The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-05-11
New teachers were elected as follows:
Instructor in Agriculture at the HIGH

| Teacher OF English ana librarian. MISS
Doris Curran, DR.. G r. Curran's daugh-
| ter teacher of history and English amt
| fixed at SIS.
Teacher of public speaking, Miss Kittie
| Merrill, Clear Lake, Iowa, graduate OF
one of the departments of Northwestern
university; salary, $50. ...-r.y s..
| Teacher of seventh grade arithmetic
Miss Ruth Scribner, Sank Rapids, Mimi
| of the Stevens Point normal; salary.
$65.
Teacher of second special school. Miss
Henrietta Kremer, graduate of the Uni
Versity of Michigan, who has had special
| training at Faribault and a teacher for
two years at the Fergus Falls hospital
She has been doing such work in the St
Paul city schools. Her salary was hxed
at 500.
Secretary Soaring read the resig-
nation of Miss Margaret Darlington
as teacher of biology at the high
school. Miss Darlington has better
position at st. Paul. Her resignation
was accepted.
.. Salary Raised to $50.
Mr.. Sperry stated that Miss Jennie
Johnson, who had been chosen to
ant Grove, did not care to accept the
teach the special school at the Pleas
position at SIS, but would at $50. on
motion her salary was raised to $50.
Superintendent Sperry reported
that forty-four students had enrolled
for the summer extension work in the
sewing; twenty-five for the cooking
and eighteen for the typewriting.
Others were expected for the latter
class. A motion was, carried, provid-
ing that all of these classes, together
with manual training, be continued
through the month of June. .
Outsiders Must Pay.
w. D. Willard spoke of the loss that
the district had been suffering all
along by educating pupils OF other
districts in the high school for far
less than cost. 1t would now be worse
than ever, with the customary state
aid for the manual training and do
nestle science departments no longer
available He said he believed that
the best thing the board could do in
regard to this was to cut out this
losing business altogether and simply
announce that the Mankato district
would no longer furnish this instruc-
ton to outsiders at that heavy loss.
He thought the board should come
out frankly and say that it could no
longer be done.
DR.. w. A. Beach and other men,
bers of the board made remarks along
the same line and it was clearly the
consensus of opinion that this ought
to be done. Mr.. Willard said he would
talk the matter over with State Sup
erintendent Schulz. -s .a. ., .
Superintendent Sperry remarked
that the village of North Mankato had
abolished it's high school and sent its
pupils to the high school of Mankato.
Cost Considered High. 49,
George w. Scherer, chairman of the
committee on property and expense,
showed an estimate he had received
of 1915 as the cost of putting in a
heat control apparatus in the high
school. 1t was agreed that this was
too high and nothing was done.
Mr.. Scherer reported the completion
of the coal bin work in the Pleasant
Grove school. The contractor was
now at the Franklin, where the work
would be completed next week, and
he would then go to the West Man..
kato. Mr. Scherer said he had been
trying to communicate with number
of coal companies to get some figures
on supplying the coal for all of the
He had received but one answer,
which was from the r. G. Whftsett
Mining company of Chicago, and that
concern had no coal on hand at pres
ent, but might put in bid later.
w. D. Willard remarked that he
understood that in Chicago the rail-
roads were buying up all the coal they
could get and putting it away.
At length on Mr.. Scherer's motion,
the committee was instructed to ad-
vertise for 1000 tons of coal, more
or less, to be used in the public
schools. % a.,
Mr.. Scherer reported that Fred
Howe had resigned as janitor of the
Union school, and the work was being
done temporarily by Hans Peterson.
Selected the Janitors. 's
Janitors were chosen as follows for the
various public schools: -. .
He is again to hire the janitors under
him: The yearly allowance to him for
the janitor work was raised from $4,000
to 50, 100. W.. ~
Pleasant Grove school. l.. A. Radcliffe,
reelected; salary raised from $500 to
$3.50. .,-.. ..--. .-..--g T. .......s = u e.
Franklin school. Charles vogel, re-
elected; salary raised from $3.50 to $500:
West Mankato school, Charles A. And
erson. reelected; salary raised from
$3.50 to $780, ~. -. rs,
Union school, position not settled. The
board will see how the Temporary in
cumbent Hans Peterson, gets along.
Health Nurse Report.
Miss Abbie Peters rendered the fol-
lowing report for the month of April
as school nurse: Visits to school
buildings, 81; children inspected for
contagious or infectious diseases and
uncleanliness of clothing and bodies,
146; physical examinations made,
1874: notices sent to parents in regard
to physical defects found, 81, tooth
/ brushes supplied, 27; home visits
made, S5; children excluded, having
infectious diseases, 8; cases Of
measles reported to health depart
ment, o..
Miss Peters made the following re-
port for the, same month as truant
officer: New cases reported for in
lvestigation, %; visits made, SO; num-,
Der of cases ordered to school, 20.
A communication was read from E.
M. Zuel & Co. offering to insure
school buildings against explosion.
The rate named was 50 per $1,000 of
insurance per annum.
MAY BE NO FAIRS
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