The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-05-01

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| Three just elected.
/ Naples went Republican this year and the
three school committeeman are Republi
cans, as are the other town officers, Mr.
Clark being the new town clerk. The Dem.
| ocrats stood by the old committee. and vot-
ed for Mr.. Benjamin knights to fill the va
cancy. Mr.. Knights has since acted with
| the old members as separate committee,
claiming to be the only one. After the elec-
| tion. the two old members. Messrs. Rounds
| and Meserve, refused to recognize the three
new men on the committee. claiming that
their election was not legal as the warrant
should have contained an article requiring
vote to see if the number of members of
the chool committee should be changed in
stead of the article calling for the election
of lone or more.'' How this led to the
present state Of things was
EXPLAINED BY MIR. CLARK,
who also gave an amusing account of how
Supervisor Clark put new locks on the
school house doors because Supervisor
Rounds would not give up the keys to the
old locks. Mr. Clarkfsaid:
SAT the meeting held to organize tine new
committee the two old members would mot
reoognize.us and would not receive any
motion that we made. We staid until D..
In. and then left In about week, we
three met and chose one supervisor. Then
we designated the terms of office,o men,
ber to serve for one year.Etwo members to
serve for two and three for three.
II have gone ahead. hired my teachers
and engaged the wood. i have done all the
necessary work of the supervisor SO far.
They have been doing the same thing. In
most of the houses / found no teachers
when school commenced yesterday. except
those that had hired. In the Long Wood
district Eva Leavitt is my teacher. and Eta
Harmon is Roundss teacher. Both are there
today. One rings the scholars out and
THE OTHER RINGS THEM IN.
In the Gore and Village school houses there
were no books yesterday. They had been
taken away by somebody. In the Barker
neighborhood, they told me that Rounds's
teacher was there and sat on the steps all
day yesterday. The door was locked.
had the Key. l have it now for my teacher
Miss Ella M. Milliken of Baldwin, who will
arrive tonight. have been told today that
Rounds's teacher is in the building. but l
do not know whether this is SO or how she
got there
1t seems that DR.. Rounds having refused
to give up the keys to the school buildings,
Mr.. Clark went around with capernter
and had new locks put on. Mr.. Clark said
concerning this expedition: ssWe worked
all day Sunday and half the day yesterday.
didn't have the keys to the houses, which
I demanded of Rounds. He refused to let
me have the keys. books or blanks. To most
of the houses we found keys and put on
new locks. We got all the houses SO that
We could get in. I have my teachers in IL
the houses but one land she is going in, as
told you, tomorrow.
II engaged man to clean the village
school house and he did, but the houses to
which I didn't have the keys didn't have
cleaned.
''We claim that this spring we elected
three new members. They claim that they
were not legal members. Now l claim to
be supervisor and intend to continue as
SUCH"
NJ. Cla1 K IS reference to the cleaning of
the village schoolhouse was to set right a
statement that he had broken into il to
have it cleaned.
DIR. ROUNDS AND MIR. MESERvE
were also seen. They were not disposed to
talk. DR.. Rounds said that he had engaged
four teachers. Miss,Stevens and Miss Har-
mon, who have been already referred to as
teaching on the cooperative plan, Miss Lii
liam Plummer. who sat on the steps in the
Barker district. and Miss Knight of Naples,
who will share the honors with Mr. Clark s
teacher in the Gore district. Beyond maxi
ing this statement. DR.. Rounds had moth
ing to say.
Mr.. Meserve said: s'We claim that tho
warrant was defective, in that it did not
specify that three members were to be
electad, but have nothing to say for pub
lication."
Mr.. Meserve. however. was quite vigorous
in his comment on another matter. OF
course when Messrs. Cannell. Meserve and
Rounds were chosen the committee in 1894,
they had to decide who should serve for
one, who for two, and who for three years.
Mr.. Aeserre was also town clerk, and his
records show that Mr.. Cannell was to serve
one year and DR.. Rounds two years. While
the records read as stated. they look as if
the words "One'' and two" had been writ
ten in place of other words erased. 1t is
claimed that this hange was made at Mr..
Cannell's request and with his consent, but
now it is claimed on the other hand that
Mr.. Cannell did not authorize the change
MI. Meserye is indignant at the gossip
about his records. In the PRESS of April
4. he made statement that his records
were all true and right. Today he said with
emphasis that it had been said he was gull
ty of forgery. If he could trace this state
ment to the persons who made II, Mr.. Mes
erve indicated that there might be more
CASES IN COURT.
While Mr.. Meserve and DR.. Rounds say but
little. another gentleman talked more freely
about their side of the case. He said that
In the first plac e.t here was no objection to
the children going to the village school. ex
cept that SO many wanted to go that it
would hav We crowded this school and GRIN
pied others to have allowed all to change.
From this gentleman it was learned that
last weeK:an appeal was made to tho courts
by Messrs. Rounds and Meserve and Judpe
Foster had issued papers returnable for
hearing before him June 4. This gentleman
was of the opinion that if Mr.. Clark had
pried open a door to get into one OF the
school houses as was said to be the case bo