The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-24

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Office expenses .......... l,25O.Oo
Total probable expenses. .S1O8,873.l4 :
Having completed the budget the :
board adjourned for noon.
Tuesday Afternoon Session
The board met with all members
present and acting.
Messrs. Lightsey and Coin OF the
Coin school called and asked that
their school be continued for the com
ing term, as the prospects were that
they would have the required number
of pupils. Their request for their
teacher of last term, Miss Sallie Whit
field, to be assigned again was also
agreed to.
1t was agreed that the chairman
and secretary be authorized to make |
such arrangements as should seem adj |
visable in the matter of securing
funds for operating for the coming
school year.
It was agreed to pay the first
months of the terms in those districts
| having PALACES on hand from district
funds for the period of the extension
of those schools from district funds.
1t being reported by the secretary
that the pass books for the band in
.terest and sinking fund for the Dun
mellon special tax district No. 5, OF
the Bank of Dunnellon as depository,
had been lost or misplaced, the fol
lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted in due form: Resolved, That
the board of public instruction will
fully warrant and secure the Bank
lof Dunnellon against loss in paying
the interest coupons to be presented
for payment that may result from the
said pass books being lost until the
| matter of the pass books can be fully
adjusted.
Mr.. w. J. Crosby, chairman of the
r board of trustees of Citra, called and
discussed the school situation, and
! requested that the opening of the col
t ored school there be withheld until
e December 1, on account Of the croE
t conditions.
t The secretary as requested to take
f up all district warrants held by the
q Munroe & Chambliss Bank that there
e are available funds to take up.
G Snudry accounts were presented fol
x payment and were ordered paid as pc
n warrant list on file in the office ant
t with the clerk of the court.
Il A request from Esther A. William
:, to be appointed as teacher for tn
il Jeans Fund work among the colore'
S, schools for the coming year was az
It proved.
A petition was presented from tn
II trustees and patrons of the Homelan
school asking that their school hous
be moved about three-fourths Of
mile from the present site to poin
ID on the hard road that would accom-
modate the patrons of both the Home
land and Cotton Plant districts. Tn
matter was referred to Mr.. Veal fc
investigation and for report at tn
next meeting.
"a The superintendent called attentfo
w to the institute to be held at the un
w versity this summer for superinten
ents and school officers from July
W to 27 inclusive.
w The superintendent reported Il
w resignation of Mr. G. A. Osteen as OF
w of the trustees of the Fairfield scho
~ and the recommendation of Mr.. r.
Scott to be appointed in his place al
the appointment was ordered made
Coupon warrant of w. ]. Edwar'
No. Is, for $4,000 being due, it VI
agreed to renew it for two years MOI
Warrant against the Anthony d
trict for 1855 in favor of the Uni'
School Furnishing Co., being due al
held by bank for collection, it W
90 agreed to advance county funds a.
~ take it up and draw district warra
to county for it.
oo The secretary reported the sendi
~ of funds for $3175 to Chicago to ia
I'D $500 of funding warrants and p
Interest on the remaining ones.
- The secretary reported the TAXI
up of the interest coupons on t
Ocala district bonds Amounting
oo $3.50.
Request from Pleasant Hill sch'
for pump head, cylinder and PAL
covering was granted from distr
M funds.
A petition from number of peo
M from the neighborhood of South La
Weir was presented asking that tn
, 90 be a school established in tn
, oo neighborhood, but the number appe
ing insufficient to justify the expel
, m of the school, it was declined for
} 90 present.
A request was presented from
\ o0 supervisor of the GAINESVILLE colo
school for ceiling for their house, "
Ola the proposal that they would do
q 90 work of putting it up. 1t was ayr
n O0t to furnish material under this col
0 100 ton.
0 100 A number of communications II
the trustees in different parts Of