The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-07-14
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Too much rain.
Crops are being damaged by the wet.
Albert Mcclure and bride have re-
turned from their trip.
John Aitkin is still improving and
his many friends hope he will soon be
out again.
John Marden and son William, of
! Wallaceburg. Ont, have been visiting
at VIM. Wilson's this week.
Thirteen young people were baptized
in Black river. north of the Mennonite
church last Sunday by Rev. Snyder
Everybody and his wife or best girl
visited Yale ON the 18th to attend the
Orangemen's celebration. They say
the frequent downpOur of rain was not
on the program. 1t was thrown in.
Monday night there was more or less
scrapping reported to have occurred at
the different school meetings in the
township, but as usual the one in Dist.
No. took the cake. II will be remem-
bered that there has been repeated eff
forts made by the more intelligent and
best informed people in the district to
improve the condition of this school,
which has been so neglected in every
way that it is reprOach to the voters
of whom there are about 80 in the dis
trict, and of that number seven were
absent from the last meeting. To elect
a director was first in order. William
Spencer was the candidate of the party
in favor of education and progressive
methods, while Edward Harris. who
has been the (misldireCtor for several
years was the other. After the first
ballot was counted il was found that
so many who had no right to vote had
taken advantage of the opportunity to
help elect their director (Mr. IIarris)
that it was found advisable to have the
voting done over again. This time
eleven votes were cast for Mr.. Spencer,
it is alleged, and twenty-siX for Harris,
making a total of thirty-siX votes cast.
in spite of the fact that only thirty-twO
legal voters were present and five who
had expected to reflect their candi-
date were barred out on account of not
being either residents, taxpayers, par
ents or guardians. However, Mr.. Har-
ris was said (I) to be elected and the
question of changing the antiquated
old books now in use for the list recon-
mended by the county committee and
Commissioners Putney was brought up.
Mr.. Spencer explained that this was
not question of taxes, but simply one
for the parents to decide as to what
books they would buy for their children
and requested those who had no child
rem or were not patrons Of the school
not to vote, but as matter of justice,
TO let the parents and patrons decide
for themselves. Twelve fathers (who
were legal voters) cast their ballots in
for the new books, and a few who were
in favor of making the change, but who
have no children, did not vote, hoping
that the opposition would follow their
example. But not so. The majority
of votes cast was against any change.
Several of these voters were either bach
elors or young single men, some of
whom are known to have no vote, and
the remainder, with four exceptions,
are men whose families have long ago
married or grown TO be men and women
long past school age, and a few who
patronize other schools. Much time,
breath and effort has been expended to
induce these people, several of whom
attended the meeting for the first time,
and for the purpose of voting against
the books. They are chiefly those who
are not interested in educational mat
tiers of any kind, and who are being
used by shrewder men as a means of
gratifying personal spite at the ex-
pense of the school ch'l'r"r.