The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-11-04
THAT ..CERxK OF THE BOARDS
LETTER.

EDITOR silver STATE: am perfect
ly willing to have my official acts,criti-
cised, but most emphatically protest
against your allowing a sneak-thief and
liar to use your columns to work off
the gall and bitterness engendered in
his vile heart from thwarted schemes
laid to capture the school funds of Big
Meadows School District, and to swim
die the contractor of the new school.
houses in that district out of his award
ed rights. l was authorized by the
Board. of Trustees to order from. Ban
eroft~& Co. a. supply OF. furniture for
the two houses latelM erected in Big
Meadows and as evidence that said
Board recognized the validity of the
said purchase, have on file in my Of
flee a voucher signed by j. II. Thies
and L. c.. Asher, Trustees Of, said dis
strict, making a requisition for $3.50
$lo0 to be sent to them, to pay the
freight Oh Iut luIHleuic, anu %-oO W
Bancroft & Co., to be applied as first
payment on said furniture, If Peter
West, who So gravely styles himself
Clerk Of the Beard, Yves too busy plot
ting Intellectual schemes and attending
to everybody else's business except his
own, to attend the sessions OF the
Board, this Office is not to be censured'
for his ignorance of the fact that the.
County Superintendent was authorized
to order the school furniture in ques-
tion.- Neither is this Office to blame if.
theresis an overplus OF furniture, for
the.reason that tae; estimate was made
exact, if the seats are properly ADJUST
ed. The approved specifications of the
houses required that the doors leading
from the ante-rooms to the main room
should swing inside CT the ante-rooms,
bat the architect hung them to open
into, the school-room, which OF course
takes away one tier of seats. l was
not. aware of this change until
after the seats had been o.
dered4 This accounts for the overpins.
But when. the Reception Committee
met to receive the houses from the con-
tractors, Peter. West was the first to
make a melton tosreceive the houses,
Notwithstanding the doors. were hung
wrong, and now he has the temerity to
find fault with this office because, more
furniture is on their. hands than they
have room.tor. gave the district the
benefit of my business. prestige, and
secured their furniture for them, ten
per cent cheaper than the trustees
could have purchased tall my time
and. trouble thrown inland while tits
somewhat expensive, it is in exact
keeping. with the houses elegant, dur
able and substantial. | had already
proposed to the board, if they would
store their surplus furniture, to use my
endeavors to dispose of. it for them to
other districts needing furniture. So
that there is nobody hurt except Peter
West, who is only mad because there
are too many honest men watching
him to allow him to be successful in APP
propriating that which does not belong
to him. l. was. elected to the Office |
hold by the suflrages of the people of
this county, and not by my oUa vote
under technicality of law, as was this
driveling form of human being, who.
sports the title of ''Clerk of the Board
of Trustees of Big Meadow School Dis
| trict- No. B." and who is despised and
summed by his own neighbers. This,
same contemplate puppy holds the
books and records of tine district against
the wish of majority of the board;
has willfully and knowingly neglected
to make his annual report, and now has
the cheek and etfrontery to decry
against those whose time, energies and
means have been sacrificed for the pro-
| motion OF the educational interests of
the community III. which he, like a
wolf in the night, has been prowling,
| 4. CRENowErH,.
L County Superintendent.
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