The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-05-07
noARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
Ocala Fla, May A, 1920.

SCSSAOn1 Will a. d. 0bCR4Ello du0 ". IL.
Veal present. w. L. Colbert being alb
sent on account of his father being
sick at Spar, A. j. Stephens acted as
temporary chairman.
The minutes of the regular session
of April 9Th and of the special session
of April 19ht were read and approved.
W T. w. Barnett and A. NJ. Lotion,
trustees of the Charter Oak school,
asked permission to have the Charter
Oak school house removed to the mid
die of the school lot, as it is now with
in four feet of the public road, and
that they be allowed to sell Is or 20
good pine trees, now standing on the
lot to help pay expenses of moving
tho house. The request was granted.
Mr.. C. r. Veal reported that the
old Pine Grove school house had been
torn down and that work would COM
mence on new building at once; that
he thought about $3.50 worth of lum-
Der from the old building could be
used on the new.
Mr.. Veal also reported that he had
visited the Jerusalem colored school
house, and found the building in very
good condition; that it needed new
pair of steps and a new front door.
Mr. Veal was authorized to have these
repairs made.
A petition signed by number of
patrons of the Jerusalem school was
presented to the board asking that
the present supervisor, Hosea Lewis,
be dismissed for neglect of duty, and
that z. R. Wilson be appointed to fill
the unexpired term. The petition
was laid over until next meeting of
the board, in order to give Hosea Lew
is and others hearing.
The superintendent reported that he
had visited the Evergreen colored
school and found the house in bad
condition and dangerous to be occu-
pied. It was ordered that if the pat
rons will get up $500 to pay for the
work, the board would buy material
to building a new building, using as
much lumber from the old house as
possible. and the superintendent was
authorized to proceed with the work.
u Upon recomm endation of the pat
rons, Edward Speights was appointed
supervisor of the Elmwood colored
school, to fill the unexpired term OF
@. M. Hamilton, removed.
Benjamin f. jackson was appointed
supervisor of the East Lake school,
upon the recommendation Of the pat
Tons. to fill the unexpired term OF E.
d. Williams.
Dan Rogers was appointed super
visor Of the Pine Grove school, to fill
the unexpired term of L. J. Johnson.
moved.
Upon recommendation of patrons of
the Knoblock school, /. N. Kncblock
was appointed to fill the unexpired
term of ]. H. Knoblock resigned.
Upon a petition signed by one
fourth of the qualified electors who
nav tax on real or personal property
who reside within the following de-
sscribed territory: Sections %, %. "a,
Is, 26 and 81 in sownship H. S, IS, e.,
I'm Arredondo grant, also west half OF
sections is and 10 of tp IL, 20, Ar
,redondo grant, also west half CT Sec
tons i sand 80, tip II, $. 20. e, Q. s.
"a. survey. Said petition having been
unfinished in the Ocala Banner for
fonr consecutive weeks according to
law.
An election is. called to be held at
-hs Ebenezer school house on Tues
nv June /, 1920, for the purpose OF
creating a special tax school district
~ no known as the Ebenezer special
-,ax school district No. AZ; also TO elect
tbree trustees to serve for two years;
$50 RI fix the millage to be assessed
md collected against property, per-
sonal and real estate, within SAID dis
,rict for the years 1920 and 1921 The
,to,,owing inspectors and clerk were
srno,nted for said election. A. Nj. An.
oarson O. P. Britt and c. S. Minis, in
spectosr. and w. H. Anderson, clerk
lumber was granted to repl'r the
well at Mt. Olive colored schoo' ,he
ratrons to do the work.
Fl. L. shearer and A. s Pickett
trustees of the Cottage Hill school,
aupeared before the board and asked
,,at the board arrange to either trans
,,ort their children to Fellowship
school or to repair their school house
end give them a teacher. The board
ass,rsd these gentlemen that their
..a,,ast would have its careful consid
GRAFTON.
Mrs. Kate Howell and :. II. Leitner'
trustees of the Gnner Farm scnooi'
t+%Sf -, fnord ocricf fhn1, in