The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-07-30
Bars and Fire Escapes Are Ordered
Placed On Some OF the Windows in
High School Building
From MONDAYS Daily.

| Two new high school teachers weIe
elected by the school board last Sat
: urday evening on the recommended =
| tion OF Superintendent +. J. Sperry
and the committee on schools, OF
which Mrs b. d. Smith is chairman.
Miss Louise kuehn OF Minneapolis
was chosen TO teach German and Miss
Emma Hail OF St Paul 10 teach Eng
! lish and mathematics. Miss Kuehn's
salary was fixed al So month and
Miss Halls at $SC. Miss Kuehn gradu-
ated from the Winona normal school
in 1910 and from the University OF
Minnesota this year. Miss Hall has
had six years experience in teaching
at Blue Earth. Winnebago and else
where.
Some changes in the text books
were made on the superintendent S
recommendation For the seventh and
eighth grades Manfred's Fin Prack
tiger Anfang' will he used by the be
ginning German students Latin be-
ginncrs in the same grade Will use II.
! G. Nuttine's Latin Reader and Prim
er." Domestic science students III the
third year will study Buffers House =
! hold Physics" Lincburger's Physics"
VIII no longer be used by third year
high school students. but Will be re
placed with Miliken & Gales Phys
les" Allen Grecnougb's Caesar" will
be replaced with Walkers Caesar"
aud Allen & GreenouGhs Latin Gram
mar with Benefits Latin Gram
mar Four. or five classic reading
books in the seventh and eighth
grades will he replaced with Elson's
Grammar School Reading Book No.
=" Only the students who have to buy
new books are to be subject to these
changes.
The matter of tables for the domestic
}science kitchen was brought up. hut
| it was reported that this had already
been referred to the committee on
property and expense.
superintendent Sperry reported
that since his last statement in re-
gard to collections for buttons. the
sum of 5000 had been collected. leav-
ting S1lt still 10 be gotten. The largest
bill outstanding was SOS.
The superintendent asked for
thirty five more desks for the seventh
grade students who were to be
moved to the high school. He said
many OF the desks that ii had been
intended to move from the grade
schools to the high school were too
small and others were too rickety to
move.
why would not a split log be good
enough asked Mr. Bashaw
The matter was referred to the
property and expense committee.
To the same committee was left
the matter of putting bars on the
windows on the manual training room
where they front over the boiler
room, in order that boys might not
climb in and get into the building at
times when they had no business to
be there. This proposition was breach
cd by President w b. Davies, and was
favored by the superintendent. Mr.
Bashaw thought those bars could be
made by the manual training students
The idea seemed to meet with general
favor on the part of the other board
members.
Another smatter referred to the
same committee was that of getting
fire escapes restored to the old manu-
Ial training room on the third floor in
order to make il suitable for use by
the commercial department
Secretary +. +. Soaring stated that
the customary expense allowance fol
the janitors of the various buildings
were as follows: High school. $50;
Pleasant. Grove. $50; Union. SIS;
Franklin. SIS: West Mankato. $13
The board voted to make the same
allowances for the coming school year
President Davies was authorized tC
employ an expert to go over the books
and accounts of the board for the fis-
cal year just drawing to a close.