The Raymer enterprise., 1918-07-18


on. and that was the reason why the
second was filed.
In he conversation mentioned II
was supposed by both Of us that the
district would show school popula-
tion Of something like 35 and there
would be thirty to attend school
When we found that the attendance
could not exceed Is or 19, and that II
would probably not be more than Is,
a suggestion from signer OF the
first petition Mr. Deal presented, that
we move ether the Clark or Turner
In the conversation mentioned II
tion appealed to us wiser move
| Mr.. c. II. Splitter made the sug-
gestion and we did not realize that
1t would be any more harm in list
ening to Mr.. Splitter than listening
to Mr.. Deal. We are noe seeking to
lay the blame on Mr. Spitzer. We do
not think he ment the least harm In
the world. We presume that he did
not know where he should journey
at midnight and get the proper o.
X. He might have been timid in ap-
preaching the shrine II he had
known where 1t was.
II the new school house was built,
the ones already built were of no use
whatever where they are. Mr.. Deal
confines his remarks entirely to the
Molthu school house. The building
Is not new. but the Clark and Tur-
ner school buildings were built at the
same time as the brick building in
town and they are both well built
buildings.
The Board went to Mr.. Deal with
two suggestions. We did not expect
that he would be satisfied with any
thing but central school, and our
first suggestion was to move one of
these buildings, the Clark and Tur-
ner schools, but II that was not sat
isfactory. our preference would be to
establish q school In the Molthu
school house. and let the other mat
ter rest until such time as his grand
children and others in that corner
were old enough for school, and de-
termine then what We should do.
We were agreeably surprised to
find that Mr.. Deal was more nearly
In accord with our views than we had
expected and that he favored the
school In the Molthu school house
rather than moving one Of the better
school houses to the central location.
For this reason, not much was said
about the moving proposition, and it
may be that Mr.. Deal has forgotten
that such a suggestion was made.
We cannot think that Mr. Deal would
deliberately keep back this fact.
Moving one Of these buildings to
the central location meets every
school need just as well, and some
Of them better than to build new
building,
II Mr.. Deal feels that Graves and
a few more In and around Raymer"
want any advantages for the Raymer
children that they are not willing to
give to every other child in the dis
trict he is doing an injustice TO even
the few more"
The editor OF this paper has no ap-
ology to make for going to Mr.. Deal
with the above proposition. We ap-
pealed to his judgement, we made no
threats to boycott or seek revenge
We know nothing about the re-
quest that a meeting be called to
hear some from the north end of
the district. but we assure him that
we will be glad to hear from alp
OF the parents of the children from
the north end Of the district and will
be at any meeting Of that sort that
can be arranged either ip Raymer
or any other point more convenient
for them. at any time they may wish.
We wish that such a meeting had
been arranged some time ago. for
II all" OF the people Of S-sS kneW
ell Of the facts they would not ask
for the bonds.
All We ask or expect is that ths
people consider the facts and then
without being intimidated with
threats OF boycott vote for what they
believe the school needs of the dis
trict represent.