help with the
debates OF the students and the
science teacher was to take care of
the gymnasium work. II was neces.
sary to have men for both of these
positions.
Fixed Salary Limit
The men who applied for these pc.
sitions, however, fixed their salary
limits at higher figures than the
board had been accustomed to pay
Those who applied for the position OF
teacher Of American history ask all
the way from SIS month to $1,000 a
year and those who applied to teach
science asked $50 a month to $1,000
a year. Women could be obtained 10
teach American history at SIS To
$50 a month.
At the suggestion of w. b. Davies
the president. II was at length de
cided to leave the fixing OF the sal
aries OF these two positions in the
discretion of, the superintendent, a
limit of 800 month being set.
Another Meeting Monday.
II was decided to meet again on
Monday evening, May 4, this to take
the place OF the regular meeting
scheduled for Wednesday evening
May s. Mr.. Bashaw said he expected
to leave the city. and could no,
attend the meeting at the regular
time
Mr. Sperry was authorized "a
make trip. the mileage not to ex
coed SIS. for the purpose Of look
ing up candidates for the high school
positions that are still open.
The superintendent called attention
to the fact that students of the
high school. who had failed, were fire.
quently able to make up the work
and go on with their classes by TAX
ing six weeks double-time sum
mer course at the state normal
school. He said, however, that the
normal school had been insisting on
all of its students signing an agree
ment to teach school at least two
years, and many of the high school
students did not care to sign this
pledge. He suggested that an ar
rangement might be made to hold
such a summer school in the high
school building. with one or more
teachers OF the high school faculty
the students who took that work
being required TO pay the same fee that
they would pay at the normal This
would be for the purpose Of giving
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