Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1894-12-07
THE SCHOOL BONDS BURNED
Their Final Place Of Deposit Was the
Tribune StOve-NeW School
Election Called.
The People Will Be Asked to Vote
100000 For School Buildings
on December "a.

At the adjourned meeting of the schoo
board held Tuesday a full board, will
the exception of Messrs. Hanks ant
EARL, we're present. 1t was decided OF
motion Of Trustee Gockstetter, seconded
by Trustee Poole, that the first step to b.
taken in the matter of the school bonds
was to destroy the old issue, which hat
been rendered worthless by the recen'
decision Of the supreme court.
The bonds which have had so varied
and m%alodorous a history, we're produced
by the secretary and the board adjourned
in q body to witness their destruction ir
a grand "auto da fe." They were taker
to The TRIBUNE editorial rooms and put
one at a time, into the office stove
Chairman Pomeroy acted as stoker and
Trustee Poole and Clerk Garfield az
assistants. They burned reluctantly al
first, but it was not long before the
$4,000 school bond issue roasted The
TRIBUNE office Is vigorously as The
TRIBUNE ever roasted it in any stage of
it's peculiar history.
When the bonds had been reduced to
ashes, the board reassembled and dis
cussed the question of a new issue.
Trustee Holmes expressed the opinion
that the outside country districts we're
entitled to new school houses and while
the board were asking the people to vote
new bonds for the building of school
houses, they might as we'll comply with
the reasonable demands of these outside
districts and get enough money to put
up five or six other school houses that
were badly needed, and would have to
be built before long anyway. This
sentiment met with the approval of the
other members Of the board, and an in
formal discussion was had as to the
amount that would be necessary to
carry out this purpose.
Chairman Pomeroy said that they
should really have 100000 t. complete
all the work that was needed at this
time, but as economy was desirable in
view of the heavy tax on the
of the district caused by the rapid in
crease in the school population he
thought it would be better to ask for
only 100000.
A good deal of figuring was done on
this basis blythe members, some of whom
thought it was not enough, but it was
finally fixed at that figure. 1t was
agreed that if the people voted the sum
asked for the board would endeavor to
keep the cost of the completed high
school building as near as possible to
the original $4,000 voted, and spend the
other $4,000 on badly needed school
houses in outside districts. 1t was figured
that the following sums were required for
the different outside districts. Uim, new
school house, 5000; Chichester district,
new school house, $1,000; Watson dis
trict, new school house, $500; Coon dis.
trict, purchasing old school house, $500.
b q M, copper smelter, new school house
$1,000; B & M. addition. new school
house, four rooms, $1,000; Silver smelter,
expense moving present b. g. NJ. addition
school house there and fixing 1t up, $500.
On motion of o. M. Helmes, seconded
by A. j. Emerton, it was decided to call
a special school election for December
p and submit to the people a PROPOSE
ton to issue 100000 for school buildings
as above recited. The motion was car
ried unanimously and the clerk was in
to make out a notice of election
and have it published in the city papers
at once.
On motion the country treasurer was
requested to transfer $4,000 from the
school fund to the general fund
to meet current expenses,
Tho iorifnr of thn NprtA c:Io cnLooI
building reported some difficulty with
the heating of the building on account
of the character of the fuel, and Trustee
Holmes was instructed to have the CRATES
changed, in accordance with the recon-
mendations OF Engineer Dodds, who said
this change would obviate the difficulty.
George w. Stanton appeared before
the board on behalf Of A. W. Kellison,
who was discharged at the last meeting
of the board on account Of charges pre-
ferred against him by Mr.. Andrews,
one of the parents who send children
to the school. Mr.. Stanton said
that he believed the charges
made against Mr.. Kellison were untrue
and they were of such a nature as to
ruin him in his profe ssion as a teacher
il he we're guilty, and he felt that the
action of the school board placed him in
that light before the public. He was
not there to ask the board to reinstate
Mr.. Kellison at this time, but he desired
on behalf of his client to ask the board
to hear him in his own defense and make
a thorough investigation Of the charges.
The chairman of the board stated that
the action Of the board was not designed
as IN expression of their belief in his
guilt, but that they felt that after cir
~cumstantial charges of that nature had
been preferred his usefulness as a
teacher in that school was ended, and on
that theory they had at once re-
lieved him from his position. The
board. however, we're perfectly will
ing to accord Mr.. Kellison the investiga-
ton he demanded, and conceded that he
had a right to ask it at their hands.
1t was finally agreed that the board
would meet in special session next Satur-
day evening for the purpose of listening
to any testimony offered on both sides
Of the case, and the clerk of the board
was instructed to notify MI. Andrews to
be OF hand at that time with any wit
nesses he desired to be heard, and also
to send a similar notice to Mr.. Kellison.
The board then adjourned.