It Was A Great Day

The first Monday i 1 1 September s always the day set apart for the annual school meeting, and the faet tliat Labor Day happen p(1 to f all on the same date this yeur made no difFerence with the ld time custoui. The tact was also made plain that the action of a caucus does nöt always reilen the sentiment of the people. The day was a glorious one as far as the weather was concerned, and everybody who was left at home afler the excursión to Detroit liad gone, and who could vote nnder the law, seenied desirous of turning out and casting their ballot. The pew law has disfranchised a great many people and among them are Rome of our best citizens, in fact a few of our liighest connty officials foimd thembelves disfranchised. Even our Connty Commissioner of Schools fouml himself disqualifled under its provisions. This fact, together with the absence of several car loads of people who went to Detroit 011 the excursión, cut down the number of votes cast to (589. But it made the contest none the less warm, and the ballot takers at each of the twc boxes were kept busy most of the time. There were three tickets or perhaps "combines" would more properly express it, in the field. The first was. the caucus ticket eonsisting of Christian Mack, RoBERT 8HANN0N, Anna B. Bach. Then the "old ticket" as it was called, with the names of all the retiring members of the board thereon : ClIRISÏI IN MACE, WlLLIAM W. WhEDON, .Tunius E. Beal. And last of all was tlie winner that carne in ahead of all the rest: Jüniüs E. Beal, Cbkistian Mack, Anna B. Bach. The result of tlie balloting was as follows : Whole Xo. of bailóte cast GS9 Christian Mack 587 Junius E. Beal 4S5 Anna B. Bach 4Í7 Wm. V. Wh'edon 227 Robert Shannon 201 John V. Sheehan 2 Wm. C. Stevens 1 Col. H. S. Dean 1 Mr. Mack was upon all three t.ckets, it will benoticed, Mr. Beal and Mrs. Bach each upon two, and Messrs. Whedon and Shannon upon one each. The ladies were out in force, and they proved themselves most excellent politicians. They saw a point quick, ai. i they acted quicker, as a general thing, than aman would. And they were nit timid, either, about asking the voters to cast a ballot in their interest. The announcement of the result was receiyed with clapping of hands and many expressions of pleasure by the ladies and their friends. After the ballot was declared tlie meeting adjourned to the court house to transact the yearly business. Upon assembling there Mr. Henry S. Dean offered a resolution aulhorizing the assessessor to spread upon the rolls of the district the stim of $30,000 to pay salaries together with $4,500 bonded indebtedness, and current expenses, which wascarried. Mr. Sheehan offered a resolution authorizing the board to issue $6,000 in bonds $3,000 to be paid Feb. 1 '98, and $3,000 Feb. 1 '99, to pay for a new Lieating apparatus at the high school building, fit up the house on the first ward grounds for school purposes, etc. The etc, was knocked off tht resolution and an amendment made to expend $800 for a jamtor's house in the 4th ward. This was also defeated as was a proposition to reduce the amo'unt to $4,000 to be paid at once, but finally a motion to make the atnount $4,000 payabie onehalf in '98 and the other half in '99, all to be expended íor the high school heating apparatus, wascarried. M. ,1. Cavanugh offered a resolution to the eflïect that at the next annual meeting the polls be held open from 9 o'clock a. m., to 3 o'clock p. m., local time and that the business meeting be held immediately after the announcement of the vote in the court house. This was carried unaminously. A resolution was also offered by Judge Cheever, after a considerable discussion requesting the board, in view of the stringent times, to use all possible economy in the expenditure of monies. This was called out by a criticism of an expenditure made last year íor raised maps for use in tlie ward schools, and which was fully and satisfactorily explained by tho president. Tlie annual report of the Board was published in Saturday's daily. The greater part of the time of the business meeting was taken up by listening to the eloquence of Mr. Cramer.