Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-02-18
THE CONTRACT LET
Little, Creech & Co. Get the School
house Contract for $4,000.
NO ACTION TAKEN ON PETITION
The Opponents OF the Present Site Will
Carry the Question of a New
Election Into the Courts

| A special secret meeting OF the school
board was held saturday afternoon at
the office of J. Weatherwax for the pur-
pose of opening bids for the erection of a
schoolhouse on the site owned by the
! district. Directors Owen and Wood and
Clerk Wyman were present.
The bids were for furnishing all mater
ials and building the schoolhouse as per
amended specifications. Following are
the bids:
John A. Bailey .............. $16,4Ou
B, L. Doty ....... .... 1850
y. r.. Weaver .......... -. Is, l6u
Little. Creech & Co. 1899
The bid Of Little, Creech & Co., being
the best and in due form the board passed
resolution accepting it, and yarding
them the contract. The bids Of the I'M
successful bidders we're ordered returned.
The meeting then adjourned.
The successful bidder has ten days in
which to make y contract with the dis
trict and will be required TO give bond
in the sum OF $40, 900 for the faithful per-
Torrance Of his contract.
Last Friday the following petition was
filed with school Clerk Wyman by Attor-
ney Bush acting in behalf of the signers
thereof:
$50 the Honorable Board of Directors
Of school district No. Of Chehalis county.
Washington.
"Your petitioners, legal voters of said
school district No. 5, do respectfully petit
ton your honorable body to call special
meeting of the voters OF said school dis.
trict that the qualified voters of SAID
school district may vote for or against d
proposition to sell or exchange the school.
house site now owned by said school dis
trict in block 25 in France addition to
Aberdeen, AS per the proposition of j. NJ.
Weatherwax published in the Aberdeen
Bulletin OF February 6, 1892, and your
petitioners will ever pray. &C."
This document contains Ala signatures /;
2S1 male, and 1873 female. 1t was ex-
pected action OF some kind on the petition
would be taken at the saturday meeting
OF the board, but the directors decided
that the meeting was called for the spe-
citic purpose Of receiving and opening
construction bids and no other business
could be transacted at that time.
Attorney Bush, on being interviewed
regarding the petition for new school
election, said: "The petitioners who
signed that paper mean business. A
reasonable time will be given the school
board to act one way or the other in the
matter, and if, as is rumored, the board
ignores the petition we will apply for a
mandamus compelling them to take some
action iu the matter, and if they decide
not to call an election We will appeal the
case, if necessary, clear through the varl-
GUS legal channels to the highest court
On being questioned as to the probable
action the school board would take in
respect to the petition Director Wood
said he would not speak for the board,
but as for himself ne was in favor Of
ignoring the petition entirely, and hoped
the persons who signed would get out
their writ of mandamus. II am salts
fed" said he, 'they have no legal
grounds upon which they can compel
the board to call such an election. The
voters have decided the matter at the
polls and hold that the board cannot
hold two elections on the same question.
However if the taxpayers want their
money spent in litigation We will be
lin it,"
Fine line of dried and evaporated