Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-03
MADISON

AS town meeting day approaches
Madison school affairs which have beer
! the subject of considerable discussion
for the past few months, have agar
come into the limelight Madison unites
with Skowhegan in the employment OF
a superintendent Of schools. The re-
cent resignation of Supt. l.. w. Gerrisl,
| has brought about a new angle to the
situation this week. At a joint meeting
of the committees of the two towns on
i Wednesday. the following proposition
was handed in writing to the Madison
committee, with a request that it be
i given to the citizens at large:
ITO the Citizens Of Madison
I'VE, the experimenting school COM
| mittee of the town of Skowhegan, ow-
ing to the resignation of Supt. /. w.
Gerrish. that has been rendered to the
! joint committee, not knowing but de-
| string to find out the sentiment Of the
voters Of Madison in regard to the
| question. have submitted to your com
mittee the following:
| That the entire committee submit
the question to the voters at the an
I nual town meeting of the citizens of
d,
1917, and let them at that time decide
! whether they the citizens) desire to
retain Mr.. Gerrish as superintendent
of the Union or not, in the following
manner :
The term of office for which one
member was elected expiring at that
time would bring him up for election,
while the others for two and one year
respectively to serve, let them resign,
their resignation to take effect az once;
then have them offer themselves as
candidates for the same terms of office
that they now hold, and if reelected,
then the experimenting school commit
tee Of Skowheean will be able to go
ahead with full knowledge as to what
the citizens of Madison want, and we
will join with the experimenting
school committee of Madison in electing
a superintendent and there will be no
doubt hut that the will of the ma jor-
ity of the citizens of Madison is being
carried out.
we make the above suggestion
with the full knowledge that we are
simply the servants of the people,
elected by the people and answerable
to them under all circumstances there
fore we submit the above with the
hope coupled with the desire to find
out what the citizens Of Madison de-
sire done in regard to the election Of
superintendent and nothing more.
Whatever decision the citizens Of
Madison make, it is well to keep in
mind that their decision will affect the
citizens of Sowhegan in the same man.
ner, and throw the same burden on US
as on themselves, but as q committee
recognizing the relation that exists or
ought to exist between the public off,
cial and the people that elected said Of /
fetal are willing to let the people rule
and to submit to their wishes as ex-
pressed by their vote"
Signed by the Experimenting School |
Committee of Skowhegan."
The talent social which was to have !
been held under the auspices of the i
Ladies' Aid of the Methodist church |
Friday evening has been postponed for |
a week owing to the death Of Mrs. ,
Haynes. who was member Of the or
ganization.
At the second annual speaking con-
test of the Madison, Fairfield and |
high schools to be held in |
Skowhegan on March 9, the represen-
tatives from Madison will be Relph |
kemison and Mrs. Alice Handley.