The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-02-04
SCHOOL BOARD
CHUCKS $4,000
into FURNACE
Was Destruction of Building
Bonds Taken Ups
Year Ago.
PAULINE BECKMAN,
TEACHER, RESIGNS
To Aid In Raising Funds For Don
Louis LOrimier Memorial
Bust.

Members of the Board of Educa-
ton last night burned up $4,000.
The destruction was performed when
five of the 1914 building bonds were
chucked into the furnace and watched
curl up in smoke and blacken paper
ash.
The bonds that were destroyed form
Cd the first installment that was taken
up by the Board out of the issue of
$125,O0O voted two years ago with
which to erect school buildings. The
bonds originally were sold to Little &
Hays, bonds brokers in St. Louis, and
year ago, they fell due.
The Board sent the money to the
! broker concern to take the bonds up
and the bond concern then set to work
to trace the bonds after they had sold
them out. The bonds were found re-
Gently and returned to Little & Hays,
who in turn returned them to the
Board stamped Paid"
A provision of the law is that the
bonds are 10 be burned in the pres
ence of outside witnesses, so that the
night after the meeting of the Board
| ii Education, the members adjourned
to the engine room, where the collater-
al was consigned to the flames, along
with packet of interest coupons that
had been clipped from the rest of the
| bond issue.
The Board last night found it was
necessary to delay the closing of the
building fund till the next meeting.
Several small bills remain to be set
tied and minor financial matters adj
justed before the building fund may
be closed out
The Board received all bills and or
dered warrants drawn for them as we'll
2s the salaries Of the teachers and 9TH
er officers on the payroll
The Board also accepted the resig-
nation of Miss Pauline Beckmau from
the faculty of the jefferson School.
Miss Beckman for several years has
been in charge OF the Fifth Grade at
jefferson School, and she was regarded
as one OF the most experienced and cf-
ficient members Of the school faculties.
On the recommendation Of Superin-
tendent J. \. CToCl;er. the Board elect
ed Miss Susie Jeffcrs, of the Cape. who
is a graduate Of the Normal School
and who has been doing substitute
work for the Board for several months.
Miss LETTERS was graduated from the
Normal School last spring. Her work
will commence Immediately.
The Board also approved and offer
ed its support to plans for an enter
tainment at the High School within the
next five or six weeks to obtain funds
with which to erect a memorial to Don
Louis LOrimier in the main hall of the
new Central High School building.
liC VIII DC gwen DE
the students in the music department
who are training for it now.
The proposed Lorimier memorial
will probably be in the shape of bust
of Don Louis Lorimicr or q tablet with
MS bust in bas-relief surmounted with
an appropriate inscription. 1t is to
be placed in the main hallway facing
the entrance to the building on Pacific
street.
Lorimier more than 100 years ago
decided the property on which stands |
the High School building, to the city !
for school purposes. 1t is in recog- |
milton of this bequest that memorial /
will be placed. The first school in the |
Cape was named after Lorimier.