The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-21
MINUTES o. THE BOARD or PUB
Lie INSTRUCTION


The board Of public instruction in
and for Marion county met in regu
lar session at their office with all
present and acting as follows: w.
I. Colbert. chairman; E. r. Veal and
\ . Stephens, members. and Super.
,intednets J. II. Brinson, secretary.
Mr.. W. +. McGahagin of ocklawaha
called and explained the condition of
Mrs. Clara q. Stevens. on applicant
for widows pension from Ocklawa
N. $40
he also protested against the ar.
rangement that had been made for the
payment Of the teachers salary at
the Ocklawaha school and rendered
his resignation as trustee, which was
accepted and 1t was ordered that the
other two trustees be asked TO call
the patrons together to make recon-
mendation Of suitable person TO ap-
point as trustee TO fill the vacancy.
! Messrs. Cordery, Manning and
Hicks. called and requested teacher
for the Key Pond school and suggest
ed that the Lake Bryant school be
transported to the Key Pond school.
! Il was agreed with the three pa
irons present that Mr. Z. 0. Cordery
shuold be appointed supervisor for
the remainder of the present super.
visor's term and il was agreed for the
supervisors OF the Key Pont and Lake
Bryant schools to see if they could
agree upon a plan of transportation.
Mr. c. G. Priest, Jr., of Anthony,
called and discussed the condition of
his school and asked that Mr.. r. H.
Connel be appointed attendance Off
Ger, which was agreed to.
He, with the supervisor of the Mt.
Olive colored school, asked for some
supplies for building material be
granted their school for completing
and repairing their house.
Mr.. John Balliett, supervisor Of the
Keystone school, called and discuss
ed his school situation. He was au
thorized to take such steps as found
necessary to have the fence from in
front of the school house removed,
this fence having been put there
without authority of the board and
being to the detriment of the school
house and lot.
Messrs. COrdrey and Rogers, SUI
pervisors of the Key Pond and Lake
Bryant schools respectively, called
and discussed with the board the mat
ter of transporting the Lake Bryant
upulis to the Key Ond school and
could not agree upon any plan. II
was agreed to furnish teacher to the
Key Pond school as soon as possible
and to operate the Lake Bryant
school If the attendance came up at
an early date to that required by
THE board for operating a school.
The board took up the matter of
buying an adding machine for use
in the office and agreed to buy Bur
roughs machine that had been left
for demonstration and to pay S240 for
it less % per cent for cash and the
agent agreed to have it sent to the
house in Jacksonville and thoroughly
gone over and returned to the office
without expense.
The board adjourned for noon.
Tuesday Afternoon Session
The board met with all present
and acting.
Mr. ]. L. B. Hudgens. one of the
Fellowship trustees, called and dis
cussed their school conditions.
The minutes of the October meet
ings were read and approved as read
and recorded.
Claims for mothers pensions were
presented and the following were
endorsed by the board and signed by
the chairman and passed on to the
county commissioners for attention:
Mrs. A. L. Newton of Spar, for two
children; Mrs. Jessie PEBBLES of Oca.
Ia, for one child; Fanny James Of
Ocala. colored. for one child; Emma
Smith, colored. of Ocala, for one
child: Mrs Sallie VIM, OF Ocala R.
T. D., for one child.
Communications were taken up
and the following matters passed up
on:
A request from the teacher of the
Jacobs Well colored school for an IN
crease in salary was refused. Also
her report for teaching was present.
ed without the signature of the su-
pervisor and owing TO a difference
between her and the supervisor it