Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-30
SCHOOL TRUSTEE.
Reasons for Removal.

ACCOII luH W PuDllcdOO PiOOOOOAh5H
of School Trustee Electoral Board,
TERN of Office expired" AS alleged
before the Electoral Board, "neu-
ralgia, conflict with professional
duties, desire to be relieved" Asper
vouchers now in my possession.
1 never was afflicted with neuralgia,
nor do I remember that sickness Of
any kind ever kept me from my duties
as trustee; neither was there ever any
conflict with professional duties. ]
never made any request to be relieved
from the duties of the Office, unre-
numerative as it was and even if 30.
common courtesy would have so credi-
ted me in the published proceedings
of the Electoral Board.
AS stated in DR.. Mapp's letter
complaints as to better school
houses and more school appliances"
No refuge in oystering industry and
railroads, Doctor. Laudable appeals
for better school facilities have been
made to the District Boards from the
organization of the free school system
and will continue to be made as long
as the system continues. The length
of our school term (seven months) and
the fact that Atlantic district, poor
as she is, has proper tionably more
and better public school buildings
than any other school district in the
county Tin the oyster section especi-
alIy) shows that the District Board
has met these appeals to the full ex-
tent of it's ability, Notwithstanding
the advice of DR.. Mapp, privately and
publicly, mot to build but rent
whenever possible" Furthermore,
no complaints have ever come to the
Atlantic district board and no appeals
from Dr. Mapp save for portion OF
the school fund for his travelling eX-
penses a thing unknown in any Acco
mac county official and an amount
not paid the former superintendent
of school as per quotation from Mr..
Weaver's letter now before Inc. 1.-THE
law allowed no extras for the county
superintendent, hence I presented
none during my terms of office. All
expenses for horse hire, travelling,
hotel bills &C., were paid for by the
superintendent out of his own funds.
not even stationery nor postage |
stamps were allowed" These travel |
ling expenses &C., were not given to
an efficient superintendent whose
salary was much less than that of the
present incumbent. Eight thousand
dollars for twelve years (round num-
bers) and advantages which cannot
be estimated in dollars and cents, for
services and skill. but little, if any,
in excess of those of clerk of Dis
trict Board OF Trustees, ought to have
satisfied the cravings of an ordinary
mind, without reaching out after
eight hundred dollars more, which
legally belong to the schools, which
the Doctor processes, so much, to
love.
'45 visits to the 80 schools in At
lantic district"
Nevertheless Doctor your deep de-
votion and ardent enthusiasm for the
public schools have never caused you
to appear before the little ones of this
district since your last appointment.
mot an unkind word or insinua.
tion." All as lovely as May morn
ing, Medical acumen versus legal
lore. No Doctor, there was no demand
for an edict, ex cathedra, in defence
of your associates, for am fully
by direct information, that
the action of Judge Ross and Mr..
Gunter, in my case, was based upon
"a misapprehension of facts" and I
hereby gladly withdraw any apparent
reflection on these gentlemen, in any
CD1D5 nave WTlUGSu. NO " uolCC,
however long and faithful his service,
need, hereafter, stand in trepidation,
while these gentlemen guard the por,
tails.
grant that Atlantic school board
has more than once antagonized DIR.
Mapp in his personal desires and for
this I have no apology to make but
Mr.. Editor, am not mad with anyone.
Bellicose as we all are at this time,
am left with a feeling of peace
with all the world and the rest of
and stand ready to forgive
and to help even DR.. Mapp out OF this
predicament into which
his own boomerang has thrown him.
Respectfully,
Jos. E. BRoDwATER.