The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-04

stenographic notes at the last minute.
! Mrs. Evans presented a motion that
the finance committee be asked to in
vestigate methods of handling repair
expenses in other cities of similar
size. 80 Z
L. NJ. PenwellI chairman of the
board, expressed the belief that Mrs.
Evans had been interviewed by certain
contracting interests who were out
hunting the school board business on
the contract plan, which he said he
knew would be much more. expensive
than the present schemesof the board
to employ the janitor force during the
three summer months in repair work,
in order that that work might be
more cheaply done, and at the same
time, have labor. furnished to the men
on the force for the entire year.
+ Repair Bills $4,000.
Mrs Evans replied: At am not be-
ing influenced by the element that
may be hunting contract jobs, and I
but think we should have some sys-
, tenn by which we may know what our
work is.-costing u.s. when our. repair
bills run to $4,000, as they did last
year, and when we expect the next
ones to go to $4,000 That is too
| large a sum of public money to han
dleein haphazard STYLE"
The chairman came back then:
Il am not hunting. any newspaper
notice, but I want to say that when
the public believes I am not using the
/ best judgment 1 possess in the han
ding of its funds, it can select some
! one else to handle them. / use the
same plan here that I use in my pri-
vate affairs, which is to get the best
possible return for every dollar. -
This school board spends less mon
| ey now" he went on, '.in proportion
! hos
! than it. did when there was row in
the board at every meeting. Things
have been moving serenely, and I
ing" Sc - a., - - -
Mr.. Mullen then interrupted to saw
that he had heard no complaints
about repair bills. r-,....t,.
Only Wants Investigation.
Again Mrs Evans struggled to make
the board understand that she was not
complaining nor criticising, nor even
trying to raise quarrel, not so much
as recommending a change in a sys-
tenn, but that she asked only an in
vestigation. Meanwhile Mr.. Conroy
was asked to present his figures or
bills for the summer work. Somehow
the figures were not in shape for pre-
sentations and he was asked, to make
his report to the building committee
The board ordered that the finance
the lnVeSC1SdC1On.T
The report of the superintendent, A
]. Stout, showed an attendance of 10:
pupils in the Branner annex which has
been made into a school for Mexican
children. He asked for authority also
to redistrict the city because of the
crowded condition of some of the
schools. Permission was given him tc
do so. &.
T" New Teachers Recommended.
Ii The following selection of teachers
to fill vacancies was recommended by
the teachers committee: In the bign
school: L. H. Mosser to- teach agricuI-
ture and science. and Miss Marian
Walp to teach typewriting. In the jr-
nior high schools the new teachers are
to be Harold Cutler, manual art:
Louise Raster and Mabel ,Haynes
household art; in the elementary
schools: Hazel Nash, E, Jessie Smith
Blanche Dodge. Vallee Short, Esmer
Granger, Madeline Lovelass. Blanche
Worden. Leila Frampton, Maud Clare
Pearl Fitzgerald, Mrs. Stella Aldrich
Violet Crumbine. Mrs. Elizabeth Guy
(part time), W. N. Kelsey and The1rna
Wilkerson. Mrs. .Katheryn Crawford
was recommended as principal for
Quinton Heights and Miss Emma u
Partridge as assistant principal a!
Grant. Miss Mary Montieth was