The age-herald., 1899-06-07
REYNOLDS SAYS
 ITS SLANDEROUS
Allegations Made Against Him
 by His Enemies,
HE DID NOT EXACT TOLL
Replies to Statement of a Teacher Who Said She Should Have Drawn $40 and Was Only
 Paid $25.

Captain II. C. Reynolds, the deposed pres ident of the Girls Industrial school O Monteyallo, has written the following cart in reply to one written by Miss Anni Dwight Goza and printed in the Montgom cry Journal. phe former president als, takes occasion to deny other allegation made against him:
 To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 My attention has been called to communication in the MontSo meIy Jour- nal by Miss "AnnieDwight Goza," of "I4atohet Creek" in when she makes it appear that l drew a salary for her of forty dollars per month, and only paid her twenty-five. She says she made out the pay-rolls and stands self-con- fessed a party to the alleged fraud. Just al this point the young Iady seems suddenly seized with a feeling of sym pathy for this able hnancier of the woud-be Croesus speces," and very gratuitously proceeds to tell the public that T am not alone i2 squandering the state school funds-gaat other school presidents are receiving twice what they earn, etc.-which is very considerate in Miss Annie Whether she has been in the employ of any of them, 1 cannot say.
 Now, Miss Gozas s statements are cor rect so far as they go; put in her eff forts to strike the prelude of some other college presidents defeat, she omitted to tell the public that she, in company with about twenty others, filled my house, and that l charged her the same price as teachers for board, SIS per month, and paid for her laundry $2 a month, as 1t was sent to sJ}rming- ham laundry. Yes, 1 drew the $40 salary for her, took out the $15 for the above expenses, and, as she admits, l paid her the $25. This can be established, were it necessary, by any number of credible witnesses.
 Taking her statement of the matter it would appear strange that such an able financier" as I appear did not keep So profitable a person. She was not invited to return, however This all occurred during the first session of the school, over two years ago, and she was with me about three months.
 l wish to take occasion just here to emphatically state that the charges that have been circulating in the pa- pers of the state as to my receiving a percentage from merchants grocery men, contractors and all persons doing business with the school, as well as levying a toll of a dollar a month for each pupil on the boarding houses, is not only a reflection on the good people of Montevallo, but is basely false and slanderous. As to my prescribing the use of certain kinds of stationery in the school obtainable only at a store in which l was interested, is also false. The only stationery used in the school of one particular kind was in the type writing department and that was bought by the school-consisting of ten or twelve reams of the cheapest type writing paper, costing 75 cents ream- i-1no department
 In my official capacity I have handled large sums of money for the school My accounts and financial connection with the institution, however, have had close and rigid examination by the aud itor of the board. whose business it was to examine them, and If anything wrong was discovered he has given me no notice of it. To the contrary, after two days laborious eXamipation of the books, accounts and vouchers here at the last commencement, he offered to let me write his report, and gave my friends the most complimentary account of my financial management of the in- stitution, saying it was the most syste- matc arrangement of bookkeeping he ever saw, and absolutely correct. I was also informed by my friends on the board that each member before vot- ing indulged in Ia talk" and that my work and management of the school was complimented in the highest terms. As to the comments of the press in reference to my being reelected to the presidency in case Dr. Eager declines, wish to state that I am not expecting this honor, and should it be offered me I would be compelled to decline.
 Respectfully,
 II. c. REYNOLDS.
 Montevallo, June 6, 1899.