The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-07
DON'T COME ANY MORE
The Other Trustees Object to the
Absence of Hall and Lyons.
THEY MUST SHOW UP
High School Girls Won't Be- Permitted to
Play Basket Ball in the Building.
East Butte School Named Cree
ley-The Heating Plant

A meeting of the board of school
4 trustees was held last evening and
I Trustee Long created something of 81
4 sensation by bringing up the subject
of the continued absence from meetings
/ of Trustees @. Nj. Hall and Frank j.
/ Lyons. The former he said, had not
attended a meeting since Sept 9, and
! the latter since Oct. 7. Mr.. Long said
/ the absence of the two trustees made it
hardship on the others. who were
compelled to do all the work and could
not miss a single meeting without pre-
venting a quorum. He thought it was
an imposition on the otner members I'll
the board, and he made a motion that
the clerk write to Hall and Lyons and
ask them to attend to their duties as
trustees or resign
Mr.. Morgan seconded the motion and
1t was carried. Under the provisions of
the school laws the two trustees have
already subjected themselves to a for
fixture of their office If the board cared
to declare their seats vacant.
Miss Mary Mullins. the county super
| intendent, was before the board, and
made a statement relative 10 an APP
portionment of the county school
funds. She said that according To her
construction of the law she was obliged
to make the apportionment on basis
of the number of school children in
not think that was right, but that the
apportionment should have been made
on the basis of the amount of taxes i'll
each district, and they decided to take
the matter into court FOR the purpose
of testing the law; and. with that end
in view Acting Chairman Burke APP
pointed Long and Morgan as q COM
mittee to call on the county attorney
and see if the superintendent appor-
tionment could not be stopped
-
| a communication TO the board request
| ing permission to use the High school
gymnasium three evenings each week
| to play basketball. The lady has ar
/ ranged a basketball club among the
High school girls, and wanted a rice
| place to play bali in but the trustees
did not fully enter into the spirit of
| the thing and voted not to grant the
| permission asked, on motion of Mr.
| Morgan it was further voted that no
/ part of the new High school should
ever be used for anything except the
actual school work.
The county superintendent announced
| that she would hold the county insti-
tute in February, beginning on the 1th
and the board rendered her the use of
| the High school for that purpose and
1 requested her to report to the board
| the attendance of teachers at the insti-
tute. The schools will have a vacation
during the week. and the teachers at
tending the institute will be paid their
| salaries for that time.
The designations of Miss Annie Ire
| vaiIle and Miss Helen Engel as teach
ers were received and accepted. and
| upon the recommendation of the teach
| ers' committee, Pearl T. Peck Ida f.
Madden, Edith Van Dusen and Jennie
| Frazer were elected teachers on the
regular corps. +. Leamy was elected
principal of the new East Butte schoo,
ut a salary of 800 month. The new
| building. on a full vote of the board,
was christened the Greeley school, in
| honor Of Horace Greeley.
The residents of st. Johns addition to
| Butte petitioned the board that the
| annex in that part of the city be con-
| tinued, owing to the fact that many
! children resided there. The board con-
/ Guided to run the school there through
| January and February, and the clerk
| WIS instructed to fit the rooms up for
Ienpening next Monday.
Superintendent Hendricks reported
| that since the opening of the two new
/ buildings he had made number of
transfers and thereby relieved the over
! crowded condition of many rooms in
different buildings. lie said that Miss
Sulliyan's room. in the Grant building.
! still had SIS children. and the little ones
were compelled To crowd in room not
large enough or fit for half that num-
/ Der. The clerk was instructed to rent
i
ing Miss Sulliyan's class.
W. w Ensign, the representative of
/ the Peck Williams company, who put
/ in the heating plant at the new High
/ School building, put in several orders
directing the board 10 pay several bills
/ he contracted hut the trustees declined
to pay the outfit another cent until the
plant MAS fully tested and finally ac-
cepted. The company had already been
i paid about 10 per cent more than is due
/ them under the terms eff the contract.
! Mr.. Morgan. of the building committee.
i made a report that would indicate that
/ the heating plant may not prove salts
! factory. He said that With an equal
amount of heat turned on there WAS
/ difference of six to eight degrees in the
temperature of some of the rooms. Some
/ rooms We're warmer With the heat
/ turned off entirely than others where it
/ Was turned in full. Although the
weather was mild yesterday, one Of the
rooms had to he abandoned on account
/ of the cold.
The board concluded from this re-
port, not to take any action in regard
to accepting the plant until it was more
/ thoroughly tested and during colder
/ weather than IL had SO far been sub
| ieeted To. j. ". Shackleton sent a bill
To the board for interest he had 10 pay
on money which he had borrowed while
/ waiting to complete his carpentering
contract on which he had been 50 long
delayed by reason of the fact that the
heating plant WAS not put in. The
board referred Mr.. Shackleton to Peck
/ Williams < Co, who are responsible for
i all the DELAYS
Clerk Thomas Richards made a flnan-
| cial report for the month Of December
showing receipts and disbursements as
| follows:
/ Cash in treasury Dec. I...s...s u So o.
| Received from taSes IN De
HtTanRf sh,NuSt ~
| Warrants outstanding Dec. II a.5ia, oa
Total ......z..+=.. .e.=s... slih,0t3s Cd
Warrants outstanding Dec. l.. 4.1i2 81
I Warrants issued in December. s6.4S7 81
/ Rebates Of taNes....@.s......... 211 80
! Cash IN treasury Dec 2i....=..s =. 625 g.
/ Cash in text book fund ...s..... .. g3S s.