The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-04
KEEP OFF The GRASS
Butte School Trustees Who Are No
Small Potatoes.
NASTY REPORTERS SHUT OUT
The Number of Pupils Now in At
tendance Upon the Public
Schools Shows a Material
Increase.

Calderhead, and i'll his absence j. j.
York was selected chairman. The clerk
reported miscellaneous bills against the
district to the amount of 81 ,133. l.. a teach
ers' pay roll of Sc, i72.45 and pay roll of
janitors of S60j, which was allowed and
ordered paid.
A motion was adopted to replace at tho
expense of the district, the books and
other articles lost by the pupils and
teachers at tho West Centervillo school
by reason of the recent accident by viii ch
the big chimney crashed into the building.
\ bill for 500 was received from an at
torney who had been retained by the
board to fight some tax cases in which tho
district is involved. 1t was stated that
the attorney had represented both sides
in the case. The attorney had been Of
fered $50 TO square accounts, but he re-
fused it. Tho bill was referred TO the
finance committee with power to act.
The committee was also empowered to
settle with all parties who hold tax titles
against the property of the school district.
a bill was also received from a man
who testified for the district in a case in
court several years ago, in which the dis
trict won, but he could not collect from
the losing side and wanted the district TO
pay him. The bill was referred to the
hnaucc committee.
Superintendent Hendricks reported
that 81 Butte teachers attended the state
institute at Livingston and that all were
loud in their praise of the entertainment
received from the people of Livingston.
MIR. Hendricks reported the fact that the
Butte teachers were sighted in the maxi
ing up of the institute programme and
that the dangerous legislation recon-
mended by the state board was voted
down by the institute. Mr.. Hendricks
also reported that the literary society of
the Butte High school and the society of
the Anaconda school would engage in n
joint debate at the Butte High school
auditorium on the 10Th or 10Th of this
month.
Tho graduating exercises of the pre-
paratory classes will take place on the
18th. The clerk was instructed to have
programmes printed for the occasion.
On motion OF Mcdonnell the clerk was
instructed to draw up and forward to tn O
people of Livingston a resolution express
ing the appreciation of the board for the
kind treatment accorded the Butte teach
crs while attending the state institute.
Arthur Jones was added TO the teachers
of the district and the superintendent
was requested to promote w. II. Collier,
principal of the Parrot school, TO the
prlncipalship of the West Broadway
school, made vacant by the election of
Mr.. Davies to the Office of county super
intendent.
Mr.. Hendricks reported a total enroll
ment of 3,64S in the schools, an increase
of 293 over December of last year, and an
average daily attendance of 2,S07, an in
crease of Pas.
All other business having been disposed
OF, o. j. Mcconnell brought up the matter
of an editorial in the STANDARD of Dec. :,
which criticised the board. He thought it
was an insult 10 every trustee, and said
that while he did not question the right of
any body or paper to critIcise public otli-
Gals, he did question the right to insult
them. He very magnanimously stated
that he wanted it understood that no
member of the board had any feeling
against The humble reporter who reported
the meetings of the board, but they did
have feeling against the paper. Mr..
Mcdonnell then made the astonishing
motion that no representative of the
STANDARD be hereafter admitted to the
meetings of the board until the paper had
made full and complete retraction and
apology Tor the awful editorial of Dec. Z.
Il second the motion" said Mr.. Hawley
with eagerness.
Chairman York put tho motion and
Mcconnell and Hawley voted for it. At
least their voices were the only ones
heard. Nobody voted against il.
$50 ordered" said the chairman, and
then the meeting adjourned and the
DIANDAkl) reporter uSsufeu us lrlcnQS.
the trustees, that he would DO around at
the next meeting as usual
The editorial for which the trustees
wish the STANDARD to apologize is as fol-
lows:
THEIR QUEER sTATEMLNI.
This mornings report ofthe proceedings OF
the school board in Butte says that 1.-THE mem
beers OF the board want it understood that they
did not oppose the county teachers institute
but, on the contrary. favored it. They id sug
II hat NJ inn Ifq
They figured out that IL would cost nearly four
hundred dollars a day TO hold the institute
and they did not see corresponding re-
II the members Of the board favored the hold
ing of the institute, they took a mighty queer
way of showing IL. The fact is they didn't want
the institute he'd under the reasonable condi-
tons that govern the holding OF institutes
throughout the state. The trustees did. indeed,
suggest q "change OF hours for the meeting
They wanted the teachers 20 teach by day and
DO institute work by night.
Ii is misleading to say tia, the institute Of
its,t would cost the district nearly 500 "a day.
TO reach that total the trustees have 10 include
what the teachers would earn in routine class
room work during the hours % the institute
The institute would have cost the district prlc-
tically not % do IT beyon what IL costs to keen
the teachers az regular work.
The truth j. that the member, Of the board
who controlled this matteT-n0t ore of them "a
Iractica. educator or a compete nj Judge as 20
what is best a. 10 me LOds-u ere opposed 10 tie
institute. believing % 10 be no GOOD. They
thought i was sort Of q vacation for The
teachers ana they didn't want the teachers 10
have b.. Butte has some trustees who never saw
an institute and don't know what 10 b. like. they
wou.dnf know In the darl, the difference be-
tween al institute and caudg-uuli They
didn't want the institute, not believing it TO De
good thlug: IEe!f best way is % say 50 IN so
many words, rather than 10 make false passes
with the Idea ~ persuading the public that they
favored %. The STANDARDS comment when
the board took action was that the course OF the
trustees was pu-ncIdcd pOlicy-and that j.
the contemplate thing IL was. N the institute
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then the silver Bow trustees are not employing
the right kind OF teachers.
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