Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-29

Financial Statement, to Keep a Sci
of Books and to ascertain about
Street Paving and begin the Same
Several Resolutions Adopted full
report of the Proceedings of the most
Important Citizens Meeting ever held
in the History Of the TOwn--Phe Re-
suit n matter Of General Discussion
about Town.
The second mass meeting was held
last night to consider the nomina-
lions of the committee appointed at
the former meeting of the citizens.
SO much of the report of the com
mittee as related to the school board
was rejected and the old school
board was nominated in the place of
the ticket which was proposed by
the king makers The recommended
ton in regard to the municipal Off
GERS was accepted after long de
bate. The meeting was quite warm
at times and the attention of the
crowd was held remarkably well.
The feeling seemed to be that the
old board in being replaced at this
stage OF the game with new board
was reflected upon and that the re
Election was undeserved. No fault
was found with the ticket as named
by the committee but the meeting
felt as shown by their votes that
( they did not want the old board
turned down What the result OF
the meeting will be is matter of
speculation. There may be several
tickets in the field or the ticket
nominated last night may be unani-
mously elected At any rate the sit
uation is full of interest.
Hon. Jos. MoreIand called the
meeting to order at 1880 The at
tendance wassyery large, more than
a hundred voters being present.
Staley Dering being absent the
representatives Of the various papers
were elected secretaries Mr. Der
ing appeared just as this was done
and assumed charge of his duties.
Nh. Grant then obtained the floor.
He arose to make statement in re-
gard to an action on the part of the
committee. In the first place the law
regarding the school board had been
changed and the question arose as
to the representation of the outlying
districts and it was decided that
they should be represented. Then
the question arose as to which mem
bers of the present board should be
dropped The fact that there had
been some friction on the board was
well known and it was decided that
rather than to seem to take sides by
choosing representatives from either
faction that both should be replaced
by new men, This was not done be-
cause the members Of the old board
were unfit in any way but merely
that the committee could escape
taking sides in the scrap. The ex-
PLANTATION was made so that every
one should know why the step was
taken,
The reason that the recommends
ton was made that superinten-
dent of construction should be en-
gagged that had no connection with
the architect or contraction was not
intended as debating to the board
but merely that they might say TO
Mr.. Peoples that the people were OPP
posed to any such move as he pro-
pressed.
Mr. Grant then moved the adop-
tion of the following resolution;
Resotued, That the thanks Of the
citizens of the Morgantown Indepen-
dent School District are due the
present school board for, the zeal,
energy and ability with which they
have prosecuted the work of enlarg-
ing the district and commencing the
erection of a new, commodious and
modern school building and that it
is only because of the desire to give
the outlying portions of the new
district representation on the board
and the inability of the choosing
part of the old board without seem
ing to reflect on those necessarily
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