Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-12-10
WILLIAMsPORT d. T.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER TO- 1884,
IN A COFFEE POT.
The To,Cnsl.iD -Bonders Agaiss
Snaili,,gly son Deck.''
J'Otcrs Searching for u Hidden
House IN u SMOaUstOrh,,.
TIE "COntrGctOrs''0 and Their TIN
Can B0ILOt-BOr.

According to notice, the election for
the purpose of voting on the proposition TO bond
Cherry Grove School Township in the additional
sum of 81 500, to finish the schoolhouse begun
by j. II. Stevenson, took place last Saturday at
the residence of George A. Peters, Township
Clerk.
Witha couple of other voters, about III o'clock
the Record man set out to hunt the place where
ballots were to be thrown for determination OF
the question whether the additional amount of
81 500 WAS to lie piled upon the 5000 in which
the township is already bonded.
1t was in the midst of binding snowstorm
that the party set out: but, as one of them had
made previous visits TO Mr.. Peters house. that
point was at length reached, after various doubts
and wOnderings as TO whether the right road was
being taken. Tho house sits behind bluff, and
between the two creek meanders, skirted by
groves of timber. Il is truly picturesque spot.
The house is one which would be hard to find by
a stranger, even on a clear and pleasant day but
in storm its discovery by one new TO the region
would be an almost hopeless task. Even if lie
remarkable hieroglyphos on Uncle Sans section
stones many of the line-markers could not be
seen through the driving snow. And this was the
place Mt which the voters Of region twenty-four
miles long and six broad were to gather ior the
purpose OF exercising the right of ireemen.
After being cordially received by Clerk Peters,
the party deposited their ballots pnrtook Of some
refreshments furnished by that gentleman and
Next day it came to light that Messrs Bu-
chanan, Welch, Tighe and Knox, after driving
about for many hours, reached the polls in time
to be Informed that the tin coffee pot in which
the ballots had been cast was closed and the
watchers had departed.
Itwas subsequently ascertained that the alleged
vote at the alleged election was in favor of the
bonds-8 to4
1.-The morning AFTER" as the novelists say. 1.-THE
meeting WAS held at Buohanan's and a commit
tee chosen to appear before the County Clerk
and protest against the ro-called election-ths
main grounds being the coffee (poU grounds-the
protestsnts claiming that q teapot, or flower pot,
or All iron pot, or coffee pot, or any other kind
of u pot was not ballot-box as by statute of the
ering dependency Of 6aIota specified and re-
quired.
The committee, loaded down with their un-
tions at him-tiie coffee-pot still looming up az
the chief feature of the occasion, or, wicked
men say, like unto four-time winner. Mr..
Armstrong, in reply, stated tina. he had grave
doubts "a to q coffee-pOt, even with its snout in
good condition and we'll soldered, being q legal
ba!lot-bo1 that he considered the committee 8
point we'll taken, and that he would not sign the
bonds. Monday morning Clerk Williams reached
the county seat. and he unqualihedly Endorsed
Mr.. Armstrongs position. To compel the sign
ceedings in which will enable the deledtable
Cherry Grove schoolhouse- building methods to
be ventilated
believes the McTavish reighborhood will be ono
of the first in the township to require school bera
efits, and the 81 200 which Walker wasted on a
building that will probably never be used in
its present location would, if honestly expended,
have built two good houses next spring. Shonld
one be needed in the McTavish neighborllood,
1t is asserted that several of the settlers in that
neighborhood have large families in the East
but the law makes provision only for children
residing in a township and those listed from
neighborng townships. The unfairness Of build
ing schoolhouses and dividing the license fund
basis of children not even in the territory 10
WPen tie ne mo .pd tbee 10
ised little ones materialize, the Record will be
foremost in asking those school privileges which
the boys and girls Of America hsye right to
has been, persistent foo to the building OF
schoolhouses for prospective scholars and it will
always denounce the contract system by which
dishonest school officers seek to rob the people
and enrich themselves.