The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-11-20
BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
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child; Mrs. Fanny James, colored, of
Ocala, for one child; Mrs. Emma
Smith, colored, of Ocala, for one child;
Mrs. Sallie E. VIM, Ocala. for one
child.
Communications were taken up and
the following matters passed upon:
A request from the teacher of the
Jacobs Well colored school for an in
crease of salary was refused. Also her
=. port e. teaching was presented
without the signature of the super
visor and owing to a difference be-
tween her and the supervisor it was
agreed to pay this one without the
supervisors endorsement, but her re-
quest that the supervisor be ignored
and one of the trustees of the district
be allowed to sign in his stead was re-
fused.
Resignation of Mrs. z. B. Wealth
ers as teacher of the Badger school,
was presented and accepted.
The matter of the observance of
armistice day as a school holiday was
discussed and it was decided that it
had not been made legal holiday by
AIRY legislative body and therefore
would not be observed as school hol-
iday.
A paper signed by Robert Martin
and G. E. Connor, trustees of the Ok
i&waha district. giving the minutes Of
a patrons meeting that had been held
at which an agreement had been ar
rived at in regard to the teachers
salary was presented and filed for au-
thority for paying the salary.
Coupon warrant of Mr.. John Taylor
for $500 was ordered renewed.
Proposal of E. F. Wilson to trans
port the pupils CT the Bay Lake school
to Orange Springs was presented but
no action taken.
Request of J. ]. Hawkins for a
school at East Linadale or for trans
portation to Altoona in Lake county
was presented and it was agreed to
operate a school if a sufficient number
of pupils could be maintained in the
school.
Prof. P. H. .Hensley, principal of
the Ocala high school, called and
stated the necessity for apparatus in
the laboratory for instruction in
science and an appropriation of $50
was made for this purpose.
The board adjourned for the day.
The board met Wednesday with
Messrs. Veal and Stephens present
and Mr.. Stephens acting chairman
PRO tenn.
The bills were taken up, gone thru
and ordered paid. Chairman Colbert
came in during the work on the bills.
The matter of salary to be paid at
! tendance officers for their services
was discussed and it was agreed to
pay them at the rate of thirty cents
per hour for tine actually consumed
| in work.
Mr.. J. H. Knoblock. supervisor OF
the Knoblock school. called and made
request for increase of salary for
their teacher upon the ground that
additional pupils had come into their
school, but request was refused.
| Messrs. w. T. Gary and A. Z.
Blowers, representing the Motor Club
of Marion county, called and suggest
ed to the board the desirableness of
there being additional playground Sc
cured at the >Oklawaha school so as to
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playing in the road, where a very Sc
rious accident had occurred. Also. the
situation at Griner Farm and other
schools was discussed, and they pro-
posed for the club to put up warning
signs at the danger places and re-
quested that the teachers be asked to
keep the pupils off the roads so far as
practicable.
Mr.. B. R. Bitch called and discuss
ed with the board the matter of pay
ing part of the transportation ex-
penses of the pupils from the Bitch
ton district, who were being trans
ported at district expense to the Eel
lowship school. from county funds
but the request was refused.
i Mr.. G. w. Neville called and pre-
scented insurance policies on the Dun
Mellon building and made request that
the county board make a deed of the
old colored school lot at Dunnellon to
the trustees of a colored church and
send same to the Bank of Dunnellon.
Deed to be accompanied by draft for
5000 and interest for collection and
this was ordered to be done.
Teachers reports were presented
and accounts ordered paid.
The reports of the repositories were
presented and checked over with the
vouchers paid and found to be appar-
emily correct.
1t being seen that it would be neces-
sary to borrow money to meet the pay
roll, the chairman and secretary were
authorized to make such arrange
ments as were found necessary.
No further business appearing, the
board adjourned to meet in regular
session on Tuesday, Dec. 2. 1919.
Il J. Fl. Brinson. Secretary.
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