The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-14
PROF. DAVEY WAS DROPPED
Lackawaasa Township School Di-
rect0rs Hold Another Love Feast.
THEY NRANGLrD FIVE HOURS


School -Reappointment Of Teach.
srs-iissory OF the Trouble.
Lackawanna townships school board
| Is a body OF surprises and at every
twist or turn does something to set the
| tongue OF gossip waggins. Its latest
coup de main occurred at a meeting
Monday evening. at which the main
| order Of business was the hiring OF
teachers and janitOrs for the ensuing
term. 1t Is needless to bring the reader
over a recOunting Of the stormy dead
locked meetings Of the beginning OF
June, when several sessions We're as
sembled and adjourned In a futile at
tempt at electing secretary and treas
| urer.
Finally, when the time had arrived
where disruption appeared to be immi-
| nent. sudden sense OF duty returned
to the school guardians and an Organi-
| zation was effected by a compromise.
| The race for office left scars that did
not heal and the next place the soreness
between the factions was noticed was
at subsequent meetings that dead
locked on the question Of letting con-
tracts for supplies and furnishings.
The board met In No. school build
ing. Minooka. Monday afternoon at
o'clock to appoint the teachers for the
ensuing year. There were no vacancies
to be filled and all Of last years teach
ers. except Professor !. II. Davy. prin-
cipal OF the Mooslc school, were re-
appointed He was dropped. and Pro-
fessor Theron q. Osborne was trans
ferred from the Pyne school to sue
ceed him. Professor OsbOrne's posi-
tion at the Pyne was left vacant for
the time being.
Names Of Teachers.
| The teachers appointed are as fol-
lows: Minooka, Thomas u. Joyce,
principal; Celia Nallen. Mary Gibbons,
Annie Connell, Mary Langan, and Mary
Agen assistants. Moosic, Theron q. Os-
borne. principal; Mrs. Frances Ellis,
Amelia Porter, Mary Ann Connolly.
Sarah MoNally, and Lizzie McMurtrie,
assistants. Greenwood, Thomas j,
COyne, principal; Jennie LouShney and
Annie Fitzhenry, assistants; No. 4,
Katie Jeffers. Pyne, ------, princi-
pal: Mamie Reinhardt, assistant. Con-
| tinental. Kate Burke, principals; Jo-
seph Mulderig, assistant. Sloan. Nettie
| Weir.
There Is not any particular reason
why Proft ssor Davey was dropped, but
the members got wrangling among
| themselves about the matter and 1t
took from 3 O'Clock in the afternoon
until almost 9 o'clock at night before
they could agree on dropping him. The
session was a star chamber one.
| The reason assigned for the change
of principals In the Moosic school IS
that Professor Davey was not anxious
for reappointment and did not So
| licit 1t. The term will be opened in the
new school and the Starks Patch and
Dug Hill schools will be abandoned.
At present there Is no wild untamed
rush for the principalship at the Pyne
school and it is not known II the board
has any teacher in.view.
History OF the Trouble on the Board.
The board consists Of four Republi-
cans, Thomas r. lowering, G. T. Davis,
John McCrindle and William Morgan;
and two Democrats, Thomas King and
Patrick Higgins. Prior to last May the
board was evenly divided as to party,
Robert Burleigh held McCrindle's seat,
and Philip Roach held Lovering's seat.
Burleigh lived in Moosic and had two
years more to serve. But in May he
moved with his family to Dunmore, and
his removal from the township caused
a vacancy on the school board. That
left the body in control of the DEM
ocrats.
At the same meeting that Burleigh's
resignation was read and accepted, the
board appointed John iMcCrindle, RE-
publican, of Moosic, to fill the vacancy
until the next spring election.
Ex-Mayor ,Motthew w. Lotus, OF
Moosic, sought the appointment, but
was turned down, two of the Dem.
ocrats, Roche and Higgins. voting with
the two Republicans for McCrindle
The secret Of the matter has not got
out until now. King. the Democrat
and rule while they had the reins, was
angered because his advice was moi
needed, and he determined to have re-
venge when the proper time came.
McCrindle promised to support Hig-
gins for secretary and Morgan prom.
ised to vote for Higgins for secretary
providing Higgins would vote for him
for treasurer. McCrindle promised Nor.
gan his support for treasurer. and that
CONSTITUTED triumvirate. They be.
lieved that 1t would be not very diff.
lcult task to secure another member OF
the board to vote with them, especially
as nobody else appeared to be anxious
for the offices.
They did not bargain on ambitions
taking root in the breast of Davis
Lowering or King. Lowering was elect.
ed as ROche's successor and took his
seat on the first Monday of June. That
was the date on which they assembled
for reorganization.
The BEGINNING Of tho Deadlock.
Meanwhile Lowering had been think.
ing over the advisability of entering the
race for treasurer. His own vote he
was sure Of he went to Davis and Da-
Wis promised him he would supper,
him; he went to King, and here was the
chance King was long waiting for; here
was, at last. his revenge: King prom
ised him, and then Lowering rested oy
his oars. He sOlilopul2ed that he would
go into the meeting with the same fight
ing chance that Morgan had. and al
last the day rolled around.
The vote for treasurer was taken and
was a tie. Everything known to par
lliamentary science was adopted By
each side to catch the other unawares
but Of no avail. At length. after sew.
eral meetings, and when the courts were
about to be appealed to, to>appolnt Z
board that could organize, they com
promised and elected MuCrlndle treas
urer and Morgan secretary.