Meritt, E. B.
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Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt orders Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to immediately wire $300 for the "Indian School Transportation, 1917" account. Lipps informs Meritt that he can spare the funds. Later, Meritt informs Lipps that allotment from that...
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Charles Arthur Bradley, Superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, for application blanks for two students. Bradley was sent the blanks and informed that he should correspond with the Superintendent of the Carlisle...
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Mrs. Frank Beaver to keep her daughter Lucy Decora at Carlisle instead of transferring her back to the Genoa Indian School. Decora was transferred to Genoa in order for her to complete her term of enrollment at Genoa.
These materials include correspondence regarding reports on the health of Walter Winsborough to his mother Mary Wells. Additionally, a request from Winsborough's parents was sent through Senator Harry Lane to return him to his home.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Chief Wild Pigeon, of Little Neck, Long Island, New York, to enroll Jerome Carpenter at the Carlisle Indian School.
Asssitant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps why the school has has combined farming and stock raising into one subject for boys and why sewing, home-nursing, and poultry raising has been combined into a single twenty week period...
Carlisle Indian School Chief Clerk in Charge C. V. Peel requests the Commissioner of Indian Affairs return the specifications and blueprint for a three-compartment refrigerator to the school. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps that the papers are part...
This document contains correspondence concerning policies governing the graduating class of 1917. This includes a list of students receiving diplomas, required grades, and other related policies.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Mrs. A. J. Krejberg to have Elsie Krejberg, her step-daughter, enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School.
Former student Elmer E. Busch applies to be the assistant football coach at Carlisle. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt forwards Busch's application to Carlisle. Carlisle Superintendent O. H. Lipps denies Busch's application, stating that Busch is a former student and was...
These materials include correspondence regarding the use of liquor among students at Carlisle, and the punishment of Turner Dwight for intoxication.
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs send him a decision from the Comptroller of the Treasury regarding the per capita costs in Indian Schools.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt forwards Francis Jr. a copy of the...
These materials include a request to have the Carlisle Indian School Band play in a patriotic parade of State House employees in Harrisburg.
This document contains correspondence concerning a nursing program for female students at the German Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
This document contains correspondence discussing procedure for the dispersal of small funds in individual former student accounts. Some of these funds were successfully deposited, while others were cancelled, as the former students could not be located.
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Athletic Association has $4,000 and the restaurant has nearly $1,000. He states that because these are "independent corporations," money from these two sources does not come...
These materials include correspondence regarding the return home of Cora James to Ardmore, Oklahoma from Carlisle and who should be responsible for the transportation expense.
This material includes a note referring to a list of children eligible for transfer from non-reservation schools around Cantonment, Oklahoma.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to transfer Elizabeth Kemp from Carlisle.
Carlisle Indian School Director of Mechanic Arts Roy H. Bradley informs Superintendent John Francis Jr. that John R. Livezey completed building and installing a three compartment refrigerator at the school. Francis Jr. forwards Bradley's letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and requests...
This document contains correspondence concerning the heirship of deceased former student Samuel Tingley. This includes letters inquiring as to who will acquire Tingley's funds.
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. acknowledges receipt of an Allotment of Funds and asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs if a $5,000 fund for increased employee compensation has to be included in the per capita cost per pupil.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt...
Superintendent John Francis, Jr. informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Farm Cook Gertrude Giffen prepares three meals a day for herself, 10 male student farmers, and her husband, Farmer James F. Giffen. Because they all eat at the same time Mr. and Mrs. Giffen do eat some of the...
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Susan Godfrey to have her son Frank returned to his home in Minnesota.
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests to sell two cows to Swift & Co. in Harrisburg. The cows were recently condemned by Bureau of Animal Industry Representative Dr. Winant during the tubercular test. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt grants...
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