The copper era., 1905-08-03
School Matters.

In pursuance to an announcement made in the ERA last week, a meet ing was held at Gatti & Hills meat market on Chase creek Saturday ev- ening last to discuss the school situa- tion in general and also to take some steps toward securing a school for Chase creek. The meeting was largely attended by interested citizens from both school districts, including sev- eral school trustees. District Attor- ney Rawlins was present by request in order that he might throw some l legal light on the somewhat Compli= cated situation. Dan M. Lynch was elected chairman of the meeting and Gus. Williams secretary. In the re- marks which followed it seemed to be the general opinion of all present that the interest of the town would be better served by a consolidation of ] the districts. A committee composed of the following well known citizens was named to confer with the trus- tees of the respective districts at a meeting to be held at the same place on the following Monday night: Dan M. Lynch, J. c. Gatti, Gus Will Hams, R. Chavez, w. w. Damron, J. Backstein and P. J. Bennett.
 ! On Monday night the meeting met
 
 was present and addressed the meet ing at length. He stated that the town of Clifton contained almost one- fourth of the school children of the entire county, and that it's facilities were entirely inadequate to acComo- date them. The attendance last year in district thirty-eight was III and in district three PIP, which is less than one-third of the children residing in the district. He expressed the opinion that the interest of the district would be better served by a consolidation, and that at least Sl00 per month would be thus saved in the employing of teachers, and by the erection of sufficient school buildings to accommodate the children, he was sure that the attendance would be in- creased to more than fifty per cent. of all the children in the district, which would give the district an in come from the general school fund of ! more than Sl0,000 annually, which would be amply sufficient to conduct the school without levying a special tax. He seemed to be of the opinion that the districts could be merged into one.
 Dave Clark and J. R. Hampton, trustees of district three, who ar rived that evening from California, were present but as they were not fa miliar with developments that oc- cured since their departure, they were not then in a position to express themselves in regard to the object for | which the meeting had been called, but after considerable discussion they agreed to a motion adopted by those present to join in a call by the trustees of both districts for a joint meeting of the people to be held Friday night of next week for the consideration of the matter, af- ter which the meeting adjourned
 The joint meeting of the people of the two districts will be held at Lii brary hall at s o'clock p. m., when the question of merging the two districts and giving Chase creek a schoolhouse will be defninitely settled. At the present time the people of Chase creek, where it is claimed nearly three hundred children reside, are al most a unit in favor of consolidating the two districts, but if the issue is voted down at the meeting they pro- pose to proceed with the forma- tion of a school district composed of Chase creek alone.
 District Attorney Rawlins, who was also present at the meeting, seemed to be of the opinion that the jointure could be effected, and he was strongly of the opinion that it would be the best thing to do under the circum-