The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-22


shall remain unappropriated at my
decease, of the said sum or sums
that all such deficiencies may De
made up by a transfer OF mortgage
loan of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga'
ton company at par, and Lehlgh
Crane Iron company stock at $loo
share as my said executors ma!
elect.
and l do hereby direct that the
land for these schools be bought
where am now in negotiation TO
purchase, if they can be, viz: A
tract one and half miles square IN
Iowa, near Salem, and tract Two
miles square in the Indian reserve,
Indiana; and If these tracts cannot
be bought, to buy as near to them
in point, quality, price ana nealtn
fitness as can be accomplished, 30
that not exceeding one-half the SUM
of $40, 900 allowed to each place DC
laid out in the land and it's improve
ment and the other half in the build
ings necessary.
From the reading Of this win 1t Is
apparent that Josiah White thought
from seventEfive to one hundred
wears in advance Of his day and
generation. In this will he provides
for a manual training and domestic
science school for boys and girls OF
the character Of those that are just
now being recognized as necessities.
Mr.. Whites agents, who purchased
the farm, selected LAO acres OF the
best land. Nearly all Of the land is
slightly rolling.
Litigation Is Begun.
In 1908 suit was brought in the
district court of Lee county, at Fort
Madison, in which a number OF resi-
dents of the institute. many Of them
affiliated with the Friends church,
were plaintiffs. and in which suit 1t
was claimed that the trustees OF the
institute, the Iowa yearly meetihs
of Friends and the superintendent
appointed by them were diVerting
the trust funds and violating and
wholly disregarding the trust created
by the will, and it was asked that
they be removed as trustees, ana
that the management OF the farm De
taken out of the hands of the trus'
tees and Of the Iowa yearly meeting
of Friends, and that suitable trus-
tees and managers be appointed by
the court.
In this suit former students Of the
school joined as plainurfs ana
showed that they had been students
of the school and had been turned
out before the age contemplated IN
Mr.. Whites will The plaintiffs also
claimed that the board of supervi-
sors OF Lee county had made an
oral ARRANGEMENT for the care OF GER
tain children in said school, which
arrangement was repudiated and the
children refused.
Fl. NJ. Byers, as attorney general,
filed an intervening petition, making
himself a party plaintiff. and asked
for the same relief as was sought by
the other plaintiffs.
Is Aiding Poor Children
Judge Bank rendered decree
finding that it was the intention OF
Josiah White to establish and per
petually maintain manual labor
school on the premises in question
and that it was his intention to main
tain upon the farm home for SO
many children, white, colored ana
Indian, as the annual proceeds OF
the farm will support; that the chill
dren should be such as have not the
means to procure schooling. board
and clothing for themselves, ana
should be, when received, between
the ages of six and nine years, ana
should be kept in school and given
the proposed training until they ar
. rive at the ages Of from fifteen to
twenty-one years, but that the chill
dren should not be bound to remain
for any specified time.
No appeal was taken from this
decision, and it has settled for all
time the policy to be adopted in the
future conduct Of the school.