Wisconsin Women's History

3 Then again Enos [?] read that we were accountable to negotiate and sell the farm. That is why I wrote my second letter,. Of course we would have done nothing about it did we know the facts, and would not have exposed ourselves to needless ridicule. But we must say we had a shock to our confidence in your oft-repeated saying that you would not over rule our wishes. When you declarled [declared] last summer it were wise to sell the farm - I said "if it must be it must be" - but I begged to be allowed to finish our 25th year as we were and then we would be ready for the what next for fear that I did not make myself clear I wrote the same from the Pacific coast and also wrote to Enos to beg of him to intercede for us with you and let us

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whether the majority of stock is held by Jenken Ll J or Ll J. [?]

II. Certainly the stock holders have significance and responsibility in all matter pertaining to the [life coporate?] whether the share holder bear the names of D J or another; and are equally responsible to their creditors.

III. Have the Trustees any responsibilities or are they figure heads? I feel that each director no matter what the name or the sex has equal responsibility with every other, and each vote should be considered.

IV. (I dare not quote your question) God knows if you do not that it was not to evade our creditors but with the deepest sorrow that it seemed (to our advisers) to be necessary to apparently evade

6. them in order to save the school for us and the rest of the corporators. in hopes that life might be long enough for us to show our creditors at least our good will. I repeat we did this to save the school for us and the coporators as our allies - but we did not expect thereby to side-track the LL Jones sisters, its creators and maintainers.

V. You astonish me in your "V" Did you not declare in open meeting that $4000 of the sale money should be used to pay floating debt in which surely stand our salaries? We have drawn nothing since (to us) the earthquake, and even before that except to meet the actual necessities. Now why should we not be paid these arrears?

Other wage-earners are paid

4 and we are paid excactly [exactly] on the same basis, and we get only as much as the head man teacher tho we carry the stress and burden 12 mo out of the year and the machine that prints out the money is the results of our lifes work. Yet the corporation reckons that as nothing in gauging the salaries. Now, why should we not get any pay as the others since we are exactly in the same position. You saw on the balance sheet our due. Why do you say if we pass that over to you it would be as if the cor bought your winter over coat. Why should the cor. dictate to us about how we spend our money! Our handing over the money for you to hand to that man that lent you

change in management you will lose both technical and actual control.

You will gain: - 1. Temporary technical control of your property.

Dear Aunts you may think this presumptuous. Perhaps it is so but I write this letter only because I think no one of the cousins knowing the facts can with justice to you forbear saying what in his opinion seems to him your best interest. You may have come to question the motives of many people. I hope that you will not feel that mine are not worthy.

Believe me with much love one of your nephews who knows his great debt to you. Chester Lloyd Jones

1. You will lose the coöperation of Uncle Jenk.

2. You will loose the coöperation of Enos.

3. You will lose the coöperation of Richmond and Gilman

4. You will loose the confidence of the large body of the cousins who want to see the school managed for you and kept for you. They will not have confidence in any management which would be put in control for you cannot manage the school affairs alone.

5. You will lose the local credit you now have in Spring Green which has been established only because they have confidence in the present management.

6. You will lose the confidence of the Linden bank and any other creditors if there be any. They support you now because they have confidence in the present management.

7. You will lose the use of the capital you now have in your control though technically invested in the stocks by Uncle Jenk. On this you would have to pay interest. It costs you nothing now.

8. You will lose control of the school, not now technically in your hands it is true though it is there for all useful purposes. Under a

{1911 Dec. 14}

Dec. 14 '11

My dear aunts:-

I write this letter not because I feel that you will probably follow its advice but because I feel that I owe you both so much that it would be false in me not to tell you frankly what seems to me to be the present state of affairs.

I believe that you have been getting the school on its feet the past two years. I believe that with careful management it will pull through and assure to you something that will be a comfort to you in the future. I believe that the school has stood all the reorganizations it can stand at the present time and that if any money is available now it should be put into rehabilitating the school plant which now needs repair badly.

It seems clear also that if a change in organization comes at this time that the following developments will take place:-

RICHMOND, JACKSON AND SWANSEN LAW OFFICES SUITE 3-6 MENDOTA BLOCK MADISON, WISCONSIN T.C. RICHMOND R.W. JACKMAN S.T. SWANSEN S.H. STUART

December 15, 1911.

Miss Jane Lloyd-Jones, Hillside, Wis. Dear Aunt Jennie:

Yours of the 14th inst. just received, and in it you state that you wrote me several days ago about a special matter, and cannot understand the cause of my delay in acting. The letter to which you refer is yours of the 10th, now before me, which came yesterday morning and I replied in the afternoon, writing to you, Enos and Jenk in reference to the matter, and presume you will get my letter today.

In my letter I stated to you that I had received no suggestion, request or instructions of any kind, whatever, from either Jenk or any one else to transfer the stock or to do anything at all with it. Not wishing to have any more trouble about it, I immediately forwarded all the stock to Jenk to do with as to him may seem best.

After hearing from Chester in reference to the rumor referred to, I wrote to Jenk about a week or more ago and did not receive any answer to that letter so I took it there was nothing whatever to the rumor and paid no attention to it. All communications received here have received prompt attention.

I wish, however, to state further that for reasons given to you all at several of our meeting I sent my resignation yesterday as director to Enos.

Yours very truly, [T.C. Richmond?]