The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-08
CONTINUE FILLING
TEACHER VACANCY
EDUCATION BOARD HELD
SESSION LAST NIGHT
HALF DAYS AT BOOKS
This Will Be the Plan In Sew
eral kindergarten De-
partments

With but FIVE members sitting,
the Mankato board of education lost
no time last evening in discussion
and transacted the more or less
routine business due for consider
alton without delay. Those absent
were W. d. Willard. Adolph Muel-
Ter and Judge Evan Hughes.
Four teachers were elected to I'LL
vacancies in the library and teach
ing forces of the staff. Miss Har-
riet Van Buren, was elected to fill
the g, place made vacant by Miss
Josephine Squires, school librarian.
Miss Alice Horsfall will take the
place in the high school library held
last year by Miss Francisco Smith
and teaching positions were filled
with the Misses Harriet Bill and
Kathleen Thorton, the former to
teach in the high school and the
latter at the Lincoln building.
The board also authorized the
superintendent of schools to employ
another teacher for the primary
grades at the Lincoln school and
authorized half day sessions in the
kindergartens of the Roosevelt,
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Some Claims Allowed
The board heard the report OF
Joseph H. Thro, who has completed
an audit of the books of the Il :
nancial secretary and treasurer Of
the board The audit found the
books correct in every detail and
the report of Mr.. Thro accepted.
The board voted to pay to Eric
Carlstrom, contractor, $1,000 on
account as per. contract and to pay
10 the Dura Bit Steel Locker com
pany the sum of $4,000 on account,
withholding about $500 until such
made at the building where the
lockers were installed. The Stat
ford Chair company of Chicago
was denied a payment on account
at this time for the reason that
chairs for the Lincoln school we're
shipped several months early and
have not yet been accepted by the
board. The secretary was ordered
to pay to Miss Sophia ]. hammers,
city librarian, the sum Of $1,000
from which she will pay for the
library purchased for the Lincoln
building The sum was appropriat-
The board voted to dismiss the
schools for a half day during the
fair, the exact time to be left to the
superintendent. Since there will
be a. meeting of Southern Mime
sofa Educational association in
Mankato on October 6 and there
will be no school on October 6.
Resolutions To Mueller.
At the suggestion of the Rev.
Ralph A. Jensen, the secretary Of
the board was instructed to draw
up suitable resolutions to be signed
by the president and secretary OF
the board and forwarded to AdolPh
Mueller who remains a patient in
St. Vincents hospital at Crookston.
It was reported that Mr.. Mueller
IS RAPIDLY gaining and that within a
few weeks he can be returned to
Mankato.
Bills were allowed at last nights
Two meetings of the board will
be held Saturday evening of this
week. The first will be for the
purpose of going through the for.
maiities of closing the affairs of
the old board and when this meet
ing is adjourned the board " ill i'm
mediately 60 into session for the
purpose :, Of recognizing the new
board. Mrs. Grace Northrop who
was elected to succeed W. D. Will
lard will -. take her place on the
board at the second Of the two Sat
lurday meetings.