The Ripley advertiser., 1883-02-10

Rec SGAUUL.
4 From The official communicable
: IN the Advertiser Of last weel
under the above heading,
would seem that The Board of 81
$ Pervisors and County Superintend
ent of Education have been all tn
! Time willing to grant public sehoo
f privileges 10 Blue Mountain Fe
male College on the terms granite,
at last. So much has been said OF
the subject that the readers ma,
nave lost sight Of the main point
at issue. To this point invite spe
cial attention. The first publica
ton on the subject was in the Ad
vertiser of Nov. 25th, 1882, in the
form of notice from the county
Superintendent of Education,
which required, that, as a condition
ON which this school could be rec
ognized as public school, ''no ex-
ira charge be made during the four
months of free term, and that pub
lie notice be given OF the fact, be-
fore commencing said free term" F."
held that this requirement was it,
legal and UNJUST. Ifthe communi
ty did not agree TO give US "addi.
tlonal com pensation" we could not
teach public term; and we conld
not, with honor to ourselves pub
hsh that we would not make an ex.
ira charge, and then turn about
and make an extra charge. On the
first Monday in January the prop
er authorities granted us public
school privileges without exacting
the publication required IN their
hrst act. as quoted above. If they
had not, we would not now have
been teaching the public term. II
appeared before the Board at their
January meeting, informed them
that | could not accept the terms
first published, and presented De-
tftlon and contract signed by all
our local patrons, asking that our
school be declared a public school, |
and agreeing to our proposed terms. |
This paper was signed by every
bead OF a white family in the com
nunity Thc had girl or girls of
'chool age, and EVERY ONE, WITHOUT
SINGLE EXCEPTION gave verbal evl
1ence of perfect satisfaction with
.he arrangement that had existed
every session since the founding OF
he school. But these voters and
ak payers are now officially inform
ID that their petition was "wholIy
gnored." But That does not mat
er' as everything they asked for
vas granted. We were willing 10
ecelve the public term as it was at
asst granted, before ever word
1as said or line written on tn e
lbject. In proof OF this | submit
ne following extract from my frst
rtlcie In the Advertiser: After re-. I
'rring to the requirement that we I
lould make no extra charge l
aid III they had added, except I
hat the patrons agree to pay, 1t S
ou!d have been more reasonable '
lue Mountain Female College has /
sretofore charged regular rates of t
Iltion. but given patrons credit
r all that was received from the I
lblic fund. This has been done
mutual agreement between, the =
ltroEs OF the school and the prO. J
'ietOrs." In my article published
&c. 10th | wrote as follows: s.Those .
no have noticed this controversy =
loN that it has been etated over
ID over that the compensation we
I'VE received has been voluntary G
ID not compulsory. Every one il
no has paid additional compensa-
'n" conceded our right to claim il
ID no one has objected to paying i
And | propose in the columns
the Advertiser as | proposed to !,
'of. Prewitt before the controyer. !
began, that we will accept the Z Z
nOOl, and arrange the matter Il ~