The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-18
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION /"
HOLDS AMICABLE SESSION
All Members Present Except Director Barnes Pro-
tests Heard Directors Balk on Hoke's Gymnasium
Pian-Monthy Reports Heard and Adopted.

WAS held Friday evening, October 10.
Director Crassweller was tardy and di.
rector Sehaibly was very late and d.
rector Barnes could not be present at
all because Of the fact that she was
Cd the Pacific coast, trying to cure up
that peach of a cold.
The evenings business opened with
protest from citizen Chaplin who was
displeased with the fact that the site
for q future school building in Cong
dom park would stand right in front of
the Chaplin residence.
William G: Sargent said that if the
Chaplin protest were needed, he would
be there with a protest against it COM
ing into an addition where he was
selling lots and that if it went to
block where the Prindle company has
lots for sale, there would be a kick
from the Prindle interests.
The majority of the board seemed to
feel that the site selected was in the
logical place to best serve the district
and that Mr.. Chaplin 9 protest was not
in line with the best welfare of the
public. President LeDuc was very anx-
ious that matters be left in statu quo,
as he repeatedly expressed it, there
fore Mr.. Chaplin and any protesting
neighbors will be accorded the pleasure
of interviewing the committees.
Some seem to feel that the policy
and spirit of "Put it on George
when there is any public undertaking
that some influential man does not
like, do mach to keep Duluth from
growing.
The Normanna Male Chorus will be
given the use of the Central high
school assembly hall on Sunday, Nov.
%. to give a concert for the purpose
of raising money to help meet some Of
the expenses of the Sangerfest, which
will meet in Duluth next summer.
G. M. Paulus, former principal at
the Oneota and Merritt schools, put in
a bill for the third time for extra duty
at the Oneota school for four years,
from 1914 to 1918. He promised law
suit if the bill was not paid soon. The
matter was referred to the committee
on schools with orders to report at the
next meeting.
Messrs. Baldwin, Baldwin & Holmes
presented legal opinion to the effect
that Mrs. Anna Williams Roberts. SUI
pervisor of music last year, had no
grounds for compensation from the
school board as result of injuring her
ankle on the street last June.
Bonds of the four national banks of
Duluth, recently designated as depos-
tories for school funds, were referred
to the boards attorneys for approval
or disapproval.
Supt. Hoke delivered his report for
the month of September. dating it
"Julv II, 1872, fine example Of
careful and exact expression. It made
up in length what it lacked in divine
fire. For the seeming purpose Of
crowding out the very first formal
report of the municipal committee
that is investigating profiteering and
H. c. L. in Duluth, the Evening Herald
printed Supt. Hoke's report in full.
therefore the Rip-Saw will not give
it the space that has been the custom
in the past. Duplication is inconsis-
emit with efficiency.
The night school report, however,
showed that TAT students were enrolled
Sept. &c as compared with 1906 on
October ii, year ago. Glasses and
their enrolment so far this year are as
follows:
Mechanical drawing, Is; machine
shop, SO; woodwork, 81; sheet metal
work, ~; furniture construction, 21;
automobile %; elementary naval arehi-
lecture and marine engineering, IL;
blueprint reading, 66; stenography and
typewriting, 100; penmanship, IL; Eng
lish, 6; mathematics, q; bookkeeping,
10; basketry, 6; budgets, (the art and
practice Of keeping family acsounts),
s; chemistry, s; millinery, "a; cooking
and sewing, 81; gymnasium, SO.
Treasurer Colman had in his written
report for the month of September. He
gave figures to show that the general
fund was overdrawn $94,2S1.17 Sept. I
and that September disbursements
were $42,46142. Giving credit for re-
eeipts in the sum of $1221.S4. the net
overdraft on October l was $135, 521 .25.
On October 1, the building fund
showed a balance of 1897 ,637s6 on the
right side of the ledger. The sinking
fund showed a balance of $171,7Ss17.
Balances in all banks aggregated $685.
904.7S on October l.
New teachers were elected as fol-
lows:
Florence Cheadle, home training,
$1,000; Millet Davis, librarian Dem
field high school, $40 per month; Dio
E. Durham, manual training, $500;
Edwin H. Fray, electricity, $1,000;
Juliet Gordon, grades, $3.50; Ellen D.
Johnson, Junior high school, $3.50; Ny
ma Roster, grades, SLIPS; Mary j.
Shaw, $1,100; Lillian B. Whelan,
grades, $1,150; Helen Strachen, math.
ematics, $1,000; Ethelyn Brainerd, vo-
eational secretary Central high school
1920 per month; Catherine Beck, per
manent substitute in home training,
$1,000.
designations of the following teach
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