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" State, County and Dog Rates
Annual Statement.
Receipts and expenditures of the Com-
missioners of Bonmrerset county for the fiscal
year cnding Janunry 1, 1808. Wm. Winters,
treasurer of Somerset county, Penn’a,inac-
count with the county of Somerset.
Receipta.—Dr.
Taxes received from the Collectors of
for the years
i 1889, 91 to 97 inclusive.
DISTRICTS. Yr. County. State. Dog.
sStonycereek
Northampton.
Jennertown ....
» Northampton. ..
Somorset twp...
Addis 1
Brothersvalley..
Conemaugh
| Fair Hope
! Lower Turkeyf’t
Northampton..
| Ogle
| Balisbur. y
| Somerset boro...
| Somerset tWp..
Ee mmion,
G8
Allegheny
i Benson
« Berlin ...
Black
i Brothersvalley..
Jasselman
tConomaugh .
i Confluence .
' Elk Lic
| Fair Hope..
[ Greenville
Hooversville ....
m—oaBaiD «B¥e
SEHBRESH ES:
! Jennertown
i Jenner
| Larimer
Wa bt a
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Sx fxwk
I Lower Turkeyf’t
! Middleercek
' Milford
| New Baltimore.
New Centreville.
| Northampton, 2
ER 8% Ligse
Quemahoning ..
Rockwood
Salisbury
Shade .
Somerfield. .
Somerset boro..
Somerset twp...
Seuthampton...
Ntonycreek
Ntoy Btown,
suminit
Upper Turkeyft
Ursina
Wellersburg
Addison
Allegeny.
Benson:
SER
CRESEREHSEY
NEESER. PEER. EH,
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Casselman
Conemaugh
Confluence .
Elk Lick...
Fair Hope.
Greenville .......
Hooversvilfe tie
8 Egx
g 283 22
Jennertown
Jenner
Larimer .
Lincoln
Lower Turkeyf’t
Middlecreek
Milford
New Baltimore.
New Ceterville.
Northampton. oh
Rens BEESIR
82
St
axe
Mt
pe
Quemahoning ..
Rockwood
Salisbury ..
Shade
Somerfield
Somerset boro..
Somerset twp...
Southampton...
stonycreek
Stoystown.
Summit....
aad
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95 64
35 00
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67
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493
93 80
26 76
8 97
$8154 02 $2745 20
2161 2 34
1062 re) 80
143
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Total tax rec¢’d-1897, $48226 95
State tax bro’t over, 8154 92
Dog 2745 bh
Grand total 2
Commissioners’ Ledger, Dr., viz:
Borrowed money, Proceeds, Com-
missioners’ sales, Unseated lands,
Redemptions, Etc
County’s share liquor licenses......
$59127 07
8454 71
795 00
Total recepts from all sources for
year 1 $68376 78
Expenditures.—Cr.
By amounts paid on orders. as follows;
Scalps $
Records. .
" Jurors’ pay. .
Jail physieian
Viewers’ pay
*New Bridges
Assessors’ pay
Sheriff’s bill
Fire insurance
Overpaid taxes
Attorney’s fees
Tax on indebtedness
Auditing public accounts....
Western penitentiary
Miner’s medical attendance. .
Commonwealth costs. .......
Computation court
New prothonotary’s vault. .
County teachers’ institute.
County auditors’ pay
County auditors’ clerk
Bal. expenses County Home,
Soldiers’ burial expenses. .
Jury commissioners’ pay....
Commissioners’ clerk. ....
Sheep damages
Road damages..............
Register and Recorder’s fees.
Prothonotary’s fees
District Attorney’s fees
Constables’ returns
Court stenographer
Court crier and tipstaves....
Light, fuel and water
Court house and jail expenses
Stationery, books and postage
Maintenance—Dixmont
Harrisburg .
Ww ernersville.
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
Treasurers fees—E. E. Pugh
Money refunded—unseated
ands... Lo. aoa
Reward, arrest and conviction
Bridge repairs
Com’ s salary—Kimmel
—(zo00d
—Kretchman .
| com’ s trav’ gexp’ 's—Kimmel.
Good. .
+ —Kretchm’ n
“ “*
- “ 34 44
Total amount paid on orders $ 56114 03
Treasurer’s commission (2 per
cent) on county orders... 1122 28
Balance due treasurer on the
redemptions unseated
lands from individual
$9,047.58.”
SSREESKSERE 888¥
purchasers ...........,.. 8 89
Balance tax on unseated lands
received and overpaid by
treasurer in 1897
Total expenditures «.$ 58379 41
Balance in county treasury,
9997 87
unexpended ‘eee
Financial Condition of Somerset County.
i 7 ‘Liabilities.
Bonded indebtedness
Current indebtedness, out-
standing orders, &c
To amount due State of Pann-
sylvania, net
indebtedness of the
$ 18111 16
Total
county
Outstanding tax due county. $ 18412 50
Balance in county treasurer’s
9997 37
hands
Total assets................. $ 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
was paid on bridges contracted for by
our predecessors.
REMARKS.
It has come to pass that the 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’ office. A whole week
of the -valuable time of these official
nonentities was consumed in the form-
ulation of this lying, slanderous and
malicious tirade against the Commis-
sioners’ office. Political imbeciles, who
are without mind or stamina of their
own, should never be elevated to im-
portant “and responsible public 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, without reason or excuse for
such surcharge, and without citing any
law to sustain their reckless exercise of
the surcharging privilege. This action
will serve only to increase the experises
of the ccunty 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 honést
investigation; but they must net be
contorted. for the manufacture of polit-
ical eapital for any political faction.
Bur this is not all. The report of the
County Auditors held in the Prothono-
tary’s office is in itself a mass of errors
and bunglings that would shame a
school-bhoy to be its unhappy author.
On page 8 of the said Auditors’ Report
the total receipts by the County Treas-
urer of State texes 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 b of said Au-
ditors’ 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,” which is anintelligible, to say the
least. On the same page the Auditors
strike their balance thus: “Balance due
Wm. Winters, Esq., County Treasurer,
The true balance is .$9,997.-
37; but this balance is not “due to Wm.
Winters, Esq., Co. Treas.,” but is due to
the county of Somerset from \Vm. Win-
ters, treasurer. The apparent shortage
of $949.81 in the credit to County Treas-
| 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 $18,005.12, if the said report were
previously correct ; but the fact is that
if this blundering piece of “auditing”
were allowed to stand, County Treasur-
er Winters would actually gain $19,
1044.73 by the new peculiar Bowman-
Rhoads-Hilemau system of *book-keep-
ing,” which those worthies would fain |
impose upon the Commissioners’ office.
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 $569.59. Lastly, in reply to the Au-
ditors’ solemn * ‘objections’ and “inter-
positions” we might retort: “Before
you attempt to regulate the methods
of business in the Commissioners’ of-
fice, 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 nadit. 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,
1898 GEORGE F. KIMMEL
GABRIEL GOOD,
L. A. KRETCHMAN,
Attest—
_ Commissioners.
J. G. Emert, Clerk.
UNDERTAKING!
The junior member of this firm has late-
ly been taking speicial instructions in
. the city of Pittsburg, in the art of
EMBALMING . sae——
- °
We are therefore in a position to give
the public better SOIT inour line than
.ever before, and we are still doing busi-
ness at the old stand. Thanking the
ublic for their patronage, and solicit-
ing * continuance of the same, we re-
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Outstanding Taxes.
Outstanding County, State and Dog Taxes
of HBomerset county, Pennsylvania, on the
second day of January, 1863, due and owing
by the Collectors of the several boroughs
and townships in said county as follows:
Collectors, Yr. County. State.
H. EK. Milter 1893 $ 902%
BE Me > 7 J
Cyrus A. You fer 1804
Cyrus A.Yowler 1805
Chas. A. Lohr.. «
Edward Metz..1896
Jos. W fmbangh.
A. KE. Cassler..
W. H. Fritz. ....
Cyrus A.Yowler
Elijah Liv engl)
E. C. Farner.
Dog.
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N. B.Poorbaugh
Chas. Lohr
Nylyv’st’r S Potts
Jesse Wilkins. 1897
John Mc¢Vicker +
Fred’'r’k Border ¢
Frank HetHey..
P. G. Weimer...
Wm. , 8 Fritz...
Wo
bid Maust...
David Baker
A.J. Stoner
Isaac Ankeny...
Fredr k Shaulis
WJ. Peterson.
Thos. Gallagher
Geo. Glotfelty..
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RENGER
Wm. Leckemby
Jonn F. Henry.
Samucl Bittner
Sam. Shoem’k’r
No collector,
O ple township.
. Heese.
ome ‘Will
Solom’n Snyder
M. J. Glotfeity..
C. 4; Wagner...
M. F. Frazce.
YW. MN. Schrock.
A. 3. Coleman..
Norman Lepley
F. FE. Brg
J. H. ah
Wilson Saylor..
Win. Younkin..
J. CG. Forsythe..
Adam Trimble.
7 60
2 00
16 35
$13821 86 $2486 19 $2104 54
This amount includes the Collectors’ com-
missions, exonerations, rebates, etc., which
will reduce the amounts to a much smaller
sum.
We, the undersigned County Commission-
ers of the County of Somerset, hereby cer-
tify that the above statement of the Out-
standing Taxes due said eounty, is correct
according to the Record in the County
Treasurer’s Office.
GEO. F. KIMMEL,
GABRIEL GOOD,
L. A. KRETCHMAN,
1 County J Sommissioners,
Attest—.
J. G. EMER,
Cle
W. H. KooNTZ.
KOONTZ & OGLE,
Attorneys-At-I.aw,
SOMERSET, PENN'A.
J. G. OGLE.
Office opposite Court House.
FRANCIS J. KOOSER. ERNEST O. KOOSER.
KOOSER & KOOSER,
Attormeys-At-Liaw,
SOMERSET, PA.
J. A. BERKELEY,
Attorney-at-T.aw.,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office over Fishel’s Book Store.
A. M. LICHTY,
Physician and Surgeon,
SALISBURY, PENN’A.
Office one door cast of P. 8, Hay’s store.
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‘Savage.
Feb. 22.—N. B. Christner lost a valu- .
able horse, last week.
John Shoemaker, who is.supposed to
have had his clavicle fractured while
raising posts un the telephone line, is
again able to be at work.
The musical entertainment given at
the Peck school house, Friday night,
was good, and” yet proved a failure to
the efficient managers, Keim & Stevan-
us; owing to the inclement weather.
J. A. Shoemaker, proprietor of the
hickory and birch broom factory, has
rented N. B, Christners’ sugar camp.
S. J. Davis and W. A. Folk finished
wiring for the Mutual Telephone Co.
in this section. Five more persons
have their lines ready for phones.
News Boy.
Chestnut Spring.
Feb. 22—The Teachers’ Institute at,
this place, on Saturday, WAS well at-
tended by teachers, directers and eciti-
zens. Both teachers and directors claim
it was the best institute held. in the
township this year, and why not?
Chestnut Spring is a live town in all
things. The time is not far distant
when we expect to hold the County In-
51 stitutes here instead of Somerset.
Mr. C. M. Beachy will begin work on
his house at once. He had the wall
completed last fall, but owing to press-
ing contract work he was obliged to
postpone the carpenters’ work * until
now.
Mr. B. L. Kemp had quite an exper:-
ence, last week. Ile hud gone to Bill-
meyer for a load of goods for his broth-
er, Sam Kemp, and after feeding his
team he hitched to the sled. Knowing
his horses at times become unruly, he
stood in front of them while he was
talking to his brother. But his horses,
perhaps not noticing him, as he is rather
delicate in averdupois, started, knock-
ing him down, stopping on him, sled
and, all passing over his body. Mr.
Kemp escaped with three gashes.in his
head and one in his body. One of the
horses was stopped at Aaron Beachy’s,
while the other kept up his gait to Val
Bender’s. The doctor was called and
after applying the needle to his wounds
he soon had him looking natural. As
a cure for the run-away team, Mr.
Kemp will reduce their rations about
eighty per cent.
The well drilling firm of Blauch &
Livengood having dissolved partner-
ship, the firm name will be changed to
Livengood & Livengood, Albert Liven-
good having bought E. K. Blauch’s in-
terest. “The world do move.”
I would like to say, by the way of en-
couragement to the defeated candidates
of Elk Lick, had your friends turned
out and the other fellows’ friends stay-
ed at home, nothing under the sun
could have defeated you.
Br.ACKSTONE.
Never did whip Billy—
Sich a curly-headed chap—
Sweetest blossom ever fell
In Spring or Summer’s lap.
An’ when he’d need correctin’
An’ I'd let him slip away,
His mammy’d shake her finger:
“He'll be whippin’ you some day!”
‘Course, I'd laugh an’ tell her
The hick’ry twigs above
Wuz made fer birds tersing on—
Not fer whippin’ folks we love!
An’ Billy’d sorter chuckle
An’ snuggle upyan’ he
TLooked grateful like, an’ allers
’Peared ter think a sight o’ me.
*
P’raps he needed whippin’
When he sorter went astray,
But ter save my life I never
Could behol’ it that-away!
When he overturned the chiny,
An’ ‘ud hide out in the lof’,
I couldn’t ever fin’ him—
I allers let him oft’!
But—he growed up an’ wuz diffrunt
From what he use ter be:
I never did whip Billy,
An’—new Billy’s whippin’ me!
— Atlanta Constitution.
A Big Tunnel Possible.
Cambria Freeman.
There are not wanting civil engineers
who predict that within the next thirty
years the great work on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at willy will be abandon-
ed just as the Portage tunnel was
abandoned years ago, and that the
greatest railroad on the earth will have
the greatest tunnel in the world, which
will begin between Lilly and South
Fork and extend all the way to a point
just west of Altoona. a distance of over
15 miles. Such a tunnel would give
the Pennsylvania railroad an easy
grade all the way from Pittsburg to
New York, and the longest tunnel in
the world. The problem of ventilation
oould be easily solved by the boring of
numerous vent holes, and in the tun-
nel the big engines could make 75
miles an hoyr if necessary.
Evarts and Mark Twain.
At a New England society ‘ dinner
some years ago Mark Twain had just
finished a piquant addréss when Mr.
Evarts arose, shoved both of his hands
down into his trousers pockets, as was
his habit, and laughingly remarked,
“Doesn’t it strike this compahy as a
little unusual that a professidhal hu-
morist should be funny?” Mark Twain
waited until the laughter excited by
this sally had subsided, and then
drawled out, “Doesn’t it strike this.
company as a little unusual that a law-
yer should have his hands in his own
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