The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1920-02-21


trict.
The fact that principal Milton Dun
lap and three or four of his unmar-
ried female teachers are living in. the
school house, without chaperone or
house-keeper, is rapidly becoming Q
scandal, for which the patrons Of the
school do not propose to stand indef-
initely, reports Rip-saw inspector who
recently was at Meadowlands.
Arrangements first were made to
board the women teachers at the house
of local merchant. When school open
ed, Prin. Dunlap is accused Of induc-
ing the women to join him in cooking,
eating and sleeping in the school house.
The school board fitted up the place
with beds, bedding and other house
keeping equipment at expense Of the
district. The female members Of the
teaching staff are supposed to sleep
in basement room that is not used
for school purposes, while Prin. Dun
lap is supposed to sleep in the library
| room.
When patrons of the school remon-
strated with some of the educatresses
for their unconventional way of living,
they naively replied:
"Oh, Mr.. Dunlap is perfect father
to us.'
"You ought to get his wife to come
back so that she could be perfect
mother to you," was the reply given
the gushing school ma 'ams.
The first year Prin. Dunlap was in
the Meadowlands' school, he had Q
wife with him. She did not return with
him this year and, of course there is
more or less gossip to the effect that
the woman has left her iege lord and
master.
At a school meeting, Prin. Dunlap
voluntarily referred to the fact that
his wife was not living with him.
Said he:
"This is not a fit community for
my wife to live in. You people here
are not fit associates for a woman Of
her station in life"
There is another allegation to the ef-
feet that Prin. Dunlap has stated that
Mrs. Dunlap has resources of her own,
therefore she can live where she pre-
fers.
AS to school matters, Prin. Dunlap
is credited with saying:
~ propose to run this school or ruin
it."
All this year, so it is alleged, Mr..
Dunlap has been importuning the
school board to buy an automobile for
his use. About all the travelling he 10
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house to the post-office, distance Of
about three blocks. So far, even q
cOmplacent school board has not. fallen
for that piece Of unwarranted extrava-
gance.
The four-room school house does not,
of course, occupy much Of the 10-acre
school site. Last year the board Of ed
ucation broke up the unused ground
and gave Dunlap free use Of it for
raising potatoes. He dug something
like 500 bushels realizing about 5000
for carload that he shipped.
"What did you do with that potato
money!" asked Mr.. Burkhart, a local
truck farmer, taxpayer and patron Of
the schools.
"It's in my pocket" said Prin.
Dunlap as he slapped his leg, "and it
is going to stay there"
Not long ago, 16-year-old boy was
shooting beans in school as many boys
often have done. Prin. Dunlap saw
him through the glass door and grab
bed him. Just what happened next, the
boy was too dazed to exactly know
but, after it all was over, there was
lump on the back of his head az
large as hens egg. For some time
the youngster complained Of pains in
his head. His parents took him out
of school.
Certain pupils come and go to this
school on the D. M. & N. At night,
they have to wait an hour or two for
the train. Patrons of the school de-
clare that Prin. Dunlap refuses to let
the pupils wait in the school house,
although it is public property.
"This is my home and Miss Smith g
home," he is alleged to have said,
"therefore you must not come in here.
after school is out"
Of course this unconventional way
of male principal and unmarried fe-
male teachers living together in the
school house, like rabbits in burrow,
or rooster and hens in a comfortable
coop, causes a world of talk. Some
I stories illustrate how the people of the
community think Dunlap tags around
the members of his educational harem.
There is one farmer chap who went
home from a dance at 2 a. m. The
lights were burning in the building and
he firmly alleges that he saw the ed
ucational Brigham Young coming out
Of the private quarters Of the educa-
tresses. Dunlap strenuously denies that
impeachment and talks loudly about
making some one prove it but, to date,
he has taken no steps to that end.
Some time ago delegation of pa
irons took up matters with county su-
perintendent Young. He promised to
at but, for some reason, never got
around to do so.
When asked if the community form
Of living by Prin. Dunlap and his
teachers was right and proper, Supt.
Young is alleged to have said that Il