The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-07-14
REELECTED OLD MEMBERS.
Annual School Meeting Did its Duty also
in Appropriations-Small Showing Made
by Those Who Wanted Different Men.

Annual School Meeting Did its Duty also
in ropriations-Small Showing Made
by Those Who Wanted Different Men.
The annual school meeting of the
Owosso Union School District which
was held Monday evening in the armory
passed off without any especial interest
or excitement, while the attendance
was larger than has sometimes been
the case
The meeting was called to order by
DR.. A. M. Hume, president of the board,
who presided throughout the evening
in his usual satisfactory manner The
reports of the superintendent of schools,
of the treasurer, and of the secretary of
the board, were read by Secy. j. G.
Shattuck and were adopted as read;
Estimates for the coming year were
adopted almost without a single call
for explanation.
The matter of securing additional
room at the Bryant school in the fourth
ward aroused some interest, there be-
ing some present who seemed to feel
that sufficient room had not been pro-
vided there, but the report of the super
intendent showing as it did slight
falling OFF in the number of children of
school age the members of the board
had no officially in showing the voters
that the district had no occasion at
present to 60 ahead and incur any such
additional expense.
OF course Mr.. Loren Hopkins was
present as usual, and also as usual he
did his part to make the meeting one of
interest. Mr.. Hopkins has long wished
to get his farm set outside of the DIS
trict but has so far been unsuccessful,
and there has been but seldom year
when he has missed an opportunity to
tell the voters of this trouble of his.
This year he laid part of the blame at
the door of the school board and
wished to Pingreeize the board so that
the will of the people-his own desire
to escape paying union school taxes on
his farm-should be obeyed. The vot-
ers took the speech good humoredly,
and later when Mr.. Hopkins placed a
candidate for member of the school
board before the meeting-a candidate
presumably to carry out his wishes
there were two votes recorded for his
nominee.
The matter of the election of mem
bers of the school board to succeed
Messrs A. E. Hartshorn and Herman
Frieseke had awakened some ambitious
ideas in the minds of some very few
men who desired to make a change in
the personnel of the board. However,
it is hardly necessary to say that those
men themselves were not candidates.
On the first ballot which was to elect a
successor to Mr.. Herman Frieseke the
name of G. w. Detwiler was presented
by Mr.. L. Hopkins. F. H. Gould was
also placed in nomination by the same
speaker. H. S. Hadsall in a flowery
speech presented the name of d. j.
Gerow. The crowd began to respond
with cries of "Frieseke," whats the
matter with Frieseke." and other like
remarks, and Morris Osburn arose and
formally presented the name of the re-
tiring member, Herman Frieseke. as q
candidate to succeed himself. On the
balloting for member to succeed Mr..
Hartshorn no nominations were made,
the result of the balloting being much
like the former, both old members be-
ing re- elected by the following hand
some majorities: On the first ballot
Mr.. Frieseke received eighty-five votes
to thirty mine votes divided up among
four other candidates, thus electine
him on the first ballot. On the second
ballot Mr.. Hartshorn received seventy
five votes to thirty mine votes, divided
among the same four candidates as be-
fore, he also being elected on the first
ballot.
Following are the reports of the
superintendent, secretary and treas
urer, as we'll as other items of genera
interest