The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-10-17


su. certificate. and the other was TAX :
en- after the expiration of the ten day
limit provided bv the law. The state
Superintendent, however, will not allow
the appeals to be dismissed.
Miss Turck, one OF the teachers. en-
gagged school in Stearns county, near
st. Cloud, and then went to the county
seat for examination. She went
through the ordeal successfully, SD she
says, but on Sept. IL received a letter
from Rocholl telling her that she could
not teach in that district. The next dav
he followed this up with a formal no.
tice. Rocholl claims that Miss Turck
began her appeal on the 10Th, the day
of his first letter, and the day before he
had made the decision upon which the
appeal was based.
The St. Cloud Times gives Mr.. Ro-
choll's side of the story as follows:
The pathway of County Superintend
emit OF Schools L. !. Rochollis mot strewn
with roses. The three teachers who
were recently refused certificates by him
upon various grounds, arr: making re-
lentless war upon him before the state
officials at St. Paul. The three are Bern :.
ard Reiter, of Rockville; Miss Lena
tuck, OF Forest City, and Miss Mary
Kielty. of Watkins.
The County superintendent, on the
other side, is right up on his METAL and
says that he proposes to run the
schools of Stearns county according to
the authority given him by the statutes.
When seen this morning he was very in.
dignant at the action of the Assistant
Attorney General Edgerton in deciding
against the motion for dismissal of
the appeal taken by the teachers to the
SSate Superintendent. and talked OF
asking for. an injunction from the courts
to arrest the proceedings, which he
claims are illegal He says that mas
much as a fight is being made upon him
he will avail himself of every technically
that the law affords. He proposes to
make hard fight to maintain the posi-
ton he has taken which many claim is
untenable.
Speaking of his refusal to grant the
certificates which the teachers claim
they are entitled to he said: sin the
case Of Reiter he fell below the required
standing in his examination for second
grade certificate and I offered him
third grade which he refused He has
chool at Rockville and wants to
teach and thought he could get a certii
cate by appealing to the State Superin-
tendent."
Continuing Mr. Rocholl said: Miss
Turck failed to pass an examination and
there were other reasons for which de-
clined to give her school in this county
One of these was that she failed to at
tend the summer school, but instead
went to ALBANY and got the school there
away from Miss Leavitt, who was in
attendance at the summer school. Miss
Kielty was dismissed a year ago on ac-
coant of her behavior s 900.
Superintendent Rocholl claims that
the state department is prejudiced
against him and management OF the
schools in Stearns county. "The pa
pers" he said, "are publishing the spleen
OF the department. The officials are
irving totmake religious matter OF it
and claim that / have refused to give
certificates II,
| is not true. OF the 224 teachers in the
county more than OF half do not belong
to the Catholic church, while two-thirds
of the population is of that denomina-
tion." sakf e. s@<s
Mr.. Rocholl claims that the depart
ment has so far failed to notify him of
any decisi ons in the case except what he
has seen in the newspapers. The date
for The hearing has not been set. 1t will
cake place before the State Superintend-
emit.
The attorney general has decided for
the superintendent of public instruction
that the motion to dismiss, made bv
County Superintendent L. ]. Rocholl, ct
Stea:ns county, is not well taken. says
the Minneapolis Journal OF last evening
In the fist place, the county superin.
tendent acknowledge service when the
papers were served upon him. and in the
second place. as to the point that the
ten DAYS limit had been exceeded in the
service OF the notice, and the notice hay
ing hern sent through the mails. extra
time must he allowed. In short, Mr..
Rocholl must have to- stand trial and
show just what was behind his refusal
to issue certificates to teachers who de-
manded them OF him and claimed to
have passed satisfactory examination.