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Show SCHOOL BOARD HAS VERY BUSY SESSION Several Delegations are Received and Teachers for 1917-18 are Named Board of Education of Emery county coun-ty School District, met in regular e sion at Huntington. Utah, April 3, 1917, at 2 o'clock p. m. All members were present. A delegation of three from Clawson met with the board and asked that the school wagon from Clawson to Ferron be discontinued for the coming school season of 1917-18 and that two teachers teach-ers be employed at Clawson. The matter mat-ter was discussed by the delegation j and the board members and was fin- ally taken under advisement by the j board. j i A delegation from Ferron, com- posed of a committee from the Ferron i Waterworks Co., met with the board J and asked that the board assist them j in the construction of a water system j for Ferron. They reported that it is costing about $250 for each service or i family and asked that the school come ! in on the same terms that private families do. They assured the board that the people of Ferron would be willing to do their part toward placing plac-ing water in the school building. On motion of A. G. Bradley, seconded by E. J. Grange, $250 was appropriated for stock and membership in the Ferron Fer-ron Waterworks Co. A second delegation from Ferron, F. A. Killpack being spokesman, met with the board and asked that a high school be established at Ferron. The delegation filed a list showing 180 students now ready to enter the high school including the seventh and eighth grades. The high school proposition prop-osition was discussed at length, and on motion taken under advisement. A delegation from Rochester, L. C. Moore being chairman, met with the board and asked that a four-room school house be built at Rochester this season. They gave some facts and figures showing the need of a suitable school building in the very near future. They informed the board that a suitable site of two acres would be given to the district. The board took the matter under advisement for the time being. At 5 o'clock p. m. the board met in private session. t Minutes of meetings held March th and 8 th were read and on motion accepted. ac-cepted. Bills numbering from 849 to 905, amounting to $1325.75 were read and on motion by A. G. Bradley, seconded by E. J. Grange, allowed and clerk instructed to issue warants in payment of same. Moved by A. G. Bradley, seconded bv R. O. Justesen. that the seventh grade of the Huntington high school be closed at the same time that the Other seventh grades of the district are closed, viz., April 27th. Moved by E. J. Grange, seconded by N. c: Oveson, that the high schools of the county close May 25th. Bids for the filling in of the adobe holes on the Huntington high school grounds as follows were read: Ray Grange, $70; Mart Jensen, $40. Moved Mov-ed by A. G. Bradley, -seconded by N. C. Ovesori, that inasmuch as the Huntington Hunt-ington high school students desire to fill the adobe holes and apply the proceeds pro-ceeds on the purchase of a new piano, that the contract be granted them at $0. On motion the clerk was instructed to have all the principals and teachers file inventories of all books and supplies sup-plies on hand in the various schools j at the close of the schools April 27tn, pay warrants to be wltheld until said inventories and statistical reports are filed with the clerk and superintendent. superintend-ent. On motion the superintendent was instructed to order promotion cards,, teachers contracts and teachers application appli-cation blanks, and he was authorized to eliminate the eighth grade graduation gradu-ation diploma by giving the students a promotion card from the eighth grade into the ninth grade or first year high school. |