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Show SCHOOL BONDS ARE TO BE REDEEMED For the first lime in the history of the Osden City board of education, thero are funds on hand with which to ledeem bonds. The bonds issued twenty .cars ago are duo on December Decem-ber 1 of this ear, and the board will redeem $15,000 of the $35,000 issue Tho clerk has ndortlsed for bids for the $20,000 to be reissued, the bids to bo returned .ovemoer G, 1912. To secure information concerning these bonds Mlas Ivy Williams, the clerk of tho board of education, found it necessary to look up tho old records rec-ords for the year 1S92 when they were issued. -Sho found the minutes explicitly written and very interest ! Ing to read. At that time William H. ' Turner was president of tho board. W. W. Corey was treasurer and W. H Smith was clerk Tho resolution for calling an election elec-tion of the people of Ogden to vote on an issue of bonds for building purposes wc.3 offered on August 2, 1S92 aud the election was held Sep- ' teraber 19 of the Game year The total to-tal vole polled was G2.Vof which 481 voted in favor of issuing bonds and 184 were against tho measure. , N. W. Harris Co.. of New York purchased the entire Issue of $35,000 with Interest at 5 per cent |