West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-11-30

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EDITOR ARGUS -
Permit me through your columns
to further niake public the fraud
perpetrated upon the citizens aud
tax payers Of Portland District. and
also reply to ''Davey Crockett, Of
ARGUS 9th, and "Dasey Crockett. %
OF Journal 10th. "Davey' Of the
ARGUS rather came out in Josh
Billings style. l don't know
whether can answer all OF his
mathematical problems or not, but
will try. The plea OF tho South
end before the Board there was,
that eleven scholars had to come
over a road to the old school house
that was all inundated with water
aud mud and one of the eleven
died. The Board heard their plea
aud built them house; now want
twenty-five scholars to 90 up over
an unhealthy road. What consis-
tency He goes on with great
deal of other stuff that was intend.
ed for "'rramp's" article of re.
cent date in the Journal. 1t seems
to me that he wants to drag out Of
me what know about the fraud
that has been perpetrated i'll School
District No. Of Portland District
on the tax payers aud patrons Of
said District
Since my last letter trying to
give the facts in the fraud, | have
made further investigation Of said
fraud. ! find from good authority
that 1T was Sl75 greater than / put
it before. In order to secure the
house on the North end, there was
a little log rolling cone. This is
the nature 6f tho case There was
two OF our North enders wanted a
road from their property out into
the county road leading towards
Terra Alta. So they applied to the
County Court for viewers during
the reigp of Henry q. Beatty some
f9Iir OF five years ago. The Court
appointed VIM. FELTON, and Felix
q. Jeifers as viewers to mark out
aud locate said road. SO thcy went
according to the order. They COM
mcnced aud ran up from the couu-
ty road near Bnckncr Whotsell's
saw mill and ran up through the
lifids of another party. Then tho
trouble came. He wouldn't con-
sent to the road going through his
land, though the viewers finished
their part and made their report,
and reported said road as private
road, not as being of any public
utility, but as private road for
those two individuals. So this 9th
er gent that wns not interested in
said road, was Interested in q school
house. So he goes to N. 6 Is. and
says IN. a b., now you sign my
petition for school house down
where your road comes into the
county toudI and ) will give you
the Fight Of way through my land.
So N. & b. did. x-Commissioner
Henry U. Beatty lobbied said road
through, and it was built at cost
of Sl75. When N. 60 b. signed
this mans petition for a school
house, they said they had no idea
OF the Beard eyef granting them a
house, but this man that obtained
this petition in exchanges for said
road, applied to some three
former Boards for honse, but they
all replied to him, "Where are your
scholars !' Charles Mayer, Prcsi-
dent, Farley DeBerry, Pres dent,
John p. Joncs, President. When
these Honorable gentlemen were
Presidents of the Boards Of Educa
ton refused to build this man a
house. 1key said to him, "Where
are your scholars ?" But the Board
was changed, Jacob Guseman, Sam u
Lee and Samuel FreeIaud constitu-
ting the present Board. So This
man comes again with his petition
before the new Board. The new
Board says, allow many scholars
have you? '' "Thirty uluc," he
says. We have the papers to show
for that number. We have tho
Presidents word for this. lie says
they represented thirty-nine schol.
ars to him; so they built them a
house. They had a school in 1t