Show BOARD of HELD the county board of education met in regular session monday with trustees robertson hammond balsley titus and edwards superintendent mccorkle and clerk mcconkie being present the meeting was a lengthy one by reason of the reports submitted by a number of committees that had been appointed to act on matters connected with the opening of school prank williams and norman D hershey appeared before the board to request that a school be established at castleton this year mr hershey was especially interested in having the school maintained tor the reason that the lack of a school might lead to the discontinuance of the there it appeared that a survey of school conditions at castleton and lower valley bad been made early in the summer and that the information received indicated there would not be sufficient students for both schools and that there would be a greater number of children at lower valley for this reason definite arrangements were made some time ago tor a school at lower valley the board was of the opinion that the conditions existing then still obtain and that tor this reason the arrangements then made should not be disturbed at this time dale M Parr lott met with the board in connection with transportation allowances no action on transportation por tation allowances will be taken until the next meeting on oct 7 all applications tor allowances must be formally made on blanks provided by the board the janitor was authorized to employ a team to facilitate clearing the athletic field and putting it in condition decision was made to observe I 1 thursday and friday for thanksgiving holidays and that the christmas holiday should be from dec 21 to 29 inclusive A change in the location of the football field was discussed it was the opinion of the board that the best arrangement for improving the field would be to level the field as now located by removing dirt from the east end to the west end As a matter of economy however this win not be done this year mrs henry brimm and grandson glen returned wednesday visit in california from a three months they visited at long beach san francisco and ban diego glen reports having had the time of his afe riding the waves of the old pacific ocean |