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Of~o cna door east ¥ 3 Annual Statement. Receipts and expenditures of the Com- missioners of Somerset county for the fiscal year ending January 1,188. Wm. Winters, treasurer of Semerset county, Penn’a, inac- count with the county of Somerset. Receipts.—Dri Taxes received from the Collectors of State, County and Dog Rates for the years 1889, 01 to 97 inclusive. State. § DISTRICTS. Stonye reck 1859 § 225 Northampton ...18 Jennertown .... .I80: Northampton Soimnorset twp Addison.. Yr, County. 07 3% sy Dog. 10 215 4H Erathersvaticy Conemaugh Elk Lick Lower Turkeyft Northampton. Somerset boro.. Somerset twp... Southampton... Summit Weliershurg..... Ursin... oon. Addison.. Allegheny Benson... Brothers vilicy seimasn. ei mauugh Confluence Fair Greenville Hooversville .... Jefferson Jennertown Jenner Larimer Lincoln... Lower Turkey’ t Meyersdale Middlecreck Milford New Baltimore. New Centreville, | Northampton.. Oui Quemahoning Rockwood Salisbury .. Somerset hol = Somerset twp... Southampton... Bion yaren., Stoystown. Summit. Upper T urkey t Ursing Wellersburyg Addison... Allegeny Benson Black Brothersvalley.. Casselman Conemaugh Confluence Fair Hope. Greenville... Hooversvilie : Jefferson... .... y : Jennertown | Jenner i Larimer . | Lincoln Lower Turkey 6 Meyersdale Middlecreck. Milford Buitimore. Northampton. | Quemahoning .. Rockwood Salisbury Shade ...:........ sSomeriield Somerset boro.. Somerset twp... southampton... sStonyereck Stoystown. Summit. 43 40 U pgr T urkey t 24 )3 80 36 00 J rsina 3 5 2 3 00 59 35 7 Total tax rec’d-1897, $48226 95 $3154 92 $2745 20 state tax bro’t ov er, 8154 42 Dog o 2745 20 Grand total.......... $50127 07 Commissioners’ Ledger, Dr., viz: Borrowed money, Proce leeds, Com- missioners’ sales, Unseated lands, Redemptions, kt County’s share Sauor licenses...... ~-F95 Total recepts from all sources for year 1897 $68376 78 Expenditures.—Cr. By amounts paid on orders. as follows: Bcalps 374 95 Records 289 6b Jurors’ pay 4759 12 Jail physician....... 83 25 Viewers’ pay 448 95 #New Bridges 6272 60 Assessors’ pay 4912 86 Sheriff’s bi 800 00 Fire insurance 287 00 Overpaid taxes. - 63 02 Attorney’s fees 200 00 Tax on indebtedness. . 68 35 Election expenses.... 2470 63 Auditing public accounts. . 18 00 Western penitentiary.. 934 12 Miner’s medical attendance. 50 00 Commonwealth costs... 3266 52 Computation court 8 00 New prothonotary’ 3 vault. 1800 00 County teachers’ institute. 200 00 County auditors’ pay 52 00 (County auditors’ clerk bd Bal. expenses County Home. 11 Soldiers’ burial expenses. 5 Jury commissioners’ pay. . Sa Commissioners’ clerk Sheep damages. ...... Road damages..... Register and Recorder's fees. Prothonotary’s. fees... Distriet Attorney’s fees. Constables’ returns Court stenographer......... Court crier and tipstaves.. Light, fuel and water........ Court house and jail expenses Stationery, books and postage Maintenatce—Dixmont eink Harrisburg .. Wernersville. Morganza. ... Huntingdon . Court house and jail repairs. ‘Court house janitor......... Court house and jail fireman Printing and advertising.... Jurors’ meals and lodging. . .. Borrowed money and interest Treasurer's fees—I5. E. Pugh Money Rd ania lands . Reward, arrest and conviction Bridge repairs... ii Com’ s salary— Kimmel, ae ok —Good ~—Kretchman .. Com’s trav’g Ee —Good.... * —Kretchm’n 34 44 ‘Total ameunt paid onorders § 56114 031 Treasurer’s commission (2 per cent) on county orders... 1122 28 Balance due treasurer on the “ “ » “ses easa a a“ “ «“ redemptions ‘unsented lands from Tse 2 ['was paid on bridges 665 | 3 purchasers....... Balance tax on unseated lands received and overpaid by - treasurer in 1897..... 8 89 festa 1134 21 .§ 58879 41 9997 37 Financial Condition of Somerset County. Liabilities. Bonded indebtedness. . .$ 4500 00 Current indebtedness, out- : standing orders, &c..... : To amount due State of Penn- sylvania, net... Total expenditures Balance in Conhty treasury, unexpended. . oh 11559 21 2051 95 Total indebtedness of the county $ 18111 16 Assets, Outstanding t ax due county.$ 18412 50 Balance in county treasurer’s 9997 37 hands Total assets... ....... i... $ 28409 96 Assets in excess of liabilities 10298 90 *Nore.—In the item of new bridges $1250 was paid for the bridge at Wal- liams’ Station. The remaining amount contracted for by our predecessors. REMARKS. a It has come to pass that thie majority of the board of County Auditors has fil - ed with the annual report of that body a rigmarole of so-called objections to the methods of doing business in the Commissioners’ oflice. A whole week of the valuable time of these official nonentities was consumed in the form- ulation of this lyiug, slanderous and malicious tirade »gainst the Commis- sioners’ oflice. Political imbeciles, who are without mind or stamina of their own, should never be elevated to im- portant and responsible publie posi- tions. Furthermore, the present board of. County Commissioners has been use- lessly surcharged $202.09, interest on money that was necessarily borrowed to meet the current expenses of the county, witheut reason or excuse for such surcharge, and without citing any law to sustain their reckless exergise of the surcharging privilege. This action will serve only to increase the expenses of the county by litigation that will necessarily follow to show these bump- tious Auditors their inexcusable folly. Public accounts are always the legiti- mate subjects for correction and honest investigation; but they must not be contorted for the manufacture of polit- {ical capital for any political faction. But this is not all. The report of the y Jounty Auditors held in the Prothono- tary ’s office is in itself a mass of errors and bunglings that would shame a school-boy to be its unhappy author. On page 3 of the said Auditors’ Report the total receipts by the County Treas- urer of State taxes for years prior to 1897 is calculated to be” $1,038.84, when in fact the amount thereof is $1,938.64. An error in favor of said County Treas- urer of $899.80. On page 5 of said Au- ditord’ Report there is an error of cal- culation in the grand total of taxes re- ceived by the County Treasurer amounting to $50.03 in favor of the said County Treasurer. On page 7 of the aforesaid report the Auditors have bungled the “total receipts for orders paid,” whichis anintelligible, to say the least. On the same page the Auditors strike their balance thus: “Balance due Wm. Winters, Esq., County Treasurer, $9,047.56.” The true balance is $9,997.- 7; but this balance is not *due to Wm. Winters, Esq., Co. Treas.,” but is due to the county of Somerset from Wm. Win- ters, treasurer. The apparent shortage of $949. 81 in the credit to County Freas- urer Winters is nevertheless liberally- made up to that officer by placing to his credit the entir.: balance in his hands belonging to the county of Somerset, by which that worthy officer would gain, by the Auditors’ Report,the munificent gift, of $18,095.12, if the said report were previously correct ; but the fact is that if this blundering piece of “auditing” were allowed to stand, County I'reasur- er Winters would actually "gain $19,- 044.73 by the new peculiar Bowman- Rhoads-Hilemau system of “book-keep- ing,” which those worthies would] fain impose upon the Commissioners’ oflice. Not even the surcharging which the ‘Auditors have transcended their au- thority to inflict upon the Councy Com- missioners has been correctly done. On order No. 522 Wm. P. Meyers, the Commissioners are surcharged with $142.50, while the order itself calls for only $59. 59, s Lastly, in reply to the Au- ditors’ solemn “objections” and “inter- positions” we might retort: “Before you attempt to regulate the methods, if business in the Commissioners® of-' ice, you should learn to. audit” But this would be base flattery, because such an admonition would imply that a majority of that body could ever learn to audit. It is only justice to County Auditor Sipe to mention that that gen- tleman signed the Auditors’ report un- der a misapprehension of its contents; and that his signature thereto was ob- tained by resorting to misrepresenta- tions that would do credit to a gang of bunco-steerers. . SOMERSET COUNTY SS: > We the undersigned (Commissioners of the county of Somerset, do certify that the foregoing report exhibits a true and accurate account of the receipts and expenditures of the county of Som- erset for the year ending January 3, 1808. ° GEORGE FF. KIMMEL, GABRIEL GOOD, L.A. KRETCHMAN; Attest— Sl Commissioners. - J. G. Emert, Clerk. rv . . ’ Wholesale and Distillers License Petitions. o I hereby certify that the following peti- tions for Wholesale and Distillers’ License to sell liquors have becn filed in the office of the county of Somerset, and that the same will be presented to the Court for dis- position on WEDNESDAY, MARGH 2, 1898. Wholesale Pctition. 1 John Seymore, Paint township. —| _ Dpistillers’ Petitions. John M. Topper, Allegheny Twp. x mas Roos: Northampton Twp. . Stahl and John C. Benchley. } Summit Twp. Bimon P. Nweltzgr, RA 408 omer, Pn. BB RA AON Few, & ISU -.1 2 3 4 <, J Inquire at Outstanding Taxes. Outstanding County, State and Dog Taxes of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, on’ the second day of January, 1898, due and owing by the Collectors of the several boroughs and townships in said county as follo®s: State. $ 78 Collectors, Yr. County. H. E. Miller 1893 $ E. Me i. Cyrus A. { i vier 1894 Cyrus A.Yowler 1595 Chas. A. Lohr.. « Edward Metz. 1806 Jos. Wambaugh. ,. +3 XK. Cassler.... «H. I'ritz..... yr AYowler Elijah Liveng’d X. C. ‘Farner. Wm. Lecke by F. J. Foller N. N. B.Pportaugh C has. Lohr Sylv’st’r 8 Potts Jesse Wilkins. 1897 John McV icker Fred’r’k Border ot Hetley.. P. G. Weimer.. W m. HH. Fritz... JA. Cook... W. E. Pullin. James M: Lust. David Baker... A. J. Stoner hIsanc Ankeny.. Progr Ik Shaulis Wh J. Peterson. Thos. Sallaghes Yr Geo. Glotfelty. John'J. Darr... Dog. CEB ER ~~ sea a BENE 2} Sigess tN on — Ma ThE bd fed Sim NZIS 12252 avon 0 bt yi ESLER oF od oon 18 a Ct % Sinz Wm. Leckemby Jonn F. Henry. J. H.8chroek... IF. J. Foller Samuel Bittner Sam. Sheem’k’r No collector, Ogle township... Win. G. Reese... Daniel Will Solom’n Snyder M. J. Glotfelty.. C. A: Wagner... M. F. Fraze Ww. M Schrotk. A.J. Coleman.. Norman Lepley I. FE. p J. H. sSnyder.... Wilson saylor.. im. Younkin.. Forsythe.: an Trimble. Total $13821 86 86 $2456 19 $2104 54 This amount includes the Collectors’ com- missions, exonerations, rebates, ete., which will reduce the amounts to & much smaller sum. We, the undersigned County Commission- ers of the County of Somerset, hereby cer- tify that thre above statement of the Out- standing Taxes due said county, is correct according to the Record in the County Treasurer’s Office. : GEO. F. KIMMEL, GABRIEL GOOD, Attest— L.A. KRETCHMAN, J. Moses Weaver. Elk Lick—W. N. Moser, Milt Blough. Jefferson—John M. Kimmel. Jenner—Daniel Deeds. Lincoln—Noah VW. Brendle, Joseph Ringler. - Meyersdale—Louis Gardner, Milton H. Boucher. Middlecreek—Wm. R. King. Paint— Louis It ummel, Elmer M. Hay Somerset bor.— Lorenzo Geisler. Somerset twp.—Jerome I'ritz, Samuel J. Bittner, William H. Shaffer, Josiah Young. Stonyereek—Jacob M. Kepper, J. D. Landis. Stoystown—Jacop Straub. TRAVERSE JURORS—FIRST WEEK. Addison—E. J. Phillippi. Allegheny—Cornelius Suhre, Alexan- der Coughenour. Berlin—3. P. Zimmerman. Benson—H. \V. Holsopple, & ler. Livengood, Deter EY Shot 3rothe rsvalley—John Ahifather, Geo. Yiberty Elk Lick—Simon Livengood, Abram Lowry. Yefforson—Sinion Barkley. Jenner—Levi Gindlesperger, Win. F. Daniels, Daniel Lint. Larimer—John Iloover. a Lincoln—Nelson Shaulis, Samuel J. Maust. Lower Turkeyfoof — Harvey Kemp, Wm. Sufall, B. F. Kreger. Meyersdale—Albert Welshonse. New Baltimore—\Wm. Straub. New Centreville—W. H. Walter. Northampton—John 8S. Matthias. Quemahoning—TFrank Miller, Millard Hummel. Rockwood—Daniel Younkin. Salisbury—>. F. Smith, W.S. Easton. Shade—Albert Gohn, John Geiger, Philip Zimmerman. : Somerset—Jacob 8. Picking, Samuel P. Snyder, A. C. Davis. : Somerset twp—Daniél Kimmel, A, J. Horner, A. M. IHeckler. Stonyereek—G. H. Keifer, C. E. I win. Alex. Ringler. Stoyestown—Charles W. Pugh. Summit—\V. B. ner, Wm. Lohr, A. H.-Shoemaker. ’ Bald- N. Miller, Chas. TRAVERSE + Addison—H. L. R. McMillen. Allegheny—Casper Werner. Berlin—E. P. Skyles, «Casper Esken. Black—Alex. Snyder. Brothersvalley—J. J. Knepper, H. IL. Countryman. Confluence—Alvin Burnworth, W. D. Humbert. Greenville—Jesse C. Miller. Jefferson—J. 8B. Miller C. R. B. mer, G. M. Dickey, Levi Pletcher. Jenner—John W. Hoffman. Larimer—Noah Baker. Lincoln—William H. Blough, Speicher. Lower Turkeyfoot—Adam N Meyersdale—C. W. Traxal. Middlecreek—W. J. Pile. Milford—John Cramer. New Baltimore—John M. Topper. Northampton—Josiah Boyer. Rockwood—Austin Critchfield. Shade—Silas JoCable, Jacob J. Me¥- ers, Henry Johnson. 2 * Somerset bor —Jere Rhoads, Hileman, C. P. Holderbaum. Sfomersef, twp—Noah Hoover. - Stonyereek—(% B. Kimmel, Walker.” Stoyestown—W. Wilson, Geo. Custer. Somerset—Irvin J. Walker, Ed. A Bittngg, C C. M. Hochstetler, Augustus Ie rickey, Wilson Shumack. . U. Turkeyfoot—A. J. Sembower. JURORS—SECOXD ‘WEEK. Dean, F. J. Bird, M Cra- Peter Nickelson. A. E. C. el Didh’ ’t Wait for Brains. > Henry Wallace, a delegate to the stogk-growers’ convention at. Denver, teld this story as an illustration of his argumgnt that men should not go into the dairy business without the intelli- gence to conduct it successfully: “A Northern farmer determined to move South and farm. He bought the best farm he could find, introduced the tame grasses and went into dairying ‘and fruit-raising. He secured as a sort of foreman a very smart darkey, who be- came a very enthusiastic advocate of his employer’s new idea. The natives, white and black, ridiculed the “{dea of book- farming, and the darkey in disgust said: ‘Go ’way; yuh’ nothin’ bat a walk-off.” A friend of mine heard it and asked: ‘Sam, what i$ a walk-off?’ ‘Well, suh, said Sam ; ; ‘when de Land fust made Adam an’ Ebe he thought he done a good job an’ were’ mighty pleased, and say da’ll do pretty well, and he lay ’em down an’ roll ’em ovub.- feel o’ de bones and muscles an’ say: “Yes, de’ll do. I mus’ make ‘em some, moh dry ’till he could fin’ somethin’ to make ’em beains. Yuh see, colonel. éraing i 3 SER iy on 3 gin ar ] fo wath mighty, seace in that i while 2 3 alt Jodein? round ¥ 24 A tule Schrock, Cyrus Bitt- urt— an’ make a whale lot and set ’em ap to ry, an