The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-04-09

PRoCEEDINGs OF THE SCHOOL COMMISSION
ERs.-The School Commissioners met on Tues
day. Present Messrs Whiteford and Rouse and
Noble h. Mitchell, Secretary.
1t was ordered that the colored schools close
April 18th and the examination of colored teach
ers take place in Bel Air April 10Th.
Messrs Isaac Mechem, Henry Ady and VIM
Dawson were appointed trustees of the new
school at Frogtown, near Bel Air.
Mr. II. X. Mitchell was appointed trustee of
Anglesde school, near Mitchel's Mill, in place
of VIM. j. Keen, removed to Baltimore county.
Saturday, May Goth, was fixed as the time for
the committee on text books to report to the
board Teachers of the county are invited to be
present and express their views on the subject.
The board decided to establish a school for
the summer term in building on the farm of
Mr.. Frank b. Macatee, near the Five Forks.
The building TO be furnished free of ex-
pense to the school board, who will supply q
teacher and books. Messrs. F. B. Macatee, Jas.
r. Kilgore and c. c. Kinsey were appointed
trustees.
An application for the use of a colored school
building in the I'd district, for religious purpo-
ses on Sunday was refused.
A petition, signed by John F. GATHER John
P. Shure, Joshua j. Scotch, John H. Miller,
Samuel T. Love and Others was received, ask
ing for the erection a new school house at
Castleton
Another petition signed by Thos. Miller, 8.
X. Gilbert, W. b. Smith, VIM. Ii. Sitter and
others for the erection of school house for
colored children, near Norrisville, those inter-
ested agreeing to furnish the ground free of
cost, was also received
Both petitions were laid on the table.
The greater part of the session was taken up
with hearing evidence, under oath, in the case
of the complaint of Mrs. Mary e. Chase, teacher
of Fallston school, that Mr.. Lambert Penning-
ton, trustee of the school, had used violent and
abusive language towards her in the school-room,
the charge being that he called her liar. The
board, acting upon a letter received from
Messrs. Jas. X. Keech and Asbury Guyto n,
also trustees, requested Mr.. Pennington's resig.
nation. Mr.. Pennington, without resigning,
demanded a hearing. The School Commission
ers' office resembed O court of justice. Mrs.
Chase was represented by Mr.. VIM. H. Harlan,
while Mr.. Pennington pleaded his own CASE
The oath was administered to the witnesses by
Justice Lyle. School Commissioners Whiteford
and Rouse we've the judges.
Mrs. Chase testified that Mr.. Pennington did
use the opprobrious language, and her testi-
mony was corroborated by two of her pupils,
Miss Georgia Amos and Joseph Hamilton.
The difficulty grew out of q statement
written by the teacher upon the examina-
ton paper of MIR. Pennington's daughter, to the
effect that in copying from her slate she had
revised her answers, and In consequence had
obtained higher mark.
Mr.. Pennington declared on oath that he did
not call Mrs. Chase liar, but applied the
apithet to persons who had carried tales to Mrs.
/ Chase concerning him and his family. MIR.
Pennington said further that he thought the diff
iiculty was settled at the interview with Mrs.
Chase, and he told her he would come In the
evening and take her home.
Miss Lily Pennington who was In the school
room when the conversation took place, cor
roborated her fathers statement.
John Pennington and John Crummish were
also examined, and had not heard the language
alleged to have been used.
Asbury Clayton one of the trustees, said the
matter seemed to him and Mr., Keech SO import
ant that they thought 1t only proper to call the
School Examiners attention to 1t.
MIR. Harlan argued that the charge contained
in the trustees letter had been established that
Mr.. Pennington had gone to the school as
patron not as a trustee, to make complaints
against the teacher. He should have made his