The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-30

Cascade and state OF Montana, and is
| legally organized and known as school
district No. 1, in said county and state
| THAT on the 1st day of June, 1899
the board of trustees of the defend
ant district. by written order made
and entered at a. regular meeting Of
said board had and held In the city
of Great Falls, in said district, coun-
ty and state, entered into an agree
ment and contract with one Helen
| Edgerton, who possessed and still pos
sesses, a good and legal certificate as
teacher, by which the said board en-
| ployed and hired the said Helen Ed
| gerton as a teacher in the public
schools of said district for a. term of
nine and one-half months, to begin at
the beginning Of the ensuing school
year, to-wit., on the first Monday of
September, 1899, and at salary. Of
| $120 per month.
THAT the said Helen Edgerton en-
tered into said agreement with said
board of trustees and accepted in writ
| ing said employment as teacher for
| the time SO agreed upon and that she
entered upon the discharge of her du-
| ties as such teacher on the first Mon
| day of September, 1899, and has con-
| tinuously performed her duties in all
respects as such teacher since said
date; that said board has had full
services by said Helen Edgerton and
has accepted the same, and consented
| thereto, though no express contract or
| agreement has ever been entered into
between said board and said Helen
Edgerton save and except on the first
day of June, 1899. as aforesaid; that
said board has further certified and
| acknowledged that the sum herein sued
| for, to-wit. $12O, is due and owing said
| Helen Edgerton for such services as
| teacher for the month ending Dec. %,
| 1899.
| THAT at the time Of the employment
Of said Helen Edgertnn by said beard
as aforesaid, on the first day of June
! 1899. the money on hand and availa-
| BILE to the credit of said defendant dis
trict amounted to the sum Of $l4.44680;
| that out OF said sum were paid the
| salaries Of teachers and other expenses
| of the school for the balance of the
school year after said contract was
made, leaving on hand the sum Of
S.S95.99 on the first Monday Of Sep
TENDER, 1899, the date Of the beginning
of the current school year. and that
| this said last named sum was fully
| used and exhausted in paying the SAL
| aries and other school expenses for said
month of September.
| THAT since said date there has
been no other money to the credit of
| said district wherewith to pay the sal
| aries of any of the teachers employed
| in the schools of said district but that
| the salaries of all the teachers en-
| ployed in the schools of said district
| for the months of October and Novem-
| Der have been paid by a local bank
| to which said teachers have assigned
| their claims against said district that
| there is no money to the credit of or
| available for said district at the pres
| ent time.
| THAT said district has not paid said
| Helen Edgerton her salary for the
month ending Dec. %, 1899 or any
part thereof, but that her said month S
| salary, to-wit, $3.50, is wholly unpaid
and has been due and owing to her
| from said district since the 22d day of
December. 1899.
That in the employment of the
corps of teachers for the present school
| year, including the said Helen Edeer-
ton, for the term of nine ard one-ha'f
months, as hereinbefore stated ari at
the time hereinbefore stated, to-
| wit, on or about June / Of
| the year, the board of trustees
| of the defendant district Rave acted
| as has been usual and customary with
the board of trustees of said district
| and as the educational and school in
| terests of said district require.
THAT the total number of teach
ers employed for the current school
year in said district is 40, their sal
aries aggregatng $500 per month
and that the average number of child
rem residing in said district and at
tending the public schools thereof for
the current school year is 1900: that
well equipped high school is en-
braced in the public school system of
said district. and that the educational
and school interests Of said district re-
quire that the said schools should be
kept open and maintained for at least
| nine and one-half months of each and
every school year
"That the electors OF said school dis
trict did on the sth day of September,
1892 vote special tax by which the
sum of $27.125.40 would have been col
| lected in order to continue and main
| tain said schools for said period of
nine and one-haif months, but that on
account of the decision of the supreme
| court declaring imperative the law I'M
| der which said tax was voted no part
| of said taxes have or can be collected.
That unless the contracts heretofore
made by the board of trustees of said
district with the teachers in said pub
lie schools. including the contract with
said Helen Edgerton can be enforc-
ed by a good and valid Judgment
against said district, to be paid by
moneys that may hereafter come into
the treasury of said district then it
will be necessary that the schools Of
said district should forthwith be clos
ed and the educational and school in
terests of said district will according
ly be seriously crippled and impaired
THAT the total Indebtedness of every
kind against said district does not ex-
coed the sum of 1882 500. nor has it ex-
ceeded said sum at any time men
tipned in this complaint; that the total
assessed valuation IF the property of
said district is IS. 346, 276,
That said claim OF Helen Fdgerton
for salary for the month ending Dec.
p, 1889. for the sum of s120, has been
sold. transferred and ASSIGNED to the
plaintiff, who Is the lawful owner and
holder thereof.
Wherefore, plaintiff prays Judgment
against the defendant for s12o and costs
of suit
Special New Year Services,
Great Falls. Dec. 29.-The morning
subject in the First M E. church Sum
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