The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-14
THEY WANT IT DIVIDED
Residents of School District No.
10 Present a Petition.
A REMONSTRANCE FILED
Petition Says That the School House Is
at Great Distance-Protest States
That the Signers Are Not
Bona Eide Residents.

Miss Anna Quigley, county superin-
tendent of schools, has received a pc
tition for division of school district
No. Is, the proposed subdivision there
of to be known as diurrict No. "A. The
petitioners for the division set forth
their reasons in detail. The county
superintendent has also received a
counter petition demonstrating against
the proposed division. The matter
will probably be passed on this week.
The petition is as follows:
ITO the County Superintendent of
Schools of Deer Lodge County,
Mont:
We. the undersigned, all residents
of school district No Is. in said eoun-
ty, respectfully ask that said district
No. is be subdivided, and a new dis
trict formed, as follows:
Beginning at the northwest corner
of township IT, range IA west, Montana
meridian, which is now the northwest
corner of said district No. is, and run
ming thence east nine miles to the
northeast corner of section 4, township
IS, range L. west; thence south II miles
thence west three miles: thence north
six miles; thence west six miles, and
thence north six miles, to the place of
beginning, said district o be known as
district No. a.
That all of the undersigned would
be residents of the new district so es-
la blished. That the following named
children, between the ages of and Il
years will be residents of said new dis
trict so established: Francis L. Baker,
Harry E. Baker Clarence +. Baker,
Mabel A. Baker, Nellie Boyd, John
Peers, Arthur Peers, Jennie Peers. Err
nest Ursh, William Lowery, Addie
Lowery. Fred Address, Gladys Jack
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said children reside within two miles of
any school house. That the nearest
distance any of said children reside to-
said school house in district No. Is is
five and the furthermost 1919 miles.
THAT if a good number of the above
named children attend school where
now compelled to do, at the extreme
east end of said district, it is necessary
for them to board away from home,
and we would state as that school
house in said district is located there
is no place where said children can all
find proper accommodations, and are
thus compelled to ride great distances
to and from said school or entirely miss
the benefits thereof.
THAT during the year 1897. on ac-
count of said school house being thus
located, only three of the children
named above received the benefits of
the school in said district, namely.
John Peers. q days; Arthur Peers. 45
days, and Jennie Peers, II days. That
il new district is established as
prayed herein, school house can be
centrally located which will accommo-
date all of the children residing in said
district. In conclusion, we re-
quest that you take immediate steps
to act on the matter, so said new dis
trict can be established prior to March
l, as required by law.
j. f. Baker, Ollie S. Baker. William
Boyd, Minnie Boyd, John NJ. Peers.
Nancy Peers, Alex Lowery, Katie Low
cry, Charles A. Jackways. Mabel C.
Jackways, William L. Wagner, Mrs. w.
E. Wagner, Edward Williams, Emma
Williams.
Woodwork, Mont, Jan. %, 1895"
The petition is accompanied by a
map showing the limits of the proposed
new district.
The remonstrance 10 the granting of
the above petition sets forth that the
division is wholly unjust and unneces-
sary and sought through unworthy mo-
tiyes, chief among which is spite
against those who live near the school:
that the petition has been circulated
among certain persons without notifi-
cation to the protestants. that major
ity of the signers of the petition are
transient residents. The protest then
goes on to designate those who are al
the district.
The reasons is also given that there
is not now, nor has there ever been,
any such number of school children
pining for educational facilities in this
proposed new district, as is stated in
the petition for division that the
largest number of children that would
attend the new school would be seven.
and that all of these are stated to live
nearer to the present school than the
Peers children, who attended in 1897.
The remOnstrance states that the
present apportionment shows but s237
to the credit of the whole district How
can two schools be maintained for three
months each on that amount? We are
too poor to pay special taxes to main
tain schools. and most of your petit
TONERS for division, having no property
of their own, don't care
The remonstrance concludes: We
therefore respectfully ask that you
make an adverse report on said petit
ton, and refuse your sanction to such
division. for the following reasons:
That the signers of said petition are
not bona fide residents of said district
and that under the circumstances the
division Is unjust, uncalled for and
wholly unnecessary"
The signers are: James T. Manning.
William A. Ditts. John Fitzpatrick,
Lewis A. Wells, John T. Manning. Liz
gle A. Wells. r. j. Bradshaw Michael
Delaney and Henry Sharp. The clos
ing paragraph draws particular at
tention TO the fact that the above sig
natures represent the permanent resi-
dents of the proposed new school dis
trict.'
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