St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-11-29
BOARD
PROCEEDINGS
NOV. 18th.

School board proceedings continu
ed from last week.
The Superintendent read the fol
lowing report:
Covington, La, Nov. II, 1919.
To the Honorable President and
Members of st. Tammany Parish
School Boahd:
Gentlemen:-I am pleased to re-
port that most of our schools are
now open and running smoothly.
have been fortunate in securing
teachers for the Bonfouca, Savannah
Branch, Galloway, and alsc the new
one recently authorized at the Sal
men Logging Camp. l expect that
all of these schools will De openel
soon. An additional teacher has
been engaged for the Sun and Abita
schools made necessary because Of
the extra large enrolment.
/ am pleased to report that the
title to the Covington colo-ed school
has been turned over TO the Parish
School Board, and now it will be the
duty of your board to supply that
school with such equipment as they
need, as soon as you are IN posi-
tion to do so. The Slidell colored
school was very much in need of re-
pairs to their fornt steps aid l have
taken the liberty of having this work
done. = =
Some time ago l reported that the
patrons of the White Settlement
school had given US title to halt
acre of land upon which to build d
new school house. After consulta-
ton with the director from the first
ward we have decided to cut three
months off the term of this school
for this year and use that amount of
teachers salary toward the securing
of a better school building for this
A building has been
bought from Mrs. Chas. Bradley and
is to be moved to the school site to
be used as material in the construc-
ton of the house for the White Set
tlement neihgborhood. =
The committee appointed to attend
to the purchase or building of a col
ored school house at Vaudeville find
that the price of $4,000 asked by the
Third District Baptist Association
for the building now in use is at
leafs $1,000 in excess of the funds
now available for this purpose, and.
they have not been able to
make the purchase as they had an
/ have been informed that
the Baptist Association will prob
ably ask us to pay rent for the
building we are now occupying in
the event that we do not decide to
purchase, and l told my informant
that that will probably mean that
we should be compelled to move olt
a 81 doubted if you gentlemen would
feel in a position to pay the rent
they ask.
New, modern heaters have been
purchased for the Madisonville, Fol-
som, Middle Roads, Sun, Progress
and Pearl River schools.
The contractor for the new Sand
Hill school has been very much de-
Iayed in his work because OF the
fact that heavy rains have made l.
to get material delivered
upon the grounds.
Domestic science departments are
now in operation in the Covington
and Slidell high schools, and also at
Central, Talisheek, Sun and Wald-
helm. believe this work is of the
greatest Importance in providing
orac ical tarining for the girls in
.hese schools, and 1 very much re
great that we have not been able to
install some kind of Industrial or
vocational branches for the boys,
such as manual training or COM
nercial branches.
The list of educable children has
,een completed and sent to the State
Department at Baton Rouge. | very
much regret that the final report
showed 5681 children, or 625 less
han was found four years ago.
This will mean that we will receive |
like $4,000 less per year
rom the state for the next four |
vears. than we have received with |
he same number of children as was
ound four years ago. Some of this
oss comes from the fact that the |
econd ward enumeration gave 822