The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-01
BOND ISSUE.
PUT IN JEOPARDY.
Citizens of Section Say They
Will Defeat Issue If Trus-
tees Not Removed.

Tho citizens committee OF Bolton,
numbering more than half a hundred,
who Thursday petitioned Judge Heiskell
to discharge tho present board of
trustees OF Bolton college and name in
Its place the members of the county
high school board and the chairman OF
the county court, declare II the old
board is not removed they will go out
and vote against tn $780, 900 bond is
sue which is to be voted on at a ref
erendum election for the purpose Of
making Bolton an agricultural high
school.
The committee claims that the pres
ent trustees nave not made the show
ing they should have made in operating
The schools with the funds they re-
eelved and that they hay caused the
Of something like $50, 900, They declare
the board sought TO operate an aErt III.
tufal high school similar to the four
congressional district a griculturA
schools OF Arkansas without sufficient
funds, admitting pupils from all Of West
tennessee AZ nominal tuition fees with
the result that through such anaFe
nerit the school got into debt.
~ y claimed they h o turned the in
stitutlon over TO the county board Of
education to operate as a high school
without turr 'ng owe to them the SUI
pervislon OF the 1000 acres OF land and
several thousand dollars worth OF i'm
plemetts which they own,
II Chancellor Hoiskell decides TO name
1.-THE members Of he county board OF
education as a board OF trustees for
the college, the personnel will be IS
follows: James Heard, chairman OF the
county court, chairman; Ford Taylor.
Thompson, Il, y. Malone, Eugene Woods
and W, a, johnson, Of the high school
board, and Miss Charl Q. Williams, SUI.
pertntendent Of the county board of ed
ucation. Mr., Johnson sent In his res
ignation more than a year age but 4
has never been accepted, Probably a
new member would be named In his
place on the county board Of education
as well as the Bolton college board OF
trustees.
The board of trustees OF Bolton col.
lege are George X. James. chairman,
Charles j. HnaRe, VIC -chairman; c. &,
Hanson, secretary. !. +, Young, treas
Donald, former chairman Of the county
court, Ford n. Taylor, member county
high school hoard; Miss Charl O, VIII.
liams, superintendent OF the county
board OF education. Cyrus Garhsey, Jr.
and c, 7, J, Mooney Chancellor Heis.
kell will decide the matter Tuesday.
Miss Williams, OF the school board
says she would not attempt to operat,
the school as an agricultural school with
the funds on hand. but would do IN.
best she could II the bond issue Is rhti
fled by the people at the referendum
election and the issue is declared con
stttutional by the supreme court on
test case which will be made for tina
purpose,
II was recently agreed that tho count,
board Of education should take over tn
school for the present and operate IL a
a regular county high school, The boar,
, Of education was gwen $4,000 for thi
purpose In Its budget recently ap
, proved by the county court. A prin
|, cipal and teachers win be named soon,
James N. Malone sometime ago sen
In his resignation as a member OF tn
board OF trustees OF Bolton college bu
Il was never accepted. II Is also under
i stood Charles J. Haase has espresso
: his intention Of resiGnink c, c. Han
son, the secretary. lives at Bolton.
z. X. Riddick Is attorney for the Gil
taens at Bolton.