The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-11-07
Writer Asserts That Matter
Was Settled by Voters
Two Years Ago.
(ConlnIlrulnicated.)I

ING PUBIC nave an opportunity to
learn the true conditions regarding
the Union district high school located
nr West Milford.
In the article contributed to last
Sundays issue Of the Telegram the
Suppression is left that this Is q new
subject and that the board Of educa-
ton has ignored the wishes Of the
citizens OF Union district. Let us see
& IL such Is the case.
In the fall Of 1912 the board Of
education then composed Of b. Thad
Curry, president, Claude w. CASTOR
and Wesley Summerville established
g high school at West Milford whicn
was open to all pupils Of sufficient
attainment in the magisterial district
Under the school law OF West vir-
gtnia, chapter. XIV Of the code, sec
ton 28, which reads as follows:
ssIn any district In which there liz a
town or village having four or more
rooms in the same building a high
s9schoo1 may be established" 75l
AS the town Of West Milford was,
and is the only town in the district
in which there Is a school Of four
rooms there can be no question as to
where the high school should be To-
Gated in the district. b
In May, 1913, the board Of educa-
4 ton found the attendance to be SO
large that additional buildings were
necessary to accommo date the pupils,
80 on May 90, 1918, the board Of educa-
ton by its president, d. Thad Curry.
Il and Its secretary, L. r. MCMILLAN, or
;dered an election under section 80,
K (a) OF the aforementione chapter Of
the code. The order for the cleo
ton was as follows:
SSsesNOTICD OF ELECTION FOR Dis
TRICT HIGH SCHOOL.
The undersigned board Of educa-
ton Of Union district of Harrison
county, hereby gives notice to all the
qualified voters Of Union district, Har-
rispn county, that at a meeting Of
said board held on the 18th day May,
1918, the following resolution was
adopted by said board, and notice
4 thereof and election therein provided
for, was directed to be given, that Is
4 to say
whereas. this board deems 1t ex-
pedient to establish high school Of
the first class, Offering q course Of
i study of four years Of not less than
thirty-six weeks each, and employing
d not fewer than three thoroughly quail
j flied high school teachers, who shall
devote all their time to the teaching
OF high school subjects, for this al :
strict at the town Of West Milford,
that the site for same shall be the
3 present school grounds belonging to
the said board In said town, and
tsWhereas, the estimated expense of
establishing the same, including the
I costs Of building the necessary adj
dttional rooms to the present school
{ building in said town, furniture, books,
and apparatus, is twenty-seven hum
4 dred, and fifty dollars, and the estl-
mated annual expense OF supporting
SAID school after it is in operation, is
& two Thousand dollars for teachers sal
q aries, and three hundred for coming
z ent expenses, and
whereas, to assist in the mainte-
s nance OF such high school, the law
now in force provides for an annual
appropriation Of eight hundred dol
( lars out Of money in the state treas
sury.
Therefore, be 1t resolved by the
board of education Of Union district
that high school Of first class be
& established in the town Of West Mil
Z ford In Union district, HARRISON coun-
ty; that the same be upon the lot In
(: said town, now belonging to the board
) and used for school purposes, and the
same be established at the estimated
Z cost Of establishing and for the an
nual expense Of supporting the same
as aforesaid.
Provided, however, that the ques-
ton Of authorizing the establishing
such high school shall hrst 10 submit
ted to the voters Of Union district at
i q special election to be held for that
purpose on Tuesday the Oath day Of
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