Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-18
ALBION EXPANSION PROPOSAL
TO BE VOTED ON WE'D.
NESDAY, MAY 2e.
BANGOR CONSOLIDATION
TO BE DETERMINED JUNE 1
Albion Election Called Under Law
Which Makes Possible Unrestricted
Expansion Regardless Of Township
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Township Vot.
ers Object to Albion Proposal.

Dates have been announced for
special elections, to be held at Albion
and in Bangor township, to vote on
the question Of the consolidation Of
school districts. The Albion cleo
ton. called by the board OF directors
of the Albion school. will be held
Wednesday, May 26 and the Bangor
township election, called on petition
Of voters, will be held Tuesday. June
1, the date being set by c. e. Shut,
county superintendent Of schools,
Altho much the same purpose may
be accompanied by these two cleo
tons. the manner of procedure varies
greatly. The elections were called
under different laws and different
acts control the manner Of calling
the elections.
Albion Uses Arbitrary Law.
The Albion school board. in calling
an election, did SO under a somewhat
arbitrary law, which makes it pos
sible for an independent town school
district, to reach out and annex
all adjacent territory the electors will
vote to the district. regardless of
township lines. This election Is not
held under the ordinary consolidated
school and no approval of residents
of the territory to be annexed is
necessary to issue q call for such an
election.
The school board may determine
On the extent of territory 1t desires
to annex, issue n call for an election,
give ten days notice and take the
vote.
The Albion school board recently
decided to enlarge its territory, and
tion to vote on proposal to take
in part of Taylor township and dis
trict No. and part of district No.
l. in Marietta township.
Directors in Taylor Township.
Quite often rural independent dis
tricts welcome the opportunity to be
taken into a town district, to have
the advantage of graded schools, but
| it sometimes happens, as in this case,
| that the residents OF districts to be
consolidated object to the method
| employed to force them into a town
| district. This is the case with Tay-
lor township residents who object to
| being taken into the Albion district.
The DIRECTORS. hearing of the cleo
ton call, asked for conference with
members of the Albion board at the
office of the county superintendent
Monday afternoon. A goodly number
of Taylor township citizens were
present and few Albion residents
other than members Of the board
were in attendance.
The Taylor township delegation
voiced it's objection to the proposed
annexation and the question was dis
cussed thoroughly, the law under
which the election call was issued
being explained in detail.
Bangor Township Consolidation
The proposal to consolidate the
1--WE independent school districts Of
Bangor townships will be voted on at
a special election to be held Tuesday.
June III Nd objections to the propos-
al were filed at the hearing last week
in. the Office of the county superin-
ltendent. Monday Superintendent
kshutt announced the date Of election
and today election notices were
posted.
The consolidation Of the entire
township is proposed. The PROPOSE
ton to be submitted to the voters is
merely on the consolidation and does
not fix the site Of the proposed build
ing or call for the issuance Of bonds.
The location Of the building will be
determined by the board Of education
of the. consolidated district. should
the proposal be approved.