Present Incumbents Elected By Very

Substantial Majorities.

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DEBTS OF DISTRICT MATERIALLY

REDUCED

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Most Of Expenses Are

For Salaries, Fuel And

Insurance.

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New Ulm was treated to another lively election when yesterday in a three-cornered fight, the present incumbents, Robert Fesenmaier and S Frank P. Zschunke won out and were re-elected. The only other candidate was Mrs. Verna Miller, wife of Dr. C. W. Miller, who had been induced to run by members of various women’s clubs and organizations in the city who felt that women should have representation on the school board. By their vote Tuesday the electors decided that they preferred men on the school board to women, although Mrs.Miller got within 93 votes of tieing her nearest opponent.

Voting Heavy After Supper.

Most of the voting was done after supper and automobiles scurried back and forth bringing voters to the poll at the high school building. So many voters got there about the same time that they were forced to form in line and it took each fully ten minutes to get to the ballot box to deposit their ballots. The polls were kept open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Over 700 Ballots Cast.

A total of 715 ballots were cast, of which number Robert Fesenmaier received 530, F. P. Zschunke 397, Mrs. Verna Miller 304, Mrs. G. F. Reineke 24, Mrs. H. L. Beecher 5 and one each were cast for Mrs. L. B. Krook, Mrs. Ida Ozias Mrs. Lena Buschers and Mrs. J. R. Higgs. Quite a number apparently voted for only one candidate. H. F. Schrader acted as ballot judge, Mrs. W. B. Mather and Carl Eichten as judges and George Hogen and Walter Muesing as clerks. By 6:30 only 212 votes had been cast.

After the election was over, the annual school meeting was held which was attended by only a comparatively mall number. Only routine work was transacted, including the receiving and filing of the reports of the officers of he board, the most important of which was the treasurer’s report which deals with the finances of the school district.

Debts Reduced $10,000.

According to the report the total indebtedness of the district has been reduced to $36,000, a reduction of $10,00 having been made during the past year. At the rate in which the debts are being reduced it will be only a few ears when the district will be entirely debt free.

Receipts Over $100,000.

The receipts during the fiscal year including a balance in the treasury of he end of the fiscal year of $35,190.26, aggregated the sum of $104,115.39. The main items of receipts consisted of moneys received from the County Auditor for taxes levied for school purposes as follows: November 17,1924 $41,050,51; March 19, 1925 $10,413.27 and June 13, 1925 $15,689.26 The other receipts are made up of interest items and rent from school lots.

Teachers’ Salaries Nearly $60,000.

Most of the disbursements went for salaries, the same totaling the sum of $58,344.92. The sundry items of expenses aggregated the sum of $13,506.89. On July 11 there was a balance of $32,263.58 in the treasury of which $15,000 is out on a certificate of deposit drawing interest at 4 percent. In addition thereto the school district has credits consisting of liberty bonds in the sum of $150 and a mortgage on North Dakota lands in the sum of $1,000.

A detailed statement of the sundry disbursements are herewith appended as follows:

GENERAL CONTROL:

Superintendent’s office. ….$139.33

Election and census …………..84.85

School Board Expenses ……..90.88

Publishing ………………………..53.00

Express, freight and …………………..

drayage ………………………..116.88

Sundries …………………………..25.46

Clerk’s salary ………………….125.00

Truant Officer’s salary……… 85.00

Spt. Clerk’s salary …………..498.00

Legal service …………………….55.85

TEXT BOOKS:

High School …………………….$ 20.5

Elementary ……………………..103.30

LIBRARY BOOKS: ……….556.73

INSTRUCTION SUPPLIES:

General …………………………..663.67

Manual Training ……………..476.52

Home Economics …………..291.97

Science …………………………….67.83

Library …………………………..108.70

Commercial ……………………..11.25

OPERATION:

Fuel …………………………….3,193.87

Water …………………………….333.60

Light, Power, Gas. …………..466.58

Janitor’s supplies …………….430.25

Toilet Articles …………………117.82

Sundries …………………………180.30

MAINTENANCE:

Repair of buildings and upkeep of

grounds ……………………….691.16

Repair of equipment. ……….608.08

Rent and insurance ……….2,706.07

AUXILIARIES:

Promotion of Health ………….52.20

Athletics ………………………….17.15

Special Exercises ……………894.07

Sundries ………………………….92.45

Promotion of

Health-Salary, …………….1,350.00

OUTLAYS:

New Equipment. …………….986.04

Other Payments ……………..342.87

Alteration of buildings. ……361.12

Improving Grounds………….167.75

INSTRUCTION:

Supervisor ……………………8,025.00

Special ………………………..1,466.68

High School ………………22,942.50

Grade B ……………………..21,999.13

Librarian…………………….. 1,100.00

OPERATION:

Janitors and

Engineer-Salaries, …….5,326.00.

New Ulm Review,

July 22, 1925

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