Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-08-06
BOARD is
DEADLOCKED
Foster School Directors Are
Unable to Agree.
Eleven Ballots on Solicitor
and Ten on a New Teach
or Taken Without a Deci-
sive Result.

sive Result.
Foster township school board has two
deadlocks on its hands. One is on
solicitor for the board, in which Attor-
neys Brown and O'Donnell are the con
testants. The other is on teacher to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
| tion of James S. Mcdonald, in which
Harry Maue, of Hazleton; Vincent
Highams, of Sandy Run, and G. +. Ed
munds, of Freeland, are the applicants.
All members of the board were pres
ent Saturday evening at the regular
meeting. The election of a solicitor
was taken up and Attorneys j. M. Carr,
II. j. O'Donnell and Geo. T. Brown
were placed in nomination. A motion
prevailed that after the third ballot the
lowest candidate be dropped. The
members voted as follows on the first
and second ballots:
For Carr-Zeistloft Doubt.
For O'Donnell-Keller, McIIugh.
For Brown-Lesser, August.
On the third ballot Zeistoft changed
to O'Donnell, while the others voted as
on previous ballots. Carr was then
dropped and voting continued without
change till the eighth ballot, when
Doubt voted for Brown, he having re-
fused to vote after the third ballot.
Doubt again refused to vote on the
ninth and eleventh ballots, voting
Brown on the tenth, with Lesser and
August, while ODonnell received the
votes of Kellar, McHugh and Zeistloft
1t was decided that inasmuch as they
could not agree the election should go
over for another meeting
Principal Hoffman recommended that
schools open the first Tuesday in
September. He also called attention to
the manner of some parties disliguring
the Woodside building by defacing the
same with unsightly drawings and urged
the prosecution of the offenders. He
also submitted form of report for
teachers, which was accepted, and
Directors Iiestloft, Kellar and Doubt
were appointed to have the blank report
forms printed.
The repair committee reported all
school buildings in good condition.
The supply committee reported hav-
ing ordered necessary supplies.
The president and secretary were
authorized to furnish recommendation
to Miss Pearl Mowery, a former teacher.
Each director was ordered to see that
bushel of lime was placed in each
school outhouse in his district.
The resignation of James S. Nc
Donald as teacher was accepted.
A motion to allow the appointment of
teacher to fill the vacancy 20 over for
another meeting failed to receive ma
jority vote.
Applications were then read from
Harry Maue, Vincent IIighams and C.
E. Edmunds.
Ten ballots were taken without de-
cisive result, the directors voting from
the first to the seventh ballots as fol-
lows:
For Maue-Kelar, Lesser, August.
For ighams-Doqdt.
For Edmunds-Zeistloft, McHugh.
On the eighth ballot Lesser changed
to Highams, going back to Maue on the
ninth and tenth. On the ninth ballot
August voted Highams, going back to
Maue on the tenth.
The board will meet again on Satur-
day evening.
In conversation with some of the di-
rectors, it is learned that the school
term will probably be nine months. The
heavy increase in the state appropria-
tion to Foster makes this possible. The
increase was obtained by the teachers
making a list of all pupils and other
children in their districts between the
ages of and 16 years, thereby aiding
the local assessors in furnishing correct
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