Letter from George Chandler Parkinson, 2 July 1898
Preston, Idaho, .
President Wilford Woodruff and Counselors:
Salt Lake City.
Dear Brethren:
I am requested by the Stake Board of
Education to submit to you the condition of our
Stake Academy and to offer such recommendations
as, in our oppinion, will bring the necessary releiief and
answer the demands of the people to continue the
school in opperation;
On June 10th our school closed with about 100
students in attendance, after a most successful years
opperation. Earley in the month of January 1898, it
was seen, from the Treasurers report, that our friends
would be entirely exhausted by the middle of March,
and different measures were discussed, looking to
the continuation of the schootl to the end of the school
year. The only plan that seemed at all faseasable was
the one proposed by the fFaculty, viz: that Principal
J. E. Hickman reduce his salary from $10000 per month
to $9405 (a reduction of $10000 in all to the end of the year)
and that after discontinuing the departments of music
