Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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TI-IE BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Board of Education of the city of Beloit, portraits of whose several members appear on the opposite page, is at present composed entirely of representative business men of the city. V Messrs. Baer, McCall and Keys are the presidents of the New York Store Mercantile Company, the McCall Mercantile Company and the Keys Clothing Company, respectively, all being promi- nent business firms of Beloit. Our police judge, A. B. Cotton, is a civil war veteran and past commander of G. A. R. Post, N o. 147, and formerly a prosperous farmer and liveryman of the county. He was elected mayor of Beloit in 1899, and filled that office with credit. The president of the board, Dr. E. E. Brewer, has practiced his profession successfully in this city for the past fourteen years, and has acquired extensive interests in various county enter- prises. Dr. Brewer and Mr. Jordan taught school in this county for several years and both served as members of the county board of examiners. All of the members of the present board are old settlers except the youngest member, Mr. Jordan, who, however, was born in Mitchell county and is at present a practicing attorney at law in our city. The record of this board is certainly worthy of comment. The efficient management of the schools during the years 1905-06 is evidence of their work. In the last year the city has been saved 2114270 by the refunding of certain of its school bo11ds, whereby a reduction of interest on the same from 6 per cent-. to 434 per cent. was saved. Over 1151500 of school bonds have been paid off, thereby reducing t-he school bond indebtedness to its lowest point in years and placing the city's public schools in the best condition financially in their history. Besides reducing the bonds, several substantial and permanent improvement-s have been made, and by a timely levy sufficient funds are now ill the treasury to completely re-roof the central building and make other improvement-s now in contemplation.

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W. J. KEYS, VICE PRESIDENT. ' H. BAER A. B. COTTON. E. E. BREWVER, PRESIDENT. J. W. MFCALL, SECRETARY. A. E. JORDAN

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De Omnibus Rebus et Quibusdam Allis Dear reader, do you wish to know What in this book resides ? There-'s a little bit of everything, And something more besides.