The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-16

school boards been sitting on the chest2
Please remember | do not charge fraud
upon the part OF any members OF the school
board, have said elsewhere they are men
above reproaeh, but they have failed in
Judgment and have allowed all these mat.
ters to 90 by default Suppose, II you wish,
that Mfr. rs idea was carried out gea.
orally and the people who pay the most
tax have the right TO the largest Representa-
ton. Then the sooner the whisky men
take possession OF Congress and the
National treasury the sooner they will get
their right. But such stuff as this Is 100
nonsensical to be discussed. Mr.. q. under
takes to show the cos. Of our school, by
comparing the cost Of each pupil with that
OF the township, land by the way he con-
tradicts himself in that, but have not the
space to point out all defects OF this letter.
That has nothing to do with the cost to the
borough OF running the school.
I claimed in my first letter that we paid
almost half more TO teachers than Is paid
in the townships. About the highest sal
airy paid in the township to teachers is $40
per month. We paid last year SO per
month. There Is difference Of $50 per
month. asked the Board to point ont
where, and in what particular our school
was better than the township schools. This
is why made the remark, that the service
rendered should be in proportion to the
money expended. Last year the patrons
wanted graded school, or primary de:
partment. The Board was not in favor Of
il, but to appease the patrons they went
into an agrt enent with the teacher, MI h.,
to pay him SO pr month, which was So q
month more than we paid former teachers.
He was to receive the $40 month with
the understanding that II 1t was necessary
to employ the second teacher, he was to
pay him, or her, out OF the SO. Mr.. ii was
TO be the sole Judge as TO whether the
second teacher was needed. OF course Mr..
q did not find It necessary to organize a
primary department but stuck the extra
$50 a month down his pants, and smiled
over the way he euchred the Board. Mr..
II. says in his satrical epistle TO the Re
porter, the reason we failed to get an indie
pendent school district here was from the
TACT, as he states, that the building Of new
and costly school house was being agitated
at that time, and the families outside OF
the borough refused to comein on account
oil the increased tax. Now there 10 not q
man or woman in the borough but what
knows that to be false. The proposition to
build new and costly school house was
never made by any one that l ever heard
OF, and il was never even talked OF 10 my
knowledge. He also says when the pres
ent school board was organized few
weeks ago, they found the school in debt
one hundred dollars. II 1 am correctly In |
formed the debt Ia not go much as hun.
dred dollars. He, however, fails to tell
how they came to be in debt, but leaves |
that part OF it for what he chooses to style |
the cynical critics, to relate. e."
The School Board either in 1881 or 1872 |
failed to perform some duty epjoined upon
them by law, and they lost the State appro- |
priation. That Ia how we came to be
500 in debt II II is 80 much. 1t is not my
design to be egotistical, but as Nj. Fl. says
l have not visited the school for over five
years must say something about myself
In order to answer that personal fling. II
was a member Of and President OF the
Board for three years previous to 1880.
While acting in that capacity visited the
school just as often as thought 1t neces-
sary, but not being gifted with the power
OF oratory my visits were few, as did not
suppose could do much good. But be.
cause I did not visit the school every week
or month, 1t Is not even presumptiye evil
dence that had no interest in the school.
ask the citizens Of this town to investi-
gate this matter for themselves, and they
will soon learn where the fault lies.
W. A. C.
West Alexander, August IS.