Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-12-06
AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE TAXPAYER
December 5, 1918.

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December 5, 1913
Editor Republican: Interested par
ties are persistently circulating tn,
rumor that We are attempting tt
close the schools of this district, etc.
and otherwise trying to mislead tht
public as to our efforts up to date
to force the School Board to make
the annual report that should have
been made and posted on July 1st
1913, and l have decided to give the
public in this article brief but
concise statement of just what has
been done, and the status of the
school report question up to date.
First, before leaving for the east
last summer, the clerk of the board
made a PRETENDED report. Mr..
Thompson protested against it's being
posted as not being according to law
or giving the information asked for
by the taxpayers. He presented that
report to the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction who sent him
an opinion from tie Attorney General s
office which resulted in it's not being
posted, but on November 9Th there
was an amended report posted, a
copy of which Mr. Thompson sent to
the State Superintendent.
On November 26th | served on our
County Superintendent the following:
Mountain Home, Idaho, November
25th, 1918.
To KATIE L. BRADY SMITH,
County Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Elmore County,
State of Idaho: 4.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED,
That the officers and directors of
School District No. have failed to
comply with Section TO- Chapter lis,
Session Laws of 1918, amending
Section 81, Chapter 159, of the Ses-
sion Laws of 1911, in this That
they have failed to make a report in
writing on the 1st day of July, 1918,
or at any time during the year 1913,
of the financial condition of said
School District, showing the amount
of money received, from what source,
the amount expended, and in what
manner and for what purpose expend-
ed, and the amount of money in the
treasury of the district, or to the
credit of the District on hand at the
date of the report containing speci-
fic items, the amount, the names to
whom such expenditures were made;
and have failed to post in said Dis
trict such a report as required by
said section That the only report so
made and posted by them is one un-
dated but posted November 6, 1913,
a copy of which is hereto attached,
as shown by said copy of the re-
port and affidavit of C. E. Corker,
hereto attached, and made a part Of
this notice.
That said pretended report so post
ed does not comply with the law in
this; that it does not give all the
moneys received, nor all the moneys
disbursed by said District during the
year; that it does not specify the
items, amounts, nor the names to
whom such expenditures were made,
as required by said section.
| therefore demand of you that
you apportion no more money of Ell
more County to said District, as pro-
vided by Section 81, Chapter 159 of
the Session Laws of the State of
Idaho of the year 1911; and further
demand of you that you notify the
County Treasurer in writing that
there has been such failure upon
the part of said Board of Trustees
to comply with the law as provided
by Section 6S, of said Chapter 159 of
the Session Laws of 1911. This de-
mand and notice is based upon the
affidavit of c. E. Corker, hereto at
tached, together with certified copy
of the report, certified to by o. E.
Norell, a Notary Public, hereto at
tached.
C. E. CORKER.