The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-13
SCHOOL TRUSTEES MEET
A Mass of Business Transacted
by the Board.
THE FINANCIAL REPORT
W. L. soper Will Be Principal OF the
New Aluminium School-Clinton
Was Re used Chance to
Read tbs Law.

mass of business at it's meeting last
night and paid out about $4,000 for
supplies and desks. The financial
was read by the clerk and it showed
that the general fund had on hand
$1S2696.12, which includes the appor-
| tionment made on the Sth of this month
by the county superintendent Miss B.
| F. Downey. In the building fund is
s3s,916.ss, of which $24,527.44 was re-
ceived in special taxes The sinking
fund has to it's credit s5e,o3s.s9, Of which
| s1S,27S.02 was received from special
| taxes. Bonds redeemed. $4,000, and in
terest paid on bonds, s2,75o, leaving a
balance in the sinking fund of $1s.-
2S9.S9 There is an amount in the
| general fund to be used for the pur-
| chase of text books, there being no
! text book fund created by the legis-
1ature which established the text book
law. In this there is about $4,000.
In the communication from the coun-
| ty superintendent notifying the board
| that the expressed amount had been
| credited to the district, 1t was stated
that the entire census in this county be-
| tween the ages of and q years of
| dSe 10 S,iAo, per capita, @lo.ooi, CEN
! sus of district No. /, 9,347. The clerk
| reported that the outstanding due bills
| were being taken up as fast as they
| are presented.
The bill of L. S. Mallory for desks
purchased from the Standard School
Furniture company amounting to ST.
! 92S.50 was paid and current bills
amounting to $SS51.64 were also paid.
| The teachers committee recommend
ed that w. L. Soper be employed as
| principal Of the new Aluminium school
! to assume duties when the building
Is ready for occupancy, which will be
about the first of February. Mr.. Soper
was one of the volunteers in the Phil
| ippines and before be enlisted he was
principal of the Blaine school, The
board adopted the report of the COM
| mittee.
! Mary Lynch applied for position
as teacher in the cadet training class,
| and the application was referred to
| the teachers committee. The sup
! board award the contract for Hylo
| plate to l.. s. Mallory. and the report
| was adopted.
The building committee reported its
| disapproval of selling the Travona lot
| for 5000, and the board looked at the
! matter in the same light. An offer OF
that amount had been made. 1t was
chased for the Aluminium street school
| house.
Superintendent Hendricks reported
| that the Dewey school would close next
| Friday. He also asked that the clerk be
instructed to purchase the necessary
| material for disinfecting the school
| rooms of the city Also asked that the
| vaccination certificate order be con-
tinued. and stated that ]. Fl. Leyson
had donated "a steel engravings and
two casts to the district to be aDpor-
toned among the schools by tire ladies
of the Art club. The report was adopt
ed and in connection the board ten
dered a vote of thanks to Mr.. Leyson
A note of thanks was also extended
to Clark Brothers bank for the cour-
tesy of making drafts in payment of
school books without charging. The
clerk was instructed to take UP the
remaining $4,000 of the $4,000 bond
issue held by the First National bank.
Before adjourning Trustee Clinton
stated to the board that his attention
had been called number of times to
the fact that great many people are
| under the impression that the board
| selects the text books. He desired to
| read the law on the matter, "in order
| that the newspapers might publish ex-
| tracts from it, The other members of
| the board were not inclined to listen
u lllt IedulilS, anu SlIutoll HolSu
| with a show of pain the expressions of
| Indifference pictured upon the faces Of
| his colleagues. The chairman thought
that the people who had not read the
law on the matter should not have the
facts forced down their threats. 1t
was generally understood. he said, that
| the board is not responsible for the
law governing the purchase Of books.
| Other members expressed themselves
| in a similar vein, and then one of the
trustees remarked that probably Mr..
Clinton stood alone.
II still hold office as trustee and I
have the rights of one. ask that the
clerk make a note in the minutes that
I brought up this proposition said
Mr.. Clinton, with considerable warmth
of feeling.