Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-17
MILL PLAIN SCHOOL.
Row Over Electing Member of the

Row Over Electing Member of the ,i7os. sehoeIa Committee.
 A number of voters from the Mill Plain school district added zest to the interest of the meeting of the board of education held last evening. Henry A. Judd, member of the school committee, resigned some time ago on account of leaving the neighborhood, and it was the board s duty to appoint some one to the va cancy. There were two petitions 2, one favoring Charles s. Miller and the other Charles H. Lee. Mark Warner, the Gibraltar of >democracy in Mill Plain, asked how many names were on Miller's petition, and being informed there were thirty-three he expressed wonder how a man who could not get one vote at the annual election could get thirty-three to back him up now. He wondered how many of the thirty-three were voters and taxpayers, but no light could be given on that question. Hefsaid that Lee was his favorite and he had the support of the district committe, and as for signatures to petition he could get enough to reach from here to the north pole.
 One delegate said that Miller had a nefarious purpose in seeking to he some teacher in the school because his child cannot get along. Nobody wants him elected" said this speaker. 'and it would be as well for the board to let the district committee decide the natter"
 John F. Gallagher. the man who came near being elected on the dem ocratic city ticket in the first ward last fall, said some of the remarks he had heard were uncalled for. He had no particular man in view. He favored the board making the choice. One man is as good as another to him SO long as he pays his debts and does what's right. In a few months any way the district will hold an cleo tion. so no one could do much harm in that time.
 NIT Heaton more than intimated that one-half the names on Miller's petition were "faked." adding that Miller never got a vote but his own. At that Mir Packard jumped up and said Miller got votes always and he, Packard, always voted whenever the committee would let him, intimatirs that the school elections are by no means fair in Mill Plain.
 It finally came out that the row is an outcome of the dispute over the proposed school. The building com mittee, 1t seems. will not report on the financial condition of affairs re lating to the building One man said he heard a member of the commit tee say that so long as he is a mem Der of it there will be no report The building was to cost s1s.0g0. Sir Hobart, secretary of the building committee. asked how could anyone build a wall on fiIled-in land without letting the filling settle. Some one else hluted that some one ran away with the cupola that was on the building. The treasurer of the building committee Is Mark Pond. and he will neither pay the bills aor pay even for work that has been done. Some of the school furniture has arrived and he will not pay for that
 Mr Heaton remarked that he did some of the work and sl5o is d9c him. and if that amount vss due a certain person present tbe man would not live through the night Commissioner 1fonzgan then moved that the board i'll the raeaE- cy and the ballot showed four fer Miller and two for Lee