The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1894-06-08
HERMoSA.


According to call posted for a mass
meeting of the citizens of Hermosa tC
nominate candidates for school direc'
tors for the coming year a meeting was
held in The town ball and school house
on Saturday, June I'd. when the report
of the old board was made and candi,
dates nominated.
The meeting was organized with Mr.,
]. E. Ayers in the chair and Hon. r.. Nj,
White acting as secretary.
MIR. Ayers read the report of the old
board which included the following
statement:
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of Hermosa Dis.
trict Mayl, 1888 .......+.-.-+... 80 .43
Amount appropriated to Hermosa
District by County superintendent. I29. 70
Amount received through licences, 200. o
Amount received through poll tax, 50.9O
41s.0s
EXPENDITURES
Amount paid for teachers wages -. S $40. 90
Amount paid for fuel u other in
ctdentals. 80. 90
Balance to credit of District May l,
1884 -. 10 03
S 4l3.Os
MIR A varo oynIotnaA fba o.Uf.,,
ordinarily caused by the school year
and the fiscal beginning and ending re-
specially on the different days of two
diff rent months. Trouble and indict-
ments had been the result of this inn
proper beginning and ending in other
districts than Herm0sa, but Mr.. Ayers
was happy to say that no trouble ex-
listed in the Hermosa district, the di-
rectors had always so managed as to
avoid it and comply with the law.
The legislators at Santa Fe seemed to
have been animated by a desire to
make the law as perplexing as possible,
instead of making it so plain that she
who ran might read" The law ought
to be founded upon Just business-like
principles, and not De so that it re-
quired a Santa Fe or Las Cruces law
yer to explain it or entangle its in
.tricacles, however no such law yers
were employed by the board but they
solved the problem for themselves.
The school house and furniture were
in good order and the district was en-
tirely out of debt. There was one
hundred dollars from licences which
would go to the credit of the district
but which did not appear upon the re-
port on account of the difference of
the beginning and endingof the school
fiscal years before spoken of.
The nominations for directors for
coming year were then called for,
the tolliwng were unanimously
upon: J.E. Ayers, j. G. Plem-
mons and Geo. r. Baucus.
Mr. White then spoke upon the
nnanimity with which the people OF
had generally acted with re-
to the school, and proposed a vote
If thanks from the district to the out
board, which VAS as follows:
Resolved, That the people of Hpf
nosa teuder a vote of thanks to .hpii
directors for 1898 ard 1894 for
he busjness-like manner IN which they
rave conducted the affairs of the
school.
The resolution was unanimously
The board to whom this was
,ffered was composed of j. E. Ayers,
chairman. with Messrs. Jas. HOPKINS
md Ed. Young, the latter resigning
~ account of ttmpnrary absence from
he district, and Mr.. w. d. Nourse he
ng appointed IN his place. Mr.. Aver
IN behalf of the old board returned
for the resolution.
The election for the new nominees
vent off quietly and orderly on Mon
lay, June 4th. resulting 10 an as unani-
nous election as. the nomination.
All genuine democrats must have an
lttack of s~oreheadism when they re-