The Raymer enterprise., 1918-07-18
Mr.. DEAL FAvORS
SCHOOL BONDS

To the voters of District 81:
In reply to Mr.. Graves article o.
July IL. wish to say as to the con
versation between Mr.. Graves ant
myself l called ON Mr.. Graves a,
his Office soon after the annual cleo
tion. and asked Mr.. Graves what thu
Board was going to do with our enc
of the district? He said, Nothing
Then | asked Mr.. Graves II would
circulate a petition In s-58 and ge,
the signers for a centralized school
II the Board would grant 1t. He
said as for himself. II could get the
signers, he would be willing, bui
said | couldn't get them to sign.
But Mr.. Northup and went
around with petition and got every
taxpayer In 9-5S. We then present.
ed the petition to Mr.. Graves and
after the petition had been In his
Office q few days and nothing done
| got the petition and still have 1t
AS 1t was only to show the Board
the wishes OF the people. there were
81 signed 1t. Then got out another
petition asking the Board to call an
election to vote bonds for q school
house 24x40 In the center of s-5S
In regard to when the Board visit
ed me, they said that they, the board
had come out to see me. to see II
would not withdraw the petition ow-
ing to war conditions; gave me a
very nice patriotic talk. and along
with some OF II said. / know that II
1t was not for the war you would not
withdraw. but II you will withdraw
until after the war, we will do all In
our power. whether We are on the
Board or not, to get you school
house as we realize you need 1t and
should have It, After l withdrew
my name one Of the Board stayed
and talked with me, and along with
some OF the things that he said, was
that at present they could not bond
the district for money enough to
build US as good q school house as
We should have. but next year that
they would build US q seven or eight
thousand dollar school house, as we
were entitled to q good school house.
That talk Immediately after the
other talk that had been given me.
did NOT sound good. After thinking
about II Z little while. came to the
conclusion that the Board was not
intending to wait until after the war.
So went TO Mr., Northup's and
called him out OF bed and gave him
q petition and asked him TO get the
signers and ! told Mr.. Northup that
l would go the next morning and tell
Mr.. Graves what had done and did
SO.
The reason | have explained about
the petition Is that 1t seems TO me and
lot of the rest Of VI In s-58 that
Mr. Graves and q few more In and
around Raymer has set themselves
up not only as guardians for our
children but also over the taxpayers
and voters Of s-5S
We asked for school house that
would be comfortable and warm, but
Mr.. Graves says that the Molthu
school house is good enough for our
children out In the north end Of the
district. True 1t is old and cold but
what difference does that make?
it is good enough for our children
at the present time.
We helped to build q $4,000
school house in Raymer, now II we
don't want our children hauled 40 or
50 miles q day to school in order to
get there, let them 80 TO the old MOL
thu school house. 1t is good enough
for our children. 70 the Beard
thinks. Anyway they don't care,
their children have got Q good mod
ern building.
1kese are facts, and furthsr,aurs
BIT personally to some Of your
business men In Rsymer and ssxeI
them to call a meeting and some II
US from the north end would come
in and I; IL 1t over with them. So
far we have been ignored
As to the roads, Mr.. Graves says
that we have not got any roads to
haul 0ur children to the center Of
s-bs, but ~ long as they are hauling
the children to RaymeF they are fine
or good enough