The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-15
Vacancies In Teaching STAFF Of keo-
kuk Schools Filled Last Night
at Regular Meet
Ing.
BUY VICTORY LOAN BOND
Board Decided to Invest Ten Thou
sand of School House Fund in
These Government
Securities.

/ The board Of education. in its regr
lar August meeting last night, elected
! four teachers to its teaching staff to
/ fill vacancies; accepted designations
of two teachers; voted to invest $10.-
600 in the school house fund in Victory
Liberty loan bonds, and transacted a
big budget of routine business besides.
This probably will be the last meeting
before school begins, and Superinten-
dent Aldrich who returned yesterday
afternoon from his summer vacation
spent in Illinois, met with the board
last evening.
The designations of Miss S. Myrtle
Megchefsen, a teacher in the Terrence
school, and Miss Helen j. Woolley as
sistant in the kindergarten depart
ment in the Lincoln school were read
and accepted by the board. The request
of Miss Marjorie Luse, kindergarten
director at the Lincoln school, that
she be released from her contract was
reported by the superintendent. Miss
Luse wants to go to Cedar Rapids,
but inasmuch as she Is under contract
here and the law provides that no
other board shall make contract with
her while this contract exists, the
write the Cedar Rapids board protest.
ing against any action it might take
to secure Miss Luse.
New Teachers Elected.
The teachers who were reported to
the board by the superintendent as
being hired to fill the vacancies in the
staff are:
Miss Katherine Cruise of Massena,
Ia, at salary of $500.
Orrin 8. Hawley Of Pittsburg, Kans.,
as assistant in the manual training de-
partment at a salary OF $1100.
Gordon C. Applebee, eoacH End
q salary Of s1,400.
Miss Dorothy Aldrich of Keokuk
was elected assistant kindergarten
teacher, vice Miss Woolley, and the
matter Of salary left to the superin-
tendent.
The board granted the superinten-
dent an appropriation of not to exceed
$3.50 for supplementary text in civics
classes, and authorized the inclusion
OF laboratory manuals in the list of
books in two courses
The report of the auditors, e. r.
Cochrane and ]. r. Baur, who checked
the books Of the secretary and treas
urer, was received and ordered spread
on the records. The books were found
in correct form and the superinten-
dents accounts were found to be cor
rect. The auditors were paid twenty
dollars each for their work.
Buy More Liberty Bonds.
Chairman Dunlap of the finance
committee offered a resolution to the
effect that the treasurer be instructed
to invest $4,000 OF the amount in the
school house fund in Fifth Liberty
loan bonds The board has already
500, 500 worth of bonds from the sink
ing fund, and $4,000 from the Kill
bourne prize fund.
In routine committee reports the
matter OF repairs on the different
schools was reported, and the fire in
part Of the coal bunkers in the Gar
field school was reported. This is
fully covered by insurance and was
confined to a portion OF the coal pile.
The taxes for 1918 of Mrs. Gussie
Jones were ordered RENTED. The
board also authorized the employment
of any assistants needed for the play
grounds.
Warning to automobilist signs will
be placed on Sixteenth street ada
cent to the Terrence school. 1t was
to the board that there was
considerable fast driving there and
that motorists seem to disregard the
fact that there is school building
in the block between High and Nor
gan streets. The signs will be
placed there to jog their memories.
In some cases public officer is
a public crust.