The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-05-12
Miss Abbie Peters Will Hold
These Two Positions
GRADUATES MUST CRATE
Janitors Chosen, land Much Other
Business Transacted BY
School Trustees
Prom Thursdays Daily

eFoun iHuTSuayS LAZY
Miss Abbie Peters, visiting nurse,
was last evening elected by the school
board as school visiting nurse and
truant officer. This will enable the
visiting nurse committee, in case
Miss Peter accepts the offer, to hire
her an assistant with such funds as
have heretofore been used to pay
for the services of Miss Peters her
self.
! A communication was received
from M. R. Coulter, secretary of the
Social Science club, notifying the
board that the club at recent meet
ing had passed a resolution declar-
ing it to be the sense of the club that
the school board was justified in en-
ploying visiting nurse and director
of physical education for the schools.
The committee on schools and text
books reported that it had decided
Ito recommend that the board appoint
a. school nurse for next year. Miss
Abbie Peters, who is the present
visiting nurse and whom the COM
mittee had in mind, would expect a
salary of 500 a month for ten
months.
A little discussion arose as to
whether Miss Peters could not take
the work of the truant officer and
thus save the $25 a month, paid to
the truant officer for nine months
Although division of opinion arose
on this question, a motion by w. D.
Willard was carried, providing that
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school nurse and truant officer for
the next year at a salary of 500 a
month for a period of ten months
The vote stood five to one, Judge
Evan Hughes voting in the mega
tive
Grads Must Crate.
High school graduates must write
essays and display their oratorical
powers to the public as of yore,
though they do not seem to wish to
do so. A petition was received from
the high school class that will grad
uate in June, 1916, asking that the
old custom of having graduation es-
says delivered by the pupils on COM
mencement day be discontinued, and
that speaker from some other city
be engaged instead. DR.. Beach moved
to lay the communication on the
table, and this motion was carried.
The petition has the signatures Of
seventy seven pupils.
Kin. ergarten Teacher Elected.
The oard took up the election to
fill the vacancy in the position of
kindergarten teacher in the Pleasant
Grove school, and Miss Hazel Ed
wards, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
E. Edwards of this city, was selected
her salary was fixed at $50 month.
She is at present teaching at Grand
Meadow and is highly recommended.
The election Of janitors for the
year commencing June Is, next was
taken up and all the janitors were
re elected, as fOllOws;
Charles A. Anderson, West Man
katO school, $3.50, raise of $25.
l.. A. Radcliffe, Pleasant Grove
school, $500, raise of $25. Mr.. Rad
cliffe is to give his entire time dur
ing the summer vacation to the work
Of the district, as heretofore.
John R. Jones, Union school, 1925,
same as before.
Charles Vogel, Franklin school,
$3.50, raise of $25.
E. H. Agnew, high school building,
$4,000, to hire and pay his own as
sistants, raise of 500.
Bids For BIackboards.
Dr. w. A. Beach on behalf of the
committee on property and expense,
reported that the committee had re-
ceived bids on the new slate black
boards for the school. 1t is the in
tention of the committee to have
these boards bought by the board and
installed by labor hired by the board
The bids were as follows: Lehigh
Structural Slate Manufacturing COM
pany, Bangor, Penn, 1874 cents a
square yard; Pennsylvania Structur-
al Slate company Easton, Penn, 20
cents; keenan, Structural Slate COM
pany, Bangor, Penn, 201h cents.
1t was reported that w. T. War
wick wished to make bid and there
fore on the motion of Judge Evan
Hughes, the matter was referred to
the property and expense committee
with full power to act The commit
tee will receive Mr.. Warwick's bid.
A notice was received from e. J..
Franklin, factory inspector under the
bureau of labor and industries of
Minnesota, notifying the board that
under the law the board must pro-
vide a screen guard On the large fan
in the basement. On motion of w.
D. Willard this matter was referred
to the property and expenes commit
tee.
New Roof Is Needed.
Dr. Beach reported that new
roof was needed on the franklin
school building. The roof was leaky
although it was temporarily fixed up
last year This matter was referred
on motion by Judge Hughes to the
committee on property and expense
with full power to act.
Mrs. Smith reported that the
school committee had awarded the
contract for furnishing the school
supplies for next year to the North
western School Supply company, the
bid with freight and drayage added
being $342 04. w. T. Warwick was
the next highest bidder, at s39O.49.
The difference was so great that the
committee decided not to favor the
home firm, as it would have been
glad to do.
Mrs. B. D. Smith for the commit
tee on schools and text books rec
commended that the typewriting work