The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-02

/ porter not to mention the fact tnal
the school board had autnorizeo lhe
| purchase of machinery
Il do not want to be annoyed Win
saIeSmen,'' he explained
Knows What He Wants.
Have you made up your mind as
to the kind of machinery you want
! and where you want to buy IT ne
was asked, and he replied that he had
/ "One would suppose that you would
want all the Information you could
get. and besides the purchasing OF
| public property at secret sale is not
! good policy he was told
We'll, the buying is up to the sup
/ plies committee" continued Hasty'
! land information viii not do any good
Z The committee wouldn't know any
thing more after it had the informa-
/ ton than it did before They would
just be shown a lot of pictures and a
| poor machine makes just as good
! pictures as does a good one, and the
! best talker makes the best showing
( OF course will recommend the ma
/ chimes and it isn't any use to give the
| supplies committee any information
! At the last regular monthly meeting
/ of the board, bill for approximately
/ $500 for lumber which Hasty had
I purchased without authorization of
/ the board, was held up by L NJ Pen
/ well, chairman of the finance commit
! tee At the meeting last night. on mo-
( ton of p w. Griggs, none of the big
batch of bills which had accum uIated
| during the month, was read before
/ being acted upon The only figures
| read was the sum the various bills
: totaIed, but all bills in the bundle re-
ported from the finance committee
| were allowed. By inquiry, it was
| learned from Mr. Jones that a special
meeting of the board had been held
some time ago at which the lumber
| bill was allowed
! Speaking of the purchase of the new
machinery, Mr. Jones said: That
| exhausts the fund for the purchase of
l.
spent this year We shall sit on the
lid and watch, and we hope we will
not be pried off"
But in appropriating the last cent
for the new machinery, provision was
not made for the cost OF installing it.
so probably the lid will be pried when
the machinery arrives.
School Board Notes.
The Madison street school will re-
main closed. The board of education
at meeting last night, declined to re-
rescind its former action \ number
OF cOIored persons were present at the
meeting and urged that the school be
reOpened, claiming SIS pupils and pros
pecuive pupils had been found in the
district Ed Rooney, truancy officer,
reported that he had found only "A
persons between the ages of and Is
years in the district. H B. Wilson,
city superintendent of schools, said
only 33 children were using the jitney
bus to be taken to the Monroe school.
Complaint was made that the jitney
was sometimes late, and Supt. Wilson
said the matter would be investigated.
One of the rooms in the Topeka high
school will be turned over one night
a week to the uses of the Topeka
branch of the National Stationary En-
gineers' association E. G. Stahl,
superintendent of the city electric
light plant made the request, and ex-
planned that As stationary engineers
are banded together for purposes of
study and are taking a course prepared
and sent out by the State Agricultural |
college at Manhattan.
Quincy and Central Park schools |
are to be wired so that tereopticon |
lanterns. which have already been |
purchased by the schools can be used |
Wire sufficiently heavy to carry cur |
rent for moving picture machines will |
be installed
The night school now being held at
Lafayette school may be moved to |
Branner school as most of the pupils |
live nearer the latter building. The |
school board has authorized the wir-
ing of Branner school for electric
lights The cost will be $2O.75.
A change is to be made in the
method of preparing the monthly fl
nancial statements of the school /
board After a meeting of the school 4
u d
took the matter up with NJ. c. Hol-
man, secretary of the board Dr. Il
Van Horn complained that the form II
which has been followed IS not easily +
man that he follow the same form as II
is used by w. H. WATSON, city COM Il
missioner of finance, in the monthly II
statements he prepares Tor the city II
commissioners. These forms show the II
amount of the budget allowance for II
each fund, the amount spent during II
the month and the balance REMAINING.
for the unexpired part of the year.
The city schools are to maintain an
open door for the visiting teachers
who Will attend the annual conven-
ton of the Kansas State Teachers
school board last night the superfn-
tendent of schools and the superin-
tendent of buildings and grounds II
were instructed to spare no efforts in
extending every courtesy and hospital
lty to me visiting teachers.
Miss Mildred Young, high school
commercial teacher, has been placed II
on the list of the regular teaching II
force at salary of SIS per month.
A communication from w. o. Rig II
by, postmaster, to the members of the
city board of education was read at a |
of the board last night The II
letter accused H B. Wilson. city su-
perlntendent or schools, of Withholding ii
information which would have helped II
Rgby's son Fred in his efforts to be II
relnstated in the high school. when he II
and Victor Blakely and James Briar II
were given an opportunity to with II
draw from the school for having fra III
ternity affiliations The comrnunica- /
ton also referred to Wilson as a car.
The members of the board in an in |
formal discussion decided that the su- |
perintendent had given the members |
of the board all the information he |
had. III
Mr.. Rigby was here himself and III