White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-06-01
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be people Of this District onght to vote
n favor o! the bonds for building . school
Rouse. Bot before entering into the die
.ussion, it msy not be smiss to make q
statement relative to the second submis-
ZION Of the question to vote.
The annual School Meeting. on the last
Thursday in March. was the largest ever
held iu this place. 1t vas shortly after
he election on the bonds, and that was
,be Question which drew ont the crowd.
The old Board was reelected. with one
exception. and bis place was filed With
person who wss in harmony with the
bslAnce on that question. After all the
regular business was transacted. one Of
the Directors (oursslf arose end stated
that there bad been . good deal OF excite. |
ment over the bond matter, with much
bad feeling. and .Il manner OF mis- repre-
sentstion. We made . statement. from
official figures. showing the rate OF in
crs,se Of taxable property in the District.
and what the probable tax would be il
,b. s25. 600 bonds were voted. WeIe.
quested that the persons present erpress
their views as to what course the Board
should pursue, as a school house w.s bad
" needed, and tho Board did not wish to
take any further action. unless they had
reason to believe the people would sus
tain item. We said that We did not ask
for positive instructions. ss many tax.
payers were not present. but merely xish-
81 for an expression Of opinion.
A gentlem an thereupon arose. saying
that he had voted against the bonds. and
had done it honestly. as hs had under
stood the question; but that he was sat
isfed with The figures shown. and wished
. decisive expression then. He regarded
the school meeting as the proper place for
the people to instruct the Directors. and
hs thought it ought to be done then and
there. so that there could be no quibbliog
over it. Accordingly q vote was taken
upon the question Of sgsin submitting the
s25. 900 proposition. and there was hui
one vote against It. Some fonr or five
persons present did not vote; but there
were over sky votes for it.
4 sht upon the heels Of this meeting
. petition was circulated by persons
who did not attend the meeting
asking that the qasstion of $4,000 in
bonds be submitted-thst there ought to
be harmony. and it could be secured or
this sum. The petition was signed BY
about IS many names Is there had been
votes for the other proposition in the
meeting. Some Of the names were o
persons who had attended the meeting,
an insisted on the s25 00O-and some
were men who have not sioce resided 10
town. The board considered the MISTER.
anl csme to the conclusion that the ex-
pressed wish Of sixty or seventy men who
attended . regularly called school meet
ing. was entitled to as much respect q
the petition Of the same number who did
not attend. but who had been imp portuned
to sign q petition, and many Of wbos'
names had been written by the same hand
lin fact. they were strengthened in thei
preference for the voice Of the meeting
when they found such blunders on the pc
tition, as the name Of man whose nam'
was Willism. written John!
But the Board thought that il ther
was desire for compromise. they woul'
meet the OF her party half way-the on.
true method of compromise. They pro
posed that if the $4,000 men woul
raise TO S20.0 900. and securs good lis
of names to the petition. they would d.
what they could to secure the names OF
m,jori,y Of those who attended the meet
ing. and voted for $4,000. This. the
held, would warrant them for departing
from the instructions OF the meeting
: But the proposition was not fsvorsbIy re
ceived, and no effort was made TO secur
names to such petition. On the con
tray, one Of the noisiest SIS 600 men bu
T recently decl ,red that the Board had t
tske el5 900 or nothing. as that was th
) only compromise they would get. Prom
inent $4,000 men were asked. time an
again, to move in the compounds mat
ter. If they wished it accomplished; bu
it was not done, and the bitterest one
among them. the ones who are controlliu
the opFosi,ioa. would not eysn p'om,''
to vote Ss e2O 600 Il it was submitted
they ell left place to creep out. % som
Of those have crept ont. who voted. at th
school meeting. in favor Of the Boar
again submitting the s25. 900 proposition
Having waited two months for compro
mise and harmony. the Bo,rd have pro
ceeded to carry out the instructions re
ceived at the school meeting. BY submit
ting the s25. 600 proposition.
Then, We want new school house. be
cause our present house does not begin 4
answer the requirements, and because v
are behind nearly all our neigSborinI
towns 10 this respect. We want hoos
that, while answering the purpose. sp'