Bloomington (IN) Weekly Courier, January 26, 1915, p. 5.
TEACHERS DENIED SALARIES
Charles L. Snyder and George W. Bond, school teachers of Washington
Township, Brown County, for several years have been denied their salaries by
Trustee Dr. F. L. Tilton. Tilton was elected trustee at the November
election and Snyder and Bond were elected as members of the advisory board
without opposition. Tilton says the township "machine" placed them on the
ticket so they would have the upper hand of him. Tilton, after making
inquiry from the state board of accounts, was informed that teachers could
not teach school and serve on the advisory board in the same township at the
same time. The trustee asserts that he would have no right, under these
conditions, to pay them for teaching while they were acting as members of
the advisory board. One of the teachers has threatened to sue the trustee
for his wages.