The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-11-09
JEFFERSON QUITS
(continued from Page L.

Week which will be- held throughout
the nation the week OF November
IS, appeared before the board and
requested the aid OF the BOARD Of
education and the superintendent in
assisting the ciergynien Of the city
IN making the Observance unani.
NOUS In the city.
Harry d. Kies, superintendent.
told the board that he had all ready
made arrangements for the programs
TO be carried on In the various
sehools OF the city during the week.
Mr.. qrogan was given assurance
That the school committee OF the
board and the superintendent would
work In conjunction with the legion
committee. A meeting was arrang-
ed for today to make arrangements
for the programs OF the week.
An OK service man. w. L. Thomp-
son, Was elected last night to the
position, - night Waterman at the
high school building: ne was rec.
commended By .. A. Engwalson at a
e. day engineer at the high school
building, was given an increase In
salary from 500 to 500 . month to
take effect from October Is.
SuDeYintsndent Keis told the board
that the Veterans bureau had re-
Quested rom for the use OF its In
structors and had picked out q room
on, the third moor OF the high school
building. The room was rented n
the bureau for q rental OF s25 Der
Superintendent Ksis made q re-
port on the enrolment = OF night
school students which was held on
Tuesday night. He said that IN his
than last year but final report was
report OF the high school athletic
fund and rendered to the board, a
check for $2sS.7s. which was the
amount loaned to the athletic asso.
octatton early in the year to pay UT
old debts. The fund, according r
Jtr. Keis, showed q surplus Of S11F
M. Widell made report regard
Ing the purchase Of dental equip
rnent. A motion was offered by Mr..
Willard that no dental equipment
be purchased ct this time. The mo-
ton carried. The board members
were OF the opinion that Il would be
better to take advantage OF the Of
fer OF dentists to do dental work for
children yiAder the age OF eight
years than to establish, q dental
room IN the school building.
Before the close of the meeting,
Mr.. Mueller requested Q report from
the school committee IN regard to
the merit system Of employing
teachers. He stated that the COM
mittee report should hare been made
some, time ago. The merit system
caused q great deal OF argument
among the board members at the
time Of the election Of teachers last
summer Musiler requested that the
report be made at the next meet
Ing.
siiis Allowed At Meeting
Bills allowed at the meeting were
the following: Mankago Citizens
Telephone company. sss.35; Cuddy
Plumbing and Heating company,
MeGfric Traction company, $17.60;
tendert OF documents, $50; r. G.
Thomas. $3.50: 3. Tressing com
psny. Siis: Little Giant COMPANY,
$.25: Underwood Typewriter com
pany, $500; johnson Boman com
pany. $4.7b; w. r. Marks, So; Man
kato Storage Battery, $3.50; North
ern States Power company, $i6sdS;
City Of Mankato, $30.i0; Charles II.
Taylor $1.584.74; Sam K. Fowler,
s27s.S0; Minnesota Historical So.
ciety, $500; Loren Clark, $69.10;
Lyon and Healy, $50; CHM and COM
pany, ss5s.l6; Ldttie., Brown and
company, $57.76; World Book COM
pany, $57.32; Scott, Toresman and
company, $12.84; The Manual Arts
Press. S26.57; Allyn and Bacon,
$3.50: Eugene Dietzgen. Sal; Rus.
sci Sage Foundation, SEQ; Iowa
Frye company, $12: American Edu-
cational Press. $3.50; John @.
Winston, $3.50; George, d. Brett
camille company, 5000; r. r. Field,
$13.1S;. ]. c. Penney company. So !;
Standard Lumber company, $195.23
Thurston Manual Training Supplies.
$6.14; Hamrnacher Schlemmer,
$51.25: zimmerman and Bangor.
ter, $119:05; L. r. Zimmerman
$5S.i2; Service Printing COM
pany. s56-75; Free Press company,
$50: Northwest Supply company,
$3.50: Mrs. Otto N. Thorndahi,
$3.50: Men Printing company, 81;
Mankato Manufacturing company,
$s.79; Nelson Steel Post and Fence
company, $S6.16; Lundii Brothers,
1926: r. M. Zuel company, 1921 SO;
Joseph Blissenbach, $102; d. G..
willard, 1857; Mankato Plumbing
ard Heating comrarv $146 so: A. A
Zimmerman, 1880; Ekerholm
company, $43.15; Joe Manderfeld