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Show M10 10 FilMf win nil Board of Education Resort Dark Hints and Mystcri.;4r ous Whispers. Mlf ACCEPT RESIGNATION 1L OF STOREKEEPER l)M Theft or Substitution of From Storeroom DepavtmBR, Cause of Mess. eF Afraid to wash its dirty Hnea lieby, the board of education, atiXP mooting Tuesday eveuing, dcciejjELii como out iu the open in rogaril $ alleged theft or substitution of uKr from tho storeroom department aaj jWk l sorted to enough dark hints and JSN': torious whispers to stock the vilhSSi part in a high-class melodrama. latiSf; tho board merely gave an MctluBs I repetition of its old-time adoptntotjB. smolhoring up and shutting oil folK?-tho folK?-tho public information coiicarnb"r!B leged irregularities in connection riSwW' its administration. K'' The undesirable and unwilHo? Jt'pP joct came up twice, the first tiotM connection with tho receiving 0T superintendent's invenioiy of. tie iR plies on hand, including tho tooVMf' tho storeroom, and tho second ilatrnKPI connection with tho acceptanco oflB' resignation of H. W. Earl as storniHp'' keeper. The inventory, which britBP sheds no light upon tho matter HP-quietly HP-quietly received and sent to its'faHpJ ing ground with the commiUttK' teachers and school work. But itm the recommendation that Earl's igK-nation igK-nation bo accepted and he and hisHp& ties be released when his report isHp broke the thin ice tho board hnutt' lightly skimming over with a sireniHp objection lo fho latter clause, iiEdHP Chccsmau took the cold plunge niftMT direct question as to whether nnjtiREs. .of eousoqueucc is missing. Then aB? the deluge of dark whispers audjBf" terious hints, not unuuscd with inBfiw docs and insinuations. Kp' Newspapers Did It. Slftl Mr. Martin belittled tho occuncJHii with the voluntary information laEui 011I3' two hammers, one saw audandR aro missing. Mr Moylo said thiH. hnd heard thai several tools narobtH'' replaced by inferior ones. Mr llojKll information was based largely cjBW newspaper stories, aud Mr. Tfiomaj rBilii gested that if these were to be couSl t crcd they should come officially Mcfluib tho board; otherwiso there was nvVlti ing (0 consider in this line. Mr. Martin declared that itir2Bl the intention to dischnrco Earl aai bondsmen from all liability untiluojc-., is a satisfactor3r accounting. Earl Wf. charged up with tho tools in asUtitllrij ized list kept by the clerk and iljfcffr; are any discrepancies they W'jrf-lHfe1 uuidc good, he said. jpr Superintendent Christcnsen safi tfaJMjj there has been 110 timo to corapan uEj inveutoiy with the clerk's record, tHi cept cursorily and casually, but tllMfafc shows no shortage to speak of. Iffif Mr. Moylc moved that the comnilfaKl'H: on teachers and school work mahiHK't'. thorough investigation, and Mr TtfaBfe seconded tho motiou. Professor UMiii mings said U1is.eomn1it.tco had not bwjpidt informed officially' of any alleged flji fle' investigation, if 0110 is desired, ,Vtijj Martin was not, so sure that pulilfcwlli ought io be given tho result oijfe investigation, but Mr. Thomas .itclm M that tho committee should be happrf ft make a report, if thoro is notoinz ii M the charces, and equally as glad to it ti port is there is any'thing in them. . Houso Cleaning Urged. $ "Tho motion ought to be lnadotoi cludo the other departments," nsuii p Mr. Thomas. "Eumors have bean ing thick and fast, so let us have 3 oral houso cleaning and determine i j there is anything in them The nrn tat papers seem to be preHy certaiE j jf what Hio3' are saving about some)" if these things, and I hope that IteiV vestigation will be tho end of a 1 ber of thinks that, need to bet rcctcd." .' 3 Mr. Martin was stirred by.thw.wl? ; tempt an apparent explanation lorjj tho secretiveness of the board on h :Ji tors that vitally concern the potw4 whose servants the board members jw ;tj Ho admitted that ho had heard iniut , rumors of little irregularities,. biJ Jfc had boon the consousus of opinion tw an investication could bo quietly ag ried on without throwing any 911SP" M upon anybodv. Ho opined m newspapers a'ro barking up the tffl Ti tree, and then sprang to a deftwf ?J the building and grounds comraittj lightfullv nonapropos of tho WW j Chairman Henderson suggested tnst? t newspapers lm heard before the iwyop bj eating committee, but did not liny b response anj-whore. , !m Two Resignation Stories, j The affair was dropped for the enr g ing with the carrying of Mr. 31oi'' JJ motion. Thoro are two stories as Earl's resignation. One is to tho d" 7 that it. was volnntnrj'. and nnotuerj w as reliable, has ii thai he was asKrt" m resign. While no particular blam to laches to him for the shortage oim p it. is pretty certain that it wns rating Si lo him that he would hotter resieo. J is understood that he will move the country In live. . ,,111 : Podnev ITillam, Jr., was appowM succeed 'Earl, at a salary of 5 month. The storeroom keeper is 2 ltr a bond of $1000. Hillam's appom;Sf dates back to Monday. |