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Show CANVASS OF VOTE Change. However. Found in Returns as First Announced. An-nounced. BILLS FOR EXPENSES ' ARE ALL ORDERED PAID Bond of Treasurer Is Approved. But Will Be Increased Later. The city board of education met iu special session Tuesday night to canvass can-vass thc returns of the bond election held last Saturday. President. Hammond Ham-mond appointed O. W. MoyJo and 11. V. Van Pelt as a commit ten to make the canvass and report to the board. There were no changes .in I ho vote ns announced an-nounced in tho papers Sunday morning. The result as announced by tho eom-mil.ee eom-mil.ee was 10Gl in favor of tho bond is; sue and 2(io against it. The report of tho commit I co was approved by the board and incorporated in tho minutes of the meeting. Bills for tho expenses of the election amounting Io S-MO.yft were approved and warrants ordered drawn for the same. The. bills included the pay for the regisi ration agents amounting lo $392.09 and for the .indues of election amounting to $57.,"i0. Clerk Jiidd will have the warrants ready today. Bond Is Approved. The bond of Treasurer S. A. Whit-1103- in t he sum of .f.tOO.OQO was approved by the board with the understanding that it may be increased when the funds are received from tho salo of the high school bonds which were voted Saturday. Satur-day. The sureties for Mr. Whitney and the amount of their liability are as follows: W. S. McCornick, $150,000; J. D. Murdoch. $50,000; Charles S. Burton. Bur-ton. $30,000; II. G. Whilucy. $25,000; Byron Groo. $25,000. llpon recommendation of the committee commit-tee on teachers and school work. Miss Ruby Smith was promoted to the ranks of head clerk in the office of I ho principal prin-cipal of Ihe high school, and her salary was increased from $5(5 to $02.50 per month, effective at tho beginning of tho second semester. Miss Leone Smith was appointed as assistant clerk in the principal's prin-cipal's office at a salary of $50 per mont h. The following teachers were appointed appoint-ed for ihe beginning of the second semester: sem-ester: II. Smith, high school; Edna Thompson, Leila Shearer and Clella Mc-Croady, Mc-Croady, element an schools. FJla V. Hutchinson and Ithoda Duffy were granted a leave of absence during tho second semester. Materials were ordered purchased for the sowing department of the school, amounting lo the sum of $2-l0.o2. |