The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-27
ANACONDA NEWS.
echo Of OLD TROUBLES
Is Heard at the Meeting of the
School Trustees.
TWO TEACHERS PROTEST
At Being Reduced From the List OF Reg
ular Employes-Hard Luck Of
Assessor George S. Miller
With His Bill.

An echo from the tangle in school af-
the meeting of the school board last even
ing when letters were read from Mary Fl.
Quigley and May L. Shea, the two teach
ers who were dropped from the regular
staff to the list of substitutes when the
board decided to reduce the force.
The first named declared that she was
willing to teach or substitute wherever
she was ordered, but she gave notice tina.
she would demand full pay as regular
teacher.
The other declared an injustice had
been done the writer in dropping her to
the list of substitutes when six other
teachers were junior to her in date of
original appointment. She expressed the
hope that the board would reconsider its
action.
There was some slight discussion of
the letters and then they We're laid on
the table
The meeting was to have taken up the
matter of providing funds for carrying
on the schools after the first of the year,
when the $4,000 to be received from the
regular levy is expended. the recent SUI
preme court decision having declared the
special tax levy that was to have pro-
duced $4,000 Illegal. Owing to the alb
sence of Trustees Twohy and MacCallum
the three trustees present declined TO
take any action; they want the full board
present when matters Of such Importance
are to be dealt with. Because of this only
routine business was transacted.
One question of finance DID come up.
however. The district has anticipated
about 5000 of the $4,000 to be derived
from the regular levy, which money will
come in next month from tax collections,
and to-day is pay day for the teachers,
1t was decided to borrow the necessary
money from the bank in order to pay
all in cash.
In addition to the $4,000 to be derived
from the regular levy the district will re-
ceive soon about $500 as its share of the
state school funds. But as the regular
expenses go close to $4,000 a month. it will
be impossible with the funds in sight to
carry schools along beyond the first Of the
year.
There was another echo of a past trou-
BILE heard when Superintendent Stapleton
presented his report in which he men,
toned the so-calcd strike at the Lin
coin school, when - boys walked out and
refused to return for some time. He said
the affair had been exaggerated greatly
and that it had been adjusted
Among the several bills presented was
one from County Assessor George S. Mil
Ter, VINO seems to be in an unfortunate
plight He has furnished the district with
the assessment roll for the special tax,
since declared illegal. and as allowed by
law, he put in his bill for >S150 for doing
the work. Members of the board, on look
ing up the law, discovered 1t says the as
SCISSOR is to be paid from the money de-
rived from the tax for which he made the
assessment. AS no money is to be de-
rived from the levy. he appears to be out
in the cold He made several such rolls
for other districts throughout the coun>
ty and will be out of pocket to consider
able extent If this Interpretation of the
law stands.
The board was of the opinion that mas
much as he has done the work he should
receive payment. The matter was left
over to allow the board to take advice
and see if he cannot be paid.
d. A. Worden of Butte submitted a
proposition for covering the steam pipes
in the Lincoln school with asbestos. but
the proposition was laid on the table, the
board deciding the work was not neces-
sary at this time.