The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-03-31

Minnie Bangerter, principal. sixth,
$50 to $50 so.
Helen Meyer, fifth, $65 to SGT so.
Isabel Chesser, fourth. $65 to $67.50
Eleanor Johnson, third, $3.50 to
SEQ
Julia Hub, second, $40 to $72. so.
Minnie Parker, first, s65 to $G7.5O.
Helen Hall, Kindergarten primary,
S65 TO SGT so.
Union School
Eta E. Boston, principal, sixth
grade, $67 so to $40.
Gladys Bonner, fourth, $50 so to
$55.
Helen Weed, third, $50 to $6250.
Dorothy Rohrer, second, $52 so
to $55.
s. Blodwen Richards. first, $55
to $57. so.
Genevieve Heglund, kindergarten
primary, $50 so to SIS.
West Mankatc school
S. Rose Staley, principal, fifth and
sixth grades, $40 to $3.50.
Mary Howatt, fourth, $52 so to
sos.
Madge B. Clark, third, $55 to
$57.5O.
Libby Williams, second, see to
S62. so.
Jessie B. Irving, first, $40 to
$72 so.
Mrs. Hannah K. Fairweather,
kindergarten2p primary, $62 so to $65.
Letters were read from Miss Ell
vira Roust,, teacher of geography IN
the junior high school: Miss Lulu
NJ Schonhovd, kindergarten teach
err in the Pleasant Grove, and Miss
Elizabeth Deuser, fifth grade teacher
of the Union school, declining re-
election.
Dr.. Beach Objected.
DR.. Beach arrived little late.
He noticed that the committee on
schools had presented a list of the
teachers and new salaries recon-
mended, and he said he did not like
to have the business done in that
cut and dried way. He believed in
the salaries being discussed in open
board meeting He remarked that if
all that work was going to be done
in advance, there was no use of 9TH
er board members coming to take
part in the affair.
President w. B. Davies said it
was customary for the board mem
bers to talk this matter over freely,
and the school committee had merely
presented something as recon-
mendation. The committee had not
intended to assume any unwarranted
authority.
Mr.. Davies also remarked that the
school salaries that had been paid in
Mankato were rather low, compared
with those of other cities. DR..
Beach was inclined to doubt this.
He thought it would be hard to find
higher salaries for school teachers
paid in other cities of Mankato's
class outside Of the iron range.
l.. T. Jefferson thought that if the
board had the money to raise the
salaries, the board might afford to
hire an elocution teacher. The high
school pupils certainly ought to have
such teacher, he thought.
Schools Doing Very Well.
Mr.. Davies remarked that the
schools had run along pretty well of
late and he believed in holding to
the present corps of teachers, who
had been doing good work under the
six-six plan This is the plan OF
having six years in the grade schools
and six in the high school
w. D. Willard said that MankalO
was paying a lower school tax than
almost any other town in the state.
Mankato should keep the good
teachers it had and pay them good
salaries.
1t was after the fixing of the sal
aries of the individual teachers
came up that the fireworks really
commenced. Judge Evan Hughes
was obliged to leave the meeting
about that time, and he missed it,
/. DR.. Beach kept accusing. the other
members present, of whom there
were six besides himself, of partial
ity. He wanted to know why a
larger raise was granted here and
there, and why some got no in
increases at all. He kept other
members busy explaining this and
that. He remarked that one high
school teacher was getting "a slap
in the face"
when you want to break the
rule you break it and when you don't
want to break it you invoke it," he
exclaimed in one connection. Our
grade teachers don't get nearly
enough salaries, compared with what
we pay to the pets in the high
school,"
superintendent F. J. Sperry as
sented to this view in a general way
He said there was too much differ
ence between the salaries of the
grade, school teachers and the high
school teachers.
: Pay For Grade Teachers.
DR.. Beach said he believed in