Show V L ua A it I 1 p i C A U SIN fi A if mow I 1 I 1 I 1 TRUSTEES OF THE industrial INDUSTRIA SCHOOL TURNED DOWN I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 by state board of examiners in charging broken dishes to maintenance account I 1 I 1 the local board of trustees of the I 1 industrial lu school and the state board have locked horns horn over the classi flea tion alon of certain utensils used at the school and the diversity of opinion is liable to bring the controversy before the court for settlement doth both boards are determined to stand pat on their declarations hence bence the tho necessity for outside adjudication by a new act of the legislature the state board is ls the examiner of the tile local boards accounts and all bills bt before they are approved must bo certified by the governor the secretary of t state and the attorney general gener hl in making the estimates for tho the school for the present year asked to 0 bo u used a a general eral maintenance fund and as a fund for betterments and improvements officers of the school and the local board had planned to expend the latter sum in now ne furniture alterations to the tile buildings building and any extra work that might call for immediate completion so in line with this resolution andi andt in harmony with the customs of past years the expense bill for a certain period ot of time was submitted to the state board classified and charged to to different funds jn the maintenance account was wa included he the loss of a number of cast iron china dishes an item that appears frequently during the year as many dishes are broken As attorney general breeden cast hh hn eves eyes on this particular entry he lie decided that such losses ought to be replaced out of the fund set aside for improvements and repairs the local imal aboard was a advised devised of liis ills action but refused to concur and arid a motion has been made that the dispute bo be passed P assed upon by the courts in their own defense members of the school board declare that if it the the reserve Is used whenever dishes chairs or other fixtures at the school are broken it will last but a short time and the purpose for which it was appropriated will not be realized in other years the maintien ance has been drawn upon lor for in incidental el dental expenses incurred in the general maintenance of the school so that the board insists that it has precedents to prove its right to opposing the objection made b by y the attorney general |